9 hours ago, eagle45 said:

It's a lack of options.

Reminds me of the Brian Mitchell signing.  I think he wanted to stay in the NFC East to stick it to the Redskins.  

 

13 minutes ago, EricAllenPick6 said:

Reminds me of the Brian Mitchell signing.  I think he wanted to stay in the NFC East to stick it to the Redskins.  

 

But those Eagles teams were on the cusp of something great.  During his 3 years here the Eagles won the NFCE every year and were 1 win away from the Super Bowl twice.  Think about the team during that 2000-2003 time frame.

-Donovan McNabb in his prime

Offense-Tra Thomas, John Welbourn, Bubba Miller, Jermane Mayberry, Jon Runyan , Chad Lewis, Correll Buckhalter, Duce Staley...WR was lacking

Defense -Corey Simon, Hugh Douglas, Carlos Emmons, Brian Dawkins, Troy Vincent, Bobby Taylor, Al Harris.  Even guys like Paul Grasmanis, who averaged 3 sacks/year during this stretch as DT4.

ST- Brian Mitchell, Ike Reese, Mike Caldwell, Tim Hauck, Je'Rod Cherry, Dameane Douglas, Mike Bartrum, Rashard Cook...I mean these are core ST players who knew their roles and excelled at them.

SEVEN future head coaches- John Harbaugh, Lezlie Frazier, Brad Childress. Sean McDermott, Steve Spagnuolo, Ron Rivera, Pat Shurmur

HC- AR

DC- JJ

Brian Mitchell signed here when that team was ready to peak.  This Eagles team is fighting for a top 5 draft pick with more questions than answers across the board.  The only player I'm taking from this team over the 2000s Eagles is Jason Kelce.  It's a crime that team didn't win multiple Super Bowls.

13 hours ago, eagle45 said:

Howie should have traded Ertz for the best 2022 pick anyone would offer on draft weekend...or used him as a sweetener in one of his several maneuvers.
 

Once that didn’t happen, the chances of a meaningful trade went down the toilet.

Compensation from teams was agreed for Ertz around the draft time; the complication is what Ertz believes he should be paid and what teams want to pay him, guaranteed money, and the length of the deal.  His reported preference is to not play on a 1 year deal as he would here or elsewhere and some teams clearly see him differently than he sees himself.

16 hours ago, Original Sin said:

They should give discounts to those not out of shape/overweight 

 

Airlines may start WEIGHING people at the gate amid fears aircraft are being overloaded by fat passengers

So basically charge more for overweight people. That’s discrimination.  Don’t you find it a bit questionable that just now, at this point in passenger flight history, that this is occurring?  They have shrunk the seats so small to cram in more passengers so this is how they react.  I guess Brandon Brooks, Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata qualify as out of shape/overweight or are you proposing that over 250 pounds if it is muscle weight doesn’t get charged more but a fat old man like me does? Airlines fly by the grace, invitation and taxpayer funded infrastructure.  They try this and Congress passes a law on how big seats must be and maximum capacity.  Didn’t we just bail out the industry last year with the Covid relied bills.  Whatever jackass executive proposed that should be pilloried. Next they will claim they are doing it to decrease their carbon footprint.  As it is, America needs to wake up and embrace rail and high speed rail.  Musk and Branson are onto the next big opportunity with their tunneling businesses. 

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

But those Eagles teams were on the cusp of something great.  During his 3 years here the Eagles won the NFCE every year and were 1 win away from the Super Bowl twice.  Think about the team during that 2000-2003 time frame.

-Donovan McNabb in his prime

Offense-Tra Thomas, John Welbourn, Bubba Miller, Jermane Mayberry, Jon Runyan , Chad Lewis, Correll Buckhalter, Duce Staley...WR was lacking

Defense -Corey Simon, Hugh Douglas, Carlos Emmons, Brian Dawkins, Troy Vincent, Bobby Taylor, Al Harris.  Even guys like Paul Grasmanis, who averaged 3 sacks/year during this stretch as DT4.

ST- Brian Mitchell, Ike Reese, Mike Caldwell, Tim Hauck, Je'Rod Cherry, Dameane Douglas, Mike Bartrum, Rashard Cook...I mean these are core ST players who knew their roles and excelled at them.

SEVEN future head coaches- John Harbaugh, Lezlie Frazier, Brad Childress. Sean McDermott, Steve Spagnuolo, Ron Rivera, Pat Shurmur

HC- AR

DC- JJ

Brian Mitchell signed here when that team was ready to peak.  This Eagles team is fighting for a top 5 draft pick with more questions than answers across the board.  The only player I'm taking from this team over the 2000s Eagles is Jason Kelce.  It's a crime that team didn't win multiple Super Bowls.

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16 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

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Eh, I'm not blaming Donovan for the lack of Championships. There were so many factors that led to them not putting it all together.

-Donovan's accuracy

-AR's play calling/time management

-JJ's defense showing up small in big games

-No WR'S

-Cheating Patriots

1 minute ago, bpac55 said:

Eh, I'm not blaming Donovan for the lack of Championships. There were so many factors that led to them not putting it all together.

-Donovan's accuracy

-AR's play calling/time management

-JJ's defense showing up small in big games

-No WR'S

-Cheating Patriots

NFCCG #1: 171 yds passing, 1 TD, 1 INT

NFCCG #2: 243 yds passing, 0 TD, 1 INT

NFCCG #3: 100 yds passing, 0 TD, 3 INT

NFCCG #4: 180 yds passing, 2 TD, 0 INT (W)

SB: 357 yds passing, 3 TD, 3 INT (not including a called back INT that he then threw to the same DB 1 play later).

 

Mcnabb was the primary reason they came up short in the playoffs all those years.

 

9 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

NFCCG #1: 171 yds passing, 1 TD, 1 INT

NFCCG #2: 243 yds passing, 0 TD, 1 INT

NFCCG #3: 100 yds passing, 0 TD, 3 INT

NFCCG #4: 180 yds passing, 2 TD, 0 INT (W)

SB: 357 yds passing, 3 TD, 3 INT (not including a called back INT that he then threw to the same DB 1 play later).

 

Mcnabb was the primary reason they came up short in the playoffs all those years.

 

McNabb's career passer rating is 85.6.  Eli Manning's is 84.1.

The one that showed up in the post season is going to Canton.

12 hours ago, devpool said:

5 years ago the Kerrigan signing would have been exciting.  Idk why he would want to come here, he didn't sign for a lot of money and this team isn't winning anything. Interesting signing on his part.

Given the stage of the offseason, it would seem that he didn't have a ton of options.

Think of what a lousy teammate Mcnabb must have been behind the scenes to make half the locker room side with a lunatic like TO...

Shawn Andrews came out about it a few years ago.

16 hours ago, NCiggles said:

Flacco is a back up.  I'm not sure why anyone would think he's here to start.  

Hurts was drafted as a backup too.   

15 hours ago, ManuManu said:

Solak has been off his game for a bit with the coaching change. He acts like he knows exactly who and what the Eagles want with a completely new coaching staff. It’s absurd. 

Sounds about the same from him from before.

No doubt, Donovan came up small when it mattered but so did the majority of that team.  They crumbled when it was important.

16 hours ago, blindside said:

I don’t see how they can justify that. They spent the second on Hurts. They have to see what they have in him. It’s not like they’re ready to compete this season as a team. They essentially have to give Hurts a full season, or they look even more like fools. Joe Flacco isn’t the future, for sure. Hurts probably isn’t either but they need to give him every opportunity to find out. To me, it doesn’t matter how bad he looks. Flacco winning us an extra game only hurts us, long term. 

I see what you did there.

15 hours ago, eagle45 said:

Under the assumption that neither Hurts nor Flacco will be any good, the best we can hope from the QB position is for someone to Foles/Eli/Winston it and just put the ball out there for WRs to make some plays.  
 

We aren’t going anywhere anyway, so I don’t see the harm in turnovers.  Air it out, open it up, and let the WRs spread their wings.

What I don’t want is that conservatively curated caretaker offense with a running qb and underneath passing...which, unfortunately, is exactly what Hurts best projects into.

Smith, if nothing else, will make our CBs actually work in practice. Look at the difference in skill/effort level.

11 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Hurts was drafted as a backup too.   

At age 36? 

20 minutes ago, RLC said:

Smith, if nothing else, will make our CBs actually work in practice. Look at the difference in skill/effort level.

You must have much better video expertise than me if you can tell anything from a 7 second clip of that drill. 

12 hours ago, eagle45 said:

It's a lack of options.

I'm sure he would be on others' radar given his age and position.  I'm sure part of it was wanting to stay close to where he lived. 

20 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

At age 36? 

Nope.  All I'm saying is... things change.   

17 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

ST's coordinator is the only one I have no idea who it is. 

Michael Clay per google

11 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Nope.  All I'm saying is... things change.   

If Flacco ends up starting it's because of an injury to Hurts or that Hurts is so terrible there's no choice.  I think he would have to be full on Nathan Peterman for that to occur.  

53 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

F him too.  He was a quitter and a fruitcake.  He was another one who "bullied".  

 

Pss

Why would you play football when you can rap like Biggie?

Encouraging!

• Hurts ranked 40th out of 42 quarterbacks graded by PFF.
• Hurts ranked 31st out of 37 quarterbacks in Football Outsiders’ DVOA metric.
• Among qualified quarterbacks, Drew Lock led the NFL in bad throws (22.9%) and ranked last in on target throws (68.9%) last year. Hurts was significantly worse in those categories (26.7% and 60.7%).
• Hurts completed just 52% of his attempts. For perspective on how low that number is, Drew Lock ranked last out of 35 qualified quarterbacks with a 57.3% completion percentage.
• Hurts completed just 48.8% of his attempts on non-play action plays. (Interestingly, he had the NFL’s biggest completion percentage difference between play action and not with a 66.7% completion on the former.)
• Hurts’ 7.2 yards per attempt was only tied for the 20th best mark.
• Hurts’ 77.6 passer rating ranked only above Lock, Dwayne Haskins, Carson Wentz, and Sam Darnold.
• Only six players fumbled more than Hurts last year despite the fact he played just 334 snaps (29.6%).
• Hurts took the longest average time to throw at 3.39 seconds. Lamar Jackson was the second-longest at 3.17 seconds. With Hurts failing to get the ball out quick, PFF charted him for the second-highest percentage of pressures generated by defense charged to quarterbacks. This is to say he invited too much pressure