LITO SHEPPARD UNHAPPY WITH ROLE ON EAGLES

For much of the off-season, many fans assumed that the Eagles were going to trade cornerback Lito Sheppard, since they already had Sheldon Brown and spent big money to acquire Asante Samuel. The trade never came, though, and all three cornerbacks are on the team, with Brown and Samuel starting and Sheppard coming in as the nickel back. Sheppard isn’t happy about that. In an appearance on Comcast’s Monday Night Live, Sheppard wondered allowed why he doesn’t get more playing time: “If you say you want to win and do this and do that, then why aren’t all your best players on the field at the same time or when they need to be?” Per Philly.com, when the host of the show told Sheppard it sounded like he might not be in Philadelphia all season, Sheppard agreed. “Well I mean obviously the way things are going, it leads me to believe that,” Sheppard said. “So until things change otherwise, I mean, I’m not naïve to the situation.” Sheppard said he won’t do anything to be a distraction to his teammates, but he did express displeasure toward the Eagles’ front office. “They just want this year to go by and it does what it does and then we’ll see how it goes at the end of the season but that’s not satisfying to me,” Sheppard said. “I need to be playing and I’m more than able.” Prior to this season Sheppard had started every game he’d been healthy for in the last four years. Sheppard has played all four games this year, but he hasn’t started any, and he estimated he’s only on the field for about 30 percent of the Eagles’ defensive snaps.