3 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

The Rams have the Falcon's first round pick. Poetic irony.

Believe if the falcons win it actually helps the panthers chances of making the playoffs. If Tampa bay beats Carolina but falcons win out then Carolina wins the nfc south at 8-9 due to 3 way tiebreaker

4 hours ago, NOTW said:

I think Hurts also deserves blame, but so does the O line, the coaches for putting out the walking wounded out of pride/stubborness, Stoutland University isn't what it used to be, the run game, the WR routes, the WR drops, the refs...there's a lot of reasons. A lot of it can be fixed by coaching. If Kellen Moore would have returned we'd have a better offense, and the #1 seed.

Moore had lots of issues with the pass game as well…if the OL wasn’t operating an elite level and Saquon had the year he did we would be saying the same thing we are saying this year. Let’s not pretend the O was a well functioning machine last year before week 10.

5 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

Moore had lots of issues with the pass game as well…if the OL wasn’t operating an elite level and Saquon had the year he did we would be saying the same thing we are saying this year. Let’s not pretend the O was a well functioning machine last year before week 10.

5 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

Moore had lots of issues with the pass game as well…if the OL wasn’t operating an elite level and Saquon had the year he did we would be saying the same thing we are saying this year. Let’s not pretend the O was a well functioning machine last year before week 10.

It’s Siri’s system. It always has been. Only time it wasn’t was when Steichen was in charge. Siri is the stooge that needs to be replaced

Rams not exactly playing their best ball leading up to the playoffs.

1 minute ago, Parrot Head said:

Rams not exactly playing their best ball leading up to the playoffs.

One thing for them to almost blow a big lead. Another thing to just be losing from the get go to a far inferior Falcons team.

It hurts not having Adams but they should still have handled Atlanta.

Wonder if something is up, breaking them somehow.

21 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

If Rams lose Eagles chances of playing them in two weeks skyrockets

I'd love this.

16 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Believe if the falcons win it actually helps the panthers chances of making the playoffs. If Tampa bay beats Carolina but falcons win out then Carolina wins the nfc south at 8-9 due to 3 way tiebreaker

That’s actually really interesting, and explains why the Bucs are only 54% as the #4 seed despite hosting the 54-yard man Bryce Young next week.

6 hours ago, bpac55 said:

Harold Fannin at the end of round 2 instead of Mukuba is the move I would have made. I think Mukuba is a decent player, but he doesn't jump off the screen to me. Hopefully he comes back in year 2 and shows he's a great safety, but I much rather would have had TE1 of the future. Marcus Epps has shown he could be a solid stop gap S if needed.

As a rookie, with 1 game to go, Fannin is sitting at 72 catches for 731 yards and 6 TDs.

Dallas Goedert has 60 catches this year and that's his career high. His career high in yards was in 2021 with 830 yards, and his career high in TDs was 5 before the 11 he has this year.

The Eagles ignoring TE for years and years in the draft and it's finally going to catch up to them this year. The Eagles have ZERO TE's under contract after this year. They've now made TE1 a major need and instead of putting all of their focus on retaining their young stud defensive players, they have to figure out how to fill a TE depth chart at the same time. It's been a huge miscalculation on Howie's part and it's finally going to get them.

Time to bring Pitts home :)

1 minute ago, Freshmilk said:

I'd love this.

Id have preferred to avoid the NFCs best team as long as possible and hope someone else knocks them off for us first.

However, if you have to play them maybe its best getting them without Adams. Im not sure he would be back by that game.

14 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

Moore had lots of issues with the pass game as well…if the OL wasn’t operating an elite level and Saquon had the year he did we would be saying the same thing we are saying this year. Let’s not pretend the O was a well functioning machine last year before week 10.

I remember, but still if he were in his 2nd year, more time in offseason to learn from film and prepare it would be better than what we have now.

I'm not watching, why are the Rams down 14-0 to the Falcons?

14 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

Moore had lots of issues with the pass game as well…if the OL wasn’t operating an elite level and Saquon had the year he did we would be saying the same thing we are saying this year. Let’s not pretend the O was a well functioning machine last year before week 10.

This season’s passing offense is basically the same as last year’s from a production standpoint. Hurts had two really good passing games in the regular season against Cinci and Pittsburgh and then in the Super Bowl. The main difference being that Saquon didn’t run for 2k this year.

22 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Id add shouldn’t have paid geno smith either. Woof offseason

And paying Chip Kelly $6.5M to be an OC only to fire him two months into the season

6 hours ago, bpac55 said:

Harold Fannin at the end of round 2 instead of Mukuba is the move I would have made. I think Mukuba is a decent player, but he doesn't jump off the screen to me. Hopefully he comes back in year 2 and shows he's a great safety, but I much rather would have had TE1 of the future. Marcus Epps has shown he could be a solid stop gap S if needed.

As a rookie, with 1 game to go, Fannin is sitting at 72 catches for 731 yards and 6 TDs.

Dallas Goedert has 60 catches this year and that's his career high. His career high in yards was in 2021 with 830 yards, and his career high in TDs was 5 before the 11 he has this year.

The Eagles ignoring TE for years and years in the draft and it's finally going to catch up to them this year. The Eagles have ZERO TE's under contract after this year. They've now made TE1 a major need and instead of putting all of their focus on retaining their young stud defensive players, they have to figure out how to fill a TE depth chart at the same time. It's been a huge miscalculation on Howie's part and it's finally going to get them.

I had him penciled at that slot with the Loeffler connection. Would have made it easier to move on from Goedert too. That was a miss.

5 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

One thing for them to almost blow a big lead. Another thing to just be losing from the get go to a far inferior Falcons team.

It hurts not having Adams but they should still have handled Atlanta.

Wonder if something is up, breaking them somehow.

They are the Eagles of 2023 :)

The James Pearce Bowl off to an unexpected start

The Rams really have a couple of shabby RBs; both Corum and Kyren Williams are scrub-like.

So whats it mean if Rams find a way to lose this??

That special teams guy forgot to step on the end zone line

6 hours ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

I have a question for folks who are experienced with sports betting. (@we_gotta_believe might know something.) I know a little but am not that experienced. Nor do I want to be. What I like to do every year is make over/under bets on win totals of eight teams. I use some mathematical formulas that I apply and pick the four teams that I think are most overvalued and four teams that are most undervalued. So I bet $25 on four teams to win "over" and four teams to win "under" their respective totals. My objective is to simply win five of the eight bets, which should assure me a modest profit. I do this for fun and to test my mathematical principles.

At this point, I have four guaranteed winners (worth $198.50) and three guaranteed losers. The fifth is still up in the air. And here is my issue.

One of the teams I bet on this year was the Packers. I thought the 9.5 total was a bit low so I bet them as an over. I thought they were a good bet to win double digit games. Curiously I got this bet down a day before the Micah Parsons trade. So if I had tried to make the exact same bet a few days later the line would have moved or the odds would have changed. So I got lucky there.

But here's the thing. The Packers have nine wins and one tie. For the sake of argument, let's say they lose this coming week to the Vikings. It's possible since the game is essentially meaningless. If they finish the season 9-7-1, is my "over" 9.5 bet considered a "loss" or a "push"? My instinct is that it would be treated as a loss since they didn't actually "win" more than nine games. But I don't know.

Incidentally I have some precedent here because back in 2021, I bet the Bills at "over" 11 wins and they won precisely 11 games. That was considered a push and I got my money back. If that same logic would apply here, I'd get my $25 bet back.

So, is my ticket worthless if the Packers lose or will it simply bring me the original face value back?

What I think I'm going to do anyway is to bet a small amount (maybe ten bucks) on the Vikings on the money line. That way I'll be guaranteed to turn a profit on the entire venture, which was the objective in the first place.

If the line was 9.5 wins then you can't push, so if they finish 9-7-1 you would lose if you had bet the over. The tie in their actual record doesn't matter, the fractional line means you need 10 wins to win the bet.

7 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Id have preferred to avoid the NFCs best team as long as possible and hope someone else knocks them off for us first.

However, if you have to play them maybe its best getting them without Adams. Im not sure he would be back by that game.

Adams was sprinting in the pregame warmups and says the team is just holding him out to avoid aggravating his injury.

6 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

9 would be under 9.5, IMO

This is correct

Just now, Alphagrand said:

Adams was sprinting in the pregame warmups and says the team is just holding him out to avoid aggravating his injury.

oh ok. I somehow had the impression that he had a significant one. Guess it wasnt so bad.

Ill stay in the boat of avoiding them as long as possible, if not completely.

Ada,s did that same push off against the Eagles earlier this year but they didn’t call it

Holy Crap