6 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

That’s not a bad mascot either. 

Agree

8 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

I agree with that. But I would expect him in the top 5 by the end of this year. (If there is a season and we can actually field some receivers)

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

That’s not a bad mascot either. 

Endangered species.  My family happened to be in the Alligator River sanctuary (NC) and saw a red wolf.  I worry that my children’s children may not have red wolves to see. 

 

24 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

That is inspiring. 

 

2 hours ago, greend said:

If D-Jax had to apologize I think Malik is gone. I'm 100% on board with keeping D.J. at this point Malik needs to be gone. Pretty clear to me anyways that he's a hater.

DeSean's post was made out of straight ignorance and he owned up to it and at least pretended to apologize (likely wasn't sincere based on him liking posts about how he shouldn't have to apologize). Malik is defending a known anti Semite and doubling down while attacking fans in instagram comments.

Malik can F off for all I care, desean at least tried to make it look like he cares. He probably doesn't, clearly most of the NFL doesn't. But don't go around doubling down on hate speech and attack fans on social media.

23 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

Tons of athletic ability but super raw, hopefully he can put it together!

6 hours ago, BigEFly said:

While I disagree mightily with some of his teachings, Farrakhan is an Imam and is it really appropriate for the Eagles or the League to comment specifically on praise towards a religious leader?

Holding a religious title does not exempt that person from criticism. There are countless religious leaders that engage in extreme hateful rhetoric with many of them being flat-out criminals. In today's woke culture, if that is the reason why there's no rebuke of Malik's comment, then it's even more pathetic. 

2 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

So it’s definitely "possible” that Aaron Nola is the opening day starter?   Uhhh.  It’s f-ing July. How is he not going to be ready?  

Covid in 2020, I stopped questioning the weird a while back.  Buckle up and survive the ride.

42 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

We've managed to turn udfa and scrub position converts into below-average to mediocre LBs in the past.  Hopefully they can develop someone with his crazy raw talent. 

He's not quite Mailata status but still he's still very new to football relatively. 

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

What did he say now or is this the one from last night?

nope doubling down on his stupid

 

His initial comment wasn’t anti-Semitic.  Had it ended there, it could have likely been a non-story. He was standing up for his teammate.  The timing was disastrous, similar to Brees’ horrendous timing.  
 

That said, his rant after the initial comment is full of hate.  And the fact that he tagged the Eagles also shows disdain for the organization.  The entire thing is nauseating. 

2 minutes ago, Giddyunc said:

Holding a religious title does not exempt that person from criticism. There are countless religious leaders that engage in extreme hateful rhetoric with many of them being flat-out criminals. In today's woke culture, if that is the reason why there's no rebuke of Malik's comment, then it's even more pathetic. 

I said specifically the organizations, not individuals.  I believe the objection was Malik’s reference to Farrakhan as "honorable”.  I merely suggested that might be in deference to his position as Imam.   Now should the organizations say something like, while we appreciate Desean’s teammates trying to support him, we stand by our previous statement about the original post.  I think as much is obvious. 

4 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

What a doooooosh 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-rajon-rondo-posts-photo-bashing-hotel-room-in-orlando-bubble/amp/

Is he sharing that room, or is it his alone?    That's a nice hotel room.  Clean and comfortable, just like Motel 6 promises.  Maybe he's mad that they didn't leave the light on for him.  

9 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

What a doooooosh 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-rajon-rondo-posts-photo-bashing-hotel-room-in-orlando-bubble/amp/

Some of the Disney hotels may be dated but they’re still pretty nice.  
 

I know they have an agreement with Disney but an easy way to alleviate it is if they allow some players and their families to stay at other properties.  You have the Gaylord Palms which, is attached to Disney property and it’s probably among one of the nicest resorts in the world.  5 star + level. 
 

2 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Is he sharing that room, or is it his alone?    That's a nice hotel room.  Clean and comfortable, just like Motel 6 promises.  Maybe he's mad that they didn't leave the light on for him.  

It’s not Motel 6.  He was comparing it to Motel 6.  There are no Motel 6’s on Disney property.  He was being sarcastic and he’s getting flamed for it on Twitter because the hotel he’s staying at is likely much nicer than Motel 6. 

1 minute ago, Ace Nova said:

Some of the Disney hotels may be dated but they’re still pretty nice.  
 

I know they have an agreement with Disney but an easy way to alleviate it is if they allow some players and their families to stay at other properties.  You have the Gaylord Palms which, is attached to Disney property and it’s probably among one of the nicest resorts in the world.  5 star + level. 
 

Sounds like whining to me.  

2 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

It’s not Motel 6.  He was comparing it to Motel 6.  There are no Motel 6’s on Disney property.  He was being sarcastic and he’s getting flamed for it on Twitter because the hotel he’s staying at is likely much nicer than Motel 6. 

I know.  It was a joke.  🤦‍♂️   I was being sarcastic to his sarcasm.

 

He should be getting flamed.  He sounds like a teenager that gets mad because his parents bought him the wrong car for his 16th birthday.

8 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

I said specifically the organizations, not individuals.  I believe the objection was Malik’s reference to Farrakhan as "honorable”.  I merely suggested that might be in deference to his position as Imam.   Now should the organizations say something like, while we appreciate Desean’s teammates trying to support him, we stand by our previous statement about the original post.  I think as much is obvious. 

There is nothing controversial about calling out Farrahkan. Nothing. Unless I'm misinterpreting what you're saying, Farrahkan's title should have no consideration when it comes to the Eagles condemning Malik. 

 

2 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

Hey look... football.  

2 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Hey look... football.  

What the hell is football?

3 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

What the hell is football?

1 hour ago, Asg 15 said:

I've never been able to figure out, Why the Jews?

What makes them the whipping boy for every perceived ill that anyone has suffered in the world from the time they were slaves in Egypt to present day.

Maybe one of our Jewish posters could educate me.

There’s an old joke about a NSDAP rally in Nuremberg where Hitler is screaming, "Who causes all of Germany’s problems?” An old man in the crowd shouts back, "The bicycle riders.” Hitler’s taken by surprise and asks, "Why the bicycle riders?” To which the old man replies, "Why the Jews?” 

This goes back to the origins of the Catholic Church, much like Muhammad, they took the Jewish rejection of Jesus (or Muhammad as Prophet) as an attack on the legitimacy of the new faith. The Church had an almost two millennium campaign against the Jews, depending on the Pope at the time. And many Protestants, like Luther, doubled down (but not John Calvin).

A second factor was that in Europe in the Middle Ages, usury was a sin, so only the Jews could lend money, and no one likes the debt collector. They were also used as tax collectors in many countries. Jews were associated with commerce, because like the Venetians and a few other groups, they were able to conduct long distance commerce through family connections in a time when you couldn't rely on VISA or bank clearing houses. So now the Jews were money lenders and merchants in the mind of the Christian. When the Christians realized how much money could be made from banking, lending with interest stopped being a sin. While Jews are associated with the great banking houses such as the Rothchilds and later Goldman and Lehman, somehow bankers like the Medicis, Fuggers, later the Morgans, et al, never had the same stigma. In a similar fashion, Jews are associated with tight business dealings, but not the Dutch and English, who had far more economic power (East India Company, etc.). This is where religious prejudice combines with a grain of fact.

The underlying prejudice supported by the Church led to crazy rumors that people believed, Jews using the blood of Christian children to make Matzos for Passover, Jews poisoning the wells during the Black Death, and so on. Isolating the Jews in Ghettos, walled off Jewish quarters, also encouraged prejudice of the "unknown." But these motifs had become part of Western culture, Shakespeare had probably never met a Jew when he wrote the "Merchant of Venice" because they had been expelled from England centuries before - but Shylock is a walking stereotype (though Shakespeare gives him the best lines).

E.M. Rose - The Murder of William of Norwich; The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe - Oxford 2015

When Napoleon freed the Jews from the Ghettos around Europe, the Jews, as an urban people (because in most places they couldn't own land, still trying to figure out how my grandfather ended up as a Kulak (gentleman farmer) in the northern Ukraine before he fled the Red Army) were well positioned for the industrial revolution, both in Europe and America. And their cultural emphasis on education gave them a head start in this new world, which probably explains why there are so many Jewish Nobel Prize winners, writers, etc. But this also made them the lightning rod for discontent with the changes wrote by the Industrial Revolution, and more recently, Globalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antisemitism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_antisemitism

Robert Chazan - From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism; Ancient and Medieval Christian Constructions of Jewish History - Cambridge 2016

James Carroll - Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History - Houghton-Mifflin 2002

Marvin Perry and Federick Schweitzer - Anti-Semitism:  Myth and Hate From Antiquity to the Present - Palgrave 2002

 

1 minute ago, Giddyunc said:

There is nothing controversial about calling out Farrahkan. Nothing. Unless I'm misinterpreting what you're saying, Farrahkan's title should have no consideration when it comes to the Eagles condemning Malik. 

I think you are misinterpreting what I am saying. I am just not sure what you expect the Eagles and the League to condemn.  

14 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

He is pretty sharp. He seems quite coachable and seems to be strongly motivated.