57 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

I put up with it because he’s an elite receiver and this team needs him, but AJ acts like a 16 year old girl on social media and invites a lot of it onto himself. 

He changed the profile pic to Brady. Before that, it was Kobe Bryant. If he's trying to harness inspiration from winners, so what. It's the media who froth at the mouth making click bait controversy, and fans that overanalyze this stuff as well.

59 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

I put up with it because he’s an elite receiver and this team needs him, but AJ acts like a 16 year old girl on social media and invites a lot of it onto himself. 

 

So goofy how people here get upset over the biggest nonissue things like AJ Browns profile pick.

15 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

I think these are more rumor based than anything. McCarthy's odds shot up as the #2 overall pick the one day the rumor mongering was saying he was going #2. It will probably fluctuate a lot between now and the draft. 

Over here, certain markets have people that suddenly appear in them or the odds shorten in hours.  The reality is some people put money on person x, and the market shortens by default until someone put money on someone else and the odds go out again.

On the day of the draft, it's something to monitor as people talk don't they?

For the heck of it let's discuss a Brown to New England trade. 

Because it's not out of the realm of possibility that he wants to make more money after Smith got paid. 

We probably aren't getting pick 3.

They also have pick 34, 68, 103, 137, 180, 193, and 231.

The options:

At Pick 34 you can conceivably draft McConkey, Legette, Worthy, Coleman, Pearsall.

At 68 you can possibly get Rice, or Javon Baker.

I'd expect they'd get at least one one this picks with a package of more picks.  But I'm not thrilled with counting on any of those players to immediately replace Brown.

 

Or, the Eagles could use their own 22 on a WR and use picks from New England on different needs. In that case,  they can possibly get Brian Thomas jr.

 

Or, maybe you trade Brown and 22. (and possibly more) to get pick 3.

The value difference between pick 3 and 22 is 1420 points. Roughly equal to pick 8. Brown makes up a bunch of that value.  Maybe you also have to add in pick 53.

Brown, 22, and 53 for pick 3.

Take Harrison.

Patriots get Brown and can likely still draft Penix at 22 which seems like a patriots style QB. Best pocket passer in this draft. Comes in to the NFL with a nice weapon.

We're not trading AJ Brown this year. Next year though...

How about we don’t trade a future HOF WR…

3 minutes ago, D-Shiznit said:

How about we don’t trade a future HOF WR…

Well, we don't have one on our roster so you don't have to worry about it.

 

2 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

Clearly the patriots are trading us pick 3 for brown and 22. We will then take the best available WR. Duh! 

When the bars close, you become desperate and you’ll basically just take anyone home 

 

 

RIP Dickey Betts

 

 

I love the movie Draft Day. People who get bent out of shape because a fictional movie is not as boring as real life need to relax

23 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

RIP Dickey Betts

 

 

GOAT

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

For the heck of it let's discuss a Brown to New England trade. 

Because it's not out of the realm of possibility that he wants to make more money after Smith got paid. 

We probably aren't getting pick 3.

They also have pick 34, 68, 103, 137, 180, 193, and 231.

The options:

At Pick 34 you can conceivably draft McConkey, Legette, Worthy, Coleman, Pearsall.

At 68 you can possibly get Rice, or Javon Baker.

I'd expect they'd get at least one one this picks with a package of more picks.  But I'm not thrilled with counting on any of those players to immediately replace Brown.

 

Or, the Eagles could use their own 22 on a WR and use picks from New England on different needs. In that case,  they can possibly get Brian Thomas jr.

 

Or, maybe you trade Brown and 22. (and possibly more) to get pick 3.

The value difference between pick 3 and 22 is 1420 points. Roughly equal to pick 8. Brown makes up a bunch of that value.  Maybe you also have to add in pick 53.

Brown, 22, and 53 for pick 3.

Take Harrison.

Patriots get Brown and can likely still draft Penix at 22 which seems like a patriots style QB. Best pocket passer in this draft. Comes in to the NFL with a nice weapon.

I’d ask for 34 and a future first. 

2 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

I don't want Howie picking in the #22 range.  It's bad mojo; through bad process or bad evaluation they're quite likely to take the wrong player because that's been the historical norm.  I'm hoping for either a trade up or trade down.

Trade up using #22 and 53 to get to #13 and draft Latham or Mitchell 

Trade down from #22 to get #33 and 65 and draft 4 players between 33 and 65.  It can be argued the Eagles have done a better job with their second round picks than first round picks over the past 10 years:

1st round -- Marcus Smith, Nelson Agholor, Carson Wentz, Derek Barnett, Andre Dillard, Jalen Reagor, DeVonta Smith, Jordan Davis, Jalen Carter, Nolan Smith

2nd round -- Jordan Matthews, Eric Rowe, Sidney Jones, Dallas Goedert, Miles Sanders, JJAW, Jalen Hurts, Landon Dickerson, Cam Jurgens

 

I'd make the argument the 2nd round group is at least as good.  

The historical norm is that the majority of first round picks are busts, and even more so in the late first round.

This isn’t a Howie thing, it’s an NFL thing.

13 minutes ago, TEW said:

I’d ask for 34 and a future first. 

I don't think he would be worth quite much. 

18 minutes ago, TEW said:

The historical norm is that the majority of first round picks are busts, and even more so in the late first round.

This isn’t a Howie thing, it’s an NFL thing.

1 hour ago, RLC said:

Well, we don't have one on our roster so you don't have to worry about it.

Look again. He wears #11 if it helps.

3 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

I think it's everyone else who acts like children on social media when it comes to AJ Brown. The fact that anyone cares who someone's profile pic is and who he follows on social media is peak "Too Online" culture. Only a social media obsessed culture who has lost touch with reality will read into who a guy follows on social media. It's absurd. The same culture where if someone makes a social media post with just a word like "Damn" you'll have thousands of people trying to decipher what it means. It's lame, it's childish, it's obsessive, and it's wholly unhealthy. Honestly, if I were an athlete I'd do everything I could do F with people for caring about such trivialities. If you care about that stuff, you deserve to get baited. At this point, I hope AJ Brown Fs with people more. All he's doing is shining a light onto how everyone has lost their damn minds when it comes to social media and everyone needs to go outside and get some fresh air now and again.

Speaking for only myself, as a 55 year old male, I could not even begin to tell you what any professional athlete's social media profile pages look like.  The only social media that I currently use for active discussions is this thread (and some other NFL message boards)… If those even count as social media since they are anonymous.

I do visit LinkedIn and FB once or twice a month to clear out notifications and to see what’s up with close contacts, but that’s it

I would actually find it refreshing for an athlete to not be, or at least not frequent, social media… But that’s probably too much to ask in today’s world 

2 minutes ago, McMVP said:

Speaking for only myself, as a 55 year old male, I could not even begin to tell you what any professional athlete's social media profile pages look like.  The only social media that I currently use for active discussions is this thread (and some other NFL message boards)… If those even count as social media since they are anonymous.

I do visit LinkedIn and FB once or twice a month to clear out notifications and to see what’s up with close contacts, but that’s it

I would actually find it refreshing for an athlete to not be, or at least not frequent, social media… But that’s probably too much to ask in today’s world 

I'm sure there are some.   But I couldn't tell who they are... as I am also not on social media at all.

37 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

I don't think he would be worth quite much. 

I mean, that’s mid first round value. I wouldn’t accept any less.

2 hours ago, NOTW said:

He changed the profile pic to Brady. Before that, it was Kobe Bryant. If he's trying to harness inspiration from winners, so what. It's the media who froth at the mouth making click bait controversy, and fans that overanalyze this stuff as well.

I mean sure, but he's naive if he thinks putting another jersey on his account a week before the freaking draft won't cause speculation 

Theres another player added to my draft board. I have to watch and figure out where. I heard someone talking today about Wake Forest safety Malik Mustapha. And the thing that stood out a lot to me was him saying that this is the best tackling DB in this draft, bar none. And that makes me think of the San Francisco defense. And how even their CBs are such sure tacklers. Anywhere on the field you go, you can see some CB or S making a 1 on 1 open field tackle against that D. They limit all extra yardage. There are basically never any broken tackles against them, and thats something that annoys me to hell when I watch the eagles play against them. And also something I envy. To have such a sure tackling defense where even your CBs are always putting the guy down without question. 

So I love the thought of Mustpha. 

Aside form that, he sounds like a perfect fit for the eagles safety position. Yes we would love to have a center fielder type, and this guy is not that. But the safeties we look for- he fits. Despite being that split safety hes said to be more athletic than given credit for.  

The person talking about him had him as his S#1 in this class. I dont think Ill be there but this sure sounds like a guy Ill be interested in.

1 hour ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

I love the movie Draft Day. People who get bent out of shape because a fictional movie is not as boring as real life need to relax

That movie sucks.