2 hours ago, mattwill said:

Greatest player? There is a good argument for that. Greatest athlete? Not so much. Clarke was not particularly athletic, but he made up for it with grit and determination

Brah, please tell me you're trolling. You can't possibly be naive enough to think they meant who is the most athletic.

2 hours ago, bpac55 said:

I'm officially old. Last year it was that Gillie character. Now this guy is blowing up my feed.

Yeah mine too. Never even heard of him until a week ago. Now he’s all over the place.

4 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

Not so sure about that. Most reports said that Sidney Brown had a really good camp. No reason to rush a rookie if you have a vet playing well.

Lol, nobody said Brown had a really good camp. The best he got pretty much across the board was "he was ok." I can't believe there are still people who believe Brown can be a starting S in this league. He will always be a great ST'er but the dude has ZERO football IQ. He will be the 4th S sooner rather than later.

5 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

Lol, nobody said Brown had a really good camp. The best he got pretty much across the board was "he was ok." I can't believe there are still people who believe Brown can be a starting S in this league. He will always be a great ST'er but the dude has ZERO football IQ. He will be the 4th S sooner rather than later.

I agree that Brown’s ceiling is an elite ST player. His recklessness can be a benefit there but it’s not a good trait to have at safety without the smarts and restraint. I don’t know if that changes.

He has a fullback mentality in a safety’s body. I think he’d be an interesting project in the Van Sumeren role at fullback if he gained some weight, but not sure he’d stay healthy at that.

My hope is Mukuba is this year’s DeJean who missed time in camp and becomes a significant contributor by week 3/4.

The only two holes on this team right now are CB2 and safety opposite Reed. I think Bennett eventually establishes himself as a competent CB and Mukuba takes over for Brown at safety.

4 hours ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

Dale Hawerchuk at #18? You gotta be ishing me. He barely played here and was well past his prime. That’d be like giving #85 to Art Monk. (And holy cow, they actually did that!!)

Off the top of my head, I’d take Lonsberry or Reagor. Or Ben Hawkins actually.

Holy crap. I actually typed Reagor. I meant Maclin!!!!

Reminder to set the DVR for tomorrow

1 hour ago, mattwill said:

You are moving the goalposts. To say Reggie is not a great athlete because Norman Braman was an ass is ridiculous.

Peak Wilt would consistently take Peak Kareem to the woodshed.

An aging, well past his prime Wilt dominated Kareem when he was in the peak of his career.

6 hours ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

This may sound like an old man take, but I think this should be the standard. Those parking lots are out of control and have too many people taking up spots with their setups who aren’t going to the game. You should have to show your game ticket to park in those lots next to the stadium.

Not that it affects me in the South Central but I am damn tired of subsidizing billionaires. Jeffery seems like a pretty good guy but given the cost of going to a game for an average Joe, I bet it would minimally impact his profits to fund those extra Septa trains. I mean, we are talking a few hours of staff pay, some fuel and maintenance costs. The Lamm contract probably cost more than a season’s cost for those trains.

6 hours ago, Parrot Head said:

Gotta wonder if Mukuba manages to get the start now.

Didn't seem like there was much chance before today.

Not yet.

46 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

Brah, please tell me you're trolling. You can't possibly be naive enough to think they meant who is the most athletic.

Look at the graphic and then answer your own question. It is all there in black and white.

11 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Not that it affects me in the South Central but I am damn tired of subsidizing billionaires. Jeffery seems like a pretty good guy but given the cost of going to a game for an average Joe, I bet it would minimally impact his profits to fund those extra Septa trains. I mean, we are talking a few hours of staff pay, some fuel and maintenance costs. The Lamm contract probably cost more than a season’s cost for those trains.

It looks simple, but it isn't. Public funding is complex. You are dealing with a variety of unions who would all want a piece of the new pie. You'd need a variety of city commissions to approve any change to the current schedule. In addition to the actual cost of running the trains, you'd have to deal with G&A stuff like communicating the changes, tracking the finances, addressing the changes to personnel schedules.

IMO, the biggest deterrent is that Lurie would also have to be careful with indirect liability. Someone gets hurt on a Lurie funded train, they will go after his deep pockets in addition to going after Septa.

17 minutes ago, mattwill said:

Look at the graphic and then answer your own question. It is all there in black and white.

0/10

51 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

I agree that Brown’s ceiling is an elite ST player. His recklessness can be a benefit there but it’s not a good trait to have at safety without the smarts and restraint. I don’t know if that changes.

He has a fullback mentality in a safety’s body. I think he’d be an interesting project in the Van Sumeren role at fullback if he gained some weight, but not sure he’d stay healthy at that.

My hope is Mukuba is this year’s DeJean who missed time in camp and becomes a significant contributor by week 3/4.

The only two holes on this team right now are CB2 and safety opposite Reed. I think Bennett eventually establishes himself as a competent CB and Mukuba takes over for Brown at safety.

Brown would have been a fine starting safety in the 90's. In today's league not so much and he is a HORRIBLE fit in Fangio's scheme.

47 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Even though football season is about to start, it’s still technically summer and will be for a few more weeks, but I have a yearly tradition of watching summer movies and ending my summer movie watches the day football starts so I have two more days to finish my movies. I will close the summer out with Master and Commander and my favorite movie Lost in Translation. Then it’s on to football and my fall movie slate.

The books are great, 20 volumes and worth reading.

2 hours ago, vikas83 said:

Carlton has an argument, but Schmidt spending his whole career in Philly is the tie breaker. Wilt and Reggie did more outside Philly.

Reggie had his best seasons as an Eagle. Just ridiculous numbers

8 years as an Eagles, AVERAGED 15.5 sacks, 99 tackles a season.

6 years in GB, averaged 11.4 sacks, 50 tackles a season.

He was very good in GB, he was GOAT in Philly.

Pg 52

1 hour ago, mattwill said:

Look at the graphic and then answer your own question. It is all there in black and white.

I don't know why this is even a question, how does anyone NOT understand this graphic?

Obviously, it's the best players who had a New Jersey phone number.

4 minutes ago, NOTW said:

I don't know why this is even a question, how does anyone NOT understand this graphic?

Obviously, it's the best players who had a New Jersey phone number.

I thought it was how many subs they ate at Jersey Mike's

1 hour ago, T-1000 said:

0/10

You are nothing if not self assured.

Look up the definition of athlete. ,,, "An athlete is a person who competes in a sport or is skilled in physical exercises, requiring strength, agility, or stamina."

The greatest aspects of Clarke transcended strength, agility and stamina. He was much more than an athlete. He was a walking example of what Kipling described when he said:

If you can keep your head when all about you   

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

    But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   

    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

    And treat those two impostors just the same;   

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

    And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   

    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

    If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   

    And—which is more—you’ll be a Mensch, my son!

Clarke was more than the heart and nerve and sinew of an athlete. He was a Mensch.

1 hour ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

It looks simple, but it isn't. Public funding is complex. You are dealing with a variety of unions who would all want a piece of the new pie. You'd need a variety of city commissions to approve any change to the current schedule. In addition to the actual cost of running the trains, you'd have to deal with G&A stuff like communicating the changes, tracking the finances, addressing the changes to personnel schedules.

IMO, the biggest deterrent is that Lurie would also have to be careful with indirect liability. Someone gets hurt on a Lurie funded train, they will go after his deep pockets in addition to going after Septa.

It’s easy to say "the billionaire should pay for and take care of everything”, but this falls more in the politician realm and something that they should try to rectify. And based on Philly politics lately, I don’t have trust in them to figure it out.

Wednesday Morning Dallas Game Score Predictions Update - Only 43 hours until Kickoff

30 predictions recorded

28 predictions are for an Eagles win and 2 are for a Cowboys win, following a longstanding tradition/superstition.  The average predicted score continues to be Eagles 31 Cowboys 19.

As always, please tag your prediction post with @mattwill that way I will be sure to see/record it.  Score predictions can also have an optional "Bonus Pick" tiebreaker prediction.  I will be taking predictions right up until Kickoff.

A list of the 30 predictions is presented below, sorted high to low by Eagles points predicted  If you don't see your name there, then I haven't yet recorded a prediction for you.

Wednesday Morning Season's Record Predictions Update ... only 43 hours to kickoff.

30 season record predictions submitted by the following posters.   As always, when you post your prediction please tag it with @mattwill so that I get a notification that you have made it.  If you see a prediction that is missing the @mattwill please reply to it and tag your reply with @mattwill

Cowboys 74 Eagles 58 all time

note: If the Eagles win the all time franchise record goes to .500 for the 1st time since December 1933.

@mattwill Please add a prediction for the year for me, "Campbell as ROTY"

4 hours ago, NOTW said:

I don't know why this is even a question, how does anyone NOT understand this graphic?

Obviously, it's the best players who had a New Jersey phone number.

I moved out of NJ in 2006, but my number is still the same with a NJ area code. I guess that gives me a chance to make a future list!

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8 hours ago, mattwill said:

You are moving the goalposts. To say Reggie is not a great athlete because Norman Braman was an ass is ridiculous.

Peak Wilt would consistently take Peak Kareem to the woodshed.

I agree with @vikas83 , maybe not in exactly how he's presenting it, but the Philly list, as I interpret it is based on their time in Philly, not what they did elsewhere. As such, Schmidt stands head and shoulders above Chamberlain, White and even Carlton. And that's in no way to besmirch any of the 3 of them. Wilt might be the greatest center in the history of basketball, but his best years were elsewhere. Reggie is the greatest DE in the histroy of the NFL, but only a touch over half his personal achievements were achieved here. And Lefty is, in my view (though many would argue for others), the greatest southpaw in the history of MLB, and most of his greatest years were here. Carlton's 15 years in Philly puts him right behind Schmidt. But of his astonishing 329 wins "only" 241 were in Philly. Schmidt did it all here.

JMO.