Still can't quit the ESPN draft coverage. Hope they Uncle Phil throw Greenberg and Booger out next year, but I'm not optimistic.

2 minutes ago, Eagles1960 said:

I understand that but I don't see how they keep three rookie OLs. Better to stash one on IR than expose them to waivers. If you could guarantee me the one that is cut won't get picked up on waivers and will go to the practice squad then I would be ok with cutting that player.

Here are the OLs right now>

the 5 starters

the three rookies

Green, Keegan, Lamb, Pryor, Toth, Kinnard

Toth will definitely be cut. One of Keegan/Green will be cut. Then who?

Why would one of Keegan or Green necessarily be cut?

son of a B. Commanders got Croskey-Merrit. Comp was Clinton Portis.

really liked him.

10 more picks. Then UDFA frenzy.

I did chuckle at the NFLN showing the Rams draft room who were showing the ESPN coverage in the background. Must have stung a little

Just now, TEW said:

Why would one of Keegan or Green necessarily be cut?

1 minute ago, TEW said:

I listed 14 guys. At least three or maybe four have to go. Both those guys are guards only and Keegan has never played anything except left guard

Looks like Raheim Sanders is the last RB I have interest in.

I need Thor Griffith in UDFA.

21 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I don't know if this is the flex everyone thinks it is. Sure, the more darts you throw, the better the chances of hitting, but I'd rather see that say Howie entered with 8 picks and came away with 4 blue chip players. The draft is always a crap shoot but loading up on late round picks isn't my idea of killing it.

There were only about 10 true blue chip players in the whole draft.

This class was all about poor quality but rich depth. After the top 10, there were about 50 guys who were all flawed and about equal, depending on what risks you were willing to take. And after that is was all very evenly distributed talent with lots of different player profiles.

I like trading down late. There wasn't much difference between the late 4th round and the 7th round.

1 hour ago, T-1000 said:

Not saying it's good or bad but this is the weirdest Eagles draft in years and I think myself and others were wrong about a lot of things.

-I could be wrong but I don't think they drafted a single guy they brought in for a top 30 visit

-I expected heavy defense but not their first five picks to all be defense

-No OL picks until round 5 is really surprising

-No TE pick at all is really surprising

-No TE, RB, or WR is shocking

The way they traded down so many times from the late 3rd round and on leads me to believe that they really didn't like this draft and just wanted more dart throws.

Yeah, which makes sense. My biggest issue wasn't trading down it was doing so in a weak draft, but that may have been his only option because other teams felt the same. I was actually good with trading down yesterday and getting a 5th even if there were people who could help them.

Will be iteresting to compare the success of these guys to the other 5.

Players need to buy a burner phone for the draft to avoid this nonsense

UDFAs

RB- Raheim Sanders

WR- DaQuan Felton, Nick Nash, Isaiah Neyor, Andrew Armstrong

TE- CJ Dippre, Briningstool, some guy from Texas A&M

OT-Esa Pole

DT-Thor Griffith

LB-Jackson Woodard, Shaun Dolac

Edge- Jah Joyner, Fadil Diggs, Kaimon Rucker, some exciting white from Georgia

CB- Tommi Hill, Zy Alexander, Cobee Bryant, Mello Dotson

S- Maxen Hook

Not saying any of these guys will instantly match production, but:

Milton Williams- Ty Robinson

Josh Sweat- Jahiid Campbell/Antwaun Powell-Ryland

Isaiah Rodgers/Avonte Maddox- Mac McWilliams

Oren Burks- Smael Mondon

CJGJ- Drew Mukuba

Fred Johnson- Myles Hinton/Cameron Williams

Kenny Pickett- Kyle McCord

It appears to be a solid draft. Would have preferred a young RB/WR/TE but the WR class was especially weak. Still trades to be made, UDFA to sign and the 2nd wave of vets being released.

11 minutes ago, UK Eagle said:

I did chuckle at the NFLN showing the Rams draft room who were showing the ESPN coverage in the background. Must have stung a little

I saw one draft room with basketball on last night.

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

Yeah I posted a tweet earlier of someone saying he could have been in 1st round consideration next year.

45 minutes ago, Eagles1960 said:

Either Williams or Hinton will develop some mysterious injury in training camp and go on IR. No way they are keeping two rookie OTs plus a rookie center.

They might need the Jordan Mailata treatment. Sit in roster spot 52 and 53... never dress for a game, but work their butts off extra each day... extra work with Stout on game days, etc. Maybe get a mystery injury suffered when walking across the locker room somewhere in the middle of December if they desperately need a roster spot to open up. But they need to work on their craft and IR won't allow that.

The new PS rules change everything about the way to build and use the roster. And a veteran can be stashed on the PS and be called up when needed. The question is... who is that guy?

They very well could keep the 2 rookie OTs and a rookie center. Keeping 10 OL isn't out of the question, and they can keep extra depth at another position stashed on the PS if they need to go thin there rather than keep them on the roster. The key for 10 OL with 2 being guys you hope never play is who the other backups are. They are what makes it work... or not.

30 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

I don't know if this is the flex everyone thinks it is. Sure, the more darts you throw, the better the chances of hitting, but I'd rather see that say Howie entered with 8 picks and came away with 4 blue chip players. The draft is always a crap shoot but loading up on late round picks isn't my idea of killing it.

What is the likelihood of 4 blue chip players with only one pick in the top-50?

This draft's success rides on Campbell, Mukuba, and Robinson. Anything we get from the fifth round on, like in all drafts, is a bonus.

5 picks left.

1 minute ago, Iggles_Phan said:

They might need the Jordan Mailata treatment. Sit in roster spot 52 and 53... never dress for a game, but work their butts off extra each day... extra work with Stout on game days, etc. Maybe get a mystery injury suffered when walking across the locker room somewhere in the middle of December if they desperately need a roster spot to open up. But they need to work on their craft and IR won't allow that.

The new PS rules change everything about the way to build and use the roster. And a veteran can be stashed on the PS and be called up when needed. The question is... who is that guy?

They very well could keep the 2 rookie OTs and a rookie center. Keeping 10 OL isn't out of the question, and they can keep extra depth at another position stashed on the IR if they need to go thin there rather than keep them on the roster. The key for 10 OL with 2 being guys you hope never play is who the other backups are. They are what makes it work... or not.

Makes sense. Ideally they keep all three but Toth and at least two others have to go. Max number of OLs is eleven.

2 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

They might need the Jordan Mailata treatment. Sit in roster spot 52 and 53... never dress for a game, but work their butts off extra each day... extra work with Stout on game days, etc. Maybe get a mystery injury suffered when walking across the locker room somewhere in the middle of December if they desperately need a roster spot to open up. But they need to work on their craft and IR won't allow that.

The new PS rules change everything about the way to build and use the roster. And a veteran can be stashed on the PS and be called up when needed. The question is... who is that guy?

They very well could keep the 2 rookie OTs and a rookie center. Keeping 10 OL isn't out of the question, and they can keep extra depth at another position stashed on the IR if they need to go thin there rather than keep them on the roster. The key for 10 OL with 2 being guys you hope never play is who the other backups are. They are what makes it work... or not.

They've wasted spots on guys with no future here and gone in to games with just 52 on the roster. They can make it work.