7 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

I suspect the current roster is effectively at 50 players, with Tyree Jackson, Genard Avery, and Davion Taylor all being earmarked for injured reserve. So there's probably going to be three openings to fill. I suspect they'll bring back Howard and perhaps Rodgers, although their keeping Stoll might indicate otherwise. And maybe Hightower or one of the defensive backs.

But apparently if they claim someone at noon, the corresponding transaction cannot be an IR move. So the cut would have to come from the current 53. I guess Stoll. Or even Siposs temporarily.

I think Stoll might end up on the PS, but that they are waiting for the initial wave of roster moves and trying to quietly sneak him through the waiver system.  

Or, they continue to try to move Ertz... in which case, Stoll sticks around. 

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Sounds like claims happen at 4 pm actually. 

And to not be able to use an IR move to claim a player is ridiculous. All teams are already at 53. Why penalize them twice by carrying injured players?

Good question.

1 hour ago, justrelax said:

Couldn't we all? To my mind, the war turned when Grant and Sherman linked up and both were given free rein.  

I think the stonewall death was huge in the outcome . That and Lee’s stubbornness 

4 minutes ago, justrelax said:

Still, he won. National Championship with Tebow, which is quite an accomplishment, plus, he did it running a single wing.

Yup was basically a dressed up pee wee league offense.

Myers will  be canned halfway through his 3rd year

9 minutes ago, Godfather said:

Myers will  be canned halfway through his 3rd year

 

9 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

I think the stonewall death was huge in the outcome . That and Lee’s stubbornness 

That said "Lee's stubbornness" was probably one of the things that kept them in the war to begin with.

The south was just outmanned 21 million to 6.5 million , hard to overcome those numbers , towards the end the south had way more guns then men . The impressive part is that they lasted as long as they did , and that they took it to the north the first 2 years .

39 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

I suspect the current roster is effectively at 50 players, with Tyree Jackson, Genard Avery, and Davion Taylor all being earmarked for injured reserve. So there's probably going to be three openings to fill. I suspect they'll bring back Howard and perhaps Rodgers, although their keeping Stoll might indicate otherwise. And maybe Hightower or one of the defensive backs.

But apparently if they claim someone at noon, the corresponding transaction cannot be an IR move. So the cut would have to come from the current 53. I guess Stoll. Or even Siposs temporarily.

I agree for the most part.  I think there are potentially 5 spots thought.  Jack Stoll and Josiah Scott are easily replaceable.  I'd much rather add a corner with some length

4 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

The south was just outmanned 21 million to 6.5 million , hard to overcome those numbers , towards the end the south had way more guns then men . The impressive part is that they lasted as long as they did , and that they took it to the north the first 2 years .

The south still has more guns than men...

1 hour ago, TorontoEagle said:

I get some in here wanting to bring in Coutee....but I'd rather not. Dude is always hurt, which is the last thing we need. He's played in 23 games in 3 years. That's pretty awful. 

Just pointing out jjaw-ful has played 24 games and coutee has 70 more receptions. I’d take coutee then jjaw-ful. Even if jjaw-ful is healthy he stinks. 

40 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

 

The Jaguars end up with a better record then the Eagles me thinks

 

Kind of easy to win a lot when you play cupcakes, pay recruits, make your own schedule. 

It’s gonna be close the Jaguars schedule is brutal after the first 4 games of the year until week like 14. I see 6 wins as a ceiling and I’d guess they win just 3-4 

 

 

Every time I log in to Twitter to see if there are any updates or hot takes today I'm reminded by Twitter that today is "acne positivity day"  WTF is that.  I wish there was a way to turn off the side bar that has ridiculous trends and sponsored content.

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

Just pointing out jjaw-ful has played 24 games and coutee has 70 more receptions. I’d take coutee then jjaw-ful. Even if jjaw-ful is healthy he stinks. 

JJAW at least is a special teams contributor. Which, when we're discussing 5th receivers, is very important. I don't know if Coutee plays ST, but being injured so much is useless. JJAW's 24 games have come in 2 years as opposed to Coutee's 23 over 3. Coutee effectively is missing over half the season every year. What's the point? 

24 minutes ago, TorontoEagle said:

JJAW at least is a special teams contributor. Which, when we're discussing 5th receivers, is very important. I don't know if Coutee plays ST, but being injured so much is useless. JJAW's 24 games have come in 2 years as opposed to Coutee's 23 over 3. Coutee effectively is missing over half the season every year. What's the point? 

Also to point out some of the games coutee missed he was inactive healthy scratch by the texans not that he was injured. So it’s not all injuries. He definitely has had injuries but it’s not completely that (he was a healthy scratch for a bunch of games games last year… https://www.houstontexans.com/news/keke-coutee-i-haven-t-reached-my-limit-yet-daily-brew-1

Coutee, in this third season for the Houston Texans, saw action in just one game (Week 2 against Baltimore) and then would watch from the sideline for the next two months. Between Weeks Three through Ten, the Lufkin native would either be active without a catch or a healthy scratch for the Houston Texans.)

also Aaron Wilson talks about in 2019 and 2020 he was a healthy scratch a bunch of times https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/texans/amp/Texans-Keke-Coutee-inactive-fifth-time-this-season-15656532.php

 

As a 5th WR I’m guessing jjaw-ful is going to be inactive more than a few times on Sundays. So you aren’t likely getting him activated for some games either like coutee the past couple years. Plus coutee is just a better player in general than jjaw-Ful. I much rather take the chance on a 24 who’s shown he can be productive in the nfl when healthy and actually contribute on offense when on the field. Plus can also play special teams

Ive said it before JJaw is a scheme player. If you watch just about every catch in college he is jumping for the ball, even when he doesnt need to jump. He will never be a in stride player. So drags, slants will not be his thing Even his catch against the Jets he jumped for and didnt need to. 

For him to have any success they need to scheme in plays that use his strengths. Deep posts, Corners, Fades, Deep Ins, Deep outs. They have to be plays that he is the main target. Hes not going to get open with his route running so he will be useless here unless they get him in situation plays designed just for him. 

My prediction is they will keep him this year but he will be off the team in 2022. The juice will just not be worth the squeeze

 

2 hours ago, justrelax said:

Grant and Lincoln had an excellent relationship. I wouldn't say Lincoln hounded him. This was written after Vicksburg but before Grant was made General of the Army.

My dear General

I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do, what you finally did — march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass expedition, and the like, could succeed. When you got below, and took Port-Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join Gen. Banks; and when you turned Northward East of the Big Black, I feared it was a mistake. I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right, and I was wrong.

Yours very truly

A. Lincoln

Have you read Chernow's book on Grant? It goes into really great detail about the relationship.  I think Lincoln ended up seeing in Grant someone who matched his humility and that he genuinely appreciated Lincoln's support. 

18 hours ago, UK Eagle said:

It's just getting started in Indy. Wentz takes drama wherever he goes 😉

 

Think the colts are regretting bringing in wentz yet?

sorry wrong forum

Just now, SNOORDA said:

Think the colts are regretting bringing in wentz yet?

What about the other unvaccinated players ??  Why is it just about Wentz ??

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

Also to point out some of the games coutee missed he was inactive healthy scratch by the texans not that he was injured. So it’s not all injuries. He definitely has had injuries but it’s not completely that (he was a healthy scratch for a bunch of games games last year… https://www.houstontexans.com/news/keke-coutee-i-haven-t-reached-my-limit-yet-daily-brew-1

Coutee, in this third season for the Houston Texans, saw action in just one game (Week 2 against Baltimore) and then would watch from the sideline for the next two months. Between Weeks Three through Ten, the Lufkin native would either be active without a catch or a healthy scratch for the Houston Texans.)

also Aaron Wilson talks about in 2019 and 2020 he was a healthy scratch a bunch of times https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/texans/amp/Texans-Keke-Coutee-inactive-fifth-time-this-season-15656532.php

 

As a 5th WR I’m guessing jjaw-ful is going to be inactive most Sundays. So you aren’t likely getting him activated for a bunch of games either. Plus coutee is just a better player in general than jjaw-Ful. I much rather take the chance on a 24 who’s shown he can be productive in the nfl when healthy and actually contribute on offense when on the field. Plus can also play special teams

So as the poster below mentions, I don't think JJAW will be on the team next year. I don't think Coutee would be either, and everything you've posted above doesn't scream to me, we should add this guy. We have enough injury prone players on the roster as is. Also, quite frankly, Coutee sucks. He's had 2 games of the 23 he's played where had over 100 yards receiving. His very first game he played, then one game last year he went off. That's it. 

Normally, with the Texans cutting a guy, I'd say take a look because they're a franchise in worse shape than us somehow. But Coutee isn't the guy I'd plant my flag for. And considering the Texans don't really have any WR's outside of Cooks, it's telling that they didn't think Coutee was good enough to stick around. 

None of that is to say JJAW doesn't suck as well. But why jettison a guy you know can contribute on ST for a guy who flashed a few times and likely would never see meaningful snaps here anyway? In addition to his injury history which we don't need any more of. 

Just now, SNOORDA said:

Think the colts are regretting bringing in wentz yet?

Based off the article and reports  3/5th of their starting oline isn’t vaccinated, Darius Leonard isn’t vaccinated and wentz isn’t. 

2 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

I think they bring Howard back, maybe after Week 1.  I liked Wayne Gallman coming out of Clemson so I wouldn’t mind him either; he’s a ‘do whatever is needed’ type of player.

I would prefer Gallman over Howard.  As you say, he's more versatile.  He had a solid season with the VaGiants last year averaging 4.6 YPC with 6 TDs.  That's pretty good as IIRC they had OL issues last season.  Gallman is one month older than Howard, but Howard has almost 3x as many career carries as Gallman and it seems to show.  I'll take the 'fresher' and more versatile RB and we need a 4th RB because Sanders has proven to get banged up, Scott is mostly a change of pace RB, and Gainwell is a rookie so while he shows potential until the season unfolds we don't know for certain what we have with him.  Plus Gallman is that bigger body (20 pound heavier than Gainwell) in the event Sanders goes down again he could be the one to get the majority of the carries and take a beating.

 

1 hour ago, Iggles_Phan said:

It definitely turned that way in the East (aka, Virginia), but the trend of the war in the 'West' was always tipped in favor of the Union, likely due (in no small part) to the presence and relentless nature of Grant and Sherman.  But, the war had to be won in the East.   And on the East, Lee had his way with commander after commander of the Union, in no small part due to the presence of himself and his 'right arm' Stonewall Jackson.  I think the war really turned on Jackson's wounding and later death.  The ill-fated invasion of Pennsylvania came quickly on the heels of the victory at Chancellorsville, and seeking to take advantage of it, Lee moved north in an attempt to cause the North to sue for peace... meanwhile in the West, Grant had a stranglehold on Vicksburg and it was just a question of 'when', not 'if', they would capitulate.  But that invasion to the north was doomed from the start as Marylanders didn't rise up to join their cause as they'd hoped (most of those sympathetic to the South's cause had already left Maryland), and the organization of the army took a major hit.  Stuart's galavanting left Lee mostly blind, whereas as in Northern VA, both he and Jackson were very very well acquainted with the terrain and roads.  And... likely the single biggest blunder of the Battle of Gettysburg took place on Day 1, when Richard Ewell, in command of the corps formerly led by Jackson, failed to secure Culp's Hill.  Had the Confederates secured Culp's Hill by the end of Day 1, which was wide open for them to take and hold, a great deal of the battle could have changed.  Without the anchor at the top of the fish hook of Culp's Hill, the Union position on Cemetery Hill and Ridge would have been much more vulnerable, and the Union would have likely been pushed off the field, or would have been forced to withdraw to a better location... AND... had the Confederates then captured that territory, more than likely the entire table of that battle flips on its head and it may have been the Union taking all those losses rather than the Confederates.  War might have ended right there, honestly, for all intents and purposes.  

 

So, I agree that Grant and Sherman being given full reign as they were was a major catalyst to the end of the war... I believe the death of Stonewall Jackson was the pivot point.  Granted, there is not a definitive definition of what it was, and Grant's plan with Sherman leading that dagger into the heart of the South was brilliant.  I just don't think that they get a chance to rise to those positions without the death of Jackson. 

That Ewell's failure to take Culp's Hill on July 1 turned the battle has long been debated. I don't think the issue is as clear as do some. Ewell's men were tired from their march and there were reports of Union forces approaching on the Hanover Road. There is a timing issue, too. Lee had ordered Ewell to take a position on the Confederate right. Ewell had sent a unit to see if Culp's Hill was occupied and they ran into an Indiana regiment that drove them back. Ewell thus believed Culp's Hill was occupied in force. He did talk Lee into letting him stay on the Confederate left but by then it was dark and too late to take the hill(s).

All that said, yes, I agree, if Ewell had taken Culp's Hill the Union position would have been almost untenable and I expect Meade would have pulled back to his prepared position at Pipe Creek.

As for the death of Stonewall Jackson, yes, it was a terrible blow but Jackson was but a unit commander though in that role he had almost no peer. The largest force he ever commanded was about 18,000 men. Lee, for all his brilliance, was a regional commander. What went on in other theaters of the war was out of their scope. Jackson never addressed logistics, lines of supply, etc. - the nuts and bolts of commanding an army. McClellan was good at that but he had no stomach for fighting. Grant had it all and, to a slightly lesser extent, so did Sherman. They could fight and they could run a large force. Their decision for Sherman to cut loose from supplies after Atlanta for his march, worked out between the two of them, was something fairly new. Grant had worked it out in the Vicksburg campaign. 

I would argue that Winfield Scott Hancock was Jackson's equal. I would certainly agree that no one in the Army of Northern Virginia after Jackson was nearly as good as he. 

9 minutes ago, downundermike said:

What about the other unvaccinated players ??  Why is it just about Wentz ??

Because wentz is why the media will hound the coach all season.. among other things of course