All is calm…what could possibly go wrong for Eagles in 2019?

It’s that time of summer when old fans ruminate on the mathematics of preparation for an NFL regular season. Basically your team invests about 9600 hours of combined back office and on-field activities into 960 minutes of regular season football.

There is no other professional sport where the preparation exceeds actual playing time at such a lopsided ratio.

It’s what makes the actual experience of playing in an NFL game so precious in the bigger picture. You should definitely consider scrapbooking every moment of your career because of it.

Same goes for those fleeting moments when you think you are on a roll in your personal life. You can prepare and prepare and prepare some more, but you better cherish those winning ways while they last.

So I look at upcoming training camp for the Birds, and I like what I see. What could possibly go wrong to make me think there’s trouble ahead?

We’re off to a rousing start to the whole process, just like Beans from Australia who is embarking on a U.S. tour in sync with training camp.

Beans (or Ben as I call my friend) even has adopted a special oath for his tour in honor of the submission of our resident Drafttek correspondent and all-around entertainer from Virginia ~BROZ:

“The Donk pledges his allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of ‘Merica.

And to the repub

Four witch it stands

One nation (tanks to the imperialist norff), under

G*d

Indivisible (Austrians can’t divide anyway)

Wiff liberaltitties and justice (no Winston)

For all…..(even the mormons like Dutchie*, and to a lesser extent the Joos like Souffy) ”

Now that’s what I call preparing for a road trip!

What could possibly go wrong for Beans and his American tour (aka Ben, Donk) after reciting that oath?

That’s the same feeling I got after reading the anti~BROZ columnist Jimmy Kempski’s recent little ditty (hopefully tongue in cheek) on the pitfalls facing the Eagles in 2019.

To wit, here is a summary of Kempski’s Komplaints:

1. Carson Wentz is statistically probable to get hurt and miss a bunch of games again.
2. Nick Foles is gone. No proven “Earl Morrall” QB to back up Unitas…
3. Eagles medical staff allegedly sucks.
4. Eleven guys recovering from injury missed all Spring practices.
5. Defensive End depth is shaky.
6. Eagles were 30th overall in pass defense last season.
7. Losing Frank Reich as offensive coaching guru will hurt again.
8. “Better” RBs don’t necessarily mean “Good” RBs.
9. Carson Wentz admitted he has to correct some “anti-social” allegations regarding his interaction with some teammates.
10. The Eagles have only one training camp practice open to the public. To Kempski (and I think he’s mostly kidding) this is a bad karma outrage.

Welp, it’s better to hear this “go wrong” stuff now than to wake up shocked on a Monday morning in October to realize it all transpired without warning.

But EYE am thinking every team in the league has these sort of potential gremlins hitching a ride on the wings of their charter flights.

Carry on!