The Philadelphia Eagles went from the “Dream Team” and playoff aspirations to wishing the season would just end now as they sit on the bottom of the NFC East with a 3-7 record. One of their major additions was cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha who was highly sought after during free agency last year. Since then he hasn’t lived up to the hype and has become fed up with the situation. Read more after the jump.
Nnamdi Asomugha said his experience with the Eagles is “not even close” to what he anticipated when he signed a lucrative contract before the 2011 season. “I didn’t know anybody, but everybody was on the same page that we were going to get it done first year out of there,” Asomugha said. “Then we saw that we had to jell. Then we started to jell at the beginning of the season, things were on a roll, and we started losing, and that momentum went the other way around for us. I’m mentally strong because I haven’t had the success in the league I’ve wanted since I was a rookie, so mentally, I’ve been able to deal with that and know, or believe, that it’s going to turn around.”
“If a fan has an issue with [how things have gone], they’re not going to get me saying that’s wrong,” Asomugha said. “As a fan, I can look back to teams that I’ve liked, and when a player I’ve liked comes in, and expecting things to just change, and getting upset about that. So I can’t be that guy and look at them and say, ‘you can’t be upset that we haven’t won even though I haven’t Superman on the field,’ even though that’s what’s expected of me.”
Despite that Asomugha says he doesn’t regret signing with the Eagles and that’s where he wants to be. He also maintains that things will turn around. “I want to be around for this turnaround that I know is going to happen,” Asomugha said. “My mind isn’t there for, ‘are you going to see it through?’, what’s going happen. It’s just not there. But I definitely want to be here for it turning around, because I know it will.” I expect the Eagles to clean house after this season including star quarterback Michael Vick and head coach Andy Reid.
