Just now, ManuManu said:

I don’t think they’d hold a press conference if he was announcing a return…

Agreed! He’s a Philly legend and a HoF guy but if he was coming back they’d just announce he’s signed a deal to return. To call a press conference to announce his return is to treat him differently.

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

 

Howie sleepin.

 

4 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

The Phillies trying to help cheer up Philly fans with kelce retiring.

 

google bots wont like this. But I hate hearing that Clark broke Pistol Petes record. It should be kept separated, mens, and womens. I watched the first half of that Iowa game yesterday to see her break the record. And I saw countless missed layups, and an air ball. Pete played against men. Clark plays against girls who cant play basketball. Her record is not the same. She is a great player. But there is 0 competition. Ohio State was ranked #2, and they wouldnt beat my boys high school team.

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

Speed for OL is overrated but athleticism is not. They are called dancing bears for a reason. Leaping ability is all about explosion. You want an OL that can explode in to the DL and move the LOS back. That's the tush push in a nutshell. Not that I want that play to be a deciding factor in choosing OL but it's just an easy example to show explosion. It's also much easier to teach an athletic OL technique than it is a limited athlete. 

Lane Johnson's initial kick step is 100% based off of his explosive traits. Mailata is an athletic freak but it's hard to see sometimes because he's just a mauler too. Kelce and Jurgens are both sub 300 lb guys who can move and my hope is Jurgens moves back to Center this year to really show that off. Or think about pulling guards. Trying to pull and seal off this hybrid safety/LB now is a serious task. 

Think back to some of the all-time greats. Larry Allen is one of the best guards I've ever seen play and while he was strong as an ox, he was a fleet footed world class athlete. Dermontti Dawson at center, super athletic. 

Yep. Even Stoutland has struggled to turn OL with below average RAS into starting linemen, to me the jumping tests are the most important for an OL (explosion, 30" on the VT depending on weight, 9'0+ on the LJ), then the SS and cone (agility), and the 10 yard split (how fast can you move off the snap to pull or get to the second level). The 40 yard dash is more a test of stamina, but you can live with a bad 40 if you have a good (1.75 or better) 10 yard split.

But they signed a UFA last season who had great RAS but never made it out of camp - athleticism is fine, but you still have to be able to translate it to the field.

2 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

google bots wont like this. But I hate hearing that Clark broke Pistol Petes record. It should be kept separated, mens, and womens. I watched the first half of that Iowa game yesterday to see her break the record. And I saw countless missed layups, and an air ball. Pete played against men. Clark plays against girls who cant play basketball. Her record is not the same. She is a great player. But there is 0 competition. Ohio State was ranked #2, and they wouldnt beat my boys high school team.

Honestly - your posts should be in the same category as Random Reglar and RTK.  Legitimately awful. 

Jason Kelce wore down and wasn't nearly as good in the 2nd half of last year. You could see the decline. Love him. HOFamer. It's time.

16 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

google bots wont like this. But I hate hearing that Clark broke Pistol Petes record. It should be kept separated, mens, and womens. I watched the first half of that Iowa game yesterday to see her break the record. And I saw countless missed layups, and an air ball. Pete played against men. Clark plays against girls who cant play basketball. Her record is not the same. She is a great player. But there is 0 competition. Ohio State was ranked #2, and they wouldnt beat my boys high school team.

Who cares? It’s a record that’s broken and recognized in collegiate sports. It has zero impact on the people uninvolved lol. It’s factual that she has the most points. He was also a man playing men’s basketball and she is a woman playing women’s basketball, I’d say their conditions make it valid. 
 

I’m sure no one was missing layups and airballing in college basketball in 1967-1970 lmao. I’d argue women’s basketball today on average are more skilled than the average men’s college player in 1967. 

4 minutes ago, RLC said:

Jason Kelce wore down and wasn't nearly as good in the 2nd half of last year. You could see the decline. Love him. HOFamer. It's time.

Was anybody?

CJGJ is not a good safety, but he could be a very good nickel back at the right price.

But not a guy who solves the safety problem.

Blackenship is fine if you pair him with a safety with more speed.

11 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

google bots wont like this. But I hate hearing that Clark broke Pistol Petes record. It should be kept separated, mens, and womens. I watched the first half of that Iowa game yesterday to see her break the record. And I saw countless missed layups, and an air ball. Pete played against men. Clark plays against girls who cant play basketball. Her record is not the same. She is a great player. But there is 0 competition. Ohio State was ranked #2, and they wouldnt beat my boys high school team.

It's free comedy

32 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

the retirement of course. Its very rare that I am wrong.

 

2 minutes ago, wussbasket said:

Was anybody?

That’s what I’m saying lol. We can’t judge these players on the last half of the season. The whole team was in a smog of poor football, poor effort, and a scheme that was more repetitive and predictable than I’ve ever seen.

According to Caplan and Mosher, when Marcus Williams was a FA, the Eagles offered the same money as the Ravens. After he chose Baltimore, the Eagles offered more money, but he and his agent wouldn’t renege on the agreement. 

Hope Kelce gets into commentating. He'd actually be what people think Greg Olsen is.

20 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

Berman brought up the other day that the Eagles had a great 2021 draft and there was no combine. Could be a small sample, but could also be that without workouts they had to go purely on game film and maybe sometimes when you put too much into workouts it can negatively affect your picks.

That would be an interesting study. If over time teams drafted better without workouts or not.

With today's film analysis, you can probably get most of the information about athleticism you get from workouts but in pads and under game conditions.

I'm a lot more interested in how fast a WR gets to full speed in pads from a football stance than how fast he runs on a track from a sprinter's stance.

The point of workouts is to gauge raw athleticism, it doesn't tell you squat about instincts or how athletic they are in pads (some smaller players are a lot faster in shorts).

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

According to Caplan and Mosher, when Marcus Williams was a FA, the Eagles offered the same money as the Ravens. After he chose Baltimore, the Eagles offered more money, but he and his agent wouldn’t renege on the agreement. 

Yup. This was reported at the time.

Interesting sliding doors. We don't trade for CJGJ as Williams plays with Epps. We also don't have the money to sign Bradberry. 

20 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

Berman brought up the other day that the Eagles had a great 2021 draft and there was no combine. Could be a small sample, but could also be that without workouts they had to go purely on game film and maybe sometimes when you put too much into workouts it can negatively affect your picks.

That would be an interesting study. If over time teams drafted better without workouts or not.

They still had pro days though. I don’t know that there’s a whole lot more you learn at having both a combine and a pro day than one or the other

13 minutes ago, GoEagles614 said:

Who cares? It’s a record that’s broken and recognized in collegiate sports. It has zero impact on the people uninvolved lol. It’s factual that she has the most points. He was also a man playing men’s basketball and she is a woman playing women’s basketball, I’d say their conditions make it valid. 
 

I’m sure no one was missing layups and airballing in college basketball in 1967-1970 lmao. I’d argue women’s basketball today on average are more skilled than the average men’s college player in 1967. 

Shes a woman who is actually good at womens basketball, which means there is no competition for her.

He was man playing against other men who were good. He did it against competition. I scored more points than her in my driveway. 

wheeler got paid a lot of money. 

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

The silliness begins with the first post-combine mock I have seen. Eagles draft Xavier Worthy at 22.

https://www.thedraftnetwork.com/2024/03/03/nfl-mock-draft-2024-post-nfl-combine

Sorry but Hurts will not reach him with deep balls. 

But will he reach him if he goes balls deep?

Silver lining: The Eagles will save some money going from Kelce to Jurgens. The rusted out aluminum lining: The Eagles obviously didn’t love what they saw out of Steen last year. It would have been nice to play him over Opeta. 

10 minutes ago, austinfan said:

With today's film analysis, you can probably get most of the information about athleticism you get from workouts but in pads and under game conditions.

I'm a lot more interested in how fast a WR gets to full speed in pads from a football stance than how fast he runs on a track from a sprinter's stance.

The point of workouts is to gauge raw athleticism, it doesn't tell you squat about instincts or how athletic they are in pads (some smaller players are a lot faster in shorts).

The athleticism may suggest where improvement with NFL level coaching might occur.  I hate the abandonment of the short shuttle and 3 cone as those do suggest quickness and agility.  Given how different the coverage rules are in college and how the route trees are limited and rounded routes are not as visible in college, I suspect there is some value in those.  I suspect the drive from a track stance has some value.  But tape matters a lot.

Hopefully Jurgens can hold up health wise. He already missed a good chunk of his first season starting. 

Kelce's ironman steak of the last 10 years will be missed and probably not repeated.