11 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

I have however developed my idea for the season opener hype video. Which gives me plenty of time to put that together.

32 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Apparently they don't pay them. Mikey Miss has sued them claiming they didn't pay him when he worked for them.

Dang those guys work several hours each day for free?

Having a hard time seeing a first round WR who I'd take the I'm over confidently on this one.

Not sure how much Hunter will play WR. McMillan is on a bad team although he should at least be the centerpiece of that offense. Love the fit for Egbuke but he's clearly a second to Evans and Godwin (if he recovers from injury well). And Golden is on a team with 500 good-not-great WRs.

3 minutes ago, Texas Eagle said:

Dang those guys work several hours each day for free?

Sileo probably doesn’t deserve to get paid

3 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Sileo probably doesn’t deserve to get paid

Agreed but who would provide content for 3-4 hours a day for nothing? I guess if anyone would it would be him but McMullen can make money elsewhere.

They aren't literally unpaid. But Mikey Miss is suing them claiming there's a lot of hours they decided not to pay him for. That lawsuit is still to be settled.

47 minutes ago, Texas Eagle said:

Does anyone know how JAKIB pays McMullen, Sileo, and the rest of them? They don’t have a large following on YouTube (52K which is nothing). It’s always puzzled me. Can’t imagine they are raking in thaaat much in ad revenue from local sponsors.

Yeah, I'm not sure why they can't build an audience.

Philly.500 has 150k subscribers. The Philly Special Show has 134k. There are others, too.

They're just as good, and they work for themselves.

5 hours ago, Parrot Head said:

I don’t think Campbell will be a big factor at EDGE….at least not this year. Fangio is already signaling that.

But if he’s as good off ball as we are hearing, then maybe Baun is able to transition to more of the roamer that you are looking for. He has mentioned that he wants to rush more.

Ideally Baun and Campbell will be interchangeable as the kind of roamer you describe. An absolute nightmare for opposing QBs and OCs.

12 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

And that was being held a lot during the season. They even showed the Chiefs one

If Hurts, Brown, Barkley, Johnson, and Baun join the Top-100, we will have 7 players in the top 49.

The per team average should be 1.5. We'd have 7.

1 hour ago, paco said:

My brother in law is a lineman for PECO. Just sent me a picture and apparently they just cut power to Jalen Hurts’ home. This is terrible, Luries money troubles are so bad it’s impacting our players to the point they can’t pay their electric bill.

Chat GPT made that for me.

43 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

too low

1 hour ago, paco said:

My brother in law is a lineman for PECO. Just sent me a picture and apparently they just cut power to Jalen Hurts’ home. This is terrible, Luries money troubles are so bad it’s impacting our players to the point they can’t pay their electric bill.

Guess his all female team of management and agents forgot to pay the bill.

Rent is due everyday but the electricity bill has been overlooked.

49 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Page is more of a film guy and he already has Shawn Syed doing that.

What the F is BLG. Not real good on football presentation in his writings. At least Page seems to understand the game better.

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

I am looking forward to @just relax’s posts tomorrow. Interested in how Hinton and Kinnard do at OT, Kendall at C, Keegan etc. Hopefully the new LS, Johnstone, does enough that @FranklinFldEBUpper can offer some insight on him and the returner candidates.

I am curious how Hall, Evans and Sykes look at DT/3-4DE.

I will be watching the S play and CB. Vanilla, so basic quarters and probably some Cover2 to put the corners on islands to see how they handle the pressure.

Curious to see if the Cooks and Cooper hype by the Beats shows up.

While I'm curious to see these guys, watching pre-season football is an exercise in self-flagellation. If I'm resolute I may make it to half-time.

2 hours ago, DEagle7 said:

What is it about Fangio's scheme that makes him value position versatility so much? It seems as if he's placed a huge emphasis on LBs who can rush/drop in coverage (Baun, Campbell and even Hunt/Smith to a lesser degree) as well as DBs who can roam a bit (DeJean, McWilliams and Bennett).

Is it all about disguising coverages/blitzes? Or is there more to it than that?

My answer to your question (for what its worth) is that:

(1) in large part it is a desire to minimize the vulnerabilities of the Defense to passing offenses.

(2) to best accomplish that he prefers Zone over Man, although the Boundary CBs often match up with the boundary WRs

(3) but Zone is vulnerable in its seams

(4) so having 5 DBs reduces that risk because the same area of the field is sliced and diced by five rather than four

(5) I say sliced and diced because he is constantly changing where the seams are in order to maximize the disguise. All that change means the DBs face different challenges in different zones … thus the need for flexibility

(6) As we so painfully learned in prior seasons, Zone is also vulnerable to patterns over the middle, especially quick release patterns. Having two ILBs who have the coverage skills to take away those completions is crucial.

(7) But that means a light box of only the four D-Linemen (yes @just relax I’m calling the OLBs D-Linemen)

(8) But because of (6) using an ILB to blitz isn’t an option, so as @just relax has pointed out, we need OLBs who can drop into one of the zones customarily manned by an ILB. That demand pass rushing skills and proficiency from the ILBs and pass coverage skills and proficiency from the OLBs (and even the DTs on occasion)

I hope that makes sense.

6 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

If Hurts, Brown, Barkley, Johnson, and Baun join the Top-100, we will have 7 players in the top 49.

The per team average should be 1.5. We'd have 7.

We know Barkley will be. There's no way he's not. He's very likely #1

Hurts won SB MVP so he's in there

Brown didn't have his best season but he did get 2 votes for AP

Lane is very likely in. He was in the last 2 years and averaged the same amount of games

I don't see how Baun isn't considering his AP

2 hours ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Because Ricks has done nothing but play extremely well when he has been given the chance to get on the field in an actual regular season game. He is 24 so he still has upside. Adore Jackson is 30 and on the downside of his career. He was terrible in New York.

Thank you for the response. As understandable as it is, my own opinion is that the NFL is a "what have you done for me lately” endeavor. What Jackson did in New York is irrelevant. What is relevant is what he is doing here. What Ricks has done prior to last season is also irrelevant because it is BF.

The one area where Ricks falls short is in straight line speed. When opposing WRs have succeeded against Ricks it has often been because of that vulnerability. Jackson does not have that straight line speed vulnerability.

2 hours ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Lot's of content on that.

Basically, disguise coverages pre-snap, prevent explosive plays, make a team be mistake-free in order to score. Versatility allows him to have more flexibility in the blitzes, run fits, and coverages he wants post-snap.

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I could have avoided all that typing of mine if I had read this before responding

5 minutes ago, mattwill said:

My answer to your question (for what its worth) is that:

(1) in large part it is a desire to minimize the vulnerabilities of the Defense to passing offenses.

(2) to best accomplish that he prefers Zone over Man, although the Boundary CBs often match up with the boundary WRs

(3) but Zone is vulnerable in its seams

(4) so having 5 DBs reduces that risk because the same area of the field is sliced and diced by five rather than four

(5) I say sliced and diced because he is constantly changing where the seams are in order to maximize the disguise. All that change means the DBs face different challenges in different zones … thus the need for flexibility

(6) As we so painfully learned in prior seasons, Zone is also vulnerable to patterns over the middle, especially quick release patterns. Having two ILBs who have the coverage skills to take away those completions is crucial.

(7) But that means a light box of only the four D-Linemen (yes @just relax I’m calling the OLBs D-Linemen)

(8) But because of (6) using an ILB to blitz isn’t an option, so as @just relax has pointed out, we need OLBs who can drop into one of the zones customarily manned by an ILB. That demand pass rushing skills and proficiency from the ILBs and pass coverage skills and proficiency from the OLBs (and even the DTs on occasion)

I hope that makes sense.

I disagree with 8 because with Campbell and Baun you have ILBs that can switch coverage responsibilities with Smith and Hunt, who can also cover. More options on who the four or five rushers come from. Dean was not great in coverage so I think the plays for the front seven have greater options this year. (And seven probably should be directed at me not JR as they are OLBs but I get what you are saying as they rush/seal the edge more than anything.)

13 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Guess his all female team of management and agents forgot to pay the bill.

Rent is due everyday but the electricity bill has been overlooked.

In all seriousness, it looks like Jalen bought 3 properties there and is knocking them down to build a new…. Castle? All the homes there are already big.

He also sent a shot of Kelce’s house which is under construction behind his

Wouls you accept a 2nd round pick for AJ Dillon?

1 minute ago, BigEFly said:

I disagree with 8 because with Campbell and Baun you have ILBs that can switch coverage responsibilities with Smith and Hunt, who can also cover. More options on who the four or five rushers come from. Dean was not great in coverage so I think the plays for the front seven have greater options this year. (And seven probably should be directed at me not JR as they are OLBs but I get what you are saying as they rush/seal the edge more than anything.)

Speaking of Dean...there has been a lot of praise for Trotter and Mondon during camp. (They are both Jr.'s, BTW). If both show they are capable during the preseason, I'm having a hard time seeing Dean back on the team in '26.