9 minutes ago, paco said:

Can't be. Howie is a master cap manipulator and pushing the cap into the future has no negative ramifications. Last year we WANTED to lose Milton Williams, Mekhi Becton, Josh Sweat, etc etc etc and sign next to no one.

Since you can sorta understand the numbers, can you give us a calculation of how many LESS guys we would afford if Howie didnt manage the cap this way?

15 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The stat is a little baked with unique circumstances. His suspension was Wentz rookie year when they were rebuilding the mess Chip left behind. The year he missed the most games with his ankle was 2020 when the whole team was a disaster. Those two years pad a lot of the losses and I'm not sure Johnson playing would have changed much in either year.

That's what I kinda figured. I thought the stretches where he missed games that probably another O-lineman or 2 were also out or some other starters missed those games as well. Always seemed weird to me that their record wasn't as good just when he missed the game.

19 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I was talking to one of my coworkers who lives in Chicago and he told me they won't be transferring over seat licenses. I can't think of a bigger middle finger to the fans. That can't be true, right?

15 hours ago, SinCityEaglesFan2 said:

whatever. if we get rid of AJ we're a 8 win team max

Unless........we replace him with another pretty good WR in FA, trade or the draft.

Not likely but never know.

15 hours ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Crackhead said that?

6 minutes ago, paco said:

I was talking to one of my coworkers who lives in Chicago and he told me they won't be transferring over seat licenses. I can't think of a bigger middle finger to the fans. That can't be true, right?

I saw something on the socials that basically said the Bears waited 5 years for the city of Chicago to make a decision on a new stadium and the Indiana officials did the same thing in 2 months. But they suspect now things have been announced, Chicago may spring into action now the threat of leaving is real.

All a bit silly.

14 hours ago, NOTW said:

I worked in Hammond Indiana for a bit in 2008-2009. While that picture is accurate, we had a much nicer view. Our building overlooked a graveyard.

1 hour ago, ToastJenkins said:

Cliftoma In tijuana for his BBL and otc viagra

Former EMB poster who is on my facebook feed lives there now. I couldn't tell you how many times he talks about how they have rolling blackouts to conserve energy and sometimes go days without running water.

Very cosmopolitan.

1 minute ago, paco said:

Former EMB poster who is on my facebook feed lives there now. I couldn't tell you how many times he talks about how they have rolling blackouts to conserve energy and sometimes go days without running water.

Very cosmopolitan.

did his dog eat his face off yet?

13 hours ago, Mike030270 said:

RTK hates AJ

And they used to be besties

50 minutes ago, paco said:

Can't be. Howie is a master cap manipulator and pushing the cap into the future has no negative ramifications. Last year we WANTED to lose Milton Williams, Mekhi Becton, Josh Sweat, etc etc etc and sign next to no one.

It's not like we wanted to lose good players, but seriously ... Milton Williams is nowhere near a $26M/year DT. Moro Ojomo is every bit as good a DT (if not better). You want to keep your good players without overpaying. Becton sure wasn't a $10M/year guard either. Sweat was the only one that was worth keeping for the price, IMO. But it seemed like fans were always lukewarm on Sweat, worrying about his knee that never gave him trouble in the NFL.

37 minutes ago, brkmsn said:

It's not like we wanted to lose good players, but seriously ... Milton Williams is nowhere near a $26M/year DT. Moro Ojomo is every bit as good a DT (if not better). You want to keep your good players without overpaying. Becton sure wasn't a $10M/year guard either. Sweat was the only one that was worth keeping for the price, IMO. But it seemed like fans were always lukewarm on Sweat, worrying about his knee that never gave him trouble in the NFL.

There literally is no negative to managing the cap like Howie does.

The eagles essentially go over the salary cap by spending more cash than other teams. Howie's method allows him to keep a more talented roster than other teams due to cash spending over cap spending.

The fact that they eventually run out of money is the same issue that every other team has in a league with a hard cap. But the eagles stretch their dollars further.

So while we lost Milton Williams last year, if we managed the cap in a more straightforward traditional way, we might not have had a whole bunch of other players on the roster either.

We are at a baseline, starting with higher talent and a higher payroll thanks to the way Howie manages the cap.

The people who think his method is stupid or bad or wrong or in any way negative dont fully understand it.

1 hour ago, paco said:

I worked in Hammond Indiana for a bit in 2008-2009. While that picture is accurate, we had a much nicer view. Our building overlooked a graveyard.

Would you say it was a grave issue with the job?

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

Would you say it was a grave issue with the job?

3 hours ago, eagle45 said:

I’ve been to 2 medical missions in Mexico to train their surgeons to do basic things that simply aren’t available there..and to try to improve extremely poor access to care. I can assure you that your anecdotes of cheap MRIs with quick results and relief of back pain for cash paying American medical tourists do not make a healthcare system better.

Yes, there are certain parts that are undeserved and it is pay to play just as it is here. If you dont have money, then you are stuck using the social security system and that can be long wait times/lesser care . My point is that you can receive good healthcare there at a reasonable price. And there are really good doctors that are trained in the latest techniques with the latest equipment in Mexico City and Guadalajara etc.

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

Would you say it was a grave issue with the job?

A dead end job.

He was always buried with work.

Worked himself to death.

37 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

That's what the ghosts said at night.

3 hours ago, eagle45 said:

I’m shocked that Jurgens reportedly had lumbar spine stem cell injections at Columbia.

Shocked that Eagles team physicians allowed it. Shocked that Columbia did it. It’s not high risk by any means, but the data on efficacy of lumbar stem cell injections is either terrible or non existent, depending on your interpretation of the medical literature. Columbia med is a leader in poking around with stem cells, but I wasn’t aware they were doing it for spine when there is zero evidence behind it and it’s inconsistent with standard of care. People usually go to Germany for their experimental spine care.

I won’t speculate on whether Jurgens’ back is doomed or not because I just don’t have the info. But this was a waste of a procedure and the Eagles’ staff and Columbia likely knew that going in.

Not necessarily looking good. Given some aspects of cartilage regrowth, I suspect the treatment was that. I think Jurgens is at a crossroad, healthwise, where he either has satisfactorily progressed or the regression is such that he cannot continue to perform at starter level. Note, Howie carried three C plus Toth last year. Makes me wonder if Howie was anticipating bad results with Cam. I do wonder if everything he tried in Colombia will pass a drug exam. If I was the NFL, Cam would be at the top of my list for a random offseason drug test.

1 hour ago, paco said:

Former EMB poster who is on my facebook feed lives there now. I couldn't tell you how many times he talks about how they have rolling blackouts to conserve energy and sometimes go days without running water.

Very cosmopolitan.

Yeah, I'm sure your view from your 1 bedroom apartment of the homeless guy spanking his monkey at the Septa station is much more cosmopolitan

49 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

My favorite Kevin Hart memory was after PHI won their first SB...he was happy and very drunk...it was awesome, dude just loving life that day and didn't give a crap.

3 minutes ago, Cliftoma said:

Yeah, I'm sure your view from your 1 bedroom apartment of the homeless guy **** at the Septa station is much more cosmopolitan

So they also dont take care of their pools and patios. Is that what you are trying to show us here?

3 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

on goedert

Masterclass is kinda a BS name, who TF is Shane Haff

Jeff McLane said he's heard from talking to people in the Eagles organization that Hurts and AJ Brown cleared things up and were in a good place in their personal relationship by the end of the season. So there's no hatred or animosity there.

34 minutes ago, NOTW said:

A dead end job.

He was always buried with work.

Worked himself to death.

Sadly, that wasn't far from the truth. It was a troubled project that I was thrown into the fire to help out with. I WAS working on a selling a project to set me up as a lead architect for a utility in San Diego, and instead I got pulled from that to work from 6:30 am until sometime after 9 pm fixing broken ESQL (IBM Message Broker proprietary language) code from India. Most weeks they told us to cancel our flights home to stay and work the weekend. One of the week they tried to pull that s*** the same week my mother was having her brain surgery. I told them to f off...... but still took phone calls over the weekend from her recovery room.

Quite easily the worst project I was ever deployed to. On almost a weekly basis I told the leads the second they could roll me off to let me go, I didn't care if I had another project lined up and we were in the middle of the great recession. Unemployment was a better option at that point.

On the plus side we had to do a six week tax break and relocated the project to Fort Wayne, IN, which was Utopia by comparison to Hammond, IN.