11 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

It's becoming pretty obvious that the Eagles (guessing lead by Fangio) think Sweat basically tanked it last year and was simply out for himself. Which makes the fact that he didn't get a sack the 2nd half of the year even more amazing -- he was playing selfish ball and still couldn't get a sack. If that's the assessment, and they want him out of the building, I guess cutting him is on the table.

He was horrible at contain.  He would either jump offsides or run straight up field and lose contain.  Really undisciplined football

So, the discussion today is trying to find a way to sign Jerome Baker or trade for Justin Fields ...... 

Welcome to the scrap heap of free agency:

 

16 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

If she was lying then they should throw the book at her

This will be interesting to follow, story broke over this past weekend I believe. Before her attorney even went to law enforcement they asked for 100m to keep it quiet before filing a suit after they were told to kick rocks. On the surface it looks pretty bad for her imo, Dak’s attorney immediately went to law enforcement and filed a law suit as well for defamation.

Looks like an attempted money grab but who knows.

Eagles wanted to bring back Joe Flacco. It would be a wild pivot to go from that to Justin Fields. 

1 hour ago, Saltpeter said:

Florio is insufferable, nobody gives a crap. I get it, it could cost them money or draft capital. But hawking on this stuff is so damn annoying 

Wasn’t the most recent tampering penalty against Miami? Cost them two draft picks I want to say. Cousins out right admitted it so yes they’re going to penalized. The Franklin situation with Barkley could easily be explained as paraphrasing or generalizing the intent of what was said between Barkley’s agent and the Eagles FO. A lot more circumstantial situation and the Eagles have already denied it so I wouldn’t expect anything to come of it honestly.

They dodged a bullet with Flacco. Last season felt like a last hurrah fluke for him. He was awful in the playoff game and was awful before last season. We saw him previously with the Eagles. Would rather Huntley or Jimmy G or Tannehill. Easton Stick less so.

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Eagles wanted to bring back Joe Flacco. It would be a wild pivot to go from that to Justin Fields. 

Would’ve taken Flacco over Fields all day everyday for a couple of different reasons.

1 hour ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

The problem with last years defense started in having no starting quality linebackers that could stay healthy, you could put Chuck Noll / Bill Bellichick in as joint DC last year and it would still look pretty much like Desai trying to hide the roster issues and stay in the game as well as you can and adjust to what the offense is doing at half time.

At the moment we still have no starting linebackers that can stay healthy so it looks like Howie thinks he can draft the solution or he really does think the entire issue was Desai.

The Eagles had 5 ILBs last year,  and all of them had PFFs in the 60s.
All average.  3 slightly above average.  2 slightly below average.

That wasn't the problem.

The problem was the the Eagles had 7 CB/S with PFFs below 60.

50s and even 40s.  That's where the bad and terrible came from.
 

Good - Cornerbacks and Safeties (70s and higher PFF)
All those are Safeties.

McCollum - 76.6
Blankenship - 73.4 19th / 95 S
Byard - 72.8 23rd / 95 S

Average - Cornerbacks and Safeties (60s PFF)

Slay - 66.0 55th / 127 CB
Ringo - 64.7
Evans - 63.1
Brown - 62.0 66th / 95 S

Bad / Terrible - Cornerbacks and Safeties   (50s and lower PFF)

Roby - 56.9 93rd / 127 CB
Bradberry - 54.4 100th / 127 CB
Garner - 51.1
Goodrich - 50.4
Ricks - 45.3 122nd / 127 CB
Maddox - 44.8
Jobe - 40.8

Average - Linebackers (60s PFF)

VanSumeren - 69.5
Morrow - 68.1  35th / 82 LB
Cunningham - 67.6 36th / 82 LB
Leonard - 62.8 53rd / 82 LB
Dean - 61.7

 

25 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I think we are going to look back at the Huff signing as a really, really good one.

As long as they don’t overuse him

1 minute ago, vikas83 said:

It's just funny to watch the national media hype him up and be confused why there's no interest in him. He's the new Scam Newton.

  I think what he needs more than anything else is good coaching.   Coaching to play QB, not run at the first hint of trouble... or even before that.

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

Better options that don’t cost draft capital.  

After watching McKee in camp last year, I'd rather go with him than Fields. He may not run as fast, but he can actually read a defense and throw a ball on target.

 

52 minutes ago, Lman said:

ESP is just a younger, more annoying version of Eskin.

Nobody is more annoying than Eskin.

 

 

Or Florio,

 

 

well, maybe Sal Pal,

 

certainly Marcus Hayes

 

come to think of it, there’s a long list.

2 hours ago, bpac55 said:

Is he serious right now?

The Eagles shouldn't draft Jalen Hurts, it isn't fair to Carson Wentz. Same thing IMO.

 

The Eagles shouldn't trade for Justin Fields because he's shlt.

5 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

The league also effed up the comp picks and it caused the Eagles 3rd to drop a slot. Call it even?

1 hour ago, just relax said:

I beg to disagree. IMHO he’s strictly a third down back. Maybe a slot guy. CMC is an infinitely better inside runner. 

Now I know McCaffrey had crazy yardage and was a Heisman candidate so different level as college players, as far as production is concerned.

Ill concede I should have said a poor man's McCaffrey. But still...

Dont confuse McCaffrey of now with what McCaffrey used to be. Here are some "cons" in his nfl.com scouting report:

• Benefitted from physical, downhill offensive line
• Takes foot off gas into contact
• Doesn't have NFL-caliber power to break tackles and create yardage for himself through power
• Can shake tacklers, but lacks a twitchy burst to accelerate away after the cut
• On stretch plays, can get too cute continuing to probe towards the perimeter rather than choosing a crease and committing

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

The Eagles shouldn’t trade for Fields because he will be too expensive.  Year four salary $3.2 million, year five though would be $26 million.  Not a fan of Huntley but that is basically what Fields is.  Lots of alternative vets like Josh Dobbs.  

Fields is better than Huntley.  I watch the Ravens,  and Lamar gets hurt and Huntley loses.

Fields is a much better runner than Huntley,  and Huntley is not better at throwing than Fields. 

I'm not interested in Huntley.    I like Easton Stick,  I like Fields,  I like Mariota.  I like Josh Dobbs more than Huntley.   

If the Eagles want a udfa,  I like John Rhys Plumlee.  I like Johnny Langan.  A day 3 like Jordan Travis. 

3 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

The league also effed up the comp picks and it caused the Eagles 3rd to drop a slot. Call it even?

I’d punish Howie by making him acquire a good linebacker. 

James Franklin has always been a lame ass. And with NIL, he's a complete waste of time. And with this tampering BS, he's flat out dumb. I'd love to pretend he never existed.

11 minutes ago, Random Reglar said:

The Eagles had 5 ILBs last year,  and all of them had PFFs in the 60s.
All average.  3 slightly above average.  2 slightly below average.

That wasn't the problem.

The problem was the the Eagles had 7 CB/S with PFFs below 60.

50s and even 40s.  That's where the bad and terrible came from.
 

Good - Cornerbacks and Safeties (70s and higher PFF)
All those are Safeties.

McCollum - 76.6
Blankenship - 73.4 19th / 95 S
Byard - 72.8 23rd / 95 S

Average - Cornerbacks and Safeties (60s PFF)

Slay - 66.0 55th / 127 CB
Ringo - 64.7
Evans - 63.1
Brown - 62.0 66th / 95 S

Bad / Terrible - Cornerbacks and Safeties   (50s and lower PFF)

Roby - 56.9 93rd / 127 CB
Bradberry - 54.4 100th / 127 CB
Garner - 51.1
Goodrich - 50.4
Ricks - 45.3 122nd / 127 CB
Maddox - 44.8
Jobe - 40.8

Average - Linebackers (60s PFF)

VanSumeren - 69.5
Morrow - 68.1  35th / 82 LB
Cunningham - 67.6 36th / 82 LB
Leonard - 62.8 53rd / 82 LB
Dean - 61.7

 

Yeah I'm going to have to stop you there, I was talking as someone who actually watched our team play football.

I'm sure Van Sumeren's 69.5 grade on his 3 snaps a game looks above average on a spreadsheet compiled by stat addled neckbearded virgins but on a football field it looks like somebody winning a shiniest turd on the pile contest.

Our corners were also bad, our linebackers being comparatively better doesn't make them less of a problem, and if Fangio is running his standard scheme here with 69.5 Vam Sumeren and 61.7 on the Treatment table Dean at inside linebacker, our defense and it's shiny new pieces is going to get torn another new one in 2024.

1 hour ago, wussbasket said:

Sweat and Reddick are obviously being shopped

because the Eagles just brought in 2 new LBs  Zack Baum can play ILB.  Physically, there isn't much of a difference between a 6'2 231 pound ILB and a 6'2 238 pound OLB.  Seems to me that, possibly, they could just move various LBs around from edge to off los.  Maybe they will, maybe they won't.

 

10 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Now I know McCaffrey had crazy yardage and was a Heisman candidate so different level as college players, as far as production is concerned.

Ill concede I should have said a poor man's McCaffrey. But still...

Dont confuse McCaffrey of now with what McCaffrey used to be. Here are some "cons" in his nfl.com scouting report:

• Benefitted from physical, downhill offensive line
• Takes foot off gas into contact
• Doesn't have NFL-caliber power to break tackles and create yardage for himself through power
• Can shake tacklers, but lacks a twitchy burst to accelerate away after the cut
• On stretch plays, can get too cute continuing to probe towards the perimeter rather than choosing a crease and committing

I’ll accept poor man’s McCaffrey.

F'ing James Franklin. I already have to deal with that guy coming up short every year with my college team, now he's trying to sabotage my favorite NFL team. That guy can kick rocks. 

If the Eagles actually get punished, I don't think Franklin is ready for what's coming to him. 

Hope it's not the Eagles, he absolutely stinks.