51 minutes ago, DeathByEagle said:

I'm sorry, I was looking for the Philadelphia Eagles Football message board. Did it get replaced? 

 

3 minutes ago, RLC said:

 

I’m told Eagles and (Every player over 30 years old) are working on restructuring his deal 

Someone needs to call it like it is on education.

Millennials are more educated than any generation before them, absolutely.  Being educated is different from being smart, both of which are different from being skilled and profitable.  

If you go to community college, online college, or some comparable variant to study philosophy or art history...and then get a job selling insurance/cars/delivering for Amazon...that was a complete waste.  And that's exactly what most of the millennial education boom is based on...complete fluff that does not prepare someone to enter the workforce.  Quite paradoxically, it provides the graduate with a sense of white-collar entitlement when their skill set is actually more in line with blue collar unskilled employment.  

That's why we need immigration...there are jobs out there that Americans think are beneath them.  'I went to a 4 year college, so I'm too good to take a job making deliveries, as an X-ray technician, working the line in a restaurant, etc.'

That's another reason why debt free education is not some human right.  Incentivize people to study something that can be leveraged into a high-paying and productive job...and to continue to work to support their kids to have the same privilege.  If you want to drink beer for 4 years, casually learn about oceanology, and tailgate on Saturdays, then do that on your dime or on your parents' dime.

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

He also talked about hurts yesterday with roob and zangaro. 

 

"I would probably take that gamble (on drafting a quarterback),” Simms said. "I probably would. I never evaluated Jalen Hurts through my process — and I know he’s a fine young man and he’s got charisma and leadership skills and all that — but there’s just nothing that I ever saw that led me to think he’s an NFL starting quarterback. And I don’t like saying that about a young kid and, listen, I hope he proves me wrong. And if he proves me wrong, I’ll be on here to go, ‘Way to go, Jalen Hurts, you made Chris Simms look like a dumb idiot, way to go.’ I hope that’s the case, I do.

"But I think, all in all, I probably would be seriously thinking about the quarterback and the draft route. I would. I’m very impressed with the top guys I’ve seen in the draft. I really am. There’s five or six guys that I look at and I go, ‘These guys are NFL starting quarterbacks and they can be something in the league for sure.’ So that possibility is there.”

"But my money would bet more on the more time goes and the more he plays, and the more people figure out his tendencies and his inability maybe to stretch the field in all areas of the pass game, that [Hurts] will look less and less like a passing quarterback,” Simms said. "That would be my thought right now. And that’s why Howie Roseman and some of those guys are getting paid a lot of money. They gotta figure out that situation.”

Chris Simms thought he was a starting QB in the League too. 

The #Eagles are again proposing an onside kick alternative that would give teams the chance to maintain possession with a 4th-and-15 play, per

@MarkMaske

. That proposal has had growing support in recent years and it was a 16-16 vote last year. It takes 24 votes to pass.

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

Dude get out of here, just when I want to agree with you on some things you come with that?  What about what I posted shows any sort of privilege?  The road I took is possible for anyone.

The fact that I went to college?   I went after jobs that paid more?  I worked landscaping jobs to get by. I worked gas station jobs to get by.  There wasn't an ounce of white or gender privilege.  

Please tell me what opportunities? 

Dude, I admire your work ethic and going for higher paying jobs.  I did too.  And when I initially heard the terms white privilege and gender privilege, I bristled at that because I worked hard for everything I got.  Bet you did too.  But when you say 9 out of 10 people can do what you did, you are blinded by your denominator.  I can be too.  I was talking reparations with someone this past summer.  I heard the oft repeated inaccurate statement that the wealth of this country was built on the labor of slaves.  Not really, but I digress.  But some opportunities my dad had and that I had, I recognize others did not because of the color of their skin or their gender.  It doesn’t lessen what we have accomplished and it doesn’t mean that we didn’t earn everything we did.  But it does mean that the Customer Service job you sought and received might not have been available to others.  Doesn’t mean you didn’t earn it.  It means you could earn it, that’s all.  

I will give you an example.  My first job as a manager in my chosen profession, I was up against three women.  I was possibly the most qualified, although not the most experienced and from my success afterwards, I think I proved myself.  I also believe that being a married man gave me a step up.  I can also assure you that if a person of color was in the running, I would have had a step up too.  Back then, at least in the South, there was always a question about how the team would respond to a woman boss or a minority boss.  That was in the mid 1980s but the majority of management level people were white married men who had started work in the 1950s and 1960s.  Well, if those people were promoting managers in the 1980s and 1990s, it is only logical to conclude the ceilings remained in place well into this millennium.

Don’t lose any pride in your accomplishments, I haven’t, but recognize that not everyone had the same opportunities. 

40 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

 Even if I did get a job through my social network that's the whole point of having one. 

But building a social network, except for the handful of people who have the "charm" gene, primarily depends on family, school, church, etc.

If you are only exposed to people like yourself, then poor people and people of color start behind the 8-ball.

I've seen this with my Michigan in-laws, almost no one in my wife's generation got even a 2 year degree (the majority of my nephews and nieces have never finished a four year degree), so jobs were obtained through social networks, usually based around which Church you went to and "six degrees of separation," who your siblings and parents and cousins knew, who you want to school with at the Christian school and so on. One-third of the population or so are Mexican-American, descendants of immigrants who came up to pick apples, etc. They go to the public schools (which are underfunded), go to Catholic churches, and were cut out of the community for generations (which meant they didn't get a shot at management in the companies and the good government jobs at the town and county level because of lack of connections). Heck, the Dutch didn't even eat at Mexican restaurants until the last couple decades, preferring their crappy Midwestern food. So social networks often depend on the social composition of an area, a minority can be cut out of opportunities for generations. 

Hard work and talent matters, but so does opportunity, it's been shown that cohorts that enter the workforce during a bad recession have reduced earnings on average throughout their lifetime. Why? Because they struggle to get and keep an entry level job for a few years, which means the rest of their career they're a few years older than expected at each level, and thus are stigmatized. And they have to compete with a larger number of people at each level (both their cohort and the one that follows them after the recession) for promotions, etc.

Eventually interracial marriage will open up more networks, but that will take multiple generations to level the playing field.

1 minute ago, Original Sin said:

The #Eagles are again proposing an onside kick alternative that would give teams the chance to maintain possession with a 4th-and-15 play, per

@MarkMaske

. That proposal has had growing support in recent years and it was a 16-16 vote last year. It takes 24 votes to pass.

Well we converted the Philly famous 4th and 26th so a 4th and 15 is child's play. 

 

1 hour ago, austinfan said:

Doubt Huckleberry Finn is on many HS reading lists anymore.

But that just means a teaching tool to understand American history is lost, and the way Twain employed racial stereotypes to mock them.

https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/

They wouldn’t read Twain at all if they ever read Letters from the Earth. 

3 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

They wouldn’t read Twain at all if they ever read Letters from the Earth. 

I can remember reading Durango street , in HS  , as one of their requirements .

 

of mice and men , another .

17 minutes ago, DeathByEagle said:

I will take experienced, street smart/common sense smart over book smart 7 days a week and twice on Sundays. That is a dying breed. We are all doomed, thank goodness we should all be dead before we see the end. 

Depends on what you want done.

I've known a lot of experienced, street smart people who are good at what they do, but think they know everything because of their success at one thing.

The most important thing you should learn from a Ph.D. is how ignorant you are - that is, until you try to learn everything about a subject, you don't discover how much you don't know.

The problem with professional degrees is there's a tendency to inflate their actual expertise, MBAs think they understand economics and business when all they have are a smattering of learning in a bunch of different subjects, lawyers think because they were taught "how to think" they can become instant experts on anything. This is fed by the schools that teach their students that they're "special," when what they really need is a good kick in the butt. But the real world will deliver that hopefully before they can cause real damage.

The problem with book smarts is a lack of humility, the more you realize how ignorant you are, the harder you'll work to educate yourself.

Common sense is not "common."

5 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

They wouldn’t read Twain at all if they ever read Letters from the Earth. 

or the ending to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Electrocuted bodies rotting on the wires as the hero and his minions choke to death on the stench. Not exactly the Bing Crosby version.

25 minutes ago, RLC said:

 

No surprise. 

26 minutes ago, RLC said:

 

Happy to hear this.

17 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

I would not be against this at all.

I  say you let them interview for jobs at the completion of the season . 

Just now, Sturm said:

I would not be against this at all.

I think consistency on the issue would benefit everyone involved.  It may be perceived as a loss for coaching candidates, but it probably helps them too.

Merrill = incorrect.

The Factory will be adding a QB at 6th overall or in trade up.  Question is, which one?

https://www.bleedinggreennation.com/2021/3/3/22310888/eagles-news-merrill-reese-thinks-chances-philadelphia-drafting-quarterback-nfl-draft-2021-close-zero

@MySportsUpdate

 

#Raiders are releasing veteran G Gabe Jackson, clearing $9.6M in salary cap space, per

@JosinaAnderson

. He was pretty good last season and started all 16 games. Should have a market

39 minutes ago, RLC said:

 

And so it begins

31 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

Chris Simms thought he was a starting QB in the League too. 

Can make fun of him the player but someone posted his rankings of QBs the last 3 years and he’s been spot on 

10 minutes ago, John_C said:

Merrill = incorrect.

The Factory will be adding a QB at 6th overall or in trade up.  Question is, which one?

https://www.bleedinggreennation.com/2021/3/3/22310888/eagles-news-merrill-reese-thinks-chances-philadelphia-drafting-quarterback-nfl-draft-2021-close-zero

Who's view do I value more Merrill Reese a well known Eagles insider with over 43 years or John_C on the eagles message board? That's a tough one. 

Ill go with Ray Didinger since we seam to always be on the same page. Sorry John, no QB for you in round 1. Check back in 2022. 

Just now, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Can make fun of him the player but someone posted his rankings of QBs the last 3 years and he’s been spot on 

I remember him calling out Justin Jefferson as the best WR in the draft very early last year and stuck with it till draft day. 

8 minutes ago, downundermike said:

And so it begins

Lets Bobby Bonilla this and slap on Dummy Years until 2035!!