8 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

That’s depends if Watson has a get out of jail free card lol. 

Obviously assuming all that stuff is settled. Can't see him being dealt until that happens to any team.

2 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

I do. I think getting Watson would be a franchise altering move and could turn out to be one of the best trades in the history of Philly sports. An elite QB, a gamer, a winner, threw for 5,000 yards and like 70% completions without Hopkins last year. The guy is just a stud and only under crazy circumstances would a guy like that be available and he would be in a year where the Eagles lead the NFL in draft capital.

Can't think of a more no-brainer deal than getting a guy like that in his mid 20's. Overnight the Eagles would be back to the top as NFC East favorites. It's the ultimate get out of jail free card during a time where their future prospects look grim.

 

Also only won 4 games last year.   Going all in on him isn't going to move needle much on a bad team requiring a rebuild especially on defense.  

12 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Also only won 4 games last year.   Going all in on him isn't going to move needle much on a bad team requiring a rebuild especially on defense.  

Their defense gave up 29 PPG.  

4 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

Thanks to all the BBQ posts in here I decided to upgrade my game. Threw out my old p.o.s. and got a dual 2in1 grill and also bought a side fire box to turn the charcoal side into an offset smoker. Going to spend the weekend putting this thing together. Thanks to the blog I now have a smoker along with a sous vide. 

Congratulations.  Enjoy the smoker.   

3 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

I do. I think getting Watson would be a franchise altering move and could turn out to be one of the best trades in the history of Philly sports. An elite QB, a gamer, a winner, threw for 5,000 yards and like 70% completions without Hopkins last year. The guy is just a stud and only under crazy circumstances would a guy like that be available and he would be in a year where the Eagles lead the NFL in draft capital.

Can't think of a more no-brainer deal than getting a guy like that in his mid 20's. Overnight the Eagles would be back to the top as NFC East favorites. It's the ultimate get out of jail free card during a time where their future prospects look grim.

But Watson has a weak arm.  His velocity was a 49.  

20 minutes ago, downundermike said:

Their defense gave up 29 PPG.  

 

Which is the direction our defense is heading once Graham and Cox hit the rapid downslope of their careers.  Are people not aware that we have no young cornerstone players whatsoever on this defense?  It needs a massive overhaul and influx of young good talent.  People should be rooting for Hurts to turn out well because those 3 1st round picks spent on the defense will do this team a lot more good then using them on a QB that will find himself in a similarly miserable situation here if he even waives his no trade clause to come here.    

8 hours ago, Freshmilk said:

That's fine but this one is over a year old.  Find a new bone to chew.

Why?  Has Howie done anything super positive since then?  Nah.  Howie still sucks.

3 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Why?  Has Howie done anything super positive since then?  Nah.  Howie still sucks.

This off season has been pretty good

7 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

This off season has been pretty good

No, it really hasn’t

7 hours ago, BigEFly said:

Everything stat he stated was accurate.  The thing I base it on is ball velocity which is pretty much around a lot of NFL starters. He’s no Josh Allen but few are.

Now it has been four decades since I took Logic but as I recall, it is pretty easy to conclude a falsehood from truths but just as easy to prove a truth from false premises so I don’t think I broke any laws of logic. 

No, he did.   Here's the prime example...

If you’re still hung up on the 52 percent completion percentage — and I wrote in detail about this last month — consider this: According to NFL advanced stats, 12 of his 71 incompletions were throwaways, one was a spike and four were drops. Remove the throwaways and the spike and turn the drops into catches and he’s right at 60 percent.

Are we supposed to be impressed by that?  Is Hurts the only QB with throwaways?  With spikes?  With drops?   I would suggest not.  So, if we remove those throws from all the NFL QBs, how high would their stats rise?  Would that move the league average from 66% up to 75+%, leaving Hurts still woefully below average?   That was a false equivalency.  He presented the new inflated stats for Hurts as if it is only Hurts that had negative plays to deal with.  Nonsense.   And even so, 60% still puts him at 33rd in the NFL amongst QBs (still not good enough by any stretch).  But, if we remove bad plays from the other QBs... does he even rank 40th, or is it worse than that?   So, yes, Rueb broke the laws of logic with his defense of Hurts, and you did as well when you appealed to that article as proof of something.  Hurts has a lot to prove this year if he's going to be the center piece of the rebuild moving forward.  Right now its his job to win or lose.  The ball will be in his hands, we'll see what he does with it.

45 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

This off season has been pretty good

Really?  Did he do anything that wasn't blatantly obvious?   Did he kick the can down the road, because he had no choice but to do that?   Did he basically sit out of free agency with any big names, not due to some epiphany of errors in past judgement or because he had no room to do anything else?   Did he still pack empty years on the ends of contracts to players that he signed this year?   

Wentz trade?  That wasn't a coup by Howie.  That was Howie trying to make the best of the bad situation that he created.
Trade back from 6?  No brainer move given that this team needs every lick of talent it can possibly find.
Trade back up for Smith?  I'd have preferred trading up for 10 for Smith and then moving back with the Bears, undoubtedly, the Bears would have made the deal that they made with the Giants to ensure that they got their QB.

He then drafted a guy for the OL that looks great when he's on the field.  But, he missed as much time in college as he spent on the field.  That's a major concern, and its an elevated concern doing it at #37, and smacks of the same hubris of when they made that same type of pick for Sydney Jones in Round 2 just a few years ago.  That move didn't work out and it was the same exact scenario... grabbing a guy that was supposed to be a top 15 talent in Round 2, who only fell because of the injury concern.  And the injury concerns with Dickerson are greater than with Jones.  Jones only had one injury.  Dickerson has had 2 ankle injuries and 2 knee injuries already.  Its hard to feel super positive that he won't be an injury concern week in and week out moving forward.

 

So, what exactly did Howie do this offseason that ranks as 'pretty good'?

They needed to do more of a tear down instead this offseason leaned more into a double down on some of the older talent on the team.  Should have had a firesale of some of the older guys on defense and offensive line that could have brought back some day 2 or 3 picks.  

 

Just wanted to pop in and see how ya'll are doing?

Hope your summer is going well and you and your families are safe, happy and healthy.

2 hours ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Also only won 4 games last year.   Going all in on him isn't going to move needle much on a bad team requiring a rebuild especially on defense.  

You get the QB first and worry about the rest later. Some organizations go many years without finding that guy. If you have an opportunity to get one and have the draft capital to do so without dipping into future years, which they do because likely will have 3 of em next draft, then you have to do it. There's no guarantee you'll just find one within the next few years. At least not an elite one. You may be able to land yourself someone of a Kirk Cousins' caliber, who will win you some games, but Watsons don't grow on trees. He's an MVP caliber QB and still young.

If you have the best QB in your division, you immediately have a leg up on the rest, because you can find the rest of the parts much easier once that QB is in place and won't have to keep dumping resources into QB over and over again hoping the next addition is your franchise guy. You get Watson and that position is taken care of for 5-10 years.

1 hour ago, Iggles_Phan said:

No, he did.   Here's the prime example...

If you’re still hung up on the 52 percent completion percentage — and I wrote in detail about this last month — consider this: According to NFL advanced stats, 12 of his 71 incompletions were throwaways, one was a spike and four were drops. Remove the throwaways and the spike and turn the drops into catches and he’s right at 60 percent.

Are we supposed to be impressed by that?  Is Hurts the only QB with throwaways?  With spikes?  With drops?   I would suggest not.  So, if we remove those throws from all the NFL QBs, how high would their stats rise?  Would that move the league average from 66% up to 75+%, leaving Hurts still woefully below average?   That was a false equivalency.  He presented the new inflated stats for Hurts as if it is only Hurts that had negative plays to deal with.  Nonsense.   And even so, 60% still puts him at 33rd in the NFL amongst QBs (still not good enough by any stretch).  But, if we remove bad plays from the other QBs... does he even rank 40th, or is it worse than that?   So, yes, Rueb broke the laws of logic with his defense of Hurts, and you did as well when you appealed to that article as proof of something.  Hurts has a lot to prove this year if he's going to be the center piece of the rebuild moving forward.  Right now its his job to win or lose.  The ball will be in his hands, we'll see what he does with it.

I said the stats were accurate, not the conclusions.  11 throwaways, x number of drops were accurate stats. Conclusion on 60% completiorate was not, but that is not a stat.   My conclusion is that the statements that hurts doesn’t have an NFL arm is flawed and that some of the stats he cites point to that being a fallacy.  

4 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

You get the QB first and worry about the rest later. Some organizations go many years without finding that guy. If you have an opportunity to get one and have the draft capital to do so without dipping into future years, which they do because likely will have 3 of em next draft, then you have to do it. There's no guarantee you'll just find one within the next few years. At least not an elite one. You may be able to land yourself someone of a Kirk Cousins' caliber, who will win you some games, but Watsons don't grow on trees. He's an MVP caliber QB and still young.

If you have the best QB in your division, you immediately have a leg up on the rest, because you can find the rest of the parts much easier once that QB is in place and won't have to keep dumping resources into QB over and over again hoping the next addition is your franchise guy. You get Watson and that position is taken care of for 5-10 years.

 

He's a sexual deviant who is pulling a stunt to force a trade after just signing a new deal.  Red flags galore.  To go with tearing the ACL in both of his knees.  

8 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

He's a sexual deviant who is pulling a stunt to force a trade after just signing a new deal.  Red flags galore.  To go with tearing the ACL in both of his knees.  

Don't think either of those are going to be a huge deal assuming the legal issues are settled. The Texans organization is a total joke, I don't agree with what he did, but let's not act like professional athletes don't do stuff like that all the time when organizations handle their business horribly.. Entitled players today are a dime a dozen. And he's recovered fine from the ACL injuries.

Worth the gamble on a QB that caliber.

6 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

I said the stats were accurate, not the conclusions.  11 throwaways, x number of drops were accurate stats. Conclusion on 60% completiorate was not, but that is not a stat.   My conclusion is that the statements that hurts doesn’t have an NFL arm is flawed and that some of the stats he cites point to that being a fallacy.  

And I said that his argument was logically flawed, as he used the accurate stats in a fallacious manner.  Nothing he cited pointed to anything other than data mining and picking and choosing stats very carefully to build his fallacious argument.  If he needed to data mine to mention the rookie years of Peyton Manning (over 20 year ago), Steve Young (over 35 years ago), Troy Aikman (over 30 years ago) and Johnny Unitas (over 60 years ago) then he had no real argument to build, because the game has changed many times over since these guys broke into the league.  His article did a great job filling the empty void of the offseason calendar, but not a thing he said mattered one bit or could be considered a cogent argument to defend Hurts' 'arm'.

I had Chipotle for the first time ever today. 

I heard about 5 dollar kids meals and I saw a commercial for a new chicken quesadilla.

So I figured me and my 5yo would give it a shot. 

Well,  quesadilla was not on their menu.  Apparently that's an online exclusive and you can't order it in the store. 

Confusing ordering procedure.  They asked what 3 sides I wanted with his kids meal.  No sides listed anywhere on the menu.  I asked what the options are and the girl points to all the regular ingredients like the meats, the rice, the cheese... wtf???

I got chicken tacos.  Chicken a little spicy,  otherwise lacking flavor.  Nothing really has enough flavor,  nor good flavor.  Bland.

It somehow cost me and a 5yo $22.85 to eat.  He didn't like his either and didn't eat any of it. 

Safe to say I will never go back.  Felt so ripped off with the price.  Especially after I tasted the food. 

One of the worst meals and meal experiences I have ever had. 

Taco bell is where is at. 

24 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

I had Chipotle for the first time ever today. 

I heard about 5 dollar kids meals and I saw a commercial for a new chicken quesadilla.

So I figured me and my 5yo would give it a shot. 

Well,  quesadilla was not on their menu.  Apparently that's an online exclusive and you can't order it in the store. 

Confusing ordering procedure.  They asked what 3 sides I wanted with his kids meal.  No sides listed anywhere on the menu.  I asked what the options are and the girl points to all the regular ingredients like the meats, the rice, the cheese... wtf???

I got chicken tacos.  Chicken a little spicy,  otherwise lacking flavor.  Nothing really has enough flavor,  nor good flavor.  Bland.

It somehow cost me and a 5yo $22.85 to eat.  He didn't like his either and didn't eat any of it. 

Safe to say I will never go back.  Felt so ripped off with the price.  Especially after I tasted the food. 

One of the worst meals and meal experiences I have ever had. 

Taco bell is where is at. 

That's got to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.  You cant order something on their menu unless it's done so online?

I've never ate there and never had any desire to do so.  I've heard mixed opinions from people.  

Qdoba, fellas. Steak burritos with the queso. 

4 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

I had Chipotle for the first time ever today. 

I heard about 5 dollar kids meals and I saw a commercial for a new chicken quesadilla.

So I figured me and my 5yo would give it a shot. 

Well,  quesadilla was not on their menu.  Apparently that's an online exclusive and you can't order it in the store. 

Confusing ordering procedure.  They asked what 3 sides I wanted with his kids meal.  No sides listed anywhere on the menu.  I asked what the options are and the girl points to all the regular ingredients like the meats, the rice, the cheese... wtf???

I got chicken tacos.  Chicken a little spicy,  otherwise lacking flavor.  Nothing really has enough flavor,  nor good flavor.  Bland.

It somehow cost me and a 5yo $22.85 to eat.  He didn't like his either and didn't eat any of it. 

Safe to say I will never go back.  Felt so ripped off with the price.  Especially after I tasted the food. 

One of the worst meals and meal experiences I have ever had. 

Taco bell is where is at. 

Online exclusive? For a quesadilla that takes 3-5 minutes to make?? That is the most backwards thing I’ve heard lol. Especially at a Tex mex oriented fast food place you’d think quesadillas would be a massively popular item with it being a kids main go to. I do like Chipotle mainly for their burrito bowl things, but haven’t been in years. 

If I want tacos I go to a taco truck or a Mexican market/cafe. Taco Bell is only for when I’m stoned and/or drunk. But I’ve heard they took off their Doritos locos tacos, my favorite thing on the menu

 

6 hours ago, downundermike said:

No, it really hasn’t

Draft wise I thought it was good. Dickerson pick still worries me but outside of that I thought first round for Philly went great. Eagles positioned nicely for 2022 as long as Howie doesn’t Howie it. 

7 hours ago, WentzFan11 said:

This off season has been pretty good

 

7 hours ago, downundermike said:

No, it really hasn’t

They nailed the first round of the draft. Getting DeVonta AND a future 1st was a total home-run. 

I view it as would you rather have Miami’s/Eagles/Giants first round when looking at Eagles first round. 
So would you rather have Waddle, DeVonta + MIA 2022 1st, or Toney + CHI 2022 1st. 
I think in terms of players, DeVonta & Waddle are real close but both better than Toney. DeVonta edges out with future first. 

Chicago first looks better than that Miami 1st definitely. Chicago is likely a top 15 lock while Miami is a fringe playoff team. Miami’s success hinges on Tua though, and I’m not really sold on Tua yet. Rookie season so he gets a pass, but was underwhelming I thought. Fitzmagic bailed Miami out in a few games. I think Miami was an overachiever. AFC also looks to be uber competitive this year also. Buffalo is easy pick to win AFC East, Pats should be more competitive this year. 
 

On opposite end Chicago has a good roster, but young unproven QB. Pretty similar to Miami actually. But if rumors are true & Rodgers leaves GB, Chicago has a shot to sneak into that #2 spot in division & might even give Minnesota run for their money for division crown. I think Chicago could maybe even get that 7th wildcart spot. I like Miami team more than Chicago, but difference in competition between two conferences I think Chicago has better odds to sneak into playoffs.