[PokerFink]

I loaded up the sports forum this morning before ESPN, and when I saw that this thread had ten new replies my first thought was "uh oh, something bad happened."

I love Trot and I'm going to miss him, but this isn't that shocking. The Eagles have several young guys they really like: Gaither, Dedrick Roper, Bradley and yes, even McCoy.

Gaither will almost certainly replace Trot in the starting line-up. One option is a straight swap, putting Gaither in the middle, which is what the Eagles website is saying. The second option is to move Spikes to the inside and play Gaither on the weak side, which is what ESPN is saying might happen. Spikes has taken the majority of his Eagles snaps on the weak side, but iirc he played in the middle in Buffalo.