2 hours ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

The bottom of the 53-man roster is where you protect your project players, not where you keep extra depth.

With the new PS rules, you can keep your depth pieces initially for a few weeks as you see the season begin to shake out.

I'd keep Hinton and Williams as #s 52 & 53.

Yep. Since the bottom of the roster won't dress for games, they can't sub for in-game injuries. And if you need a replacement you have a week to add a player from the PS.

So the optimal strategy, as you pointed out, is to use your last 4-5 slots and your 3 protected PS slots for upside projects and use a bunch of PS slots for marginal veterans other teams are unlikely to claim but who can fill in case of injury (usually as say the 7-8th or so OL as a better player gets pushed up the ladder)(.

20 minutes ago, Joe Ball said:

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...

No, I would agree Mitchell was better than DeJean. Mitchell is just a quiet guy and he was so good that he was hard to notice unless you specifically were watching for him. Add that he had unfortunate luck all year with a lack of turnovers. And while he was a good prospect he wasn’t at the level of a Sauce Gardner. So it’s just all of that combined where I can see he may have flown under the radar around the league at the time of voting.

These lists are just goofy, especially for younger players

I think Q and Coop are gonna ball so hard that either Ringo or Jackson will look better next to them. CB2 will be serviceable with a great surrounding cast.

Return of the Mac giving good tingles too. Fangio keeps bringing him up. Think he might have some of that Q/Coop mojo in him.

2 hours ago, BigEFly said:

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

ESP can count. ESP cannot analyze.

27 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

he was so good that he was hard to notice unless you specifically were watching for him

Not a bad attribute for a CB on the SB winning team...so good that they are throwing away from you so you aren't getting your name called much, and when they do throw your way you've got your man locked up 90% or more of the time. I have no idea what his PFF numbers were but I can imagine he was tops in the league.

What kind of man thinks gym a t-shirt, gym pants and sneakers are dress clothes?

19 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

What kind of man thinks gym a t-shirt, gym pants and sneakers are dress clothes?

Adam Sandler

In our new era of training camp coverage, it's hard to really critique players because for the most part we are gathering information from the tweets of about 3 guys. We really need to see the games to determine what's going on.

-I haven't heard Grant Calcaterra or any other TE not name Dallas Goedert once.

-Eli Ricks are you alive?

-Is there even a battle for RB4 or is it Montrell Johnons job to lose...if they even keep a RB4.

-What's going on with S4? Is Andre Sam the man to beat?

-Edge depth not named Uche. Has Okoronkwo shown anything?

-Kendall Lamm, is he even making this team?

Brilliant by Sprite. Scripted for a 0 personality celebrity spokesman, and it fits him to a T. Good for Jalen. The company gets him and lets him be himself. It works.

19 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

In our new era of training camp coverage, it's hard to really critique players because for the most part we are gathering information from the tweets of about 3 guys. We really need to see the games to determine what's going on.

-I haven't heard Grant Calcaterra or any other TE not name Dallas Goedert once.

-Eli Ricks are you alive?

-Is there even a battle for RB4 or is it Montrell Johnons job to lose...if they even keep a RB4.

-What's going on with S4? Is Andre Sam the man to beat?

-Edge depth not named Uche. Has Okoronkwo shown anything?

-Kendall Lamm, is he even making this team?

I don't miss much about the "good 'ol days" but training camp is a thing I do miss. Traveled from wherever I was living every summer to attend for a few days. Loved West Chester University because you could see players and coaches at The Rat after their dinner. Some were nice, some not. Nicest I remember were Ray Rhodes and Kevin Turner. Rich Kotite was pretty arrogant. He used to drive to the practice field in a huge Cadillac each morning with a huge cigar fired up.

I also miss competent Flyers teams.

1 hour ago, Iggles25 said:

I think Q and Coop are gonna ball so hard that either Ringo or Jackson will look better next to them. CB2 will be serviceable with a great surrounding cast.

Return of the Mac giving good tingles too. Fangio keeps bringing him up. Think he might have some of that Q/Coop mojo in him.

I think the more likely scenario is that Quinyon and DeJean are so good that offenses just continuously attack the other outside corner which we might have issue doing if we don't have someone step up at safety who will be able to provide help for that other corner.

Duran!

On 7/29/2025 at 5:36 PM, eagle45 said:

I love Lane but…devils advocate here…would you call Barry Bonds the best hitter in baseball history?

I’m not a big baseball fan so I can’t really say for certain, but if forced to answer yeah I guess.

4 hours ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Your room...

Thanks, but I can tell you, one red head dream is more than most mortals can handle. Wouldn’t trade the one that has stuck with me. Although I do question my sanity for adding an orange cat into the mix.

On 7/29/2025 at 6:21 PM, just relax said:

One of the reasons, if not the major reason Lane played RT, was that one of the greatest LTs to ever play the sport was on the other side.

Exactly. It’s quite rare a guy of his quality would play on the right for an extended period of his career. I can’t really think of anyone in the last 50 years.

It’s funny too because Mailata is a prototypical RT if you were to just look at his situation, size and athleticism when he was drafted, but Peters longevity created the domino effect for the entire position.

10 minutes ago, Texas Eagle said:

Duran!

Man I was just reading a few minutes ago Philly has been the most aggressive but the Twins wanted Painter back.

36 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Brilliant by Sprite. Scripted for a 0 personality celebrity spokesman, and it fits him to a T. Good for Jalen. The company gets him and lets him be himself. It works.

Agreed. Well done by the writers to work with the 'personality' rather than trying to make him into something he's not.

11 minutes ago, Texas Eagle said:

Duran!

That was Dombrowski’s best trade since coming to the Phillies. I love Tait but you are getting 2.5 years of control for Duran who might be the best closer we’ve had in the last 15-20 years. He’s that good. I would be more upset losing Abel but we just drafted gage wood and i think better chance Wood is a top of the rotation arm then Abel. My concern with Abel is his control is always going to be inconsistent and keeps him as a back end starter that might eventually go to the pen.

5 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

6 hours ago, NCiggles said:

Release the Epstein files.

I imagine anything really 'awkward' has long since been shredded. Including Epstein.

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

What kind of man thinks gym a t-shirt, gym pants and sneakers are dress clothes?

Street clothes, not dress clothes.

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

Brilliant by Sprite. Scripted for a 0 personality celebrity spokesman, and it fits him to a T. Good for Jalen. The company gets him and lets him be himself. It works.

That is a good one

3 hours ago, Joe Ball said:

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...

I’d say both Q and Cooper were extremely consistent. Cooper had more splash plays. Mitchell was a ghost most of the season in a good way, where his name barely got mentioned because no one was ever open.

23 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Thanks, but I can tell you, one red head dream is more than most mortals can handle. Wouldn’t trade the one that has stuck with me. Although I do question my sanity for adding an orange cat into the mix.

I’ll second those sentiments, although for us it was two orange (red) Cocker Spaniels rather than the cat.

24 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Man I was just reading a few minutes ago Philly has been the most aggressive but the Twins wanted Painter back.

Much rather give Abel over Painter if it meant giving up Tait. I’m very pleased with it.

1 minute ago, Texas Eagle said:

Much rather give Abel over Painter if it meant giving up Tait. I’m very pleased with it.

now what. Maybe someone who can bring some consistency to the offense?