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Anquan Boldin requested a trade yesterday and this is the second round of disagreement between the Cardinals and their standout receiver this offseason. In light of this, I can’t help but throw in some football talk, despite the Olympics still going on and the baseball pennant races heating up. I couldn’t help but get excited at the notion that a star receiver was apparently going to be available (although we all thought Chad Johnson was available too) and the Eagles have shown this offseason that they aren’t hesitating to go after a big name receiver having already made a free agent offer to Randy Moss and trade offers for Johnson and Fitzgerald.

Of course, today, it was announced that Kevin Curtis would be missing significant time with a sports hernia, which (when I read the headline anyway) made me even more excited about the prospect of the Eagles going after Boldin if does in fact get traded. However, Andy Reid went on to say that despite Curtis being out “for a while” they would not pursue a trade and would count on Hank Baskett and Greg Lewis. Uggghhh. So now, not only are the Eagles (apparently at least) not going after Boldin despite the fact that he appears to be available, they are without their top receiver of a year ago.

A lot would have had to happen for the Eagles to get Boldin: the Cardinals would have had to actually try to trade him (unlike the Bengals with Chad Johnson), the Eagles would have had to pursue him (something that until recently seemed well beyond their standard operating procedure) and they would have had to be the ones with the best package. It wouldn’t have been easy, but it also wasn’t out of the realm of possibility. I just don’t understand the Eagles sometimes. Why say that you won’t pursue a receiver? More importantly, why wouldn’t you pursue a receiver now when you were so intent on doing so earlier this same offseason? Boldin would make that one hell of a receiving corps and one hell of an offense. If he becomes available (from the Cardinals, not just because he has requested a trade), the Eagles should be first in line with a trade offer bar none.

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