It was Mike Lombardi, from the NFL Network, not the late great Lombardi, offering an assessment of Eagles backup quarterback Kevin Kolb on a radio station.

And, all bluntlessness aside, Lombardi told it the way he saw it. The Birds would have gone 7-9 last year had Kolb been the fulltime starter.

Lombardi could see it in the tape. The Eagles and their minions are going to have to do a lot of fluffing as they prepare to shop Kolb, who lost the starting job to Michael Vick (the backup throughout the 2010 offseason,  around the NFL.

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