New RB in town? [Update: Marcel Shipp to Sign]

[Keith]

Originally Posted by NBT

I'm trying to be upbeat about this, but if Rashard Mendenhall has a good year, there will be those whatiffers again.

Oh, I think those whatiffers are going to be coming guns a-blazin' if Mendenhall runs all over us in the opener. The success of Kung Fu Panda though totally makes up for whatever Mendy does. Brown did fairly well shutting out Dumervil and the Broncos in his first game, and I'll take a franchise LT over a RB at this point.

I said this in the other thread, but I'll repeat here... I think the Eagles have some depth at RB since they acquired Lorenzo Booker. I don't know that they'd be looking to give up Tony Hunt, but he looks like an inside runnner and a three-down back to me. And on the flip side, Hunt doesn't seem to fit the mold of the ZBS RB, but then again, I didn't really think Ron Dayne did much either. Pipe dream for me I suppose, but I think a Hunt-Slaton pairing could be deadly.