Fitzed

24 years old. A two-time Pro Bowl selection in four years in the league. 34 touchdowns in 60 games, with over 4,500 yards. And despite a long period of fevered longing, not an Eagle; not now, and most likely, not ever.

The other show dropped today, as Phoenix worked out a cap-saving deal to keep Pro Bowl WR Larry Fitzgerald in the fold. Speculation has been running for well over a week in the Philly precincts that the Cardinals were going to take the No Longer Good Enough For Us Platter of Lito Shepard and Reggie Brown for the rights to make Fitz wildly wealthy.

What we don't know, and never will, is whether or not the Cards would have pulled the trigger had the package been Sheldon Brown, or Kevin Curtis, or... shh... Donovan McNabb. I'd go farther into that, but it's not going to happen and I just made the blog read like sports talk radio, so I'm going to move on.

In an off-season where the Eagles' money wasn't green enough to get any of the WRs they might have been targeting (definitely Moss, probably Fitzy, and not so much for Berrian, Walker or Bruce)... well, this does take a little of the shine off the Samuel Clemons rose. It also doesn't seem like something they'd just take and pack a lunch over.

So, back to the next tier of guys that don't have to go anywhere, but might anyway... Roy Williams in Detroit, Torry Holt in St. Louis, and Chad Johnson in Cincy.

No one expects Reid to go down the Chad Path, given his past experience with Wideout Who Likes To Talk, not that I think that Johnson is anywhere close to the Great Satan that is TO. Holt may come cheaper than his name recognition, but he's older, can't stay healthy, and has never played outside a dome. I don't think they want him, and after letting Bruce go, the Rams probably aren't going to want to completely turn over the position. Which leaves Williams.

He's in the last year of his deal, and wants to get paid. He came close to saying he was out of there last year. Detroit has other WRs, and nothing else. If the Eagles came knocking with Shepard, Brown and a pick, that's an awful lot for a guy that might walk in a year, no matter what. (And let's face it, if the Lions belch up another double-digit loss year, he'd be crazy to stay.)

That's the good news. The bad news is that the Lions are, of course, fixated on WRs, and now that they finally have some, they probably won't just move them. They can franchise Williams. With Mike Martz's genius card being revoked, maybe Williams actually has some numbers this year, rather than running a lot of deep drag routes to clear the space for McDonald and Furrey. He's only had one really good year, his numbers may be inflated from playing in any number of pass-happy blowouts, and he hasn't always been healthy and a happy camper.

But well, he'd look a lot better to me than Reggie Brown. Maybe he makes the CBs better by giving them a Burress-esque WR to face every day in practice. And no, I'm not going to stop dreaming of Star WR in an Eagles uniform... or accept the idea that Kevin Curtis or Reggie Brown is that guy.