11 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

Just curious, what demographic is causing them?

Hazleton is full of low lifes.

We also have a weed dispensary in between a starbucks and jersey mikes. Both of those are generally middle, upper middle class establishments as fast casual restaurants are more expensive than your typical fast food. And yet you regularly see employees being screamed at by strung druggies frequenting the area because of the dispensary.

5 minutes ago, Vortex said:

The Sanatoga with the smoked Cooper sharp is the best cheesesteak in the world

I believe it. I got the Gazzo. Just cooper cheese, witout. Damn good. Really loved the cheese fries.

I may never be back. I went for a different reason and I dont find much else to do in the area. But Im glad I stopped once.

10 hours ago, TEW said:

Yeah, how many rushing yards do you honestly think Smith is getting on that 1989 team with no Aikman, no Irvin, no Allen, and no defense?

Do you have any idea how bad the cowboys were back then? Hint: so bad they fired Landry after the 1988 season.

Yeah, I remember.

Just a reminder, they fired Landry right after Jerry bought the team because he wanted HIS guy at the helm. Landry would have been fired even if they had won the Super Bowl the year before once Jerry bought the team. How do I know? Because Jerry forced out Jimmy Johnson after winning back to back Super Bowls and losing the NFC Championship, because Jimmy was getting too much attention.

But, I'm done thinking about this now. It doesn't matter. I never said Aikman was bad, merely overrated. In the grand scheme of things... who cares?

9 hours ago, bpac55 said:

They gave the Cowboys the spotlight for the day with the Micah Parsons situation, but Washington is right back in the mix today!

Garafolo. And good for him. He's a reporter. You think he's not going to take the scoop?

Man what a play by Harper

Duran is so damn good and fun to watch

The best part about camp this year? No targeted hype jobs. Projects enough confidence about the roster that no one cares to generate artificial buzz. We are infringing on that territory with Eli Ricks, but not there yet.

4 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

The best part about camp this year? No targeted hype jobs. Projects enough confidence about the roster that no one cares to generate artificial buzz. We are infringing on that territory with Eli Ricks, but not there yet.

I think there’s some between Jordan Davis, Tyler Steen and Moro Ojomo. Davis especially. Maybe all three are earning it. Hard to say without seeing what’s going on.

14 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Duran is so damn good and fun to watch

Whats with the spider thing? Undertaker music was a nice touch

55 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Hazleton is full of low lifes.

We also have a weed dispensary in between a starbucks and jersey mikes. Both of those are generally middle, upper middle class establishments as fast casual restaurants are more expensive than your typical fast food. And yet you regularly see employees being screamed at by strung druggies frequenting the area because of the dispensary.

It’s funny how dispensaries seem to either be either super high end or scummy as hell. Almost none, that I’ve been to, fall somewhere in the middle.

Ricks for Picks!

LFG!

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

Hazleton is full of low lifes.

We also have a weed dispensary in between a starbucks and jersey mikes. Both of those are generally middle, upper middle class establishments as fast casual restaurants are more expensive than your typical fast food. And yet you regularly see employees being screamed at by strung druggies frequenting the area because of the dispensary.

Here in western Canada there’s a pot shop in the mall complex where my wife works. I pick her up from work and while I wait I watch traffic come in and park. I can tell pretty much every time which people are there to get weed.

It’s the vice of choice for most white trash people here, it seems. When they legalized it I don’t think it drew any new clientele; still the same weirdos who used to buy it in parks and behind other establishments.

22 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Whats with the spider thing? Undertaker music was a nice touch

A teammate in Minnesota nicknamed him Durantula and it just stuck.

17 minutes ago, paco said:

It’s funny how dispensaries seem to either be either super high end or scummy as hell and almost none that fall somewhere in the middle.

for better or worse, its the only one I know of in town and I dont think Hazleton has a lot of high end weed smokers.

There is a pretty nice hotel, and sitting in front of that is a Damon's restaurant which is like a slightly fancier applebees. And next to that is the strip with Starbucks, Jersey mikes, and the dispensary. Across the street from that is a beautiful Penn State satellite campus. Its somewhat near our shopping mall. Its not a bad area of town. But the dispensary brings the sleeze bags out there, I guess because there isnt another one around.

There was one in the uglier area of town. It turned in to a day care, which I find really weird.

9 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

A teammate in Minnesota nicknamed him Durantula and it just stuck.

But didnt they show a black widow??

11 hours ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Has Steen been getting all of the first team RG reps? Was hoping Green could be this year’s Bechton.

Too much unlearning to be done with Green when compared to Becton. It will be mid season before Green has both unlearned his bad habits and learned new good Stoutland habits.

2 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

for better or worse, its the only one I know of in town and I dont think Hazleton has a lot of high end weed smokers.

There is a pretty nice hotel, and sitting in front of that is a Damon's restaurant which is like a slightly fancier applebees. And next to that is the strip with Starbucks, Jersey mikes, and the dispensary. Across the street from that is a beautiful Penn State satellite campus. Its somewhat near our shopping mall. Its not a bad area of town. But the dispensary brings the sleeze bags out there, I guess because there isnt another one around.

There was one in the uglier area of town. It turned in to a day care, which I find really weird.

Fair enough. I was more drawing on experience with multiple ones in the same city.

In AC I went to this one place, I forget the name, that could only sit 2 people in a waiting room. Waiting room was necessary because the main room was only big enough to take care of 2 people at a time.

Then we went into another place called High Rollers. It was the epitome of their name. Big store, well lit, beautiful display case and amazing selection. The staff were all well dressed young men that acted as a concierge. Guided you around the store and took/updated orders on the spot on their IPads. Didn’t matter if you smoked for a quarter century (me) or are a complete novice (schmoopie, it’s not her thing), they were able to customize the interaction.

Schmoopie: You felt like you were going into a millionaires coke den

Hows Jihad looking? Ive been out of the loop as of late. Really hyped up for him.

I was just in Alaska. Eagles all over the place (real Eagles). I took lots of pictures but this is the best one.

9 minutes ago, EagleMatt said:

Hows Jihad looking? Ive been out of the loop as of late. Really hyped up for him.

Sounds like he is performing as we would hope. Making plays on coverage and on blitzes. Has also lined up at edge. Maybe a little too physical in practices, he hurt Van Summeren in a drill. But might just be a bully like Carter and Nolan Smith which is a great thing.

4 hours ago, weko said:

Not reading many good reviews of our young OLmen except for Hinton. He's a keeper and can back up at both OT spots.

But maybe he could play RG? I wonder f they don't try him there at some point this year. After Steen and Pryor it would have to be Hinton at RG

Where are you seeing any reviews at all?

46 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

A teammate in Minnesota nicknamed him Durantula and it just stuck.

That spider ain’t no tarantula

10 minutes ago, JamesK said:

I was just in Alaska. Eagles all over the place (real Eagles). I took lots of pictures but this is the best one.

19 minutes ago, paco said:

Fair enough. I was more drawing on experience with multiple ones in the same city.

In AC I went to this one place, I forget the name, that could only sit 2 people in a waiting room. Waiting room was necessary because the main room was only big enough to take care of 2 people at a time.

Then we went into another place called High Rollers. It was the epitome of their name. Big store, well lit, beautiful display case and amazing selection. The staff were all well dressed young men that acted as a concierge. Guided you around the store and took/updated orders on the spot on their IPads. Didn’t matter if you smoked for a quarter century (me) or are a complete novice (schmoopie, it’s not her thing), they were able to customize the interaction.

Schmoopie: You felt like you were going into a millionaires coke den

I just don't want them to ruin jersey mikes on me! Lol.

One of the only pretty good eating spots in town. New. It only opened in like March I want to say. I already kinda don't like going there because of that place. I also think management and ownership ought to think about relocating already for the safety of the employees.

One incident I witnessed, the employee was kind of giving it back to the crazy druggie lady. Not bad, but she wasn't allowing her staff to be bullied which was cool, but playing with fire.

Another incident a friend witnessed, a guy threatened to wait outside for the end of the employee shift. Cops were called for that one.

I expect higher than usual employee turnover and eventual short staffing issues. High school kids will decide making sandwiches isn't worth the stress.

29 minutes ago, mattwill said:

Too much unlearning to be done with Green when compared to Becton. It will be mid season before Green has both unlearned his bad habits and learned new good Stoutland habits.

Bechton was forced to learn a completely different position. I wasn’t optimistic with Green but obviously the upside is (or was) there. Steen just seems like a good backup/average at best starter. Like him best as the utility backup.