Andy Reid is the longest tenured head coach in the NFL now that Jeff Fisher and Tennessee went through a divorce.  In 12 years at the helm of the Eagles, he has done the following: won 118 regular season games (most in team history by almost double over Greasy Neale); been to the playoffs nine times (same number of absences Ferris Bueller had his senior year of high school under Ed Rooney’s watch);  won more playoff games than the entire franchise had before his arrival; and led the Birds to five NFC Championship games.  Outside of anyone who has been accused and convicted in Spygate, this is as good a resume as any coach has.

As a General Manager, he drafted Donovan McNabb when the picks before and after were Tim Couch and Akili Smith; he took a chance (and stuck with) Michael Vick when it was not an obvious move to make; and overall has more hits than misses on the personnel side (even TO helped take the team to the Super Bowl before doing sit-ups in the driveway and completely imploding).

This was a franchise that struggled in the years before Reid through the regimes of Richie Kotite and Ray Rhodes (you try to have a drunken debate in Las Vegas in which you have to defend the latter as a solid coach).

So all this begs but one question: why is the entire city of Philadelphia (evidently except Jeffrey Lurie, who holds the only vote that counts) ready to tar and feather Big Red?

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