1 hour ago, schuy7 said:

Eagles.

Wild

8 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

I disagree.  I like Keegan a lot.  I also suspect the Birds like Kinnard.  And they do like Toth.  Not permanent starters and all can be improved on but as back ups. More concerned about swing tackle and very concerned about a back up C.   Now any back up C needs to be a back up guard, hence exposing and losing McMahon but note some of the IOL they brought in have potential as Cs.  Versatility is key. 

Well, there you have it.  We don't see eye to eye on this one.

2 hours ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Lurie continues to be cheap.  Everything has pointed towards him having money issues, from selling part of the team to selling snow to free agency to this 

2 hours ago, just relax said:

Learning is better than guessing.

Lots and lots of learning is forward looking.  Learning about past history is a clear exception.

17 minutes ago, Freshmilk said:

Well, there you have it.  We don't see eye to eye on this one.

What is it about Keegan that you don’t like?

Just now, mattwill said:

What is it about Keegan that you don’t like?

Is there a lot to like yet? I don’t have an opinion either way. Hope he turns into something. I like his attitude for starters.

2 hours ago, BigEFly said:

Interesting.  What connectivity for the thumb drive as both are old school tech but a thumb drive is probably more likely available to access longer.  That said, aren’t the digital recordings on Blue Ray superior to for what we store on a thumb drive?  But does that even matter.  My lean is to the thumb drive. 

Thumb drives have grown pretty large so the same quality of a Blu Ray recording can be kept and stored on the thumb drive. They're more expensive than an equal number of Blu ray discs, but might be more convenient.

A potential problem though is that a single thumb drive is a single point of failure or loss. It can stop working and everything on it can be lost. Or it can be lost and everything on it is lost. 

53 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

I really don’t give a flying F if someone gets my DNA info. I doubt anyone on the dark web wants to know that I am genetically predisposed to cilantro tasting like soap.

  I just read a fascinating article about this archeologist at Catoctin Furnace that has been using DNA from bodies at a slave cemetery found there.  She is literally tracing to living persons.  Way cool.   Probably fascinating for whoever gets the DNA info from 23 and Me. 

Law enforcement doesn't have access to someone's full DNA profile anyway on the database they typically use for this, only certain markers. But it's an amazing technology. We've essentially reached a point where enough people are in the database that if you commit a murder or rape and leave your DNA behind, you'll be caught eventually because there are millions of people in the database and even if you have a 6th cousin somewhere in the database, you'll share a small amount of DNA and law enforcement will get a partial match and eventually trace it back to the perpetrator. It's really amazing technology.

It's also used to solve unidentified remains and other things.

56 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Why?  I ask this a lot about photos. Do you really look at that many photos?  I guess my super camera on my phone is wasted on me.  I mostly use it for sending photos to my red head dream to ask her it she wants me to buy this or that.  Sure a photo of family or friends every once in a while but otherwise I long ago decided to not view the world through a viewfinder.  When we die, our family can’t wade through all the media and end up just trashing it. (Been there, done that.) While I will share a photo in the moment on occasion, my view is that it is a great big beautiful world that absent being presented by a professional photographer or videographer, is best seen IRL. And trust me, my photos would never be considered professional.   I doubt I have .5% of the images you have.  

As you may remember from our conversation when we got together at  with Just Relax and Franklin for lunch at Terrain, my better half was the Manager of Design at Longwood Gardens, and that makes her a chronicler through photography for two important reasons.

One is to capture the garden design process as it moves from its origin as the germ of an idea through to its realization in a garden space.  That process actually starts before there is that initial germ of a design idea because almost all good design has antecedents in the work of other artists.

The second is that Mother Nature is ever changing and as a result the initial realization of a design in a garden space evolves as the component plants grow … changing their size and shape as they do … and also responding to changes in the elements.  Photographs are automatically time and date stamped and GPS located.  The photograph below is dated March 22nd and we know from this photograph that that is when the Gladiolus tristis began blooming this year, as well as recording the extent of the bloom.  We can compare that to when that happened in prior years and reconcile that timing with the weather that we had since the first of the year.

Our goal is to have something blooming in the garden 365!days of the year.  Our daffodils are already done (yours are probably just about to start) Our species tulips popped into bloom this morning.  Three weeks ago it was The Hardenbergia with its white blooms was in its full glory.  Next after the Gladiolus will be the Bulbinella nutans below. It is an ever changing palate.

 

28 minutes ago, Texas Eagle said:

Is there a lot to like yet? I don’t have an opinion either way. Hope he turns into something. I like his attitude for starters.

I’m with you.  I don’t have enough information to have an opinion.  But I trust Stoutland, whom Freshmilk apparently does not trust.

2 hours ago, schuy7 said:

Eagles.

 

1 hour ago, Texas Eagle said:

Wild

 

Tommy Lawlor on igglesblitz.com has a new article up on the current list of Top 30 visits:  http://igglesblitz.com/2025/03/analyzing-interest/#disqus_thread

One of the most intriguing parts of this part of the offseason is finding out which draft prospects the Eagles have interest in and then trying to understand their thinking. Which players are they interested in? Which positions?

Here is an updated list of pre-draft visits.

RB Jaydon Blue

OT Charles Grant

OT Jalen Travis

OT Anthony Belton

OT Marcus Mbow

OT Josh Conerly

ED Elijah Roberts

ED Donovan Ezeiruaku

ED Tyler Baron

CB Maxwell Hairston

The newest OL being looked at is Charles Grant. He has good size at 6-5, 311 and is a good athlete. He has long arms (34 3/4 inches) and big hands. That’s the frame and length you want in an OT. Grant started at LT for three years. He did play at a small school, but he was dominant.

You can absolutely see why Jeff Stoutland would have interest in Grant. Highly athletic OTs with good size and long arms are not easy to find. It is possible Grant could even play some OG. I think his long term future is OT, but he’s so good on the move you could try him at OG initially. I think of him as a third round prospect, but it wouldn’t shock me to see him sneak into the bottom of round two.

1 hour ago, mattwill said:

Tommy Lawlor on igglesblitz.com has a new article up on the current list of Top 30 visits:  http://igglesblitz.com/2025/03/analyzing-interest/#disqus_thread

OT Charles Grant

OT Jalen Travis

OT Anthony Belton

OT Marcus Mbow

OT Josh Conerly

You can absolutely see why Jeff Stoutland would have interest in Grant. Highly athletic OTs with good size and long arms are not easy to find. It is possible Grant could even play some OG. I think his long term future is OT, but he’s so good on the move you could try him at OG initially. I think of him as a third round prospect, but it wouldn’t shock me to see him sneak into the bottom of round two.

I really like the idea of day 2 developmental OT. Other teams that have bad OL coaches won't want these players, and we only have a screaming OT need in 2027 as long as Lane plays. The only concern is who is our backup OT in 2025? That's a lot to put on Kendall Lamm.

10 hours ago, BigEFly said:

Interesting.  What connectivity for the thumb drive as both are old school tech but a thumb drive is probably more likely available to access longer.  That said, aren’t the digital recordings on Blue Ray superior to for what we store on a thumb drive?  But does that even matter.  My lean is to the thumb drive. 

A dual-layer BluRay disk is around 100 GB. That is if the entire thing is filled. You can buy a 1 TB thumb drive for around $70 nowadays.

If you wanted to rip an entire disk, you can fit, at the bare minimum, 10 BluRays on a single drive. However, most are not that big. You can easily get 20 fully ripped disks or more on a single drive. Then you can stream it directly from that drive if you want, instead of breaking out a disk.

It is so much more convenient than having physical disks. JMO.

8 hours ago, mattwill said:

What is it about Keegan that you don’t like?

He's from Illinois and his first name is Trevor.  Need I say more?

7 hours ago, mattwill said:

I’m with you.  I don’t have enough information to have an opinion.  But I trust Stoutland, whom Freshmilk apparently does not trust.

That's ridiculous.   I don't trust Stoutland?  I hope your Flomax doesn't work today.

At this point, who does everyone think will be our 1st pick in the draft?  One player I know it won't be is Walter Nolen...not because I don't want him, but because he is the most mocked player to us by the National folks at pick 32.  How many times has the national consensus of mock drafters been right about a player mocked to us?  Particularly when we draft in the late first round.

For the record, I'd be good with Nolen at 32.  Besides him, maybe Derrick Harmon or Donovan Ezeiruaku?  

With all the visits for OL already, obviously we are showing strong interest there, but I can't see taking a OT at 32.  Day 2, sure.

17 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

No, you can't. 

They also aren't paying his salary or anything after a trade, it's all money they already paid previously but didn't account for.

Shut up - you don't make the rules.  

15 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Not sure how accurate this is since I didn't see any details anywhere else, but Spotrac has Fred Johnsons deal with the Jaguars as 1 year, $1,337,500 and a little over $1M guaranteed.

I haven't seen any terms for Kendall Lamm but it's a little surprising the Eagles passed on that cheap of a contract for Fred Johnson and replaced him with a 33 year old guy who just had back surgery. 

 

I wonder if Fred thought he had a better pathway to potentially starting in Jax.  

17 hours ago, bpac55 said:

Read closely. Read it twice, then read it again.

 

Well I'm surprised Hunter's boyfiend isn't going.  He does play both ways.  

1 minute ago, NCiggles said:

I wonder if Fred thought he had a better pathway to potentially starting in Jax.  

People always pretend the team is the only side that has to agree. That contract is near the vet minimum which, I believe, the Eagles would have paid in a heartbeat for a known, solid backup OT. But Johnson's path to a better opportunity is by being part of a competition for a starting job --- something he doesn't have here. So he signed a "prove it" deal elsewhere. 

11 minutes ago, brkmsn said:

People always pretend the team is the only side that has to agree. That contract is near the vet minimum which, I believe, the Eagles would have paid in a heartbeat for a known, solid backup OT. But Johnson's path to a better opportunity is by being part of a competition for a starting job --- something he doesn't have here. So he signed a "prove it" deal elsewhere. 

Not meaning to speak ill of the recently departed, but Johnson got progressively worse the more he played. Teams figured him out. My impression is that the DE over him would set up a little wider and Fred would turn rather than kick step out to him. He couldn’t get there.

15 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Not sure how accurate this is since I didn't see any details anywhere else, but Spotrac has Fred Johnsons deal with the Jaguars as 1 year, $1,337,500 and a little over $1M guaranteed.

I haven't seen any terms for Kendall Lamm but it's a little surprising the Eagles passed on that cheap of a contract for Fred Johnson and replaced him with a 33 year old guy who just had back surgery. 

 

Johnson has a realistic chance of starting and showcasing for a bigger deal in Jax…here not so much.  

Wow flyers let torts go

Flyers had to let Torts go, once he said he didn't want to coach a rebuilding team anymore.