On 8/6/2020 at 4:52 PM, Connecticut Eagle said:

Well, it's a function of weather.

Right now, we have no power.  It's been 48 hours.  About 80% of the region is out.  There is a tree still resting on the power lines on our street. I figure at least another 2 days until they get around to our street.

The entire house switched over ten seconds after the outage.  We can run the fridge, lighting, microwave, stove, hot water, etc. without any thought.  We can run our central air or do some laundry if we are careful.  It's nice to have a cool bedroom at night and a hot shower in the morning.

Even more critical in the winter.  We can keep the house warm and avoid frozen pipes.

Still no power.  Been six days.

The trees have been cleared.  Now waiting on the electric company to show up.  Still ~2,000 customers without power in our town.  We've been promised by end of day tomorrow.

Generator holding up well.  We'll see how we get through a couple really hot days.

10 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

I'm a hockey guy first, and had a bball first friend had a conversation and we agreed. 

The NBA looks/feels/seems like 1) they dont care to be there 2) dont care about the outcome of the games and 3) are just walking through the motion while the NHL guys seem to be in over drive to win. 

And baseball... Well baseball. 

I don’t know if it’s the NBA players don’t care to be there, I think it’s more that these games at the current moment have no great meaning. By that I mean what good is the number one seed if you’re in a bubble besides who you play round one? It’s not like you’re having to go travel for three games in a seven game series so you need HomeCourt advantage in game seven. Cause there is no homecourt. It’s really about who you want to match up with and at this point almost all the teams were locked into one spot higher one spot lower in their seeding so not much movement with just 8 games being played. So i think A lot of teams besides ones fighting for the 8 seed in the west aren’t exactly fighting for much. 

1 hour ago, greend said:

Sure, that said most of us would have traded careers with him in a heart beat.

Ha.  What a profoundly self serving statement.   Maybe you would.  

3 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I'm not kidding when I didn't know the Eagles were actually practicing.  Leave it to them to give us 56 seconds of "highlights" when there is absolutely no access for fans or the media.  They have the absolute worst staff when it comes to content.  Look at Tampa Bays website compared to the Eagles.  It's absolutely pathetic.  I've been pretty vocal on the boards about my displeasure with the lack of coverage, photos, videos and not more TCL but this is just plain out bad.  

https://www.buccaneers.com/

https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/

A couple thoughts...

1) Several years ago, when TC was at Lehigh, the website would show tons of practice video.  The coaching staff nixed that for competitive reasons.

2) More content may mean more staff and more unnecessary contact.  I'm fine with whatever helps deliver week one on time. 

1 minute ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

A couple thoughts...

1) Several years ago, when TC was at Lehigh, the website would show tons of practice video.  The coaching staff nixed that for competitive reasons.

2) More content may mean more staff and more unnecessary contact.  I'm fine with whatever helps deliver week one on time. 

I'm not buying the competitive reasons.  Some of the best, most competitive teams in the NFL have all kinds of access.

14 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I agree.  I haven't watch 1 second of the NBA, I'm just not on board with their messaging.  Baseball is baseball to be honest.  Until games really heat up the fans are relatively quiet.  

I'm happy watching the Flyers games.

The messages on the jerseys are just straight up weird.  I understand they're trying to get a message across and I respect that.  

I dont think fans are watching and see the jerseys and say " hey it says EQUALITY....oh yeah, we should all have equality.  I forgot about that."

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

Stupid question.  Don’t think Slay will be available for Kempski one on one interviews this season.  I suspect the BLGs and Kempskis of the reporting world are on the outside looking in with the media restrictions this year. 

Kempski has actually improved over time.  I do think he has some connections inside the locker room.  He definitely doesn't have one with Slay now though.  

 

12 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Still no power.  Been six days.

The trees have been cleared.  Now waiting on the electric company to show up.  Still ~2,000 customers without power in our town.  We've been promised by end of day tomorrow.

Generator holding up well.  We'll see how we get through a couple really hot days.

Sorry to hear that it's still that bad.  

28 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Not bad.  Maybe switch some of the players on that list around a bit but works.  I do think Jackson and Murray need to show last year wasn’t a fluke.  

If Jackson can last another couple years and not take any murder hits, I might buy the hype a little more. But I'm not going to pretend that skinny running QBs have a great track record of holding up in the NFL.

Murray's skillset is tailor-made for the 2020 and beyond NFL though. Great arm and elusiveness, and enough muscle mass to hold up. I'd probably take him in the top 3 of a league-wide fantasy draft.

8 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

Couldnt agree more. Which also makes hockey look brilliant. 

Since July 20th NBA has been playing meaningless sports where for the last 7 days NHL's knocked it out of the park. 

The NHL has been really good. Like the Western Conference round robin, the games were awesome. Competitive and close. Had some sloppiness i actually attribute more to ice conditionS. You had upset of the Penguins and the Oilers. That Toronto Columbus series was absolutely nuts the entire time. Only series of games that were just not a good watch were the rangers/Carolina series 

Had this conversation the other day, the NHL it felt like an NCAA tournament presentation. Especially with the amount of games they had on per day in the same venue. It felt like NCAA tournament Type tv scheduling 

I think the XFL could be a solid league. America loves football, if there was football to watch after the super bowl people would watch it. Especially if it turned into a sort of developmental league where practice squad players/undrafted players can choose to play after the season is over and they can test new rule changes at a lower level. 

It isn't going to compete with the NFL, but supplement it. It'll never be a billion dollar league, but if the WNBA can survive the XFL can. They just need to be smart about it, and holding the season during the dead months of NFL football would work.

 

26 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I'm not kidding when I didn't know the Eagles were actually practicing.  Leave it to them to give us 56 seconds of "highlights" when there is absolutely no access for fans or the media.  They have the absolute worst staff when it comes to content.  Look at Tampa Bays website compared to the Eagles.  It's absolutely pathetic.  I've been pretty vocal on the boards about my displeasure with the lack of coverage, photos, videos and not more TCL but this is just plain out bad.  

https://www.buccaneers.com/

https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/

Have you checked Reddit?

58 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Losing college football would suck......so bad.  But it's a foregone conclusion.  As is losing the NFL.  If the standards are positives tests.  Then the NFL season is doomed.  TBH.  If I had my choice, I would have college football over pro football.  Mostly because I think Howie has built a ticking time bomb and this team will be entering some dark years and I'm definitely not feeling this team this season.  Thankfully you can turn things around quicker now in the NFL, especially if you have a QB.  But that clock won't start until Lurie gets his head out of his ARSE and realize Howie is not a good GM.  Maybe when the roster is purged next year because of the cap disaster he created by terrible drafting, Lurie will see Howie for what he truly is.  A bean counter with a corner office.  

College football sucks. NFL is so much better. Easily the best part of college football is the atmosphere created by the fans. Without them, it’s pointless. Sorry old man. 
 

Also, through Carson Wentz, anything is possible. So jot that down. 

 

Oof

 

25 minutes ago, MediterraneanDiet said:

Ha.  What a profoundly self serving statement.   Maybe you would.  

Well since I'm the one that complained about being burned out 20 years ago, then you started your quote storm. Yeah, I would.

4 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

Oof

 

They supposedly don't have Miles Sanders rated as a blue chip player, so this list loses all credibility 

6 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

Oof

 

It's not a surprise; most of the Eagles' young talent is unproven.  Part of what made up the 2017 Super Bowl team was a lot of solid, veteran leadership and very few rookies cracked the lineup between 2017-2019

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

They supposedly don't have Miles Sanders rated as a blue chip player, so this list loses all credibility 

I don't think Miles Sanders is a blue chipper yet.  He was very impressive last year.  I'm excited for his potential.  I'd like to see him build on that.  If he improves then yes, he's a blue chipper.

This list is scary however and what I've been saying for months.  The Eagles have a very weak young stable of players. 

3 hours ago, Bacarty2 said:

The last site was great for info and really enjoyed it, which is why i didn't hesitate to comeback when I was allowed lol. 

And yes, I feel like these contractors/prices are crazy

I got windows done, 15K, 12K, 21K and thank god my dad had a buddy who did it for 8K. HUGE Markets

If you'd like to have your old post count restored to what it was on the old EMB, just let me know. Before the old EMB shut down, I was able to get a lot of archiving done on Archive.org (Dave gave us a 2 week heads up), so most of the old member list is preserved, which has post count stats included.  

8 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

YEP.  Some of you are blind to what is coming...I've been trying to tell you.  Don't worry.  We reached and drafted a project back up QB and a linebacker who is built like a corner.  

The Eagles had one of the oldest rosters when they won the SB in 2017. The Patriots are normally top 5 in oldest rosters.

You can win with older players.

6 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I don't think Miles Sanders is a blue chipper yet.  He was very impressive last year.  I'm excited for his potential.  I'd like to see him build on that.  If he improves then yes, he's a blue chipper.

This list is scary however and what I've been saying for months.  The Eagles have a very weak young stable of players. 

I mean, they have rookies who never played a snap listed as blue chip. By their definition

"Blue chip" players are cornerstone assets from whom teams will likely derive their biggest future value.

I find it hard to see how Sanders doesn't qualify. 

29 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

Oof

 

Not surprised by that. This topic brought up earlier this offseason on the old board when I, Bpac and a couple others were concerned about the team getting older and not having great wealth of young blue chip prospects coming up that could eventually replace them or be the next wave of guys by the eagles. Realistically we said we have about 2-3 high level years from this group’s core. Need to build up the next wave. Right now it’s not as promising as I’d like it to be. Can still change with this and next couple drafts but at the moment this makes sense 

8 minutes ago, greend said:

Well since I'm the one that complained about being burned out 20 years ago, then you started your quote storm. Yeah, I would.

Exactly.  Sorry you burned out 20 years ago.  But you assume you wouldn't be burned out by repeated concussions,  injuries, training camp, losing seasons, riding pine, stupid teammates, lousy coaching, unrealistic goals to achieve bonuses, idiotic owner, and just the reality that a game you loved became a job like every other job put there.

16 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

YEP.  Some of you are blind to what is coming...I've been trying to tell you.  Don't worry.  We reached and drafted a project back up QB and a linebacker who is built like a corner.  

Not all of us. There were a group of us stating this at the beginning of the offseason and some on here took offense to it like we were saying the sky was falling. when really it was not what we were saying but more we should be concerned about this and it needs to get better otherwise there’s going to be a dramatic drop off in 2-3 years