31 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Aqib Talib still out there

 

Prefer him doing commentary.  He needs to at the very least be moved up to Fox's #2 team. 

1 hour ago, devpool said:

Lmao yes a 10 year old skates exactly like an NHL player. Look how slow he's going and then watch an NHL player skate. 

She

2 hours ago, greend said:

Some of you guys evidently never played basketball. How is the 6'11" Simmons working out?

The counterpoint to that is that a 6’11” player with the skill set of a 10 year old went to an all star game and signed a max contract.

Just now, eagle45 said:

The counterpoint to that is that a 6’11” player with the skill set of a 10 year old went to an all star game and signed a max contract.

and sucks......................so skills are needed. I mean it's not like guys like nnamdi didn't sign huge contracts in football and suck

1 hour ago, dawkdaballhawk said:

Anyone pick up Richard Sherman yet? Maybe a one year stop gap?

He hates Philly and we hate him.  No thanks.

4 minutes ago, greend said:

and sucks......................so skills are needed. I mean it's not like guys like nnamdi didn't sign huge contracts in football and suck

Of course skills are needed.  At the highest of the high end, every millimeter of mechanical perfection can be what distinguishes competitors from each other.  That's true for the most seemingly raw athletic and non-skilled sports such as sprints and weightlifting.  

That's also why no sport is inherently harder than another.  In any sport, you are competing against someone else...and to win that competition is pretty much equally hard to stretch out as many standard deviations as possible on the winning side of that bell curve.

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Aqib Talib still out there

He's currently well on his way to being a hall of fame analyst.

When it comes to basketball, the only skills I think stand out are shooting which is big, and ball control which is, not that big. There's a little bit of defense mixed in but there are so many fouls and barely any contact.

With football you have to have multiple skills to make it as a QB. That's not even a debate. For the other positions, each has different skills needed. Read and reacting, hand placement, footwork, route running, different pass rushing move sets and counter attacks to nullify them. Even long snapping is a skill. All that with lots of contact and hitting. 

If there is one sport where someone with limited skills can make the biggest impact, I think it has to be basketball. 

Just now, 315Eagles said:

He's currently well on his way to being a hall of fame analyst.

It was a joke, but turned out to be pretty good  bait 

1 hour ago, dawkdaballhawk said:

 

I'd rather listen to a 1 hour podcast of my wife's takeaways on why I didn't put the dishes away or water the ferns last night. 

5 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

When it comes to basketball, the only skills I think stand out are shooting which is big, and ball control which is, not that big. There's a little bit of defense mixed in but there are so many fouls and barely any contact.

With football you have to have multiple skills to make it as a QB. That's not even a debate. For the other positions, each has different skills needed. Read and reacting, hand placement, footwork, route running, different pass rushing move sets and counter attacks to nullify them. Even long snapping is a skill. All that with lots of contact and hitting. 

If there is one sport where someone with limited skills can make the biggest impact, I think it has to be basketball. 

The innate part of football is the whole bigger/faster/stronger thing.  If you’ve got that, then it’s pretty likely someone can teach you enough to be competitive.

Basketball…the innate part is flying around vertically above the rim.  If you’ve got that, someone can teach you to be successful.

5 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

The innate part of football is the whole bigger/faster/stronger thing.  If you’ve got that, then it’s pretty likely someone can teach you enough to be competitive.

Basketball…the innate part is flying around vertically above the rim.  If you’ve got that, someone can teach you to be successful.

Not true.

"Everybody can’t be Shaq. He’s trying to make his money and enjoy the game of basketball, and his perception of him is that he’s a ‘dumb’ player because he makes mistakes on the court. Shaq was a sh---y free-throw shooter. He missed dunks. He air-balled free throws. He couldn’t shoot outside the paint. He was bigger than everybody. He didn’t have any skill. But he was bigger and stronger than everybody.” - Durant

Scottie Pippen has officially lost his mind....

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

So DeAngelo Hall then?

We do need a punt returner 

23 minutes ago, 315Eagles said:

Scottie Pippen has officially lost his mind....

What he say now?

4 minutes ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

What he say now?

 

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

Scottie has a book coming out soon and some new bourbon he's releasing.  That must be some damn good bourbon.

10 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Oh cool.  Let’s slam McNabb cause he was so bad for us.  Awesome.  

Looks more like he just isn't interested in McNabbs opinion and neither am I.

2 hours ago, hputenis said:

I'd rather listen to a 1 hour podcast of my wife's takeaways on why I didn't put the dishes away or water the ferns last night. 

Sounds like a good listen while doing cardio at the gym... or taking a post Chipotle deucer 

2 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Because the irrational McNabb hate in here.  Which never made sense to me.  Sure let’s discredit the opinion of one of the best players this franchise has ever had.  Because he threw up.  

I agree he gets too much hate but much of it is self-inflicted. He’s a whiny alcoholic who tries to come across as smarter than he really is. 
 

But he was a very good player for this team for a decade. 

3 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Because the irrational McNabb hate in here.  Which never made sense to me.  Sure let’s discredit the opinion of one of the best players this franchise has ever had.  Because he threw up.  

I have no irrational McNabb hate. But I feel like he has a bit of irrational Eagles hate. So stop

26 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Oh cool.  Let’s slam McNabb cause he was so bad for us.  Awesome.  

I don't hate McNabb the player.  Quite the opposite.  I hate McNabb the self-righteous, passive aggressive, alcoholic, sexual predator that plays the victim with Philadelphia every chance he gets, and his analysis blows.  But good call.  

 

19 minutes ago, hputenis said:

I don't hate McNabb the player.  Quite the opposite.  I hate McNabb the self-righteous, passive aggressive, alcoholic, sexual predator that plays the victim with Philadelphia every chance he gets, and his analysis blows.  But good call.  

 

My wife has never seen the movie, but I showed her the clip of Milton getting hosed out of a piece of cake and she got a really good laugh out of it.

2 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

My wife has never seen the movie, but I showed her the clip of Milton getting hosed out of a piece of cake and she got a really good laugh out of it.

That movie is fantastic from start to finish.  Some of the dryest humor I've ever seen, and I love every minute of it.