21 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

 And my other favorite team is............

 

Are you 12?

Come from being a Steelers fan. Nobody else in the world gives 2 craps about the Browns

14 minutes ago, Saltpeter said:

If these injuries keep happening, what's even the point of upgrading the roster? Guys come onto the team with little to no injury history and leave almost in a damn wheelchair.

Same strength and conditioning coach since 2013.  Another reason I want Howie and Doug gone — why do they put up with this?

Just got a notification on my tablet from NBC Sports Philly that Terrell Owens is talking (again), about McNabb and XXXIX. He says that McNabb was out drinking the night before the game. 

https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/eagles/terrell-owens-claims-donovan-mcnabb-was-out-drinking-night-before-super-bowl

Heard this take...

Doug is a good coach that is having a bad 2020, whereas Howie is a mediocre GM that had a great 2017.

Thoughts?

25 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

 And my other favorite team is............

 

Are you 12?

I actually did have a second favorite team when I was around 12... well, maybe up until I was about 10 or 11. The Chargers. I only really liked them for their helmets though. The Eagles were always my one true love! 😍 

1 minute ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Heard this take...

Doug is a good coach that is having a bad 2020, whereas Howie is a mediocre GM that had a great 2017.

Thoughts?

Was 2017 really a Howie thing or a Joe Douglas thing (or a combination of both together)?

Just now, Connecticut Eagle said:

Heard this take...

Doug is a good coach that is having a bad 2020, whereas Howie is a mediocre GM that had a great 2017.

Thoughts?

Disagree on Doug — came here with minimal qualifications, but the trio of Doug/Frank/John pushed all the right buttons.  When Frank and John got promoted elsewhere Doug turned back into a coach with minimal qualifications

Agree on Howie — it was a miracle what he did with a gutted roster in 2-3 short years, but he’s a bad talent evaluator and other teams aren’t letting him fleece them in trades anymore 

2 minutes ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

I actually did have a second favorite team when I was around 12... well, maybe up until I was about 10 or 11. The Chargers. I only really liked them for their helmets though. The Eagles were always my one true love! 😍 

Before I knew anything about football I liked the Bengals because of their helmets, and the 49ers because of Steve young who was a hometown hero from byu

18 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Add Desean Jackson, Richard Rodgers, Duke Riley, Kevon Seymour too. This is the week to throw anyone dealing with any type of injury on IR and to go hunting off other teams PS guys. Bring them all in even if they miss the game and sign them to future deals.

That would be smart roster management...something the Eagles have shown they are incapable of. 

1 minute ago, bpac55 said:

That would be smart roster management...something the Eagles have shown they are incapable of. 

Yea, we’ll probably pull Jason Peters off of IR so he can have lunch with the boys or something 

1 minute ago, Utebird said:

Before I knew anything about football I liked the Bengals because of their helmets, and the 49ers because of Steve young who was a hometown hero from byu

The first Bengals helmet that I ever knew was the one that said "Bengals" on the side. The first time I saw their 'modern' helmet was in a department store in Landover Maryland (not very far from where FedEx field is today). The new line of NFL winter coats were out and the store (Sears I believe), had a few different teams and the new Bengals coat was one of them. I think the only way that I knew that it was for the Bengals was because it said "Bengals" on the back, but just seeing the helmet without the name kind of confused me. (I was probably 9 or 10 at the time... I'd have to see which year they switched to be sure). 

Howie doing his own thing as usual.

5 minutes ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

I actually did have a second favorite team when I was around 12... well, maybe up until I was about 10 or 11. The Chargers. I only really liked them for their helmets though. The Eagles were always my one true love! 😍 

When I was a kid I liked the Raiders as an AFC team because I liked the black/silver uniforms, and I was a fan of Ken Stabler (being left-handed).

That affinity wore off long before their Super Bowl meeting.  I still can’t believe the Eagles lost a championship game to Jim Plunkett.  😔

Just now, Alphagrand said:

When I was a kid I liked the Raiders as an AFC team because I liked the black/silver uniforms, and I was a fan of Ken Stabler (being left-handed).

That affinity wore off long before their Super Bowl meeting.  I still can’t believe the Eagles lost a championship game to Jim Plunkett.  😔

I didn't really have any feelings for the Raiders one way or the other... until Super Bowl XV, of course. But my oldest brother has been a Raiders fan since the mid to late 60's. As far as Plunkett goes, he did win two Super Bowls (beating the Redskins in XVIII). So I won't take anything away from him. 

20 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

Thats not how Dougy does things. 

 

This is the week he brings back Brook so he can get hurt again, did you not watch Djax last game? Doug will play all the old guys, and especially anyone who was here in 2017 and helped win a SB, likely we sign Sproles tomorrow for one game. And where's Blount at? 

Blount officially retired couple of months ago.

Team website reported Brooks is activated, but won't play this Sunday.  He is getting a head start for next season, believe it or not.

DJax may get a farewell game.  Schwartz said that they defense would play to stop WFT from the divisional champ.  Let's see about that.

They should put all the bench guys in this game when the game is decided.  At least get a feel on what we have for next season.

 

2 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Uhhhh, ok? Can someone explain to this me like I'm an idiot? How important are two practices and a walkthrough for his rehab when he's going on a 7 month vacation starting next Monday?

Maybe the Eagles will just claim that they won the division - by a lot.

20 minutes ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

Just got a notification on my tablet from NBC Sports Philly that Terrell Owens is talking (again), about McNabb and XXXIX. He says that McNabb was out drinking the night before the game. 

https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/eagles/terrell-owens-claims-donovan-mcnabb-was-out-drinking-night-before-super-bowl

And McNabb still says he didn't throw up during the game, which of course you can actually see on video, so Fake news as usual. 

2 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

And McNabb still says he didn't throw up during the game, which of course you can actually see on video, so Fake news as usual. 

I don't think I've ever seen video from XXXIX. I have seen video of him throw-up in a Bucs game though. 

20 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Heard this take...

Doug is a good coach that is having a bad 2020, whereas Howie is a mediocre GM that had a great 2017.

Thoughts?

Doug has a committee of OCs and still couldn't help his QB out by doing simple things we've all asked for

For months in his PC he said he'd do something but never did

Doug needs to go too

 

RIP Mary Ann — what a great character.  I remember reading a quote from Dawn Wells saying she made $750 per week for Gilligan’s Island and saw no money from syndication, while Sherwood Schwartz made about $90M from residuals.

I see the catastrophic failure of this team not as one huge ish storm, but as a series of failures; the primary ones leading to secondary ones, and even tertiary ones. Primary failure was at the OC. Wentz's failure was so significant as to divert blame. But even as Wentz failed, Doug's inability to respond just compounded the damage. Wentz was a culprit, but he was also a victim. The real victim was Miles Sanders, who could've contended for a rushing title, the oline, who could've avoided injury better with less obvious pass situations to have to block, and the defense, who never got time to even wash their mouth with gatorade before having to go back in, putting added strain on their bodies. Our WRs and TEs were also better than this offense and QB allowed them to demonstrate.

31 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Heard this take...

Doug is a good coach that is having a bad 2020, whereas Howie is a mediocre GM that had a great 2017.

Thoughts?

Let's take them one at a time...

 

2017 was a perfect confluence of everything working.  Nearly every single move Howie made to put that team together was perfect.  Literally almost every move.  If he's a good GM, he should be able to hit on more than he misses, even in a down year.   But, looking at the moves from that point forward.  It's hard to find 2 or 3 good moves in any given offseason.  Nearly every move since then has failed.  Even the law of averages would mean that he'd have more hits than he has.

 

But, at the other end, Doug is an interesting question.  Lots of excuses can be made for Doug, right?   Injuries sitting at the top of them.  But, that doesn't explain the continued lack of commitment to the running game, especially with a struggling QB and OL.  It doesn't explain the lack of development of players.  Lots of issues for Doug as well.   He wasn't very good last year either, but was suffering from brutally bad WRs to work with.  So, is Doug a victim of the roster, too?    Hard to say.   Is Doug one of the brain trust that puts the roster together or not?   

 

Howie is public enemy #1 for me though.  What he's done to this team since the Super Bowl is criminal.

23 minutes ago, schuy7 said:

Howie doing his own thing as usual.

33 minutes ago, schuy7 said:

Howie doing his own thing as usual.

Yep.  Knew there was something to this when the reports came out that Chinn was higher on their draft board than Hurts.

17 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

 

RIP Mary Ann — what a great character.  I remember reading a quote from Dawn Wells saying she made $750 per week for Gilligan’s Island and saw no money from syndication, while Sherwood Schwartz made about $90M from residuals.

I read that she was the only member of the cast that DID get residuals in her contract.