30 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

They just gave a guy with one working knee a 3-year 200 mil extension  

Are you referring to embiid or george? Sorry I don't follow this team that well. 

1 minute ago, just relax said:

Leaving for Portugal tomorrow. Will miss the Rams game. Y'all better man up in my absence.

Im going to double down on my anti-Hurts takes. 

4 hours ago, garingovt2000 said:

Giants second best and Cowboys second worst?  I feel like that’s hard to believe 

sorry if already posted

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCmevfjJU2s/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

1 minute ago, just relax said:

Leaving for Portugal tomorrow. Will miss the Rams game. Y'all better man up in my absence.

Força pássaros!

5 minutes ago, pisceschica said:

Are you referring to embiid or george? Sorry I don't follow this team that well. 

Embiid

4 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Força pássaros!

Voa, Águias, Voa!

1 hour ago, beto_eagles said:

I would add Irsay somewhere there. 

I don’t think Irsay is bottom 5. He’s got drug problems and routinely makes an ass of himself, but he stays out of the football stuff enough for the team to not be an unsalvageable disaster. 

1 minute ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

I don’t think Irsay is bottom 5. He’s got drug problems and routinely makes an ass of himself, but he stays out of the football stuff enough for the team to not be an unsalvageable disaster. 

He was a debacle in the 2021 and 2022 seasons. Basically demanded Wentz be thrown away and killed any potential trade value (except Dan Snyder was even dumber), then in 2022 forced Reich to bench Matt Ryan for Ehlinger, then fired Reich and hired Jeff freaking Saturday, who then put Ryan back in...

Couple of quick points.

* I was fiddling around with my Blu Ray player a little while ago and needed to test something, so I pulled out the Super Bowl LII disc that @VaBeach_Eaglemade and graciously donated to everyone. I watched a few highlights, just for old times sake. (We still won, by the way). One thought that popped into my head was wondering what would have happened if they had flagged Fletcher Cox for roughing the passer on the final play. It was closer than we'd probably like to admit. (And of course we all already know that Malcolm Jenkins could easily have been called for illegal contact downfield during the route.)

* I was talking to some random Eagles fans last night and BOTH of them said they'd be rooting for the Cowboys to lose this week against Washington. It's absurd how some fans still can't accept the fact that there are some rare instances -- and this is certainly one of them -- that we actually should root for our most hated rival. It's okay to accept it. It doesn't make you a cooler Eagles fan to assert that you "always root against the Cowboys, no matter what".

* Not sure if anyone picked up on this (some probably did), but in watching the replay of the game from Thursday night, I noticed that on the fake "tush push" where they pitched it to Barkley for the conversion, the Eagles were in a different formation than usual. They had Lane Johnson in between Dickerson and Mailata. On the right side of the line it was simply Becton and Calcaterra. I was unaware of this until this morning. I wonder if this will be a "tell" in the future.

* On the third down pass in the second quarter where Hurts' pass to the sideline was way off target to A.J. Brown, it appeared to me (again, I didn't catch it when watching live) that the fault was entirely Brown's. The defender slipped and Brown was wide open. Yet instead of coming back toward the quarterback, Brown started to go deep for a split second before then trying to come back. It would have worked if he hadn't wasted that movement. I suspect that "in the moment" most fans were probably howling at Hurts for a bad pass when it really wasn't his fault.

3 hours ago, just relax said:

At the risk of being vilified, I have to agree. Ben Smith before his injury was better, as was Troy Vincent. An argument can be made for Lito Sheppard, Slay, and Asante Samuel, none of whom are HOF material.

I think Allen was better than Lito and Slay. At their best, I think I'd take Samuel over Allen.

11 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

* I was talking to some random Eagles fans last night and BOTH of them said they'd be rooting for the Cowboys to lose this week against Washington. It's absurd how some fans still can't accept the fact that there are some rare instances -- and this is certainly one of them -- that we actually should root for our most hated rival. It's okay to accept it. It doesn't make you a cooler Eagles fan to assert that you "always root against the Cowboys, no matter what".

Too many fans hate the Cowboys more than they love the Eagles.

22 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

I think Allen was better than Lito and Slay. At their best, I think I'd take Samuel over Allen.

Apples and Oranges, Allen was much better in man, Samuel might have been the ultimate zone CB (lack of deep speed made him vulnerable in man).

5 hours ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Very misleading.  Not playing a game is a somewhat arbitrary measure for failure.

The Eagles have had only 4 out of 63 drafted players not play a game from the 2015 - 2023 draft classes.  Tanner McKee, Clayton Thorson, Donnell Pumphrey, and Alex McCallister.

KC has only one player not play a game, Da'Ron Brown.

But if you expand the criteria to having only played in 10 games or fewer (another arbitrary criteria), we have only 8 and they have 9.

 

TRIVIA:  Included in our 8 is Elijah Qualls, who drew the Delay of Game penalty on third and short against the Giants in 2017 that forced a field goal, allowing us the opportunity to tie and then beat them in week 3 on Elliott's 61-yarder.

Ok, I’m admittedly been sucking down free drinks all day but….

 

A converse way to look at it that would support your argument…..

 

If you consistently draft well, your roster is filled with home grown talent and therefore making it harder for late round picks to make the team (and those cast offs tend to be picked up as practice squad players and nothing more)

1 hour ago, just relax said:

Leaving for Portugal tomorrow. Will miss the Rams game. Y'all better man up in my absence.

What takes you there and have you been there before?  I personally ever been. 

Jalyx Hunt isn't practicing. With Huff going to IR our pass rushers might be light on Sunday. 

Sweat, Graham and Nolan at EDGE. We can also kick a DT outside of we need a pocket-pusher. Get Ojomo on the EDGE.

11 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Jalyx Hunt isn't practicing. With Huff going to IR our pass rushers might be light on Sunday. 

I'm not reading too much into it. DeVonta sitting again just like last week. Milton Williams as well. Let's see how the week shakes out.

23 minutes ago, paco said:

Ok, I’m admittedly been sucking down free drinks all day but….

 

A converse way to look at it that would support your argument…..

 

If you consistently draft well, your roster is filled with home grown talent and therefore making it harder for late round picks to make the team (and those cast offs tend to be picked up as practice squad players and nothing more)

Late round choices in bad depth drafts plays into it too.

12 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Late round choices in bad depth drafts plays into it too.

I agree. 
 

But my comment was based on teams with poor depth needing to play otherwise unplayable dudes. Look at the 2006 R-words draft. After it was over everyone took one look at the results and the best review was ”Why even bother?”. Guys like Reed Doughty had no business being in the league but stuck around for 7 years because their team was THAT bad. 

Hard hitting news 

 

2 hours ago, paco said:

Giants second best and Cowboys second worst?  I feel like that’s hard to believe 

Never play % is a weird metric.

Bad teams will more likely let young guys on the field regardless of it they are good and ready. You see that with Broncos, Bears, Giants etc being near the top

The quality of picks isn't really considered either. The more % of 7th round picks you make, you are taking more fliers on guys that are unlikely to pan out so naturally you should be expected to higher % that never plays.

2 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Hard hitting news 

 

Try consulting a partner in your firm while actively getting a hummer. 

10 minutes ago, paco said:

Try consulting a partner in your firm while actively getting a hummer. 

Do you think schefter has multiple sources on the hummer 

1 hour ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

Couple of quick points.

* I was fiddling around with my Blu Ray player a little while ago and needed to test something, so I pulled out the Super Bowl LII disc that @VaBeach_Eaglemade and graciously donated to everyone. I watched a few highlights, just for old times sake. (We still won, by the way). One thought that popped into my head was wondering what would have happened if they had flagged Fletcher Cox for roughing the passer on the final play. It was closer than we'd probably like to admit. (And of course we all already know that Malcolm Jenkins could easily have been called for illegal contact downfield during the route.)

* I was talking to some random Eagles fans last night and BOTH of them said they'd be rooting for the Cowboys to lose this week against Washington. It's absurd how some fans still can't accept the fact that there are some rare instances -- and this is certainly one of them -- that we actually should root for our most hated rival. It's okay to accept it. It doesn't make you a cooler Eagles fan to assert that you "always root against the Cowboys, no matter what".

* Not sure if anyone picked up on this (some probably did), but in watching the replay of the game from Thursday night, I noticed that on the fake "tush push" where they pitched it to Barkley for the conversion, the Eagles were in a different formation than usual. They had Lane Johnson in between Dickerson and Mailata. On the right side of the line it was simply Becton and Calcaterra. I was unaware of this until this morning. I wonder if this will be a "tell" in the future.

* On the third down pass in the second quarter where Hurts' pass to the sideline was way off target to A.J. Brown, it appeared to me (again, I didn't catch it when watching live) that the fault was entirely Brown's. The defender slipped and Brown was wide open. Yet instead of coming back toward the quarterback, Brown started to go deep for a split second before then trying to come back. It would have worked if he hadn't wasted that movement. I suspect that "in the moment" most fans were probably howling at Hurts for a bad pass when it really wasn't his fault.

On your tush push observation...they broke the huddle, quickly lined up, and snapped the ball immediately - not letting the defense adjust to the imbalanced line.