Missanelli: DeSean Had Vick Confrontation

Fox 29 contributor Mike Missanelli looks at why DeSean Jackson may be in the Eagles’ doghouse, and the team’s real long-term problems.

“I wouldn’t get worried about the loss,” Missanelli said.

Missanelli said Sunday’s loss to the Bears was expected, given the Eagles schedule, but the game exposed two big problems.

One issue is that teams have figured out how to deal with Michael Vick.

He believes the long-term problem is that teams have found a formula for containing Michael Vick by forcing him to the right and making him run.

Missanelli said the Eagles red zone problems are a big, long-term issue.

“The play calling has a lot to do with it,” he said. “They don’t look confident there.”

Missanelli also said the DeSean Jackson situation needs to be watched closely.

“I heard after the game there was a little confrontation, a little tension between Michael Vick and DeSean Jackson,” Missanelli said.

“DeSean Jackson had a ball he could have caught in the end zone. He alligator armed it a little bit. You go through his position – he just git dinged - he may be a little tentative, they threw him in a position where maybe he’s a sacrificial lamb, maybe he didn’t like the fact that Vick didn’t throw to him much,” Missanelli said.

“They have to get this together, they have to play Thursday.”

Missanelli said Vick threw the ball in a position where he knew Jackson would get “popped.”

Missanelli said because Jackson is just making $500,000 this season, a new contract is in the “back of his mind.”

The bottom line, he says, two good defenses have kept the Eagles out of the end zone in 8 of their last 10 trips there.

There was also a report Monday that Eagles head coach Andy Reid chewed out Jackson in front of the team.

The fallout from the Eagles loss in Chicago may go beyond this week as Andy Reid reportedly ripped DeSean Jackson in front of the entire Eagles team after the game.

Geoff Mosher from the Wilmington News-Journal says Reid dressed down Jackson in the postgame locker room in Chicago for not being prepared for the game.

Jackson, 23, is also seeking a contract extension and has Drew Rosenhaus as his agent.

Mosher said Jackson had to be consoled by Vick and other teammates after the locker room incident.

Despite several big plays this year, Jackson is not seeing the ball as much as Jeremy Maclin, who has emerged as Vick’s biggest offensive weapon.

The Eagles must now regroup and find a way to beat the Houston Texans this Thursday in Philadelphia.

The Eagles (7-4) had won three straight, but fell into a tie with the New York Giants for the NFC East lead.