1 hour ago, RememberTheKoy said:

So kind of the NFL to not schedule this until after the Eagles game.

Wait the NFL is going BACK TO BRAZIL.

39 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

Running trick plays during joint practices seems kinda odd no?

Best way to see how a defense that's never seen the play reacts to it.

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Clearly they were inspired by the Phillies offense the last two days

43 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Not bad walking for surgery yesterday

He must have gotten a minor clean up.

2 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I disagree. The idea that there is the expectation of quiet at a sporting event drives me insane. "We want people to pay through their nose to attend the event, but we don't want to actually hear that people are present." Cry me a river. If you want a job with no noise and no audience, apply to be an overnight custodian. If you want to get millions of dollars for playing a game that people pay to watch, anticipate that noise is part of the process.

This whole nonsense is the biggest turnoff to me for tennis and the "sport" of golf. Less than zero interest in ever attending a live event and only mild interest in ever playing.

I respect your opinion but I completely disagree. You'd just need to play an amateur tennis match to understand. I don't think there's another sport where your mind is as important (unless you count chess as a sport). You need to be completely focused, battling nerves, knowing that you're completely alone without teammates to help you through hard times. People can be super loud if they want, but not while you're serving, not while you're giving your all to pass the ball one more time.

In football, soccer, basketball, or most other sports you can feed from that crazy atmosphere, but in tennis you would start hitting the ball to the stands if you let the adrenaline take over. It's just a different culture for each sport.

11 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I disagree. The idea that there is the expectation of quiet at a sporting event drives me insane. "We want people to pay through their nose to attend the event, but we don't want to actually hear that people are present." Cry me a river. If you want a job with no noise and no audience, apply to be an overnight custodian. If you want to get millions of dollars for playing a game that people pay to watch, anticipate that noise is part of the process.

This whole nonsense is the biggest turnoff to me for tennis and the "sport" of golf. Less than zero interest in ever attending a live event and only mild interest in ever playing.

It has always been that way though. You can disagree but this isn't some new unwritten rule in tennis

40 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Didn't the browns beat us in practice last year and then we dominated the preseason game?

Never. The Eagles hold the all-time joint practice W/L record.

15 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Wait the NFL is going BACK TO BRAZIL.

It's a week 1 Friday tradition.

Who gives an ish - it's tennis.

10 minutes ago, beto_eagles said:

I respect your opinion but I completely disagree. You'd just need to play an amateur tennis match to understand. I don't think there's another sport where your mind is as important (unless you count chess as a sport). You need to be completely focused, battling nerves, knowing that you're completely alone without teammates to help you through hard times. People can be super loud if they want, but not while you're serving, not while you're giving your all to pass the ball one more time.

In football, soccer, basketball, or most other sports you can feed from that crazy atmosphere, but in tennis you would start hitting the ball to the stands if you let the adrenaline take over. It's just a different culture for each sport.

Then don't make people pay crazy money to watch it live. Sorry, I just don't see noise as that big a deal for a sporting event. There's a lot of excuse making for why golfers and tennis players need absolute silence to hit a little ball. In one case, the ball is just sitting still... in the other, the player who is going to hit the ball tosses it in the air themselves to hit it... and if they don't like the way they threw it up, they can just catch it and do it again with no penalty. And if they hit the ball into the net on the first try, they get a second try, with no penalty.

Compare that to a batter standing in the batter's box against a guy who now throws the ball upwards of 103 mph. Tell me which one needs to be able to concentrate more. Maybe if they weren't such sticks in the mud, there'd be a constant buzz of noise and the players wouldn't notice much of anything due to the white noise effect. But instead they fight for silence and then little things perturb them... like camera shutters.

Not sure what to make of the Browns killing the Eagles over 2 days of practice. If I remember right, they looked "good" during last year's inter-squad practices.

Kids suck and shouldn't be allowed out in public

Carry on...

14 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Frankly, there can only be two reasons for the Eagles to keep Kenyon Green off IR if he isn’t going to practice. 1) hedging a designated to return spot, which seems limited but makes some sense because I would bet his fourth rookie year salary is fully guaranteed; or 2) they hope he is healthy enough for an injury settlement cut on cutdown day. He’s basically wasting a 90 man roster spot at this point.

I would guess that they think he's probably going on IR but they don't want to give up the possibility of him being on the roster for the season. It's his 3rd shoulder injury. I don't know whether it's been the same shoulder every time but it doesn't make me optimistic he's ever going to play for the team.

19 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I disagree. The idea that there is the expectation of quiet at a sporting event drives me insane. "We want people to pay through their nose to attend the event, but we don't want to actually hear that people are present." Cry me a river. If you want a job with no noise and no audience, apply to be an overnight custodian. If you want to get millions of dollars for playing a game that people pay to watch, anticipate that noise is part of the process.

This whole nonsense is the biggest turnoff to me for tennis and the "sport" of golf. Less than zero interest in ever attending a live event and only mild interest in ever playing.

I don't set the expectations. It's just the culture of the sport. If you are a fan of the sport to the point you are getting tickets, it stands to reason that you understand the expectation of quiet. You should also foresee that a baby isn't going to be able to be quiet on command.

11 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

It has always been that way though. You can disagree but this isn't some new unwritten rule in tennis

Worst defense for something imaginable.

1 minute ago, EaglesAddict said:

Not sure what to make of the Browns killing the Eagles over 2 days of practice. If I remember right, they looked "good" during last year's inter-squad practices.

The team has gone soft. Sirianni needs to go. Time to bench Hurts.

1 minute ago, NCiggles said:

The team has gone soft. Sirianni needs to go. Time to bench Hurts.

It was good while it lasted

1 minute ago, NCiggles said:

I don't set the expectations. It's just the culture of the sport. If you are a fan of the sport to the point you are getting tickets, it stands to reason that you understand the expectation of quiet. You should also foresee that a baby isn't going to be able to be quiet on command.

It is the culture of the sport. And it's the thing that I dislike most about the sport. It's a pet peeve of mine regarding the sport. And you are right about the people going would know that. My point is simply that the culture isn't very "sporty" its more country club. It's ironically one of the things that made people love Happy Gilmore, because that movie poked fun at the culture around golf.

13 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

Who gives an ish - it's tennis.

Word.

I posted it for the laughs. CVON boy took it in a serious direction and that's the way everyone ran with it then. Cant have nice things.

20 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Never. The Eagles hold the all-time joint practice W/L record.

I feel like I saw a 10-2 record posted somewhere. I dont know who the team was but I remember that happening at some point.

Maybe the Ravens.

Eager to see Mukuba and McWilliams this week. Need to see something encouraging in the secondary beside Q and the Exciting Whites

41 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Wait the NFL is going BACK TO BRAZIL.

That's the Booby Prize for losing the Super Bowl.

4 minutes ago, Crazy Legs said:

That's the Booby Prize for losing the Super Bowl.

More like Booty prize it being in Brazil

54 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

He must have gotten a minor clean up.

Positive thing for him starting the season.

33 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

I feel like I saw a 10-2 record posted somewhere. I dont know who the team was but I remember that happening at some point.

Maybe the Ravens.

I know one of them was to the Dolphins. I think the other might have been the Browns.

58 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

Kids suck and shouldn't be allowed out in public

Carry on...