THERE ARE TIMES when Quintin Demps surprises you, and yesterday was one of those times.  Demps can be brash and boastful. He can say the exact wrong thing, as he did last week, when the second-year free safety seemed annoyed that he was still competing with Sean Jones and Macho Harris for the starting job. He said he would have worked harder if he’d known there was going to be a competition. Ouch. But the thing about Demps – other than his size and speed, which probably would keep him in the NFL regardless of how many unfortunate quotes he authored – is that he reflects and repents. (And he does seem to work hard, whatever he says.) Demps seemed genuinely sorry for that late hit on Kurt Warner in the NFC Championship Game. He took full responsibility for getting flummoxed on the flea flicker to Larry Fitzgerald. He didn’t make excuses or hide from the waves of reporters who wanted to ask him about those things, over and over. And yesterday, when Demps was swarmed, as one of the few Eagles available to the media after a closed practice, he stepped up to the plate on his demotion from the starting job, his to lose when camp began. Demps told reporters – who otherwise wouldn’t have known – that Harris is now the starter. And Demps didn’t blame anyone but himself for that.

I told everybody Demps would not win the job as the starting free safety.  He is slow, immature and in another year or two the Eagles will realize what I’ve been saying all along hes not an NFL player.  All along I thought it was going to be Sean Jones who was going to win the starting job at free safety.  However Macho Harris came in as a rookie had a great camp, and the Eagles decided hes going to be their guy.  Am I suprised? very suprised!  Not that Demps didn’t get the starting job, but that Jones didn”t get the starting job.  Why would they go out and sign Jones as a free agent when they weren’t going to start him.  But then again they may not of thought they were going to be able to get a talent such as Macho Harris where they got him in the draft, and now hes turned out to be even better than they originally expected.  So hopefully we won’t see much of Demps anywhere on the field this year if hes number 3 on the depth chart and everyone stays healthy.   And lets wish Macho Harris luck this season cause after all he does have huge shoes to fill.  ENJOY IT!

-ITALIAN STALLION