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5 hours ago, hputenis said:

@vikas83 Need your transparency here. My wife recently saw a hack on her Instagram where some wife chopped all her paper towel rolls in half to save money. I recently did it to appease her, and it definitely saves us more paper towels, especially with 2 daughters.  We both spend money carelessly at all times and both have lucrative careers. However, does this make me financially responsible, or am I amongst the poorest of the poor? 

You are poor, dim witted and "slow.”

Happy I could help with that. 

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5 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

This is the OL I think Howie would draft. Him or Powers-Johnson

 

Could see that.  Dude is a physical freak with legit skill.  I know people are hung up on Lane playing a couple more years but he is usually banged up a game or two each year which the team usually loses.  Doesn't look like he could play OG at his size but a starting OT is worth a first.  

Still think it comes down to OL or DE.  Howie loves the line and so do I because the game is won in the trenches.

22 minutes ago, Random Reglar said:

AJ Brown was the Eagles best WR last year,  an All Pro,  and he was out in the playoffs.

And you're saying the Eagles didn't lose because of that?

Why bother spending $20 Million a year on a guy who wouldn't have made a difference in the playoffs?

I'm not a big fan of paying WRs a ton of money,  but I'm also not a big fan of only having 2 WRs you like enough to play.

Let's say the Eagles had a 3rd WR on the team that was in the same class as Smith and Brown. Can you guarantee that he wouldn't have been hurt as well for that game? In game16, Smith was injured when his leg was rolled up on. The following week, Brown was injured on a hip drop tackle. After Brown was hurt, the Eagles pulled their starters from the game. All of a sudden, Watkins was the best WR out there and was targeted 11 times, finishing with 8 catches for 93 yards and a TD. In 2021, before we acquired Brown, Watkins was the outside receiver opposite Smith and he looked decent. The Eagles' gameplan, though, without Brown was to feature an inbalanced, pass-heavy offense featuring D. Smith. Smith had a big game, but nobody else did. Remember in 2017 when the Eagles trusted their backups? We could have said, "oh no, the backup QB has to play, let's just run the ball all night." I'm not saying we would have surely won if we involved Watkins more as a target, but that we deployed a terrible game plan on offense that hurt us as much as anything. Not only were we without Brown on offense, but we were without Blankenship and Dean on defense. 

8 hours ago, TEW said:

Yeah — great college player for sure. Will probably be a good receiving TE in the NFL.

The fact remains that he is a 6’3” 240 pound TE with good but not freakish athleticism. 

IMO, he's Dallas Clark and you don't hesitate to take him.

12 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

IMO, he's Dallas Clark and you don't hesitate to take him.

We already have one guy named Dallas on the team.   :nonono:.  Can't we find a guy named Phil we could draft?

8 hours ago, TEW said:

Yeah — great college player for sure. Will probably be a good receiving TE in the NFL.

The fact remains that he is a 6’3” 240 pound TE with good but not freakish athleticism. 

He’s a better prospect than Sam LaPorta (6-3, 245), who just had a great rookie year. He’s better than Kincaid (6-4, 240), who was fine as a rookie. 

I think Cooper DeJean would be a really smart pick. One thing he gives you is position flexibility, kind of like Brian Branch but better. DeJean can play CB or S and that helps the Eagles not just this year but down the road. Say Ringo and Rodgers show that they are more than capable of being CB1 and CB2 next year, you could slide DeJean to safety to play along with CJGJ moving Blankenship to 3rd safety. 

Or, he's a great CB and you have CB1 and CB2 with DeJean and Ringo ready to roll in 2025. 

4 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I think Cooper DeJean would be a really smart pick. One thing he gives you is position flexibility, kind of like Brian Branch but better. DeJean can play CB or S and that helps the Eagles not just this year but down the road. Say Ringo and Rodgers show that they are more than capable of being CB1 and CB2 next year, you could slide DeJean to safety to play along with CJGJ moving Blankenship to 3rd safety. 

Or, he's a great CB and you have CB1 and CB2 with DeJean and Ringo ready to roll in 2025. 

Positional flexibility is nice, but they better have a first-round grade on him at corner AND safety if they’re thinking this way. 

14 hours ago, bpac55 said:

I'm with you there. I've never been this uninterested in a draft and I tend to agree with ESP here. 

 

I have little enthusiasm for the draft at the moment... But the piece he is not thinking about (because he's a dim wit) is trading this years picks for future picks and getting some optionality to trade for pointless vets at the deadline or move up in other drafts.

One of those 2nds could be well someone else's while the draft happens.

15 hours ago, bpac55 said:

I'm with you there. I've never been this uninterested in a draft and I tend to agree with ESP here. 

 

What I would say though about ESP comment is that everyone is picking from the same group. For the last few years I’ve heard that it isn’t a strong draft but all that means is that the overall quality may be watered down but then it’ll be relative. Trading for veterans makes no sense as that’s very short term thinking. Guys coming to the end of their rookie deals though? That would make some sense.

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1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

IMO, he's Dallas Clark and you don't hesitate to take him.

That’s actually the exact reason I wouldn’t take him.

In Dallas Clark’s best season he had 1,100 yards and 10 TDs, averaging 11 yards per catch, and it took 132 targets for him to get that yardage. For most of his career he was producing about 450 yards and 4 TDs. And like Bowers, Clark was not a good blocker.

You can EASILY get a TE that gives you ~500 yards and 4 TDs on the third day of the draft, and that guy will give you plus blocking ability as well.

Compare that to a first round WR. ~450 yards and 4 TDs per season out of a first rounder would have everyone in here calling him a bust. And they’d be right — we should expect MUCH more from a first round WR. On top of that a WR is going to be faster, and so push safeties deeper.

The only way I’d take a TE in the first round is if they had Vernon Davis type speed in a Gronk body. Taking a pure receiving TE in the first makes no sense in my view; their production is too easily replicated by a mid round slot receiver and they don’t give you plus blocking which is what makes TE mismatches so tactically valuable.

Imagine going from this to being the eagles punching bag the rest of your career in Washington

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45 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I think Cooper DeJean would be a really smart pick. One thing he gives you is position flexibility, kind of like Brian Branch but better. DeJean can play CB or S and that helps the Eagles not just this year but down the road. Say Ringo and Rodgers show that they are more than capable of being CB1 and CB2 next year, you could slide DeJean to safety to play along with CJGJ moving Blankenship to 3rd safety. 

Or, he's a great CB and you have CB1 and CB2 with DeJean and Ringo ready to roll in 2025.

I like him a lot, but I think he ends up at safety. He’ll probably be a solid CB but he has top 5 safety potential.

9 hours ago, justwinbaby said:

TE almost seems on par with RB in terms of value.

I’d argue it’s even lower. I’d draft a Bijan Robinson type at 22 before I’d draft a Bowers (assuming we didn’t have Saquon)

Nothing against the guy, but the positional value is too low to spend a 1

6 minutes ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

What I would say though about ESP comment is that everyone is picking from the same group. For the last few years I’ve heard that it isn’t a strong draft but all that means is that the overall quality may be watered down but then it’ll be relative. Trading for veterans makes no sense as that’s very short term thinking. Guys coming to the end of their rookie deals though? That would make some sense.

It’s not a strong first round, but I like the second and third round and there are a ton of late round prospects with high upside.

 

5 minutes ago, TEW said:

I like him a lot, but I think he ends up at safety. He’ll probably be a solid CB but he has top 5 safety potential.

Similar to Patrick Peterson. He will be a good enough CB to never find out how good of a safety he could have been. 

1 hour ago, ManuManu said:

He’s a better prospect than Sam LaPorta (6-3, 245), who just had a great rookie year. He’s better than Kincaid (6-4, 240), who was fine as a rookie. 

LaPorta had 120 targets to get that production. I don’t think we have 120 targets to give him. And he didn’t even hit 900 yards. He had 10 TDs, but I don’t see that happening in Philly given our red zone offense and Hurtz QB sneak.

Thats kind of my point. If you are taking a receiving target in the first round, I don’t think a TE is going to be able to produce enough to justify the investment. On the other hand, you could take a WR who gets you more yards on fewer targets, impacts defenses more because of his speed, and gives us depth at a more important position if Brown or Smith get hurt. 

5 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Similar to Patrick Peterson. He will be a good enough CB to never find out how good of a safety he could have been. 

Yeah, that’s a likely outcome.

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15 minutes ago, TEW said:

LaPorta had 120 targets to get that production. I don’t think we have 120 targets to give him. And he didn’t even hit 900 yards. He had 10 TDs, but I don’t see that happening in Philly given our red zone offense and Hurtz QB sneak.

Thats kind of my point. If you are taking a receiving target in the first round, I don’t think a TE is going to be able to produce enough to justify the investment. On the other hand, you could take a WR who gets you more yards on fewer targets, impacts defenses more because of his speed, and gives us depth at a more important position if Brown or Smith get hurt. 

Things change quickly in the NFL. In 2-3 years Goedert will be gone and Brown might be gone. Take the best player. 

5 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Things change quickly in the NFL. In 2-3 years Goedert will be gone and Brown might be gone. Take the best player. 

If Brown might be gone shouldn’t we focus on a WR?

1 minute ago, TEW said:

If Brown might be gone shouldn’t we focus on a WR?

Sure. Down the line. There are a million WRs every year. Of course that doesn’t mean we will pick the right one. So if the Eagles project Bowers as a stud slot who will block well enough for teams to honor, why not take him? Stacking good players on your roster is a pretty good thing. 

This is the WR I want us to draft - Can play inside and out.  Gives me some Justin Jefferson vibes (I'm not saying he's him)

 

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