1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The prodigal son has come home.

 

Also isn't this replacement your guy @HazletonEagle?

Tucker must be closing in on Vandevelde’s record. 

21 minutes ago, justrelax said:

Way way .

Joan Didion died today. IMHO the best prose writer of the last 50 years.

Not my #1 but clearly up there. 

The alleged All-22 is up. It shows nothing but pre-game nonsense. Players walking around. Empty field. Jumping jacks. Nothing.

The NFL has become a scam.

2 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Not my #1 but clearly up there. 

You're allowed to disagree.

49 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Thata Pro Bowl Jalen Hurts to all of you all. 

 

 

thats why the probowl is a joke now a days, its a complete joke

1 hour ago, Utebird said:

Linderbaum looks like he'll be really good and I think could easily be a starter at C for 10+ years and is that worth a 1st round pick when the Defense is sorely in need of Defenders and Stoutland can turn 7th round rugby players into starters?

Yes. I think it is well worth it.

 

8 minutes ago, justrelax said:

You're allowed to disagree.

I would have a hard time ranking because there have been some really talented prose writers over the last fifty years but so many different approaches. 

2 hours ago, eagle45 said:

 rant:  My 9 month old son woke up fussy with a cough and 101.5 fever this morning...goes to pediatrician and tests positive for COVID.  

My wife and I have been pretty careful at home with him...he's had minimal other contact in the last couple weeks...so the exposure is almost certainly from me working at the hospital and taking it home (jokes about the landscaper or milkman and my wife are perfectly acceptable and reasonable).  

I work at a US News/World Report top hospital.  As an asymptomatic healthcare employee with both work-related and home exposures, I had to move heaven and earth just to get a 2-day PCR test and could not get a rapid.  I was turned away multiple times by employee health because I'm asymptomatic...and was told there is no need to quarantine, keep seeing patients.  Now, if I were a backup offensive lineman for the Eagles, I'd have instant access to both PCR and rapid tests.  When I asked one employee health person what the hell I needed to do to get a test, they even sarcastically said "sign a contract with the New York Giants and that might help."

I never liked the healthcare hero worship from a year ago, but the discrepancy between our protections/options and those of the professional sports leagues is leaving me bitter enough right now to have lost all interest in supporting them.  

I've seen from afar how hard it is to get tests over there.  In the UK, the Govt are giving Lateral Flow tests out for free like confetti at a wedding and PCR tests are easily available for free too.  We're testing too much where it's become an obsession for some people and a stat on a daily basis to worry about, but at least we can test.  I can't conceive your Govt/employer putting you in that position.

2 hours ago, eagle45 said:

 rant:  My 9 month old son woke up fussy with a cough and 101.5 fever this morning...goes to pediatrician and tests positive for COVID.  

My wife and I have been pretty careful at home with him...he's had minimal other contact in the last couple weeks...so the exposure is almost certainly from me working at the hospital and taking it home (jokes about the landscaper or milkman and my wife are perfectly acceptable and reasonable).  

I work at a US News/World Report top hospital.  As an asymptomatic healthcare employee with both work-related and home exposures, I had to move heaven and earth just to get a 2-day PCR test and could not get a rapid.  I was turned away multiple times by employee health because I'm asymptomatic...and was told there is no need to quarantine, keep seeing patients.  Now, if I were a backup offensive lineman for the Eagles, I'd have instant access to both PCR and rapid tests.  When I asked one employee health person what the hell I needed to do to get a test, they even sarcastically said "sign a contract with the New York Giants and that might help."

I never liked the healthcare hero worship from a year ago, but the discrepancy between our protections/options and those of the professional sports leagues is leaving me bitter enough right now to have lost all interest in supporting them.  

Sorry to hear that. I hope your family stays/gets healthy.

I had a similar-ish instance at my work, where I was a high-risk exposure to a patient who could not breath (respiration rate of 44) so I told her she could take her mask off to help breath. I kept my distance, and this was a person whose only contact was with hole health care providers. I was shocked to find out she was Covid positive. I was with her for an hour and waited for the ambulance to get there. I thought for sure I’d be Covid positive positive. My work wouldn’t let me get tested since I had no symptoms. Occupational health told me I should quarantine at home and get tested on my own 96 hours after contact. 

So I was fine to work but instructed to not be around my family. I had to get a drive through test at a grocery store, and thankfully it only took two days to get the results after the 96 hour waiting period. 

Just a couple of weeks ago, I had a bad sinus infection. At prompt care the nurse was convinced it was Covid. My rapid test was negative, but they sent a second sample to the lab for more accurate testing. In the mean time I had to self quarantine. The day before I went to prompt care I reported my symptoms to my boss. Because I didn’t have a fever I was expected to work. For the prompt care nurse to say she thought I had Covid was pretty awful since I had seen patients the day before.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to these decisions. 

Haven’t been able to keep up with Eagles the last month with how much I’ve been working, but I finally got around to watching this game.

few things:

I was surprised Eagles defense is ranked in top 10? I’m sure it’s lower when looking at DVOA. 
 

Devonta’s grab in the 1st quarter was so impressive. It’s awesome having a young drafted WR making plays like that. He really has the potential to be a top 5 WR in the league eventually. 
 

Besides the two rough drops, Goedert is a future star in the league also. Great game. Him and Devonta are going to be a nice duo for the future. 
 

Kelce, such a beast. I got thinking about how his time is coming to an end. Have to appreciate the games while you can 

 

Hurts played pretty good I thought, one of his stronger games for the year. As a passer he’s progressed for sure, still had some he missed but I liked what I saw. He’s convincing me to give him another year so we can use those draft picks on defense & OL.

4 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

I would have a hard time ranking because there have been some really talented prose writers over the last fifty years but so many different approaches. 

I agree about ranking. I don't do it. It's just that, for me, Joan Didion stands alone. Her clarity and precision is unmatched. How do you describe pain, grief, and loss? The Year of Magical Thinking just tore me up.

2 minutes ago, justrelax said:

I agree about ranking. I don't do it. It's just that, for me, Joan Didion stands alone. Her clarity and precision is unmatched. How do you describe pain, grief, and loss? The Year of Magical Thinking just tore me up.

Gabo sends his regards.

4 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

You joke but this was an actual suggestion the other day

I know... that's why I made the joke.  I do not have that vivid an imagination.

4 hours ago, DeathByEagle said:

• 
  12.
  Kenny Pickett

  QB Pittsburgh
   
• 
  23.
  Sam Howell

  QB North Carolina
   
• 
  34.
  Carson Strong

  QB Nevada
  
• 
  43.
  Desmond Ridder

  QB Cincinnati
   
• 
  80.
  Kaleb Eleby

  QB Western Michigan
   
• 
  117.
  Bailey Zappe

  QB Western Kentucky
   
• 
  152.
  JT Daniels

  QB Georgia
   
• 
  156.
  Brock Purdy

  QB Iowa State
   
• 
  169.
  Anthony Russo

  QB Michigan State
   
• 
  206.
  McKenzie Milton

  QB Florida State
   
• 2023 MIN 1st
• 2023 DET 1st

 

If we dont land on one of these QBs we have next years Lions and Vikings picks to try again. 🙂

QB factory.

19 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

Gabo sends his regards.

Well, that's a problem. I don't read Spanish, though I am trying to learn it so that I can read him in his own words. Truly, that is my motivation. So far, I have only read him in translation and, even there, if I were to rely on Edith Grossman's translations I would say, "great writer" but if Gregory Rabassa, I say "greatest writer of the last 50 years." And I have not read a word of what Gabo actually wrote.

I cannot compare Garcia Marquez with Joan Didion. For one thing, I am ignorant of the former's prose. For another, they inhabit different worlds. A friend of mine described One Hundred Years of Solitude as being written in glowing bejeweled letters. I completely understood. I had never read a book like that before and, with magical realism, lo, others appeared. My wife taught an inner city English class and used Chronicle of a Death Foretold. The kids freaked over it. I have read Autumn of the Patriarch half a dozen times in translation. Sentences that go on for two or three pages, with the speaker changing in mid-sentence and changing yet again. Gabo attended trials of Batista's thugs and that inspired this writing. He spoke of how the witnesses changed but their stories remained the same, hence this extraordinary sentence structure, this prose.

But,

I was reading Rabassa's words and, incredible as they are, they are not Gabo's. They are fabulous, but they are different.

Gabo and Didion write in different ways of different things. Didion has written some very good novels. Gabo's are better, by orders of magnitude, but in ways unfair to compare. They write about different things in different planes of our perception. Nothing Gabo has ever written cuts me the way much of Didion does. Nothing she has written expands my mind as his does. In a way, her prose is reductive, but his is expansive.

I hope this makes some sense. To anyone who has read neither of these writers, you have a great and wonderful expanse before you. To those who don't care, I feel sorry for you.

3 hours ago, eagle45 said:

 rant:  My 9 month old son woke up fussy with a cough and 101.5 fever this morning...goes to pediatrician and tests positive for COVID.  

My wife and I have been pretty careful at home with him...he's had minimal other contact in the last couple weeks...so the exposure is almost certainly from me working at the hospital and taking it home (jokes about the landscaper or milkman and my wife are perfectly acceptable and reasonable).  

I work at a US News/World Report top hospital.  As an asymptomatic healthcare employee with both work-related and home exposures, I had to move heaven and earth just to get a 2-day PCR test and could not get a rapid.  I was turned away multiple times by employee health because I'm asymptomatic...and was told there is no need to quarantine, keep seeing patients.  Now, if I were a backup offensive lineman for the Eagles, I'd have instant access to both PCR and rapid tests.  When I asked one employee health person what the hell I needed to do to get a test, they even sarcastically said "sign a contract with the New York Giants and that might help."

I never liked the healthcare hero worship from a year ago, but the discrepancy between our protections/options and those of the professional sports leagues is leaving me bitter enough right now to have lost all interest in supporting them.  

You are correct.

3 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

I don't know why Solak would assert Hurts has "clearly done enough to win the starting job next year, take the Eagles to the playoffs this year ... " -- he hasn't accomplished that yet.

What happens if Hurts spits the bed in the last 3 games and the Eagles miss the playoffs??  He's being more than a little presumptuous.

Is that new with him?

3 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The prodigal son has come home.

 

Also isn't this replacement your guy @HazletonEagle?

I just read an article that talked about him like he is the next Reggie white.  I know nothing about him but I'll take credit if he's great. 

3 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

I just read an article that talked about him like he is the next Reggie white.  I know nothing about him but I'll take credit if he's great. 

We need the next great Reggie White.  

At this point, I'd settle for the next William Fuller.

2 hours ago, downundermike said:

Pro bowl is a joke.  Lamar Jackson over Allen, Murray over Stafford.  Pro bowl is not about the best players.

Creed Humphrey is easily a top 2-3 Center if not the best, but I guess since he’s a rookie… 

21 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

We need the next great Reggie White.  

At this point, I'd settle for the next William Fuller.

We need the next Joe Ostman

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

We need the next Joe Ostman

We have him... His name is Malveaux.   

50 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

We need the next great Reggie White.  

At this point, I'd settle for the next William Fuller.

William Fuller is a high bar to set.  As an Eagle he had 9.5, 13 and 13 sacks.  He was very underrated here.

Just now, bpac55 said:

William Fuller is a high bar to set.  As an Eagle he had 9.5, 13 and 13 sacks.  He was very underrated here.

True... but he was no Reggie White.