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On 6/5/2025 at 7:48 AM, joemas6 said:

Perhaps for the ability to look at the players longer before deciding what to do, but also to use the very bottom of the roster in the final preseason game?

Yeah just curious as to see if there is mayhem when teams drop 37 players per team. 37 x32 is alot of bodies flooding whatever small market there may be for them. It's like a UDFA festival(bring some popcorn)

16 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

That's the real reason, IMO.

VaBeach Eagle did it. Welcome to the bored lol

14 hours ago, cunninghamtheman said:

To add to these thoughts….sounds like Q wants to travel along sticking to locking down the top WR this season. He doesn’t want them offered any easy escapes. Honestly think the DeJean forcing outside time also spurring some of this. Even Ringo outside. Deep take each team on our schedule this season. But just throw out our divisional final situation we face …at least twice. Nabers, Lamb and McLauren divisional top WR weapons. These guys are absolutely the elite of the elite too!

LMAO DeJean is NOT "forcing outside time."(neither does his agent) DeJean played many spots at Iowa and LOVES this game. Nothing wrong with allowing him to LEARN with spot play at another position. IDK where you come up with this false philosophy garbage. Iowa coach said if DeJean had stayed he was going to use him on offense also. DeJean will be paid for how many plays he makes NO MATTER what the position is. SO why don't you just let Fangio DO HIS JOB and let Howie DO HIS job? If you think you are better, go pound on Lurie's door and tell him, then go tell Howie how much DeJean should be paid. Then trot down to Fangio's office and let him know how many snaps at each spot you require he play. HURRY, because all these guys are helpless. DeJean was a great call by TD123

8 hours ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Last PS game is exactly when all these guys get their best opportunity to get some solid film down.

SO it used to be a 3 tier cut down, now they went to all at once. I would rather see a first cut down from 90 to 75 or 70. It still allows the "bubble guys" a chance to show their wares. No reason teams don't already know by your last pre game who is heading out the door. You yourself can probably list 15 guys who aren't going to make the team right now, so why not cut them loose early. Maybe another team can use them for depth or as projects as some simply don't fit where they are. They know it and the team knows it

2 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

SO it used to be a 3 tier cut down, now they went to all at once. I would rather see a first cut down from 90 to 75 or 70. It still allows the "bubble guys" a chance to show their wares. No reason teams don't already know by your last pre game who is heading out the door. You yourself can probably list 15 guys who aren't going to make the team right now, so why not cut them loose early. Maybe another team can use them for depth or as projects as some simply don't fit where they are. They know it and the team knows it

Because they don't want to play anyone in the last preseason game. Very simple math isn't it? Why does it make a difference for a fan?

18 hours ago, mattwill said:

Liar. Pathological liar.

Pickett trades.... if you look at the picks

Eagles traded pick used for Roman Wilson and eventually received the one used for Will Shipley .

They also gave up two 2025 7th round picks ... which they got back DTR and a 7th round pick.

They won the Superbowl and Pickett played well in the meaningful playing time that he had. A Smith drop away from 2 wins while lighting up the scoreboard.

Although the last incomplete pass in the SB eventually cost me the block pool... the Eagles made out pretty good spinning the assets involving Pickett.

Excellent investor return.

I've been thinking about the roster decisions that will come on August 26th. As most everyone knows, a new rule effectively creates 54th and 55th roster spots on IR or an NFI list during the final roster reduction that are eligible for return during the regular season any time after Week Four. Given that, does it make sense to consider Jihaad Campbell for one of those spots?

We are clearly going to have a roster crunch on August 26th, and I fully expect Howie to make one or two trades for 2027 picks of players with impending cuts, but each roster spot is precious, and given Fangio's comments yesterday it doesn't sound like Jihaad is going to be ready prior to Week Five.

1 hour ago, mattwill said:

I've been thinking about the roster decisions that will come on August 26th. As most everyone knows, a new rule effectively creates 54th and 55th roster spots on IR or an NFI list during the final roster reduction that are eligible for return during the regular season any time after Week Four. Given that, does it make sense to consider Jihaad Campbell for one of those spots?

We are clearly going to have a roster crunch on August 26th, and I fully expect Howie to make one or two trades for 2027 picks of players with impending cuts, but each roster spot is precious, and given Fangio's comments yesterday it doesn't sound like Jihaad is going to be ready prior to Week Five.

I think we have to look at the roster differently now. The last few years we can see a different strategy. The new rules allowing practice squad players the ability to play in games changes a lot of things.

Stash the young guys on the roster, but not really any intention of playing them..then put the vets on bubble on the practice squad and call them up as needed. The idea being that there's actually less chance of those PS vets of getting poached because then teams need to put them on their roster.

That ability to manipulate the PS to actually get playing time is a strategy we can't overlook.

For Campbell, it could allow him to just get put on the roster and use him before week 5 if he is ready.

3 minutes ago, joemas6 said:

I think we have to look at the roster differently now. The last few years we can see a different strategy. The new rules allowing practice squad players the ability to play in games changes a lot of things.

Stash the young guys on the roster, but not really any intention of playing them..then put the vets on bubble on the practice squad and call them up as needed. The idea being that there's actually less chance of those PS vets of getting poached because then teams need to put them on their roster.

That ability to manipulate the PS to actually get playing time is a strategy we can't overlook.

For Campbell, it could allow him to just get put on the roster and use him before week 5 if he is ready.

You and I have talked about roster construction in prior comments, and we are both on the same page.

With that said even maximizing the use of the practice squad, we are going to end up with more than 53 players that we want to keep … 54 if you count Nakobe Dean on PUP.

So finding ways to not lose players the same way we lost Dylan McMahon two seasons back is something that we definitely want to try and do. The two recallable IR spots can help in that.

The possibility that Campbell is going to be ready in Wweek three or four is extremely remote, if we can believe the comments that we’ve heard from Fangio in the last 24 hours. So I’m less inclined to think about holding the option of him being available before the end of week four.

In addition, I wonder how much better the Eagles squad on the field in week three or four would be with Campbell versus Trotter Junior, or whoever wins the spot opposite Baun.

12 hours ago, joemas6 said:

Who is the CB that is making this??? The fact that you don't mention his name says it all. Stingley you mention because he is a stud....he deserves the money....the other guy you don't mention...he doesn't get paid the Stingley money because he isn't on that level... not because of where he plays.

The fact that you don't mention the name is telling.

Maybe that’s also a part of the point. Fame and notoriety comes outside

12 hours ago, joemas6 said:

Stingley vs no name.

Big time outside CB …as Copp puts it "going against the best” ….versus inside Slot CB tend to not make names for themselves and garner big fans and fame.

12 hours ago, joemas6 said:

30 for the stud.....13 for " what is his name again that you can't mention"???

Top paid market setters inside and outside. Same team….state taxes…all equal…except huge Snake Canyon Gap in pay scale.

10 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Yeah just curious as to see if there is mayhem when teams drop 37 players per team. 37 x32 is alot of bodies flooding whatever small market there may be for them. It's like a UDFA festival(bring some popcorn)

It’s great and exciting! Frankly I’d be really scouting planning out every teams situation. That last PS game is exactly the one you need all that practice roster players exactly to get rewarded in seeing plenty of field time. Never made any sense to me cutting down before that final game where you exactly can really reward all these athletes that practiced hard and gave everything to try and fulfill their dreams. Many 90 man roster players getting cut pretty much never were getting any real shot anyway. Most coaches and GMs have things fairly mapped out on paper they would like to see transition to on the field. Pretty routinely see the favoritism give certain athletes plenty of chances while most fringe guys really never even get that one legit opportunity.

Decent football players on the streets of available to be poached from other teams PS is nothing but a good thing. It’s needed. Last thing you really want is every capable pro football player protected on team rosters. Things happen…and if multiple towards one position group? teams fairly routinely are forced to make that addition….happens plenty of times for just one or two weeks really. One player gets injured out for the season….then a guy at the same position goes into concussion protocol….boom any team pretty much really needing to scour any available possible player to fill that short term void.

Really be better if they just don’t continue to add anymore teams to the NFL. More teams…bigger the protected rosters..if considering over the 53….thats just lowering the quality standards. The more abundant available football capable talent …the better quality the product is week to week.

Really they extended too far with all the expansion teams. St Louis it seems is being guaranteed a team. Real shady how they stole their team to jump out to LA. Crazy lawsuits and money! Owner still sees it as worth it even to pay some crazy hundreds of millions. Moved the franchise from St Louis market to LA easily could have doubled the franchise value.

13 hours ago, joemas6 said:

Stingley vs no name.

It’s happening in pretty much every phase. Where are these guys being drafted too? Big trades. Big mega contracts.

You got Jalen Ramsey a big huge deal paid and traded for his whole career. Second trade was much cheaper as the Rams were in cap ruin and had to just clear their cap to reset after their All In Super Season.

Chauncey Gardner Johnson was top Slot CB practically given away to us in trade. He wasn’t going to stay playing in the Slot either. His contract season he pushed all chips in on getting paid as a S. Which was smart business decision in most ways. Really didn’t quite work out nearly as well as it could have for him though. Business surrounding the NFL positional market …made it obvious for CGJ to want the switch to S. That’s not even as high of paying as outside CB. But Slot CB is one of the lowest positions paid.

Last season PFF top CB rankings were:

New York's Sauce Gardner, Denver's Pat Surtain II, Kansas City's Trent McDuffie and Chicago's Jaylon Johnson.

Didn’t even include Stingley. Which I’m just flat out calling wrong. Makes the plays grabbing picks. Teams know better than to even throw in his direction. Batted down a bunch of attempts still. Insane league leading completion rate receivers were held to against Stingley when matched up. Totally always just been a guy known was elite stud. Texans jumped way up in that draft and took him like 3rd overall even I think. Nobody jumping up to top three overall draft pick for a Slot CB.

I’m saying Stingley is in my top five CBs. Q is also. I just don’t think you can overreact to just how amazing Q from day one as a pro just has been fantastic! Traditional in the NFL would expect a dropoff from Q second season. Long SB season he played every snap during….as a rookie….from Toledo. Not many rookies at any position adjust that seamlessly to NFL pro life. But wear and tear just has to be there after such an epic and extensive first pro season. Hard to really predict and judge durability, longevity….each individuals physical limitations. But even just bypassing any massive workload rookie season considerations….just think about as a very high visibility known top CB on Champion team that’s returning with highest of expectations. Top team…top second year CB….divisional rivals are studying Q in microscopic detailing. Heck…Jerruh would probably just fork over some crazy cold cash to any scout that can break down any tiny nuisances of tendencies that can be attacked. I mean…Q isn’t just a one game problem for the entire NFC and especially the NFC East….he’s a very long term major difficulty they all will be challenged with for the next decade.

Anyway…just saying target is on our Eagles league wide. Even Goodell and Vincent…weak sauce..but true. Best of the best top defensive players and coaches are spending a good chunk of time studying Q rookie season film. That’s where it’s just natural for a second year player to take a step back. The best football minds all are going to break down anything and anyway he isn’t perfect. Just gotta respect how incredible all these D coaches and players getting paid fortunes are at finding anything. One player or coach identifies any weakness? Then every opponent after that sees it on film as the blueprint. This is just flat out going to happen. Almost no way it can be avoided. Then it’s just up to the player to self scout and improve by developing weaknesses…not necessarily to be strengths….just improving in those areas enough to not be such easily taken advantage of. Some players actually hit a wall and can’t ever do it. Their weakness just is their weakness they won’t ever correct. Q is just such an unbelievable athlete….hard for me to believe once faced with any weaker technique points or areas of more vulnerability? He just will have to put in the work on improving. Which shouldn’t be much of an issue for him to solve fairly quickly I’m believing.

Main thing with Q is he just needs to cash in on finishing his great play and opportunities by making the interceptions. Force some fumbles I also want him to make a push towards. Right now…Q is sticky in coverage and makes things really difficult for opponents….but if things continue on for him ,with every reason seeming to factor in, on him not taking the ball away. Then QBs won’t be scared of throwing at him. Tight windows from sticky coverage and exceptional recovery speed lower completion percentages and success rates for any O to really choose as a good option for success. QBs are funny …how even middling backups …if filled with confidence? can make the right window throws actually very consistently. Bradberry and Maddox both we saw exactly that take place. Not as much about either DB just playing so terrible. It was that confidence each QB felt going in with that matchup. Watched all that film week after week of all different other QBs finding success there. A QB full of confidence against a CB is death. Any QB feels there isn’t a pressure… if say a CB just becomes known as won’t make the play and interception? Not much too lose for the QB there. Like Maddox…even stuck in receivers hip pocket? QBs knew if they threw it high that throw was always available.

OCs started backing off throwing towards Q in record time. It was crazy…like just a few games out of Toledo and top O minds already gameplanning don’t throw his way. Sticky coverage and incompletions…even challenging successful completions ….won’t be enough to have OCs totally scare away from him though. He has to make the turnovers. OCs and QBs want to find better options of playmakers that are open. But won’t fear Q without him proving he’ll make them pay…by showing he is more than just a guy out there playing CB because he doesn’t have the hands to do other wise. Make the interceptions…so many right there last season….always something…one just had Ceedy Duce come ram him out of the pick himself. Two others teammates got in his way. On and on…but just seemed to have everything against him finishing and making that turnover.