1 minute ago, eagle45 said:

You’ve been reported to the mods.

They probably were MODerately amused by it 

Every year there is a subclass of teams in the NFL that you can classify as good bad teams.  Teams that make no mistake about it are bad and it shows when they play good teams, but they also beat the other bad teams.  

 

This year I think that there are clearly 3 good bad teams.  The Falcons, the Redskins and the Eagles.  We might be the best of the 3 good bad teams but we will see when we play the Redskins.

2 hours ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Yes, it was his first game playing RT with a brace... it was not his first game playing RT, however.

 

He should definitely wear the brace on Thursday night.

when did he play RT before?

pats 31

eagles 17

3 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

when did he play RT before?

When Lane missed a game last year.  Peters had replaced Mailata at LT and Lane missed a game.  Mailata started at RT.   He also played RT in the entire preseason in 2019, and had been cross training there since then.  He is familiar with RT, much more so than Dillard was when he was thrown in there on the fly.

24 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

They probably were MODerately amused by it 

🙄

3 minutes ago, olsilverhair said:

pats 31

eagles 17

49 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Lurie sure likes advisors.  Will he hire Mayock next year when Davis fires him?

I didn't know that Mayock didn't get final say

10 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

when did he play RT before?

 

He played some last season for a game or two after Jason Peters came back and the Eagles for no productive reason put Peters back at starting LT and Mailata to the bench.  

52 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Lurie sure likes advisors.  Will he hire Mayock next year when Davis fires him?

Daniel Jeremiah please

2 hours ago, RLC said:

IMO, stylistic Kelce replacement. My fear is that he's listed at 290lbs...which means he's likely 270-280. That's very light.

His weight doesn't concern me. He'll add the weight if needed

2 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

I didn't know that Mayock didn't get final say

They hired Gruden before Mayock.

7 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

🙄

Holy crap, just made some wagyu steak...my life is forever changed.

Just now, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Lol, I get caught up reading your damn memes and other sheet just for it to end in a dad joke. Then I get mad at myself for laughing at it!! Bastid! 

 

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

Lurie sure likes advisors.  Will he hire Mayock next year when Davis fires him?

I'd be curious what happened behind closed doors there.  Mayock does have a good eye for talent.  Ferrell is really the only major head scratcher by that team IMO>

Bucs 37

Eagles 16 

3 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

Lol, I get caught up reading your damn memes and other sheet just for it to end in a dad joke. Then I get mad at myself for laughing at it!! Bastid! 

 

Basically me when you do that 

BUCS 27

Eagles 17

 

Hurts Fumble 

@LeanMeanGM

2 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

This is what i was talking about during the Dallas game. The game plan might have been poor but it looks way worse when the QB isn’t completing passes he should be making easily as a starter or missing reads or taking off before the play is allowed to develop. I hope hurts progresses over this stretch and gets better each game but really it feels like unless we are playing a bad defense he tends to have the same issues for majority of the games 

This is semantics, I know, but there’s a difference between scheme and game plan IMO. His scheme might have been able to open up players, but the game plan was bad because he repeatedly put a struggling player in a position to carry an offense.

 

43 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

When Lane missed a game last year.  Peters had replaced Mailata at LT and Lane missed a game.  Mailata started at RT.   He also played RT in the entire preseason in 2019, and had been cross training there since then.  He is familiar with RT, much more so than Dillard was when he was thrown in there on the fly.

how do I not remember that at all?

6 hours ago, BigEFly said:

  

Really need to expand your reading beyond a poorly researched and conclusion driven NY Times project. There is accuracy in much of the information but slanted towards the writer’s thesis.  

Let’s try that Washington freed his slaves.  Kind of.  His will called for the slaves he owned to be freed on the death of Martha Washington, not his death.  But the reality of it was that the majority of their slaves were Curstis slaves.  Owned by or progeny of slaves of her first husband or descendants of mixed Curstis and Washington slave families and thus Curstis by the property rights of the time.  

Remember earlier when I responded to DesertBirds and talked about women having little property rights at the time of our nation’s founding. Well, Martha as a young widow with four children had dower inheritance rights   In other words lifetime use of her husband’s estate but the inheritance rights went to her children, in truth, her son.  Curstis was richer than Washington and owned several plantations and slaves to run them.  Martha couldn’t have freed those slaves if she wanted because the inheritance really flowed to Curstis’ children.  

Now, George and Martha had no children  In other words, no direct heirs.  Martha’s son was her only child to live to adulthood   His son lived with Martha and George.  So George knew that step grandson was cared for from his Curstis inheritance.  So those Curstis slaves and their offspring and the Curstis properties passed to that step grandson.  Martha had use of both the Washington and Curstis slaves until her death  

Kind of changes the picture from your presentation a bit.  

Might read up a bit on John Adams and John Quincy Adams before talking about the first nine presidents   Suggest you delve into Abigail Adams a bit too. The letters between the two clearly identify that Abigail and her wisdom deserve the title of Mother of our Country.  (When I discovered ancestors back in Braintree, my daughter was thrilled to find out that John and especially Abigail were cousins of both my wife and my families.) 

 

It's also important to put slavery in perspective.  When the Constitution was written, I don't think any country had yet to abolish slavery, even when the British abolished the slave trade in 1807 (a fun movie that simplifies the British politics is "Amazing Grace") they didn't abolish slavery until 1833. And so forth. There were millions of European and Ottoman slaves, African slaves, Russian Serfs, etc. Arabs retained African slaves until the 20th century. So do you expect the Founding Fathers to abolish slavery in the North and create a slave country in the South (since the Southern colonies made it clear they wouldn't accede to such a union), and create the potential for continuous conflict between the two and Europeans interfering and maybe destroying both?

In that context, even contemplating the abolition of slavery was a big step forward - it's dangerous to make judgements about people in the past, they lived in a different world than us, constant warfare, high mortality, etc. Scratch your finger and die from tetanus. You can see the settling of NA as "Western Imperialism" if you're an ideologue, but if you're an honest historian, how does it differ from the Great migrations from Eurasia, including the initial one that slaughtered the Neolithic settlers of Western Europe. Wave after wave have swept across the landscape for thousands of years, slaughtering millions. Some Europeans flocked to America as fortune hunters, but most settlers were hungry for land because that's how you feed your family. In land starved Europe, even relatively prosperous farmers weren't that far from the edge of famine in a bad year or two. And if it's between securing the future for your children or eliminating those pesky natives, what choice would you make? So where those white settlers unique or just another migration that overwhelmed the existing inhabitants of the real estate in question.

8 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

 

 

6 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

how do I not remember that at all?

I don't know.