If you don't like that juxtaposition, try this one: When the Eagles faltered in the middle of the season and were pounded at the end, some said they missed the leadership of Brian Dawkins. Never mind that Stewart Bradley went down over the summer and Ellis Hobbs, too, or that Brian Westbrook was often MIA, or that Jeremiah Trotter's career was revived, at least in part, to fill that leadership void.