Just now, Godfather said:

Bring Swift back and draft a Blunt like RB in the draft 

All for bringing back Swift on a 2 year deal. Not his fault they didn’t give him the ball 

2 minutes ago, Godfather said:

Isn't Maddox on his second as well? 

Oh right, true. I always forget about him because he's injured 70% of the time.

Just now, EaglePhan1986 said:

All for bringing back Swift on a 2 year deal. Not his fault they didn’t give him the ball 

Plus that JAG QB1 took quite a few TD's away from him

3 minutes ago, bitbased said:

Are you trying to say only having 1 defensive player (Sweat) on their 2nd contact since 2013 is a bad thing? 😭

Who is Sweat?  Did he play this year?  Not sure if he was even on the field for the second half of the year.

4 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Sorry.   I've been beating that drum for years now.

Yeah, I think there's quite a few that have. I'm overall fine there with these coaching moves right now but I think the scouting department and upper level football ops need additions to help identify the actual players Fangio and his team are looking for. 

7 minutes ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Yeah let’s just keep investing in 2 down DTs. Forget about great talent that would help put points on the board 

He's very expensive and injury prone. He's not much between the tackles either. 

Just now, greendestiny27 said:

Yeah, I think there's quite a few that have. I'm overall fine there with these coaching moves right now but I think the scouting department and upper level football ops need additions to help identify the actual players Fangio and his team are looking for. 

You can't have the roster failure on the defensive side of the ball this team had without massive changes in the front office.  Changing the coaches only, leaves a massive group of culpable people unscathed.

I'd be kind of curious to see historically what our scout grades were vs what Howie decided he was going to pick. Seems like they're so locked into their philosophies that Howie just does whatever he wants. At least for early rounds picks.

8 minutes ago, bitbased said:

Oh right, true. I always forget about him because he's injured 70% of the time.

Only one (that's eligible) I can see getting an extension is Milton Williams. He's going into the last year of his deal

1 hour ago, Mike030270 said:

I suspect Smith and Brown to have another 1k+ season. Curious what happens at RB. I seriously doubt Swift will be back. I know myself and a bunch of others are dreaming about someone like Blount that'll just run through defenders

It’s Kellen Moore. He might bring along his old friend Zeke. 

1 minute ago, Godfather said:

Only one (that's eligible) I can see getting an extension is Milton Williams. He's going into the last year of his deal

I was fully expecting him to play his way out of their price range and thought he'd be a prime trade candidate but his season probably helped the Eagles save a few dollars. Add to it that he's probably now a 3-4 DE and he's gotta be extended.

2 minutes ago, bitbased said:

I'd be kind of curious to see historically what our scout grades were vs what Howie decided he was going to pick. Seems like they're so locked into their philosophy that Howie just does whatever he wants. At least for early rounds picks.

Well, Lurie keeps copious notes and he knows who said what... but will he share?

Just now, bpac55 said:

I was fully expecting him to play his way out of their price range and thought he'd be a prime trade candidate but his season probably helped the Eagles save a few dollars. Add to it that he's probably now a 3-4 DE and he's gotta be extended.

His playing time increased over the last quarter of the season. He definitely took advantage of it. He looked good

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

It’s Kellen Moore. He might bring along his old friend Zeke. 

Lies 

2 minutes ago, Godfather said:

His playing time increased over the last quarter of the season. He definitely took advantage of it. He looked good

I dunno, he seemed invincible half the time to me. Either way, I think he gets extended and hope this new unit of a DL coach can get the most out of him.

2 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Well, Lurie keeps copious notes and he knows who said what... but will he share?

Not a single chance lol. They probably have things like linebackers and safeties rated highly.

1 minute ago, bpac55 said:

I dunno, he seemed invincible half the time to me. Either way, I think he gets extended and hope this new unit of a DL coach can get the most out of him.

He definitely was most of the season. Hurtt will definitely help

5 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Lies 

This man has been on a 30 year bulk

3 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I was fully expecting him to play his way out of their price range and thought he'd be a prime trade candidate but his season probably helped the Eagles save a few dollars. Add to it that he's probably now a 3-4 DE and he's gotta be extended.

No one improved their stock on the defensive side of the ball this year.  

So Sirianni keeps his job but they’re basically forcing him to replace all of his assistants. That just seems odd to do in any business. 

2 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

No the other guy played by Faizon Love but he might have been a G too. Whatever. Shut up. 

The only defensive player featured was the ornery clown in the apartment fire on Seinfeld.  
 

He was a linebacker.   YOU HEAR THAT HOWIE?

10 hours ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Lamar has won playoff games as well.  If you really want to break it down, Harper is 5-6 is MLB playoff series.  Started his career 0-4 and then the Nationals won the World Series the moment he left.  Didn't win a playoff series until his 11th year in the league.  Meanwhile Lamar just finished only his 6th season, is 2-5 in the playoffs and given how he has the second highest win percentage among active QBs in the NFL he will end up having a lot more chances at the postseason.  So let's compare Lamar's playoff success for his career after he's finished his 12th season to compare it to Bryce who has only seen any sort of playoff success in just his 11th and 12th seasons as a professional.  

Bryce Harper played professionally as a teenager. He got to his first playoffs at 19. So the fact he wasnt even great as a rookie playing in a playoff was amazing. Lamar Jackson didn’t reach the nfl until 21. If you want to say, both of them in their rookie, years weren’t good in their first postseason, that’s not out of the norm. Because most are. But Lamar has been as bad as a passer besides the Texans and one titans game  

Bryce Harper had success before year 11 and 12 in the postseason. He didn’t get wins, but then again he wasnt the main factor why they lost those series (some bad bullpen, bad starting pitching and one postseason he was second on the team in hitting (hitting in all 5 games) as none of his teammates hit even hit his average besides 1 player). His second postseason at 21 he hit .294/.368/.1.251 OPS with 3 homers and 4 RBIs. You know how good that is? For a 4 game post season that’s really good. Yet they lost in 4 games. Also in elimination games before getting to year 11 and 12 he was hitting .467 and .578 OBP with 2 homers and 4 RBIs. You know how ridiculously good that is? Yet the nationals lost those games. Lamar second postseason he had 12 points, 52% completion and 2 turnovers that led to short field tds (3 turnovers in general) and had a bunch of garbage time stat padding vs. titans (increased his rushing yards and completion percentage). 

also in baseball, Bryce Harper has no control over the pitching like Lamar doesn’t have control over the defense. He also doesn’t have control over teammates offensive production. whereas Lamar dictates how his passing game looks and how that offense looks as he has the ball in his hands every time he takes the field on offense. If you want to tell me Lamar needs better talent at Wr i don’t disagree  it’s an issue with the ravens.

But Lamar’s defense has been good enough in all but one playoff game (titans his second year). I can’t say the same for some of pitching performances in some of those postseasons or the guys around him during those postseason runs in bryce Harper’s career.  For instance 2014 harper, rendon and Zimmerman were the only nationals players to hit. Harper wasn’t remotely the reason they lost that series when he hit nearly .300. In 2016 the nationals didn’t have Strasberg (their best pitcher) and everyone besides scherzer in their starting rotation was bad and their bullpen blew last 2 games otherwise he wins that series (not great but he wasn’t awful like lamar was yesterday in his 6th playoff game). In 2017, besides Michael a. Taylor, Harper had the second highest BA of any of the players who were in the lineup for all 5 games vs. the cubs. Turner, rendon, werth and Zimmerman were worse than Harper which allowed cubs to just pitch around harper. They got good pitching and sadly Harper was better than 8 out of the 9 guys in that lineup.

Meanwhile Lamar when they lose have been the major reason they’ve lost and he’s been as a bad you could be in those loses. In 5 of the 6 games Lamar’s defense has given up 24 points or less and 4 of 6 games 20 or less. I’d add the one game they gave up 28 is because Lamar threw a pick that gave the titans the ball needing 35 yards to score a TD and fumbled a ball that gave the titans the ball needing just 21 yards to score a TD. so he also screwed over his defense in that game with turnovers. when kimbrel blows two games and basically a series for the Phillies that’s counts against Harper W-L and teams began just pitching around him/walking him whereas lamar touches ball every time on offense and can’t make things happen as he touches the ball every time. Lamar Jackson has complete control on his offense and touches the ball every time. He’s been bad as a passer in all but 2 of his starts. In 5 of Lamar’s 6 starts their offense has scored  20 or less points. 1 game he’s scored over 20.

However, after bryce Harper‘s first playoff series at 19, he’s been either solid or good. In fact his 2nd and 3 postseasons he had .265/.419/1.005 (OPS). Since his rookie season postseason appearance he's hitting .298 with .414 OBP and 1.059 OPS with 15 homers and 29 RBIs since. Lamar Jackson has been "great” as a passer in one of his next five playoff games. In those 5 games they’ve averaged 15.8 ppg. He has 5 passing tds and 4 ints and a 79 qb rating. He has 2 rushing tds and 2 fumbles lost. So basically 1 TD more than turnovers in the next 5 playoff games. And there’s some garbage time stat padding in some of that. Harper in his second and 3rd postseason was better than that.  

Also Lamar didn’t play last year in the playoffs because he was too afraid of getting hurt and hurting his next contract. Where is Bryce Harper was playing with a Fing torn elbow. Also bryce Harper played a completely different position midway through the year and still performed. And in elimination games before coming to the Phillies he was hitting .467 with 4 RBIs and 2 homers with OBP of .578

If you’re going strictly wins and losses to tell me that Bryce Harper wasn’t good prior to your 11 and 12 you’d be full of crap. Because of elimination games for the nationals he was hitting 468 and OBP in over 50% of his at bats which is ridiculous  

I am not saying Lamar Jackson can’t get better overtime. You’d hope that’s the case. However you’re delusion if you think Bryce Harper was just bad in every postseason cause they didn’t win the series before we are 11 and 12 in the postseason. He was the best hitter the nationals had in elimination games. I can’t say Lamar was their best player in any of those losses. He’s been atrocious in almost every loss with their season on the line. Also, Bryce Harper got a bunch of crap about his postseason prior to coming to the Phillies and his postseason stats after his rookie season weren’t nearly as bad as Lamar’s  

Also Lamar is 2-4 cause he missed 2022 playoffs. So get your Fing stats correct. 

Also, who says lamar jackson is even playing in year 11 and 12 or as good as he is now to make those postseasons. Much shorter career than baseball and he’s already had durability issues. There’s a chance by 32-33 lamar is like cam newton where he’s at the end of his career

you wanna make a comparison to a baseball player, the comparison you should be using is Clayton Kershaw. Because Clayton Kershaw kinda has the same problem Lamar Jackson does. He’ll be great in the regular season. have a game or two in the postseason where it looks  good. But other times, he gets lit up or is just flat out bad. And he’s a 3X Cy Young award winner and won an mvp. 

20 minutes ago, Saltpeter said:

This man has been on a 30 year bulk

Oh come on I'm sure he's had his fair share of cuts. They just happen to all be cold cuts 

2 hours ago, eglz1 said:

I don't get the Taylor Swift hate either. I wouldn't recognize one of her songs if I heard it but she seems gift wrapped for the NFL to appeal to a demographic that for the most part has tolerated the NFL because of their significant others. I don't know that she appeals only to preteen girls, it seems like their mothers like her too.

She’s to the NFL what Cyndi Lauper was to WWF?