36 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Oh good, now we are going to cure what ails education in here.   I look forward to it.   👀

Lazy kids and terrible parents. What do I win?

5 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Sure thing.  One thing sorings right to mind was Foles in his second season against the Saints in the playoffs.  Eagles had the ball 2nd down at the Saints 23 yard line. Right at the start of the play DeSean is open to the right on a quick hitch that would have been good enough for a near first down or all he needed to do was make one guy miss after the catch and it could have been an even bigger gain.  Instead Foles keeps holding onto the ball and bakc pedaling for what felt like near 10 seconds, never once opting to throw the ball away and instead he took a really really really bad sack that took the Eagles back to the 34 yard line. B two plays later Henery then misses a now very long field goal. 

Yes, you've completely missed the point of course. I said, young QBs make mistakes with reads, blitzes, and coverages. That's expected. On that play (it was 2nd and 18), clip here. 

Watch Foles. Look how he is going through his reads, constantly scanning ALL sides of the field. He's clearly looking for a deep throw. He should have taken the short throw to D-Jax, but that's a forgivable mistake for a young QB. He's trying to make something big happen instead of taking the 8 yard gain Desean gets and making an easier third down.

You don't see him turning his back to the defense and running in a circle, you don't see him running straight out of bounds. Hell, he even stays in the pocket the whole time, and Peters and Mathis somehow aren't enough to contain a singular rusher. So you had to go back almost 10 years to show an example, and that example isn't even what I'm talking about. 

34 minutes ago, DrPhilly said:

Maybe we'll just move all of CVON in here and solve all of the world's problems together in one thread.

No thanks

4 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I would agree on the second part.

My own personal feelings?  I lived through Cunningham already, and I don't believe an offense (nor team) can win a championship if the QB is designed to be a primary playmaker in the offense.  The QB needs to be a distributor of the football IMO and allow others to make plays.  That's just my own personal bias.  The QB as the playmaker is too easily shut down.

The last sentence, #facts.  Lamar Jackson has played in 4 playoff games, the Ravens average 10.5 PPG in his 4 playoff games.

Just now, greend said:

Lazy kids and terrible parents. What do I win?

A horrible future! Congratulations!!! 

2 minutes ago, TorontoEagle said:

Yes, you've completely missed the point of course. I said, young QBs make mistakes with reads, blitzes, and coverages. That's expected. On that play (it was 2nd and 18), clip here. 

Watch Foles. Look how he is going through his reads, constantly scanning ALL sides of the field. He's clearly looking for a deep throw. He should have taken the short throw to D-Jax, but that's a forgivable mistake for a young QB. He's trying to make something big happen instead of taking the 8 yard gain Desean gets and making an easier third down.

You don't see him turning his back to the defense and running in a circle, you don't see him running straight out of bounds. Hell, he even stays in the pocket the whole time, and Peters and Mathis somehow aren't enough to contain a singular rusher. So you had to go back almost 10 years to show an example, and that example isn't even what I'm talking about. 

What the hell kind of lazy, half @ssed route is Desean running ? 

4 minutes ago, dawkdaballhawk said:

I noticed that before lol ..... it's a nice jersey and I don't mind the shout out to former players.

I did cringe a bit when I heard that McNabb was mentoring him in off the field stuff, though.

3 minutes ago, TorontoEagle said:

Yes, you've completely missed the point of course. I said, young QBs make mistakes with reads, blitzes, and coverages. That's expected. On that play (it was 2nd and 18), clip here. 

Watch Foles. Look how he is going through his reads, constantly scanning ALL sides of the field. He's clearly looking for a deep throw. He should have taken the short throw to D-Jax, but that's a forgivable mistake for a young QB. He's trying to make something big happen instead of taking the 8 yard gain Desean gets and making an easier third down.

You don't see him turning his back to the defense and running in a circle, you don't see him running straight out of bounds. Hell, he even stays in the pocket the whole time, and Peters and Mathis somehow aren't enough to contain a singular rusher. So you had to go back almost 10 years to show an example, and that example isn't even what I'm talking about. 

 

You don't see him throwing the ball away. You see him holding onto it back pedaling and taking an inexcusable sack. 

1 minute ago, TorontoEagle said:

A horrible future! Congratulations!!! 

Meh, I might have 20 years left. The stupid kids are ruining their own future.

 

 

1 minute ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

You don't see him throwing the ball away. You see him holding onto it back pedaling and taking an inexcusable sack. 

Yeah, if it was Hurts in there, and it was 4th down, he'd throw it away and we'd get no points instead of a FG attempt. That's my point. 

12 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I would agree on the second part.

My own personal feelings?  I lived through Cunningham already, and I don't believe an offense (nor team) can win a championship if the QB is designed to be a primary playmaker in the offense.  The QB needs to be a distributor of the football IMO and allow others to make plays.  That's just my own personal bias.  The QB as the playmaker is too easily shut down.

Yup....it can only take you so far.

4 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I noticed that before lol ..... it's a nice jersey and I don't mind the shout out to former players.

I see these jerseys and badly want that to replace midnight green.

Just now, RLC said:

I see these jerseys and badly want that to replace midnight green.

I'd settle for a bone tossed every once in a while.

24 minutes ago, Ipiggles said:

So we should keep the system as it is and continue to fund under performing schools and insist that underprivilidged children attend them? Hoping we can make them better? 

If you lose the bad schools at the bottom, it raises the level of education across the board, for all children. How many years have they been trying to raise the level of the bottom? And what do we end up doing? Lowering the standards of education so they appear like they are doing a good job?  Is that really what we want. 

Now imagine you are the single mother of three barely able to support your kids because you also were stuck in a poverty cycle, and attneded a below avg school etc. Wouldn't you want to be able to provide the best for your child? WHy should it come down to whether you have enough money to be able to move into a good school system or pay for a better school? 

 

Schools across the world perform much better than American schools, even those that are high performing schools by our standards.   They do not have school choice.  They just have a cultural commitment to education. I mean here people resist educational philosophy and more rigorous methods of study.  When schools try to adopt common core and better educational concepts for teaching math, people complain and resist it.  When science is taught, people think it interferes with their religious beliefs.  

The fundamental problem with school choice is that it leaves the most vulnerable students with the most disengaged parents in schools that are not funded and staffed sufficiently to meet those students' needs.  

6 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I noticed that before lol ..... it's a nice jersey and I don't mind the shout out to former players.

I did cringe a bit when I heard that McNabb was mentoring him in off the field stuff, though.

Got the same jersey only in green.  Has the Jerome Brown patch on it as well.

Too bad I stopped wearing jerseys 20 years ago.

12 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I noticed that before lol ..... it's a nice jersey and I don't mind the shout out to former players.

I did cringe a bit when I heard that McNabb was mentoring him in off the field stuff, though.

It made me like him a bit more. I didn't know McNabb was "helping".

10 minutes ago, TorontoEagle said:

Yeah, if it was Hurts in there, and it was 4th down, he'd throw it away and we'd get no points instead of a FG attempt. That's my point. 

 

It would be a point if this is something that Hurts has done multiple times.  But it isn't. He did that once. You are talking like he is consistently making this mistake of throwing interceptions at the goalline. 

Article on Fox buying NFL rights in 93

Just read through this, and as I was just a young man then, have no memory of pre-FOX football. Sounds like they really changed everything. 

1 minute ago, TorontoEagle said:

Article on Fox buying NFL rights in 93

Just read through this, and as I was just a young man then, have no memory of pre-FOX football. Sounds like they really changed everything. 

NFC was on CBS and NFC was on NBC on Sundays when I was a kid. Monday Night Football was on ABC

5 minutes ago, greend said:

NFC was on CBS and NFC was on NBC on Sundays when I was a kid. Monday Night Football was on ABC

I miss Don Criqui and Dick Enberg commentating games -- as well as Pat Summerall, of course.

  

35 minutes ago, dawkdaballhawk said:

I have that jersey

12 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

NS doesnt trust him enough to throw in the Redzone. 

 

Except that he throws in the Redzone every game. But hey, can't come in the blog and expect anyone to be grounded within reality when it comes to discussing Hurts. 

You know your video game is old when Pat Summerall is doing the commentary

33 minutes ago, downundermike said:

The last sentence, #facts.  Lamar Jackson has played in 4 playoff games, the Ravens average 10.5 PPG in his 4 playoff games.

I'll never forget how Joe Gibbs mush rushed Randall in Buddy's last game.

Not sure if anyone remembers Madden calling the McNabb 14 second scramble vs Dallas. 

Always gave me chills hearing Madden yell "that is amazing" after the play.