So we mentioned earlier this week how the media has taken out the pitchforks in Philadelphia. The fans are pretty fired up too.

A sign was displayed outside the Eagles’ complex on Monday asking the team to fire coach Andy Reid. It said “Andy The Times …. To Go.” (Check it out here.)

Eagles center Jason Kelce and guard Evan Mathis made news by asking fans to take down the sign.

“We don’t need that in our front yard while we’re trying to come together,” Kelce told reporters about the incident Wednesday.

The players say they rolled down the window of their truck on the way out of the facility and politely asked the fans to take the sign down. That sounds logical enough and well within their rights, just like it’s within a fan’s right to be vaguely pathetic jackwagons. The fans could have ignored the request.

Somehow, both players have taken criticism in Philly for their approach. Wouldn’t you want a player to care enough to do that?

Kelce was less polite on Twitter about the fans that put up the sign.

“Those people were not fans. They were varmit,” Kelce said.

The issue has become a big story locally because football analysis is difficult and phony controversy sells.

(Which reminds me: Please check out our latest on Derrick Mason talking trash about the Jets.)