This isn't the first time Allen Barbre has faced competition in his roller coaster NFL career. He's never had the benefit of "having it made." He's fought and scraped and scratched his way to his ninth season in the league and is playing, he says, the best football of his life.
The 119th pick of the 2007 NFL Draft, Barbre has missed a season with an injury. He's been released four times. He's been suspended by the league. He's had plenty of sour to enjoy every second of the sweet with the Eagles, for whom he is in line to start for a second consecutive season.