Eagles probably had interest in Tyron Johnson.

Still feels weird the Eagles kept so many LBs. Has to be another shoe to drop.

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

So Goedert is gone after this year? Especially if Tyree balls out. Should be looking into trading Goedert at trade deadline.

43 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

 

He knows where the factory is. 

11 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

The Sydney Jones Experience needs to be qualified a bit.  

He suffered an Achilles before the draft after being deemed a consensus first rounder.  He basically red-shirted his rookie season in 2017.  He began the 2018 season as the starting nickel and looked pretty good for a few games.  You could make the argument at that point that the gamble was starting to pay off.

Then in October his hamstring legacy started.  His ability and desire both seemed to go downhill.  This was not related to the original Achilles nor was it evident while he was in college.

In my view, Jones' legacy isn't that the red-shirting failed, but rather he was more like a Victor Abiamiri.  A guy with promise who just couldn't stay healthy.

The legacy is that a second round gamble is expensive.  Take that gamble in Round 3.  But hey, Dickerson has a strong track record of good health, right?   

3 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

They should be looking to find some young talent under every rock and in every crevice.  This is not a talented team.  I find it hard to believe that none of the cuts are viewed in their eyes as being a potential upgrade over what they have right now.  I find that hubris.

You may find it hard to believe, but as I said, it's all talent evaluation now... and yes, so far at least, only one of the cuts made the cut (so to speak)...  (and can we please stop referring to JJAW every single time this issue comes up... whatever evaluations made on him before the new coaching staff came in are no longer relevant)...

1 minute ago, eaglesflyers#1 said:

Think he gets promoted from PS after we make IR moves at 4? We probably need another DT and Marvin>Marlon

There's not really a point to right now. Rules are the same as last year, they can call him up for a game if they want to and then put him back on the PS.

Keeping Ertz into the season was always the right move. I don't think he's washed. His drop off last season wasn't proportionate. It felt like a fluky bad year. He still has some juice left.

Try to raise his value and trade him then.

44 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

 

Thought I couldn't love this guy any more. This dude is Philly.

Happy for Zach that he's in a good space.

 

 

1 hour ago, austinfan said:

Actually, it was due to slavery and Southern culture, slavery meant the cream of the Southern Aristocracy could choose military careers and they dominated the military academies (and have been disproportionately represented in the 20th century as well), the North simply didn't have a top officer corp when the war began. McClellan was excellent as an administrator, but subpar as a military commander.

The myth of Lee was that he choose Virginia over the Union, the reality was he was a slaveholder who choose slavery over Union, Arlington Cemetery was the Lee plantation. the Civil War was about slavery, pure and simple, the Confederate leadership said as much during the run up to the war - only afterwards did they create the myth of the War Between the States.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/12/facebook-posts/fact-checking-claims-about-robert-e-lees-position-/

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2013/06/30/Confederates-slave-hunt-in-North-a-military-disgrace/stories/201306300221

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/julyaugust/feature/how-did-robert-e-lee-become-american-icon

Political correctness plagues both the Right and Left, the 1619 Project was bad history, Critical Race Theory starts with a kernel of truth (that racism is embedded in American institutions) then distorts it through an ideological fun house mirror where all inequalities are due to race and malice, and all alternative explanations are invalid.

On the other hand, watching Governor Abbott try to erase the role of slavery in the Texas Revolution (the primary motive was b/c Mexico would abolish slavery in Texas) shows the distortions championed by the Right.

Good history should strive to be objective (impossible to eliminate bias, but recognizing one's bias is the first step to correcting it), stick to the facts and avoid polemics.

It should also respect the Past, "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." That is, don't impose 21st century attitudes and mores on people in the past, they lived in their world, if you want to understand them, you have to take them on their own terms, no matter how uncomfortable that may make you feel.

 

Absolutely it was about slavery, but that was highly tied to the economic structure of the South.  In a way, it had as much to do with the economics of the region as anything.  Yes the economy was interlaced with slavery, replaced by sharecropping, almost a feudal approach, after the war.  Labor allowed expanded agrarian land use and the main crops for the south were labor intensive.  Those crops drove the economies in the towns, including local food products.  Cotton may have been king but look at how little is grown there now.  Because cotton leached nutrients out of the soil and by the turn of the last century was diminishing in the South not because of labor.  

You see the same thing over and over though in economies.  Try telling communities that depend on fossil fuel energy production to go green and see the reaction.  Wonder why a large swath of the electorate, Democratic and Republican, reject green issues?  That is because the average age of a private vehicle in the US is 11.9 years.  Vehicle costs are a big investment, even for the middle class  Economics drives actions.  

The Texas Revolution had as a basis the prohibition on slavery but that alone was not the only driving factor.  There was the War Party and the Peace Party.  The Texas Declaration of Independence was written primarily by members of the War Party.  Now it did not help that the primary influencer, and a peace advocate, Austin was imprisoned by imploring the Mexican dictatorship under Santa Ana,coming out of their own revolution in Mexico, to ensure the provisions of the 1824 (Mexican) Constitution that allowed immigrants the Constitutional rights and republic of the country of their birth.  One key issue was the right to bear arms.  The centralized Mexican government had even sent a representative to assess the armament in Texas.  Another issue was freedom of religion where all were required to be Catholic. Further the centralization coupled with the provincial seat of government in Saltillo was a huge driver in both the efforts of the Peace Party as much as the War Party.  It is as myopic to conclude that the Texas Revolution was mainly about slavery as to conclude that slavery was the primary factor.  In fact, the initial skirmish (and for people wondering, where Come and Take It on a flag with a cannon originates) was the Mexican army trying to take a cannon from a Texas community, Gonzales.  (The reason for the cannon was the same reason for securing gunpowder at the magazines in revolutionary era America, dealing with hostilities with Native Americans).  

People still spelling Sidney Jones's name as Sydney after all this time still drives me crazy. Hell, I would venture to say that it spelled incorrectly in here more often than it is spelled correctly.

9 minutes ago, RLC said:

I didn't like the Dickerson pick, but he was going to be selected within the next 5 picks and it's clear looking around the league how few good OL there are. The hardest positions to find are OL and CB

Sure.  But, whether or not another team would have taken that gamble isn't the question.  The question is can he stay healthy.   Time will tell, but in 4 years of college, he's really struggled with that.  Not sure how playing more games per season, against bigger and stronger opponents, will help him change his oft-injured status to become an ironman.

2 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

People still spelling Sidney Jones's name as Sydney after all this time still drives me crazy. Hell, I would venture to say that it spelled incorrectly in here more often than it is spelled correctly.

There’s still people who spell lurie as laurie.

4 minutes ago, Veejer said:

You may find it hard to believe, but as I said, it's all talent evaluation now... and yes, so far at least, only one of the cuts made the cut (so to speak)...  (and can we please stop referring to JJAW every single time this issue comes up... whatever evaluations made on him before the new coaching staff came in are no longer relevant)...

Except the person who pulled the trigger on drafting him is still here and still has a hand in the 53.  So, it's not irrelevant.  If there was a new GM, maybe that would work.  If the new HC had full control of the 53, then that would be relevant.  

But, I focused on JJAW, because I contrasted him with Antonio Gandy-Golden, another WR.  I don't follow LBs or CBs as closely, but you could replace JJAW with Josiah Scott and another CB off the waivers... 

3 minutes ago, Veejer said:

You may find it hard to believe, but as I said, it's all talent evaluation now... and yes, so far at least, only one of the cuts made the cut (so to speak)...  (and can we please stop referring to JJAW every single time this issue comes up... whatever evaluations made on him before the new coaching staff came in are no longer relevant)...

Yes, please. It was blindingly clear that the previous staff was utterly inept at developing WRs. This staff has a lot of experience with WRs and I am expecting big improvements. The clips I saw from TC indicated a lot of interaction and I could definitely see improvement getting off jams at the LOS.

6 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

Worst city in sports... All players hate it... or so I've been told.

Ertz blew off the shorts question. Definitely seems to be his way of protest. 

I think teams prefer to go with what they know , and already have some time invested in , hence most players returning to their current teams PS .

15 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

Translation:  Howie told him he had a trade offer from Jacksonville on the table.

53 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Welp. 

What this tells me is that teams do not have to immediately release a player when they are awarded a waiver claim player.  Denver has time to try to trade Freeman now.

I wonder what would have happened if Wentz was the Commander In Chief instead of Lincoln?

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

Wow, what an endorsement of Stoutland. 

8 minutes ago, justrelax said:

Yes, please. It was blindingly clear that the previous staff was utterly inept at developing WRs. This staff has a lot of experience with WRs and I am expecting big improvements. The clips I saw from TC indicated a lot of interaction and I could definitely see improvement getting off jams at the LOS.

I saw a clip where Siri was teaching Reagor some basic moves that should have already been ingrained in him last year. 

20 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

People still spelling Sidney Jones's name as Sydney after all this time still drives me crazy. Hell, I would venture to say that it spelled incorrectly in here more often than it is spelled correctly.

Sorry, Franklyn.