Just now, 315Eagles said:

#2 overall or 2nd round?

That was a falsehood presented to create a moment of humor.

3 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

That was a falsehood presented to create a moment of humor.

Truth

I am on my laptop so I can post , but for whatever reason my quote feature disappeared om my cell , and I cant open my messages … anyone have a clue why?

6 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

That was a falsehood presented to create a moment of humor.

Ahhhh....had me worried for a second there.

1 minute ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Because you were on auto draft one pick ahead of me....you F!

The worst, he deserves his mild inconvenience 

2 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Because you were on auto draft one pick ahead of me....you F!

I wasn't on auto

4 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

I am on my laptop so I can post , but for whatever reason my quote feature disappeared om my cell , and I cant open my messages … anyone have a clue why?

Are you logged out? Happens to me a lot.

5 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

I am on my laptop so I can post , but for whatever reason my quote feature disappeared om my cell , and I cant open my messages … anyone have a clue why?

Close your browser and log back in

Just now, eaglesflyers#1 said:

Are you logged out? Happens to me a lot.

I logged out and back in ,nothing...first time it ever happened to me

4 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

I logged out and back in ,nothing...first time it ever happened to me

Reset your network settings

 

Never thought I would be looking forward to a game involving the cowpads or Tom Brady.  Bucs 56 cowpads 3.   Before Dak leaves the game with a sore shoulder, Dak beats out Eli Manning (3) for the NFL record and NFCE record in pick 6s with four.  Brady is livid in the press conference that he only tied his defense for number of TDs.  AFan points out that 56 points per game suggests Brady might be a good QB. 

1 minute ago, BigEFly said:

Never thought I would be looking forward to a game involving the cowpads or Tom Brady.  Bucs 56 cowpads 3.   Before Dak leaves the game with a sore shoulder, Dak beats out Eli Manning (3) for the NFL record and NFCE record in pick 6s with four.  Brady is livid in the press conference that he only tied his defense for number of TDs.  AFan points out that 56 points per game suggests Brady might be a good QB. 

Draft kings has a gimme bet. +73 TB. Max bet $25. Wins $47

Howie spitting fire at Wentz

2 hours ago, BigEFly said:

No, not really but I do wonder if slavery would have survived the severe droughts in the 1860s and 1870s and the Panic of 1873.  Seems our kids history books focus on the Industrial Revolution at that time but the Panic lasted twice as long as the Great Depression and greatly contributed to western migration and a wave of settlers to America.  The droughts and the toll cotton was taking on the land diminished cotton  growth in the South.   I have severe doubts that the Southern slave driven economy would have survived the droughts and Panic.  We will never know.  I suspect we were bound for secessions sooner than that given the other events as JR pointed out.  

The other problem was with a hostile North, which would have blocked expansion to the West, and kept Oklahoma, Tennessee and Missouri in the Union (and controlled the Mississippi  at Vicksburg), the Confederacy would have been faced with a steady leakage of slaves across every border from Mexico to Virginia. Staying in the Union was actually a better short-term strategy for maintaining slavery. And as anti-slavery sentiment grew in Europe, the merchants of Liverpool would have increased their search for alternative sources of cotton (the problem was that Southern cotton was superior to Egyptian cotton, but with a strong motivation to improve the crop, this edge may not have been maintained).

The South was doomed in any case, even if they had fought to a draw, slavery discouraged immigration, soil depletion would have doomed the finances of the plantation system with no new land to exploit, and capital would have dried up over time. The cost of maintaining armies against an ever growing (in population and wealth) North would have been the final straw. The South could never have industrialized, with their primary market, the British, requiring access to their markets, and the lack of an internal market to support economies of scale (and the transportation infrastructure to reduce transactions costs) they would have remained an agricultural backwater.

The real shame is the failure to break up the plantations, give each slave his "40 acres and a mule," destroying the economic and political power of the Southern elite, and failing to create a black yeoman farmer class. As with white farmers, there would have been consolidation over time, with the more successful farmers hiring the "losers" as tenants, farm workers and sharecroppers, but if they followed the example of the Northwest Ordinance, universal education would have provided a work force that could have migrated from the farms to southern cities as they industrialized as part of the national economy - and the South would have been both integrated and more similar to the Midwest (though climate, until air conditioning, would have made it less populated and poorer). With slavery gone, immigrants would have found the South more hospitable as a destination.

14 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

Howie spitting fire at Wentz

I mean.....he's not lying.

2 minutes ago, 315Eagles said:

I mean.....he's not lying.

No he certainly isn't. Definitely gives him the opportunity to justify his pick. 

Here's something that has me annoyed. When Hurricane Katrina came through Louisiana with devastating effect, the Saints-Giants game could not be played at the Superdome. It had to be moved somewhere. It could have been played pretty much at any stadium in the country. But commissioner Paul Tagliabue somehow decided that the fair solution would be to play the game at Giants Stadium and dress it up as a Saints home game...even though it was filled almost exclusively with Giants fans. It made me sick to my stomach that he basically gave the Giants nine home games that year. It just smacked of favoritism for the team from the city that the league is headquartered in.

So when the latest hurricane ripped through Louisiana a week or so ago and forced the Saints home game to have to be moved somewhere else, they decided to play it in Jacksonville. Isn't that decision an admission that Taglabue was 100% wrong for doing what he did? Because if they want to pretend that Tagliabue was right, they should either play the Saints-Packers game in New York (like they did last time) or play it in Green Bay (similar to last time by giving the away team an extra home game).  Why were the Giants given a gift when the Packers weren't?

I realize this probably won't mean much to other people, but it's something I've never forgotten.

And yes, I know the Phillies got a similar break a few years ago when a series with the Blue Jays was moved to Philadelphia. I thought that was asinine too.

1 minute ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

No he certainly isn't. Definitely gives him the opportunity to justify his pick. 

Carson failed. He had a good 11 games in 2017. We won the SB and he was apart of that. But outside of that year he has been a bust. He actually has been worse than Winston. We have to accept that fact.

4 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

How does 6 TD and 4 INT put a QB on pace for 27 TD and 11 INT?

It’s been a long time since I’ve been in school but this feels like math by cherry-picking

With playing the second half of the packers and basically 3 Quarters against Washington so he played significant snaps/started in basically 4 games and a quarter. He had 6 passing tds, 3 rushing tds and 4 ints. So over 17 games the projection should be 25.5 td passes, 17 ints. He’d also be on pace for 12.75 tds and 9 fumbles lost. 

3 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

Here's something that has me annoyed. When Hurricane Katrina came through Louisiana with devastating effect, the Saints-Giants game could not be played at the Superdome. It had to be moved somewhere. It could have been played pretty much at any stadium in the country. But commissioner Paul Tagliabue somehow decided that the fair solution would be to play the game at Giants Stadium and dress it up as a Saints home game...even though it was filled almost exclusively with Giants fans. It made me sick to my stomach that he basically gave the Giants nine home games that year. It just smacked of favoritism for the team from the city that the league is headquartered in.

So when the latest hurricane ripped through Louisiana a week or so ago and forced the Saints home game to have to be moved somewhere else, they decided to play it in Jacksonville. Isn't that decision an admission that Taglabue was 100% wrong for doing what he did? Because if they want to pretend that Tagliabue was right, they should either play the Saints-Packers game in New York (like they did last time) or play it in Green Bay (similar to last time by giving the away team an extra home game).  Why were the Giants given a gift when the Packers weren't?

I realize this probably won't mean much to other people, but it's something I've never forgotten.

And yes, I know the Phillies got a similar break a few years ago when a series with the Blue Jays was moved to Philadelphia. I thought that was asinine too.

People make bad decisions. It happens. It was a crazy decision. It’s all in the past. It was a history changing event. Tagliabue made his choice. It’s over. Let it go man.

16 minutes ago, 315Eagles said:

I mean.....he's not lying.

He is because it wasn’t just 4 games

The mental gymnastics people do to feel better about certain players or games is ridiculous. 

7 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

The mental gymnastics people do to feel better about certain players or games is ridiculous. 

I’m still confused on how they got the projection of 27 tds and 11 ints if he started 16 games last year. It really makes no sense. He basically played significant snaps and/or started 4 games and a quarter. During that time he had 6 passing tds and 4 ints. That means he threw 1.5 tds per game which over 17 games (for this year) becomes 25.5 passing tds. Also means he had 1 int per game. So it should be 17 ints per 17 games. 

20 minutes ago, MillerTime said:

Carson failed. He had a good 11 games in 2017. We won the SB and he was apart of that. But outside of that year he has been a bust. He actually has been worse than Winston. We have to accept that fact.

That’s an overstatement. Carson has a better W/L record than Winston. Besides that Wentz has 121 TDs to 79 turnovers. Winston has 131 TDs to 119 turnovers. Wentz also has a better passer rating. He wasn’t here long and he wasn’t what we hoped but it doesn’t make sense to drag him as being worse than he actually was.