5 hours ago, Asg 15 said:

Do the research on Chernobyl it was a one of a kind reactor that was made with graphite as the primary containment.  Also the accident happened at the end of the Soviet Union. Remember this was a government controlled facility and the government was in disarray.

As for Japan the accident was caused by a tsunami and even though the Japanese knew the facility was built too close to the ocean AND too low they did nothing about it.

As i said and will continue to say nuclear is safe. the biggest danger being possible terrorist activity.

Agreed all of this. The thing I'm not sold on is the spent rods.  Plant owners had to increase the amount in their storage pools to as much as five times (5X……are you freakin' kidding me?) what they were designed to hold. As a result, virtually all U.S. spent fuel pools have been "re-racked” to hold spent fuel assemblies at densities that approach those in reactor cores. 

2 hours ago, mjkline1958 said:

You need a woman dude - when they're not keeping you busy, you're solving their probs!

Don't need anyone. They wiped me out both times

2 hours ago, mjkline1958 said:

Better yet, which teams offer us the best value for any of our players? Assuming either Wentz, Ertz or the pkg - who can give us the best return? Somebody ( ahem ) got us into a cap mess. I still believe both can be great - not just good - players. Face it, we didn't help these guys out - we sucked.

IDk we had success other years????? Same guys Howie got us,so what changed?

3 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

I will be a little bit outside of the coming storm. Still going to get rain and cold until Sunday night. 

Supposed to get 6" here

2 minutes ago, EaglesTD123 said:

Supposed to get 6" here

Stock the shelves in case of power loss

3 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

https://theeagleswire.usatoday.com/2021/02/17/carson-wentz-trade-rumors-eagles-draft-qb-jalen-hurts-compete/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=NFLdraftmaverickMike&fbclid=IwAR1bSgLsm0fCzohCR2hwndoAcoc0eV9CbCMiF5j6Mk0x-6onyDnbNBNKNro

So……if there's a good chance we draft a QB at 6 who should they pull the trigger on?

9 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Stock the shelves in case of power loss

Plenty of canned food. Got everything stocked. Thanks!

9 hours ago, Asg 15 said:

Nuclear is safe and clean. But say the word nuclear and people think of Hiroshima

Oh absolutely! And Chernobyl and understandable so. But that event changed the industry for the better, for the safer.

Some thoughts on the Wentz trade situation, part 2,154.

1. They should draft Chase, Pitts or Smith at 6 and not a qb. Last year they benched Fulgham, JJAW and Hightower, who are likely to be three of the top six wrs this year. So even if we draft a qb, do we have any faith in the team that it will find someone for him to throw to? 

2. It is very circular firing squad logic to think that they have to draft a qb with their top pick this year, because they are worried that the qb they drafted last year will play well enough that they won't be able to draft a qb next year.

3. At this point we should take whatever draft picks we can from the Colts. If it's a second this year and next year, just suck it up and take it. Where they can make up the difference is in players. We have the best intel we could ever hope for on the Colts roster, and we should be able to identify two or three players who were undervalued by the Colts whom will be able to make us better. So we may only get two draft picks, but if we get three guys who can contribute right away, that will help us more than the next JJAW or Davion Taylor.

4. The Colts are missing an opportunity to really fill a lot of holes on their team. They should be trading for Wentz, Ertz and Dillard. That fills three needs they have. And they should be willing to give up at least two number ones for those three. Instead they are trying to be the smartest guys in the room and lowball their way to a better deal on Wentz. Well, guess what. Finding a LT outside of the top 10 is just as hard as finding a qb. And if you miss on a LT, it isn't great for your qb. Just ask Mahomes. But playing hardball on the Wentz deal means the Eagles aren't going t0 pick up the phone when you come sniffing around for a LT. 

 

13 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

4. The Colts are missing an opportunity to really fill a lot of holes on their team. They should be trading for Wentz, Ertz and Dillard. That fills three needs they have. And they should be willing to give up at least two number ones for those three. Instead they are trying to be the smartest guys in the room and lowball their way to a better deal on Wentz. Well, guess what. Finding a LT outside of the top 10 is just as hard as finding a qb. And if you miss on a LT, it isn't great for your qb. Just ask Mahomes. But playing hardball on the Wentz deal means the Eagles aren't going t0 pick up the phone when you come sniffing around for a LT. 

 

I posted earlier (in the Wentz discussion thread) the same idea to consider packaging Dillard with Wentz since they have a huge need at LT after Castanzo announced his retirement. 

Howie is probably reluctant to do that because it is pretty much admitting failure with 2 recent 1st rd picks.  

11 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

Some thoughts on the Wentz trade situation, part 2,154.

1. They should draft Chase, Pitts or Smith at 6 and not a qb. Last year they benched Fulgham, JJAW and Hightower, who are likely to be three of the top six wrs this year. So even if we draft a qb, do we have any faith in the team that it will find someone for him to throw to? 

2. It is very circular firing squad logic to think that they have to draft a qb with their top pick this year, because they are worried that the qb they drafted last year will play well enough that they won't be able to draft a qb next year.

3. At this point we should take whatever draft picks we can from the Colts. If it's a second this year and next year, just suck it up and take it. Where they can make up the difference is in players. We have the best intel we could ever hope for on the Colts roster, and we should be able to identify two or three players who were undervalued by the Colts whom will be able to make us better. So we may only get two draft picks, but if we get three guys who can contribute right away, that will help us more than the next JJAW or Davion Taylor.

4. The Colts are missing an opportunity to really fill a lot of holes on their team. They should be trading for Wentz, Ertz and Dillard. That fills three needs they have. And they should be willing to give up at least two number ones for those three. Instead they are trying to be the smartest guys in the room and lowball their way to a better deal on Wentz. Well, guess what. Finding a LT outside of the top 10 is just as hard as finding a qb. And if you miss on a LT, it isn't great for your qb. Just ask Mahomes. But playing hardball on the Wentz deal means the Eagles aren't going t0 pick up the phone when you come sniffing around for a LT. 

 

Hooker and Mack are FA's. Would have NP adding those 2. We need to consider this also. If Wentz isn't dealt, he will have to play at a high level if he wants a big check the following year(aka show me the money) The Colts could re-sign Brissett and still pick up a Trask or Jones. They know this, thus the lowball non emergency offer they sent

7 minutes ago, time2rock said:

I posted earlier (in the Wentz discussion thread) the same idea to consider packaging Dillard with Wentz since they have a huge need at LT after Castanzo announced his retirement.  

My guess is that the Eagles are going to trade Dillard (or Mailata) after the preseason if he plays well and stays healthy, since teams are always desperate for LT help. Driscoll showed that he can play tackle at a competent level last year, and Toth is a guy they are high on, so keeping Dillard and Mailata doesn't make sense if they can get a decent return for one of them.  

3 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Last year they benched Fulgham, JJAW and Hightower, who are likely to be three of the top six wrs this year

Nah, the top 3 would be Reagor, Fulgham and Ward

22 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

My guess is that the Eagles are going to trade Dillard (or Mailata) after the preseason if he plays well and stays healthy, since teams are always desperate for LT help. Driscoll showed that he can play tackle at a competent level last year, and Toth is a guy they are high on, so keeping Dillard and Mailata doesn't make sense if they can get a decent return for one of them.  

Could be.  That would be based on 2 assumptions ... they both stay healthy and they both play well.  But also have to wonder if there will be a preseason.    

On 2/17/2021 at 9:47 AM, stine said:

  Every Running game has long runs for all teams. That factors in for everyone. So Eagles ran for 5.0 average which ranked second. Sure hurts ran some, but to only a 5.6 average and he only played 4 games. I am not discounting blown plays which we had allot of. But those can mostly be attributed to a few bad players and our RB's who can't block. Pryor, Opeta and Brown stunk but all others played OK after they got their feet wet. We were not a terrible mess though for most games. What made it appear as such was a QB who held onto the ball for 3.27 seconds on average, a Coach who refused to call running plays even though we were successful at it. We had RB's who missed blocks on blitzes.

  Teams like TB and Arizona knew how to beat us was to blitz as much as possible, because we were not running it. Pretty simple to scheme against a team that PASSES ON EVERY DOWN.

 

Ok... so coach and QB were the problem.  Not the 25 different OL combos.  

To me every time I hear this, I hear... " it's not Howie's fault, the roster was fine"

Again, my eye test as compared to watching other teams ... the Eagles QBs didn't have as much time to throw, it wasn't even close. If our QB held the ball while scrambling away, that counts as far as holding the ball longer. 

Hurts also ran significant amount of times to up the average.  Idk your opinion,  but I didn't see a consistent run game to where it was working really great.  Absolutely Doug could have called more runs, or as I have been saying for 3 seasons now,  he could call runs at better times during the drives. 

The sacks .   Was the problem really the sacks.  32 plays in 10 games? Or was it constant pressure?   What do you think the issue was in the Superbowl for Mahomes,  the few sacks or the constant fire drill?    I agree part of it is our WRs not getting open. 

But with your idea... since the biggest problems were coach and QB,  we should be fine going forward.  Let's see how that works.

On 2/17/2021 at 9:55 AM, stine said:

 LOL, that will happen when you don't get rid of the ball in 2.5 seconds!  Wentz was his worst enemy last season. There were plays that were there and his #1 option and he still held onto the ball. So then he tucks and "Runs for his life" Right that was the O-Line! 

Right... so lets see what happens this year.  All problems solved with new coach and QB. Your eye test compared to the rest of the league that you watched closely says the Eagles OL was good..  just needed better coaching and QB.  The coach and QB who had proven to be good at one point were the problem,  not the bunch of guys on the OL that never played before... makes sense.

For those who are gluttons for punishment, Jimmy Kempski does a good job each year assigning blame for sacks. Here is this year's final tally.

Assigning blame for each of the Eagles' NFL-leading 65 sacks allowed in 2020 | PhillyVoice

Some notes. Mailata was dinged for seven sacks, which is high. But he offsets his sacks by throwing guys around in the run game and the fact that, when he doesn't get beat, he dominates his man. He also gave up a few sacks when he was asked to "set flat," which is when he is tasked with blocking a guy right away instead of dropping back, which was an odd thing for him to be asked to do. Flipping him from left to right to left probably wasn't idea either.

Herbig gave up 1.5 sacks, which is really good.

Half the sacks were coverage sacks or blamed on the qb. Also, Hurts was dinged for 7 sacks, but most of them were running plays that were stopped for short losses of a yard or two.

Seumalo and Kelce were dinged for one each. Seumalo is quietly moving into the top echelon at guard, and he, Brooks and Herbig should be fine in the interior if Kelce retires next year.

Driscoll was dinged with 2 sacks in 300 snaps at right tackle. he played the left side at UMass, so he is the swing tackle next year if we trade Dillard.    

Well poop.

Adam Schefter on Twitter: "Philadelphia has agreed to trade Carson Wentz to the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for a 2021 third-round pick and a conditional 2022 second-round pick that could turn into a first, league sources tell @mortreport and me." / Twitter

2 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

Seumalo and Kelce were dinged for one each. Seumalo is quietly moving into the top echelon at guard, and he, Brooks and Herbig should be fine in the interior if Kelce retires next year.

Talks are that Kelce might retire again was on the Chris long podcast saying he is thinking about it. semaulo makes sense as a C smart guy plays good on the inside been practicing it little bit over the years give it to him full time think he can be a top C. Then let’s us move Herbig to LG

My bad seems like you were saying the same thing but I didn’t finish reading the post lmao 

2 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

Well poop.

Adam Schefter on Twitter: "Philadelphia has agreed to trade Carson Wentz to the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for a 2021 third-round pick and a conditional 2022 second-round pick that could turn into a first, league sources tell @mortreport and me." / Twitter

Wow way worse return then I though but guess we got a 1st most likely I’d image Wentz balls out for Indy 

I’m sticking with go get Zach Wilson what ever it takes. 

6 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

For those who are gluttons for punishment, Jimmy Kempski does a good job each year assigning blame for sacks. Here is this year's final tally.

Assigning blame for each of the Eagles' NFL-leading 65 sacks allowed in 2020 | PhillyVoice

Some notes. Mailata was dinged for seven sacks, which is high. But he offsets his sacks by throwing guys around in the run game and the fact that, when he doesn't get beat, he dominates his man. He also gave up a few sacks when he was asked to "set flat," which is when he is tasked with blocking a guy right away instead of dropping back, which was an odd thing for him to be asked to do. Flipping him from left to right to left probably wasn't idea either.

Herbig gave up 1.5 sacks, which is really good.

Half the sacks were coverage sacks or blamed on the qb. Also, Hurts was dinged for 7 sacks, but most of them were running plays that were stopped for short losses of a yard or two.

Seumalo and Kelce were dinged for one each. Seumalo is quietly moving into the top echelon at guard, and he, Brooks and Herbig should be fine in the interior if Kelce retires next year.

Driscoll was dinged with 2 sacks in 300 snaps at right tackle. he played the left side at UMass, so he is the swing tackle next year if we trade Dillard.    

Who gets assigned for blame on pressures?  Which are the bulk of the plays that were the issue?   

Go get’em Howie franchise QB right here 

12 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

Well poop.

Adam Schefter on Twitter: "Philadelphia has agreed to trade Carson Wentz to the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for a 2021 third-round pick and a conditional 2022 second-round pick that could turn into a first, league sources tell @mortreport and me." / Twitter

Oh man,suck deal lmao

1 minute ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Oh man,suck deal lmao

yeah, at this point we seem to trying to do everything to help the colts and wentz win, while making sure we suck for a long time. 

The only way this trade makes any sense at all is if we got some players in return that haven't been announced.

Time to get those 11 jerseys up on Ebay🤣