22 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

Have we gotten ANY APR camp updates? I know he's a 7th round rookie but still don't think I've even seen him mentioned on here.

Here's one

Probably why he's not getting mentioned much

Probably overreaction by ESP. Dillon has to show that he is back. Eagles know Shipley.

There is the NFL top-100. That means, on average, each team should have three players. We aren't halfway through the list and the Eagles already have two, Mailata and DeJean. I expect Barkley, Brown, Johnson, Hurts, Carter, and Baun to join them. That would make 8 out of 100.

There was the Pro Bowl, where 39 players were initially named to the NFC roster. That means, on average, 2.4 players per team. We sent six - Barkley, Brown, Johnson, Dickerson, Jurgens, Carter, and Baun. Look for Hurts, Q ,and Coop to join that list.

I hadn't mentioned DeVonta and Goedert. Plus promising young players like Nolan, Hunt, Ojomo, and Campbell.

I know there are potential vulnerabilities at CB2 and Safety. But this team is soooo talented elsewhere, it may not become an issue.

28 minutes ago, Saltpeter said:

The constant allure of hot women is an addiction biology. It’s candy over vegetables. Was embarrassingly late in life before I realized this.

That said, sign me up for the Sydney Sweeney/Margot Robbie room and tell the other girl to wait outside.

15 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

I can tolerate the Cowboys fans born in Texas. It's the ones from PA and NJ that are the issue.

I have the same issue with Eagle and Packers fans here in TX, especially those I grew up with not 35 miles from downtown DAL. They are what I call tee shirt fans. I remember being 6 years old playing with one of these footballs

in the front yard before and after the games on Sunday. I used to cut out the front page of the sports page every Monday morning and stick it to the wall of my bedroom throughout the year and would throw them out after the playoffs...I also made sure to have a picture of the cheerleaders as I got older lol, uumm, you know, reading material.

Like I said, just born a fan, some times are better than others, and 30 years of bad times is really wearing on me. I am just hoping to have a respectable organization, not a joke/laughing stock of the league, and possibly win another SB in the next 20 years...otherwise I am not likely to experience another one.

I can live vicariously through you folks though.

32 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

I have Dallas in 2nd place, but missing the playoffs.

Same here with 8, maybe 9 wins at best...

19 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

This isn’t surprising

AJ is a vet and Shipley is a day 3 pick going into a second year who just played behind one of the highest usage players in NFL history

39 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

He must be doing well for them to put that much on his plate so quickly

My most hated draft pick. Would love to be wrong about this guy.

28 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Here's one

Probably why he's not getting mentioned much

Bryce Huff leaving led to 3 number changes. Waste of space in more ways than one.

45 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Attractive ladies to say the least but I have come to the wisdom as I aged that an attractive level of conversation, kindness, humor and compatible sharing of values is true beauty. Wouldn’t trade my red head dream for any of them.

Your room...

15 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

There is the NFL top-100. That means, on average, each team should have three players. We aren't halfway through the list and the Eagles already have two, Mailata and DeJean. I expect Barkley, Brown, Johnson, Hurts, Carter, and Baun to join them. That would make 8 out of 100.

There was the Pro Bowl, where 39 players were initially named to the NFC roster. That means, on average, 2.4 players per team. We sent six - Barkley, Brown, Johnson, Dickerson, Jurgens, Carter, and Baun. Look for Hurts, Q ,and Coop to join that list.

I hadn't mentioned DeVonta and Goedert. Plus promising young players like Nolan, Hunt, Ojomo, and Campbell.

I know there are potential vulnerabilities at CB2 and Safety. But this team is soooo talented elsewhere, it may not become an issue.

I don't think Baun makes the top 100. Carter should but he didn't make it last year and to jump into the top 50 would be a big leap. I blame it on the process more than anything else though.

34 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Probably overreaction by ESP. Dillon has to show that he is back. Eagles know Shipley.

My guess is that it's also specific plays that they are looking at Dillon vs. Shipley as well.

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

I don't think Baun makes the top 100. Carter should but he didn't make it last year and to jump into the top 50 would be a big leap. I blame it on the process more than anything else though.

Cooper over Carters doesn't make sense from a football perspective but it is a player vote. It's hard to imagine Baun being top 50 in his first year but he was a DPOY candidate.

31 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

There is the NFL top-100. That means, on average, each team should have three players. We aren't halfway through the list and the Eagles already have two, Mailata and DeJean. I expect Barkley, Brown, Johnson, Hurts, Carter, and Baun to join them. That would make 8 out of 100.

There was the Pro Bowl, where 39 players were initially named to the NFC roster. That means, on average, 2.4 players per team. We sent six - Barkley, Brown, Johnson, Dickerson, Jurgens, Carter, and Baun. Look for Hurts, Q ,and Coop to join that list.

I hadn't mentioned DeVonta and Goedert. Plus promising young players like Nolan, Hunt, Ojomo, and Campbell.

I know there are potential vulnerabilities at CB2 and Safety. But this team is soooo talented elsewhere, it may not become an issue.

Major thing to consider is the biggest. Flaw in this list: all the players vote as early as Thanksgiving

Baun probably doesn’t have that level of recognition by then

1 minute ago, NCiggles said:

Cooper over Carters doesn't make sense from a football perspective but it is a player vote. It's hard to imagine Baun being top 50 in his first year but he was a DPOY candidate.

Cooper being #60 by itself doesn't make sense. Especially when you consider he didn't really play at all until week 6. He's great but he's not 60th best in the entire NFL.

Now that I think about it, I can also see Mitchell getting snubbed the top 100

1 hour ago, vikas83 said:

I have Lamb at 5, not sure I'd take him over: JJ, Ja'Marr, AJ and Tyreek (in that order). The problem is signing him to that contract when the team really should be looking to rebuild, and also doing it stupidly by waiting and paying him more than they needed to. But if they wanted to sign Lamb, Parsons and Tyler Smith as cornerstone players -- that's 3 all pros. But Jerry overpaid Ceedee by waiting, will cost himself money on Parsons and somehow hasn't even started a convo with Smith despite him being a stud. Any competent GM would have locked those 3 up the second they finished their 3rd year...Jerry likes the headlines though.

The Dak contract is just downright indefensible, and how they did it was even more insane. They waited all offseason last year and only converted like $10mm of his salary to signing bonus -- they carried him on the books at an absurd cap number that whole time and lost people. The only reason to do that is if you decided to let him play out the contract and leave after 2024 -- if you planned to resign him the whole time, then they should have converted all his salary to a bonus and opened up cap flexibility to add to a 12 win team. There's just zero logic in anything Jerry is doing right now. Dak had a team with 9 all pros in 2023 (8 other than him, 6 excluding specialists) and got blown out in the WC round; Hurts "stacked" team in 2024 had 6 all pros and he won the Super Bowl.

The real rub for Dallas...they have been carried by strong drafts, but their drafts in 2023 and 2024 were downright terrible. Mazi Smith is a zero, and Overshown sadly can't stay healthy. Guyton is a bust (so far), Beebe might be decent, Kneeland has time but they did bring in Fowler to push him. Carson is serviceable but hurt.

If you aren't going to sign FAs, and won't lock up your own guys early, you need to hit homeruns in the draft over and over again (which they did in 2020, 2021 and 2022).

Yea I recall you mentioning how Jerry screwed up with the timing of those mega contracts

That's something that Howie has learned through with gambling (sometimes it bites him in the ass) with the early contracts

1 hour ago, Joe Ball said:

I have the same issue with Eagle and Packers fans here in TX, especially those I grew up with not 35 miles from downtown DAL. They are what I call tee shirt fans. I remember being 6 years old playing with one of these footballs

in the front yard before and after the games on Sunday. I used to cut out the front page of the sports page every Monday morning and stick it to the wall of my bedroom throughout the year and would throw them out after the playoffs...I also made sure to have a picture of the cheerleaders as I got older lol, uumm, you know, reading material.

Like I said, just born a fan, some times are better than others, and 30 years of bad times is really wearing on me. I am just hoping to have a respectable organization, not a joke/laughing stock of the league, and possibly win another SB in the next 20 years...otherwise I am not likely to experience another one.

I can live vicariously through you folks though.

You could throw bombs with those old Hutch rubber footballs. I loved my KG Eagles one.

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

Probably overreaction by ESP. Dillon has to show that he is back. Eagles know Shipley.

Dillon is a candidate for a phantom injury sending him into one of the two new IR spots.

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

Why surprising?

34 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Now that I think about it, I can also see Mitchell getting snubbed the top 100

Mitchell was more consistent throughout the year than Cooper as a whole for PHI wasn't he, or am I making that up? I am not questioning either of their abilities, I for some reason just thought that over the course of the year Mitchell had a better season, but I didn't watch every game.

The process definitely plays a part here as you mentioned previously but Mitchell was a shut down guy facing top receivers week in and week out...he should not be snubbed.

You guys crushed the draft with those two picks alone...

20 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

You could throw bombs with those old Hutch rubber footballs. I loved my KG Eagles one.

Yep...I landed in a cactus once, but I caught the pass🤣, kept my eye on the ball...and my a$$ on the cactus needles.

1 hour ago, Joe Ball said:

I have the same issue with Eagle and Packers fans here in TX, especially those I grew up with not 35 miles from downtown DAL. They are what I call tee shirt fans. I remember being 6 years old playing with one of these footballs

in the front yard before and after the games on Sunday. I used to cut out the front page of the sports page every Monday morning and stick it to the wall of my bedroom throughout the year and would throw them out after the playoffs...I also made sure to have a picture of the cheerleaders as I got older lol, uumm, you know, reading material.

Like I said, just born a fan, some times are better than others, and 30 years of bad times is really wearing on me. I am just hoping to have a respectable organization, not a joke/laughing stock of the league, and possibly win another SB in the next 20 years...otherwise I am not likely to experience another one.

I can live vicariously through you folks though.

Dallas is an interesting place demographically. Long time Dallas friends … natives, if you will … said they get a nosebleed if they go north of Northwest Highway. They refer to all that area (and the rest of the Dallas suburbs as "Yankee Land.” All those Yankee transplants have forsaken their root loyalties and wear the star. It makes Cowboy fans hard to take.

1 minute ago, mattwill said:

Dallas is an interesting place demographically. Long time Dallas friends … natives, if you will … said they get a nosebleed if they go north of Northwest Highway. They refer to all that area (and the rest of the Dallas suburbs as "Yankee Land.” All those Yankee transplants have forsaken their root loyalties and wear the star. It makes Cowboy fans hard to take.

Generally speaking there are so many fans that just follow and claim to be a fan of the team currently winning...they aren't truly invested emotionally like true lifelong fans are. That's really my rub on fans that claim to follow a certain team. I know who my fan friends are, I don't need any new ones. Golf buddies? I make new golf friends all the time, but football fan friends are true lifelong friends if you are lucky enough to have the right ones. Yes, a lot of Cowboy fans just suck, not me though 😄.