2 minutes ago, seengreen said:

Hanna-Barbera Chin Ass Doug and Howie better not screw up his development, by putting Jason back out at LT and benching Jordan. That would go against the entire movement of youth, trusting the players and coaches.

At this point if JP comes back he’s going to be a guard.

44 minutes ago, TEW said:

At this point if JP comes back he’s going to be a guard.

I am ok with that

I think he plays better than half of the LTs already starting in this league. One thing that doesn't get talked about is how you always see him reaching down to pull someone up. Never another OL but him. Always there, grabbing the RB WR lifting them up.

Dude is a real team player. I love the small details.

1 hour ago, Sturm said:

I think he plays better than half of the LTs already starting in this league. One thing that doesn't get talked about is how you always see him reaching down to pull someone up. Never another OL but him. Always there, grabbing the RB WR lifting them up.

Dude is a real team player. I love the small details.

yup, definitely noticed that. 

up until the Gnats game, he was looking pretty good, but he got destroyed on multiple plays that game. 

4 minutes ago, astrofed said:

yup, definitely noticed that. 

up until the Gnats game, he was looking pretty good, but he got destroyed on multiple plays that game. 

Giants were blitzing on almost every play, ofcourse he is going to have a few lapses... He didnt get destroyed,  he missed a few blocks..

Howie’s best pick which would make Dillard ...

 

1 hour ago, The guy in France said:

Howie’s best pick which would make Dillard ...

 

As we all know I'm not a Howie fan. But I'm not sure we can kill him for that. He took Mailata as a project. He took Dillard as the highest graded pass protection LT. 

On 10/21/2020 at 4:52 PM, Green_Guinness said:

Think it was Stoutland.  Believe he was one of the coaches at the International Camp they had in Bradenton, FLA that Mailata was participating in.  The story is that Stoutland was pounding the table for the Eagles to draft him since he had an up close and personal coaching interaction with him.

Bo Wulf just published an article about Mailata and how Eagles found him. Here’s a copy/paste from it:

Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, the Eagles were preparing for the draft. In an effort to turn over every stone that might have a prospect underneath it, they sent two scouting department representatives — then-director of pro scouting Dwayne Joseph and then-assistant director of pro scouting Brandon Brown — to the pro day for the international athletes.

 

 

6 hours ago, The guy in France said:

Howie’s best pick which would make Dillard ...

 

Out with injury?

I mean ... it's not like the discovery of Fulgham makes the Reagor pick a bust now ...

I knew it, I knew they would cave. Jason Peters is practicing at LT. I knew they would be afraid to check his ego and tell him, "you play where we say you play, or you don't play." So, again, after a promising start, they relegate Mailata to the bench. Take 2 steps forward, then 2 steps back.

14 minutes ago, seengreen said:

I knew it, I knew they would cave. Jason Peters is practicing at LT. I knew they would be afraid to check his ego and tell him, "you play where we say you play, or you don't play." So, again, after a promising start, they relegate Mailata to the bench. Take 2 steps forward, then 2 steps back.

Agreed. It really pisses me off that Peters who has done nothing but fleece the team and be a me first guy this year goes right back in at LT where he didn't even look good at all and Mailata who we should be developing for the future now gets bounced around to a different position. Sucks.

4 minutes ago, John Blutarski said:

Agreed. It really pisses me off that Peters who has done nothing but fleece the team and be a me first guy this year goes right back in at LT where he didn't even look good at all and Mailata who we should be developing for the future now gets bounced around to a different position. Sucks.

This is a shock to me.  Maybe they are considering moving Mailata to RT and giving Lane a game off?

Yep, Mailata to RT until LJ comes back.

1 hour ago, mattpeto said:

This is a shock to me.  Maybe they are considering moving Mailata to RT and giving Lane a game off?

 

5 minutes ago, Vileborg said:

Yep, Mailata to RT until LJ comes back.

Whyyyyy?? Jordan was never cross trained at RT in his 3 years here has he?

Driscoll looked ok, and so did Herbig out there at RT.

Mailata has looked better than JP did all year at LT and he's 23, yet you're going to trot the corpse of Peter back out at LT rather than let your potential future T grow into a legitimate starter, this teams decision making drives me insane. 

2 hours ago, seengreen said:

I knew it, I knew they would cave. Jason Peters is practicing at LT. I knew they would be afraid to check his ego and tell him, "you play where we say you play, or you don't play." So, again, after a promising start, they relegate Mailata to the bench. Take 2 steps forward, then 2 steps back.

correction: Mailata is practicing at RT. At least he'll get experience. But, I can't see this as ideal... for Carson.

58 minutes ago, seengreen said:

 

Whyyyyy?? Jordan was never cross trained at RT in his 3 years here has he?

Driscoll looked ok, and so did Herbig out there at RT.

He pretty much played right tackle exclusively in preseason last year after drafting Dillard.

18 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

He pretty much played right tackle exclusively in preseason last year after drafting Dillard.

Is he their best option right now at that critical position? It's not like they have many.

5 minutes ago, seengreen said:

Is he their best option right now at that critical position? It's not like they have many.

He might be... But would we move JP a couple of years ago? No we wouldn't. This is the team that kept Lane at RT in 2017 when JP went down. 

If Mialata finishes this season well I hope they don’t just give the job to Dillard next season. Ship him out for a pick or two. 

Maybe the way to look at it is Lawrence is their biggest threat so by moving Mailata to right tackle, they are trusting him with that assignment. & not to defend JP who was awful at LT his last start, but he was clearly not anywhere 100% that day so hopefully he'll be able to do a serviceable job until Lane is back so Mailata can move back to LT while JP goes to RG.

I am intrigued by a future LT/RT combo of Dillard/Mailata with Lane getting moved for picks.  

After the OL injury carnage, they are never going to trade the best OL on the team in the offseason.  But if Dillard/Mailata both develop, I could see them doing it by the 2021 trade deadline.  Lane is only just beginning his downward availability spiral.  Now is the time to cash out.

I don't think the Eagles are thinking that way though.  They are just blinded by Peters.  

1 hour ago, roadagain65 said:

Maybe the way to look at it is Lawrence is their biggest threat so by moving Mailata to right tackle, they are trusting him with that assignment. & not to defend JP who was awful at LT his last start, but he was clearly not anywhere 100% that day so hopefully he'll be able to do a serviceable job until Lane is back so Mailata can move back to LT while JP goes to RG.

No

They probably do the stupid thing and put Peters in for Mailata, and bump Mailata to the other side of the line. Maybe. Then when Peters gets injured AGAIN, and the have to put Mailata where he should have stayed in the 1st place. Talk about player mismanagement. Why let Peters take reps away from Mailata, when Peters is only going to get hurt again? I don't care if Peters becomes a Hall of Famer- he has freekin worn out his welcome with this "hang on forever, steal other players development" selfish BS. It's disruptive to the other players, to the team. I am sick of this guy because he has MADE me become sick of him. JP- just hang 'em up. Your body has been screaming for you to do so for the last 3 years. F ing do it.

1 hour ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

No

well thought out reasoning.