18 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Whoa

I've heard that makes a player un-sackable and un-tackle-able ..... if that's a word.  

3 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

Driscoll being injured is what prompted my question in the first place. The truth is, I'm just not comfortable with the backup right tackle position with Driscoll not being available. 

Also, if he were healthy, I suspect he'd be the first backup at right guard too.

I also wonder if Le'Raven Clark might be activated this week to be the backup. It's possible though not necessarily likely.

I'd also give some consideration into moving Seumalo to right tackle for the duration of the game and putting Herbig in at left guard. Though come to think of it, if you're going to switch two players you might as well do the Mailata/Dillard dance.

My money is on Howard and Riley getting elevated from the PS this week.

They seem to really like Toth.  He'd be the guy that comes in for Lane.

3 hours ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

Talib was the worst color commentator I've ever heard. I can't believe anyone would actually want to watch a game with him.

 

What a ridiculous take. He was so refreshing and unique.  He did a great job analyzing the defenses and different coverages being used.  He absolutely needs to get more games.  

4 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

I think that's a difficult question.  My concern is that either memorializing or tearing down tends to lead toward hyperbole about a person's character.  The historical truth becomes distorted.   The Trail of Tears, to a large degree was not suffering that Scott created or could have avoided given Jackson's policy.  Still troops under his command likely abused and probably killed innocent people who had the misfortune of being non-white in an area that was desirable. This is nothing new in terms of human history. Although the white supremacism that rationalized displacing native people in the early 19th century is part of the root of current white supremacy, the displacement of one people for others is nothing new.  I think part of the problem is the lack of acknowledging the problems with the behavior.  Scott certainly should be remembered for what he did that helped the country.  

I don't think the same can be said of Lee.  One of my frustrations with promoting the memorialization of Confederate generals, like Lee, is they ignore the larger part of the South that suffered because of people like Lee.  

Great points. I tend to agree about the celebration of Lee.  But by the same token, we cannot ignore Lee’s role a Harper’s Ferry against Brown or even his lesser role in the Mexican American War.

I guess it is just having studied history and understanding how to be an historian in college, taught me to understand the events in context with the times. That means understanding the bad with the good not only as we see it but as those people of the time saw it and it is not the same lens.  

24 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Whoa

6 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

Driscoll being injured is what prompted my question in the first place. The truth is, I'm just not comfortable with the backup right tackle position with Driscoll not being available. 

Also, if he were healthy, I suspect he'd be the first backup at right guard too.

I also wonder if Le'Raven Clark might be activated this week to be the backup. It's possible though not necessarily likely.

I'd also give some consideration into moving Seumalo to right tackle for the duration of the game and putting Herbig in at left guard. Though come to think of it, if you're going to switch two players you might as well do the Mailata/Dillard dance.

You very well could be right... likely are.  Clark is an option, but I don't know how trusted he is yet... or his health situation.    Let's hope it doesn't matter, especially if Herbig already has to jump in at RG for Brooks.

With the Brooks injury, the Eagles trade for Matt Pryor in 3, 2, 1.........

As for Talib on comms, he could actually talk about the unfolding game even if the diction was non-traditional.  The likes of Ronde Barber who have had a similar gig over the years talk in the banalest of banalities and you could replace with them with AI and save on the airfare.  Barber offered nothing

Roughly 28 hours left...

Get your predictions in for the season.

Brooks injury is a concern but I suspect it is the same issue he has been nursing all camp and they are being cautious with him.   

1 hour ago, schuy7 said:

He's way overreacting to this. He should know the defense's personnel by their numbers anyway.

Maybe he could secretly tape them and memorize their numbers...

39 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

 

Is this something new or just soreness from the same knee he recently had surgery on?

15 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Great points. I tend to agree about the celebration of Lee.  But by the same token, we cannot ignore Lee’s role a Harper’s Ferry against Brown or even his lesser role in the Mexican American War.

I guess it is just having studied history and understanding how to be an historian in college, taught me to understand the events in context with the times. That means understanding the bad with the good not only as we see it but as those people of the time saw it and it is not the same lens.  

Brown was the hero at Harpers' Ferry.  

Just now, NCiggles said:

Brown was the hero at Harpers' Ferry.  

He was a lunatic.  Set back abolitionists in this country. 

3 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

Is this something new or just soreness from the same knee he recently had surgery on?

He didn't have knee surgery. It's something new.

4 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

Is this something new or just soreness from the same knee he recently had surgery on?

 

I thought Brooks had a torn Achilles not ACL? 

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

He didn't have knee surgery. It's something new.

Achilles. Don't know why I thought he tore his ACL

Looking at the schedule, it's entirely possible the Eagles will be underdogs in every game until week 8 vs Detroit, considering the Raiders and Panthers games are on the road.

Does anyone off the top of their head know the last time the Eagles started a season going that long until they were a favorite?

1 minute ago, Mike030270 said:

Achilles. Don't know why I thought he tore his ACL

You can just say some part of the leg on all these guys and you have like a 25% chance of being right. 

5 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

Brown was the hero at Harpers' Ferry.  

True, but Lee and Stuart were doing their duty.

Brown had a lot of blood on his hands, fwiw.

5 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

He was a lunatic.  Set back abolitionists in this country. 

 

I will disagree with this.  His act was barbaric, it was ill-advised, but it crystallized the issue and it could rightly be said that the shots fired in Harper's Ferry really were the first shots of the Civil War, which erupted just 18 months later.  

 

And he was very correct in this prophetic statement... 

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood."

8 minutes ago, justrelax said:

True, but Lee and Stuart were doing their duty.

Brown had a lot of blood on his hands, fwiw.

Most definitely.  

13 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

He was a lunatic.  Set back abolitionists in this country. 

A fanatic, perhaps, and with a lot of blood on his hands but not a lunatic. I disagree that he set back the abolitionist cause. By that time the die was cast. The planters were in full cry. Sumner was beaten half to death in the halls of Congress three years earlier. The time for talk was over and the war was inevitable. Brown fits into Malcolm X’s line, "By any means necessary.”

11 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

 

I will disagree with this.  His act was barbaric, it was ill-advised, but it crystallized the issue and it could rightly be said that the shots fired in Harper's Ferry really were the first shots of the Civil War, which erupted just 18 months later.  

 

And he was very correct in this prophetic statement... 

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood."

Most definitely.  

One could argue that the war started in Kansas five years earlier.

4 minutes ago, justrelax said:

A fanatic, perhaps, and with a lot of blood on his hands but not a lunatic. I disagree that he set back the abolitionist cause. By that time the die was cast. The planters were in full cry. Sumner was beaten half to death in the halls of Congress three years earlier. The time for talk was over and the war was inevitable. Brown fits into Malcolm X’s line, "By any means necessary.”

It is interesting to read what Frederick Douglass had to say about him.  

2 minutes ago, justrelax said:

One could argue that the war started in Kansas five years earlier.

Very true... and Brown was there too.

1 hour ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

He's a baby for joking around?  

 

The number thing is ridiculous.  

No, he’s a baby for crying about the number change all offseason. Obviously.