1 hour ago, FTheCowboys said:

I cringe about the long-term impacts on the NFL if fans can't attend games in 2020 and/or if games get cancelled. Schefter said there's a possibility the cap could drop $30-$80 million next season.

The Eagles, who are already projected to be over by $50 million next season would get absolutely slammed if the cap drops next season.

I know it's down the road, so it's out of sight out of mind, but it's something to keep in the back of your mind. There is a possibility that the cap situation in sports is drastically changed for the foreseeable future due to the virus and teams may have to release really good players just to meet the new cap limitations. I'm sure the NFL would add amnesty clauses and such so you wouldn't have "cap hits" but depending on how things go, the Eagles could potentially start having to release players next season that they wouldn't want to. As well as other teams.

Truly interesting and scary times ahead for sports the next couple years.

The most likely option is that every player's contract gets prorated. So if the cap goes down by 10%, each player's contract decreases by 10%. 
Otherwise, every UDFA at the end of the year gets completely screwed.

2 hours ago, FTheCowboys said:

I cringe about the long-term impacts on the NFL if fans can't attend games in 2020 and/or if games get cancelled. Schefter said there's a possibility the cap could drop $30-$80 million next season.

The Eagles, who are already projected to be over by $50 million next season would get absolutely slammed if the cap drops next season.

I know it's down the road, so it's out of sight out of mind, but it's something to keep in the back of your mind. There is a possibility that the cap situation in sports is drastically changed for the foreseeable future due to the virus and teams may have to release really good players just to meet the new cap limitations. I'm sure the NFL would add amnesty clauses and such so you wouldn't have "cap hits" but depending on how things go, the Eagles could potentially start having to release players next season that they wouldn't want to. As well as other teams.

Truly interesting and scary times ahead for sports the next couple years.

Schefter is usually really great at his job but during this whole pandemic he’s been way over the top in overdramatizing things. This isn’t the first time during this he’s been doom and gloom worse case scenario. That may very well happen but he was so over the top on trying to get free agency and the draft not to happen by creating stories to try to suppress it and everything went smoothly and against what he was reporting. 

6 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Schefter is usually really great at his job but during this whole pandemic he’s been way over the top in overdramatizing things. This isn’t the first time during this he’s been doom and gloom worse case scenario. That may very well happen but he was so over the top on trying to get free agency and the draft not to happen by creating stories to try to suppress it and everything went smoothly and against what he was reporting. 

I think he was passing along what NFL sources told him. I don’t think he’s making it up. 

2 hours ago, greend said:

With video I would guess

Have to imagine that off season weight training isn’t easy with no weight room available. 

2 hours ago, blindside said:

So I moved out to the sticks in Montana and have no service where I currently live. Thanks for keeping up the good work, boys. Still fun to come through and skim when I come into town. My emotional arse will be back in a couple months when I move to Livingston. 

Fly fishing?

1 hour ago, RLC said:

The most likely option is that every player's contract gets prorated. So if the cap goes down by 10%, each player's contract decreases by 10%. 
Otherwise, every UDFA at the end of the year gets completely screwed.

Is there a provision in the CBA to do that?

5 minutes ago, TEW said:

Is there a provision in the CBA to do that?

To the best my of knowledge, no. 

Whatever will happen next year will be negotiated between both parties once they know the extent of the damage. About 1/4 of the league becomes free agents every March. So if every team is over the cap, then 1/4 of the union will freak out. Neither the teams, nor the players, will want that.

15 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Have to imagine that off season weight training isn’t easy with no weight room available. 

Hershel Walker never used weights... just situps pushups and chin ups... if he can do it... 

 

 

 

 

I don't have to.    

45 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I think he was passing along what NFL sources told him. I don’t think he’s making it up. 

I think he’s choosing to take what some of the sources are telling him and running with it cause it As it fits what he wants to happen or his philosophical beliefs. I’m guessing he also has some sources telling him opposite but he hasn’t put that out there nearly as much.  

Hi all. would appreciate it if some of you check in on my website. https://gobirdsnews.wordpress.com once in a while. i'll be the first to say im no professional journalist but I write about our birds and other Eagles news. whatever I post I'll copy and paste into Tate. Glad some of you made the move over the the "new eagles message board"

2 hours ago, blindside said:

So I moved out to the sticks in Montana and have no service where I currently live. Thanks for keeping up the good work, boys. Still fun to come through and skim when I come into town. My emotional arse will be back in a couple months when I move to Livingston. 

Why on Earth would you move there?

1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Schefter is usually really great at his job but during this whole pandemic he’s been way over the top in overdramatizing things. This isn’t the first time during this he’s been doom and gloom worse case scenario. That may very well happen but he was so over the top on trying to get free agency and the draft not to happen by creating stories to try to suppress it and everything went smoothly and against what he was reporting. 

Players would just have to agree to a cut in salary for the season as most others leagues have agreed to. 

 

8 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Banner's issues were never about his ability to bring a cold, logical explanation to a situation.  It was that he only could bring a cold, logical explanation to a situation.   If there's something that he can explain from an actuarial table, then he's going to be great.  If he is asked to discuss when a player over 30 should be brought back or not, his answer will be based on the actuarial table.  Dawkins shouldn't have been let go so unceremoniously.  But, Banner in his cold accountant way, set a price and a length and wouldn't come off of that.  Dawkins should have had a little more give and take, back and forth.   It wasn't the wrong move to not sign Dawkins for 3 years.  It was the wrong move to let him leave after 2008, especially given the massive amount of change that came to the defensive side of the ball with the death of Jim Johnson.  Having Dawkins around would have helped the transition to Sean McDermott, which might have saved us all the agony of Jim Washburn and Juan Castillo moving to DC.

I blame Lurie and AR for putting Banner in that position.  Banner is/was intelligent, calculating, and an organizational asset.  He should not be in front of a microphone or dealing with players.  

I really don't think letting Dawkins go is very high on their list of screw-ups though.  You said it wasn't the wrong move not to sign him for 3 years.  Demps didn't pan out (although he did start at a pretty high level with the Giants for a while), but I do believe he was a very, very good prospect at the time.  I think it was time to move on.

AR failed to control Washburn and lost his mind with Juan.  McDermott tried so hard to fill JJ's shows by being as complex and exotic as possible with his matchups to the point of insanity.  I feel that those are chain of isolated bad mistakes, mostly from AR unwinding at the end of his time here, than they were downhill dominoes from letting Dawk go.

 

8 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I blame Lurie and AR for putting Banner in that position.  Banner is/was intelligent, calculating, and an organizational asset.  He should not be in front of a microphone or dealing with players.  

I really don't think letting Dawkins go is very high on their list of screw-ups though.  You said it wasn't the wrong move not to sign him for 3 years.  Demps didn't pan out (although he did start at a pretty high level with the Giants for a while), but I do believe he was a very, very good prospect at the time.  I think it was time to move on.

AR failed to control Washburn and lost his mind with Juan.  McDermott tried so hard to fill JJ's shows by being as complex and exotic as possible with his matchups to the point of insanity.  I feel that those are chain of isolated bad mistakes, mostly from AR unwinding at the end of his time here, than they were downhill dominoes from letting Dawk go.

Juan was a desperation move, because he wanted Washburn as DC, but Washburn didn't want that just DL coach, and to dictate his line play to the DC.

McDermott needed time to grow into the job, Dawk would have given him that.  You keep Dawk for that year, the players don't revolt against McDermott, forcing you to fire McDermott, causing a search for a new DC, leading to Washburn, leading to Juan, leading to more dysfunction.  AR was going through hell himself at that time, iirc, with his own family in addition to losing a mentor in JJ.   I think Washburn was an atempt  to find a JJ relacement, but he had none of JJ's savvy.

 

Sign Dawkins for 2 years, and who knows... but those dominoes all lead to:

 

Water under the bridge now for me.    

 

But you are very right, Banner should have been a front guy for bad news.

7 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

fake news.  FA ends 12 hours into day 1 of the league year.  And no one who can help is ever available in FA after the draft...

signed May 17, 2017.

 

no one... 

15 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

Not shocking. maybe it was @EaglePhan1986 (now that I think of it) and I have been on the same page for a while about bringing in a veteran to be part of the committee at the right price. Freeman and Hyde are the two best. I frankly go freeman if the price is even. I think freeman can still be effective with a better oline. Atlanta was down 3 olineman last year. I’m guessing he isn’t ever going to be prime freeman but behind our oline he can still be effective for the limited touches he is gonna get. 

1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Schefter is usually really great at his job but during this whole pandemic he’s been way over the top in overdramatizing things. This isn’t the first time during this he’s been doom and gloom worse case scenario. That may very well happen but he was so over the top on trying to get free agency and the draft not to happen by creating stories to try to suppress it and everything went smoothly and against what he was reporting. 

I'm not surprised.  He is part of the media and show me one main stream media outlet that isn't screaming run for the woods and it will be the first.  Hop on PFT and read what Glazer posts.  You would think half of society is in a body bag.

Gotta get that north/south run game going! Key to the offense’s success. Hyde would be a good addition. 

Oklahoma St. Texas A&M is on the SEC Network.  Cubbah Hubbard is a heck of a running back.

When business drops, the prospect of losing one's job causes the union to accept a pay cut. I think the Eagles will be ok

18 minutes ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Gotta get that north/south run game going! Key to the offense’s success. Hyde would be a good addition. 

We are doing something wrong if a north south running game is the key to our success.

27 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

We are doing something wrong if a north south running game is the key to our success.

Look at the facts. I know you think having 3 4.2 guys is the key but look at how this offense has been successful in recent years. Even going back to 2016 with Ryan Mathews. 
 

Yes we needed more speed at WR. But since everyone’s LBs are 220-230 let’s run it behind our O-Line and open every thing up. You saw how valuable Howard was in the first half of last season. 

24 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

I wasn’t complaining.  You’re such a f-ing smug know-it-all.  Just because you post tweets in here all the time doesn’t make you Don.  You are no Don.  

I know that when Goedert was on the field for a pass play he ran a route on 84 percent of his snaps. 

It’s better to be a smug know-it-all than a know-nothing gas bag. 

39 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

I wasn’t complaining.  You’re such a f-ing smug know-it-all.  Just because you post tweets in here all the time doesn’t make you Don.  You are no Don.  

 

33 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

You’re such a passive aggressive wind-bag.  Get the F over yourself.  

 

19 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I know that when Goedert was on the field for a pass play he ran a route on 84 percent of his snaps. 

It’s better to be a smug know-it-all than a know-nothing gas bag. 

F that Tiger King ish.  Carry on, lads.