1 hour ago, Mike030270 said:

I wonder if they fined him. Suspending wouldn't really do anything since the season is in doubt anyway

Curious if they'll do anything about Malik

Wonder if Howie had him and his agent tweak some contract numbers?

And I doubt they do anything to Malik.

25 minutes ago, Green Dog said:

Wonder if Howie had him and his agent tweak some contract numbers?

And I doubt they do anything to Malik.

IMO, Malik was worse. DJax likely has no real clue as to what he was posting. Malik saw the backlash, defended his stupid post and then attacked fans. I lost more respect for him than DJax. 

2 minutes ago, twistr said:

This I agree with and that is the still problematic part of Jenkins messaging on this topic.

The worst part is that he had several days to think about what to post and compose his thoughts and that's the best he came up with. He seemed more concerned about the attention being taken away from his cause and treated Jackson's comments as a distraction rather than the hate speech that it was. 

 

 

1 hour ago, eagle45 said:

Alright....180 from the politics.  3 questions for everyone.

1.  Why are you an Eagles fan?

2. Why did you first join the original version of the boards?

3. Why do you still spend this much time posting on the boards?

 

 

1. One of the first football games i saw was a player who caught a td then did a celebratory back flip afterwards, i thought it was pretty cool, it was Gizmo Williams😄 started trying to follow that team tecmo super bowl came out about a year later after cunningham had been named ultimate weapon so i was him on tecmo super bowl, went on from there to watching my first eagles playoff game 1992 eagles beat saints fred barnett had 2 tds heath sherman 100 yards seth joyner had a pick and reggie sealed it with a safety. I was hooked!

2.living in Utah eagles info was tough to come by as was anyone to talk to about eagles. None of my family watches football so the board became my football fam😎

3. Same reason i still have zero people to talk eagles football with and its been a great resource for eagles news, its a bit weird currently because no football but i enjoy politics as well so...😊

4 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

The worst part is that he had several days to think about what to post and compose his thoughts and that's the best he came up with. He seemed more concerned about the attention being taken away from his cause and treated Jackson's comments as a distraction rather than the hate speech that it was. 

Bingo.  Which is why the 'he said it poorly' defense falls flat.  He said it exactly as he meant it.

10 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

IMO, Malik was worse. DJax likely is no real clue as to what he was posting. Malik saw the backlash, defended his stupid post and then attacked fans. I lost more respect for him than DJax. 

Yup. I’m way more upset right now with malik Jackson being a Dumbarse and just continuing to look like an idiot. 

4 minutes ago, Utebird said:

1. One of the first football games i saw was a player who caught a td then didca celebratory back flip afterwards, i thought it was pretty cool, it was Gizmo Williams😄 started trying to follow that team tecmo super bowl came out about a year later after cunningham had been named ultimate weapon so i was him on tecmo super bowl, went on from there to watching my first eagles playoff game 1992 eagles beat saints fred barnett had 2 tds heath sherman 100 yards seth joyner had a pick and reggie sealed it with a safety. I was hooked!

2.living in Utah eagles info was tough to come by as was anyone to talk to about eagles. None of my family watches football so...

3. Same reason i still have zero people to talk eagles football with and its been a great resource for eagles news, its a bit weird currently because no football but i enjoy politics as well so...😊

I used to have a Sporting News subscription. I looked forward to checking the mailbox each week to read the Eagles blurb written by Mark Eckel. 

Just now, ManuManu said:

I used to have a Sporting News subscription. I looked forward to checking the mailbox each week to read the Eagles blurb written by Mark Eckel. 

How truly sad.

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

Not calling him out but just in general i think people are more prone to doing that now. I tend to write things like I am writing a paper and I have to prove it to you why I believe what I do. It’s why i tend to be more wordy then i probably should.

 Giving you my thoughts along with facts behind my how i got to my conclusion. It’s like you’re writing a paper and use the origins of the source and say well it’s in here you go find it but it’ll prove what i am say. You wouldn’t do that when you’re writing an essay. you would take the points from the source and put it in your paper and then give your rationale behind why it strengths your point and interpret what it means or you think it means 

I think this wrong strictly because most people have been provided with a person's idea of proof, they just don't accept it and we're tired of going through it again and again. There's NO POINT.

4 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

How truly sad.

He got a bad rap because LeCharles Bentley and his agent reneged on the deal. 

3 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

I think DAL has done a poor job with their cap.  Jones caved and overpaid Zeke, and he hasn’t gotten much of a return at all (yet) from giving out raises to Demarcus Lawrence and Jaylon Smith.  
 

I also think giving Amari Cooper 5 years and $100M was a poor choice.

I think this one is really gonna bite them in the arse.  He was noticeably worse last season.  Not sure if it's because of the horrific leg injury from college, but he had a significant drop off.  

52 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Interesting... you are younger than me.   I always figured you were older than me.  

 

1 - Born in the Philly burbs.  4 for 4 guy.  I don't know how i became an Eagles' fan.  I think I was just born that way, there was never an alternative.  My brother would be a fan of the 49ers during the 80s (he claimed it was because Joe Montana had a resemblance to our youngest uncle, which he did... but I think that was a convenient excuse for front running).   Meanwhile, I raged at the idea that a person could like more than one team, for any reason, and not the geographically logical one.  My brother's oldest son is now a Houston Texans fan in addition to an Eagles' fan.  Bull.  It doesn't work that way.

2 - I joined in 2003, I think.  I would have joined sooner, because I was looking for a spot with better discussion than the local talk radio.  Brutal.

3 - I don't know.  I need a new hobby, I think.   But, right now I am gardening, smoking (bbq folks... bbq!!!) and even started a vermicomposting box.  So, maybe I have my other hobbies.  

That would be because I bet my posts come across as an old curmudgeon.  

Agreed about the 2 teams.  I spent 7 years in Pittsburgh, loved the city, and actually enjoyed seeing the fans celebrate when the Steelers did well.  It progressed to the point that I could root for the Steelers casually.  I would never consider myself a Steelers fan, nor would I have any conflicted emotions when they played the Eagles.  That's a no-brainer.  But that's about as far as I can comprehend liking more than one team.  

29 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

Not from the fine itself, but equal to a significant amount of the fine total.  Consider it clarified 😂

Does anyone know what his actual punishment is?  Suspension and fines?  

Just now, hputenis said:

Does anyone know what his actual punishment is?  Suspension and fines?  

He was fined. 

22 minutes ago, hputenis said:

I think this one is really gonna bite them in the arse.  He was noticeably worse last season.  Not sure if it's because of the horrific leg injury from college, but he had a significant drop off.  

I think not having a healthy LVE was a contributing factor.  It’s so much easier just racing to the football when you know even if you blow an angle or over-pursue, you have another really good LB to cover it up.  
 

I still believe these DAL players are playing fat when they get paid, though — and that’s a culture problem.  McCarthy’s toughest job is getting them to play with a team-first mindset.  IMO Dak is not helping.

 

37 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

He got a bad rap because LeCharles Bentley and his agent reneged on the deal. 

Nope, that was the beyond the ridiculous last straw.  He wasn't a very good writer.

3 hours ago, austinfan said:

 

Articles from reputatable, peer reviewed journals the last few years

 

Devi, Tanaya, and Roland G. Fryer Jr. Policing the Police: The Impact of" Pattern-or-Practice" Investigations on Crime. No. w27324. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020.

Bleakley, Paul. "A thin-slice of institutionalised police brutality: a tradition of excessive force in the Chicago Police Department." Criminal Law Forum. Vol. 30. No. 4. Springer Netherlands, 2019.

Johnson, James, and Len Lecci. "How caring is "nullified”: Strong racial identity eliminates White participant empathy effects when police shoot an unarmed Black male." Psychology of violence (2019).

Knox, Dean, Will Lowe, and Jonathan Mummolo. "Administrative records mask racially biased policing." American Political Science Review (2019): 1-19.

Cunningham, Jamein P., and Rob Gillezeau. "Don’t Shoot! The Impact of Historical African American Protest on Police Killings of Civilians." Journal of Quantitative Criminology (2019): 1-34.

Moon, Sarah H., Tranese Morgan, and Steven J. Sandage. "The need for intercultural competence assessment and training among police officers." Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice 18.5 (2018): 337-351.

Campney, Brent MS. "" A Bunch of Tough Hombres": Police Brutality, Municipal Politics, and Racism in South Texas." Journal of the Southwest 60.4 (2018): 787-825.

Mummolo, Jonathan. "Modern police tactics, police-citizen interactions, and the prospects for reform." The Journal of Politics 80.1 (2018): 1-15.

Legewie, Joscha. "Racial profiling and use of force in police stops: How local events trigger periods of increased discrimination." American journal of sociology 122.2 (2016): 379-424.

Mesic, Aldina, et al. "The relationship between structural racism and black-white disparities in fatal police shootings at the state level." Journal of the National Medical Association 110.2 (2018): 106-116.

 

Afan, just curious, do you know how many of those articles were published by testifying "experts” to establish their credentials as peer reviewed experts?   You know that happens more than either side of the bar than is admitted.  I am always a bit skeptical. 

This presentation contains some information we need to consider:

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/wiener/programs/pcj/files/PoliceandPublicDiscourseBlackonBlackViolence.pdf

26 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

That would be because I bet my posts come across as an old curmudgeon.  

Agreed about the 2 teams.  I spent 7 years in Pittsburgh, loved the city, and actually enjoyed seeing the fans celebrate when the Steelers did well.  It progressed to the point that I could root for the Steelers casually.  I would never consider myself a Steelers fan, nor would I have any conflicted emotions when they played the Eagles.  That's a no-brainer.  But that's about as far as I can comprehend liking more than one team.  

That's fair.  Ultimately, there are some souls that are just older than their age.  I know I am one of them.  

51 minutes ago, twistr said:

I think this wrong strictly because most people have been provided with a person's idea of proof, they just don't accept it and we're tired of going through it again and again. There's NO POINT.

Eh there’s a lot of people that don’t even go through it. They just say oh yeah here’s my proof and site a source but then don’t even go into what part of the source you want me to know. 
 

I do think there’s some fatigue of people saying the same thing over and over and over again with that. I do believe there’s some people that are like that. I think there’s a lot of people you’re missing that just put something out there and say this is why with not context. That’s basically what I’ve seen on Facebook and Twitter the last couple days and weeks 

Is Alshon in a position to be ready for the start of the season? I feel like things have been pretty quiet on his end regarding his progress/status unless if I missed something. 

12 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

That's fair.  Ultimately, there are some souls that are just older than their age.  I know I am one of them.  

My wife would tell you I’m about 15.