24 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

Let’s just draft 3 QBs in round 1 and see who wins. Whatever gets Hurts out. 

4D chess right there.  

Just now, NCiggles said:

4D chess right there.  

The forced trade at the end

6 minutes ago, What The F said:

Hey guys...  I just got word that @Dawkins 20 passed away on Monday Jan 31st.  37 years old. I know he was active in this thread, so thought id let you all know. RIP Shaun.. 

Terrible to hear - 

5 minutes ago, What The F said:

Hey guys...  I just got word that @Dawkins 20 passed away on Monday Jan 31st.  37 years old. I know he was active in this thread, so thought id let you all know. RIP Shaun.. 

No way. @Dawkins 20 was a good dude. Had some good convos with him back on the old board and in some of the other sports threads on here like the Phillies thread. RIP 

3 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

4D chess right there.  

8 hours ago, Infam said:

The upside with a job like this is low expectations though. If he improves it will be seen as a big achievement, if not most won‘t blame him.

> 9 wins 3 consecutive years and he'll be though of as Bill Belichick's smarter brother 🤣

With Willis rising can we have 2 or 3 QB's gone before our pick?  Keep getting better defensive players to drop to us please

3 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

4D chess right there.  

That’s an A+ draft in my book. 

15 minutes ago, What The F said:

Hey guys...  I just got word that @Dawkins 20 passed away on Monday Jan 31st.  37 years old. I know he was active in this thread, so thought id let you all know. RIP Shaun.. 

Shame

1 minute ago, garingovt2000 said:

With Willis rising can we have 2 or 3 QB's gone before our pick?  Keep getting better defensive players to drop to us please

That is what I am hoping for. Let all these other teams reach for these stupid QBs and let the elite defensive talent fall to the Eagles in the draft.

18 minutes ago, What The F said:

Hey guys...  I just got word that @Dawkins 20 passed away on Monday Jan 31st.  37 years old. I know he was active in this thread, so thought id let you all know. RIP Shaun.. 

Wait, this guy https://www.eaglesmessageboard.com/profile/7-dawkins-20/

or the guy that posted on the old blog?

3 minutes ago, garingovt2000 said:

With Willis rising can we have 2 or 3 QB's gone before our pick?  Keep getting better defensive players to drop to us please

4 minutes ago, greend said:

Wait, this guy https://www.eaglesmessageboard.com/profile/7-dawkins-20/

Yep, this guy

1 hour ago, justrelax said:

Apologies if someone has already said this: If Howie is paying such close attention to Willis, doesn't that indicate that he realizes Hurts isn't good enough?

Or... he's smokescreening something else.   But, yeah, I think we have to HOPE that that's the case.  That said, I have zero interest in Willis in the first round.   So, going with Willis in Round 1 would indicate that he's still not learned much recently.

6 minutes ago, downundermike said:

Yep, this guy

I’m pretty sure he was on the old boards. I had more convos in the Phillies and nba threads with him there. 

1 hour ago, Alphagrand said:

I don't think Hurts was ever really a "Howie" pick.  Yes, Howie is responsible/accountable for all picks, but I think Andy Weidl and Doug were driving the bus on that pick and they convinced Howie.  Also if we're to believe the rationale for the pick as it was put forward at the draft, then Hurts wasn't drafted under the premise he'd be the starting QB long term.  

If neither Nick or Howie are "Hurts guys" then Hurts' grasp on the starting QB position is tenuous at best.

Well, that's just great.  No one really wanted him.   But, here we are... with no realistic option to move on from him currently.

1 hour ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

You’re just now coming to this conclusion?   They wanted Wentz to stay so they knew Hurts wasn’t good enough.   

But he could improve...  

31 minutes ago, What The F said:

Hey guys...  I just got word that @Dawkins 20 passed away on Monday Jan 31st.  37 years old. I know he was active in this thread, so thought id let you all know. RIP Shaun.. 

Damn. Always liked him. Had multiple good convos with him over the years. RIP, Go Birds.

25 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

4D chess right there.  

Now THAT'S a factory.

1 hour ago, justrelax said:

Apologies if someone has already said this: If Howie is paying such close attention to Willis, doesn't that indicate that he realizes Hurts isn't good enough?

Really, JR, you're old enough to know not to take these kinds of things seriously.

Yes, a number of players they've interviewed at the Senior Bowl have been drafted, but the majority of players they interviewed weren't drafted.

Sometimes b/c they weren't available, sometimes b/c they weren't interested.

I think Howie is going to talk to and invite anyone credible who might be available in the range of their 1st rd picks, both to gather information on those players, but also to incentivize teams that might be thinking about trading up to ether trade with the Eagles, or just as good, trade up to take a player he doesn't want, pushing a player he does want further down.

This time of year there's more misinformation generated by NFL teams than by a Russian troll farm during a US election.

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

No way. @Dawkins 20 was a good dude. Had some good convos with him back on the old board and in some of the other sports threads on here like the Phillies thread. RIP 

That's hard to believe.   Reality sucks.

34 minutes ago, What The F said:

Hey guys...  I just got word that @Dawkins 20 passed away on Monday Jan 31st.  37 years old. I know he was active in this thread, so thought id let you all know. RIP Shaun.. 

Man... thats horrible to hear. He was one of the great ones. Always funny, and never had problems with anyone. Only 37. Jesus... 

18 minutes ago, greend said:

Wait, this guy https://www.eaglesmessageboard.com/profile/7-dawkins-20/

or the guy that posted on the old blog?

Not the guy that did the chipwagon.  

1 minute ago, austinfan said:

Really, JR, you're old enough to know not to take these kinds of things seriously.

Yes, a number of players they've interviewed at the Senior Bowl have been drafted, but the majority of players they interviewed weren't drafted.

Sometimes b/c they weren't available, sometimes b/c they weren't interested.

I think Howie is going to talk to and invite anyone credible who might be available in the range of their 1st rd picks, both to gather information on those players, but also to incentivize teams that might be thinking about trading up to ether trade with the Eagles, or just as good, trade up to take a player he doesn't want, pushing a player he does want further down.

This time of year there's more misinformation generated by NFL teams than by a Russian troll farm during a US election.

One of my favorite conversations of the last 2 weeks was on the Rich Eisen podcast, where Rich finally pieced together how robust the QB market will be this offseason.  When he was naming the teams that will be in the QB market, one of his producers threw in "Eagles"

Rich said "But, Jalen Hurts had a really good year"

His producer "Did he??"

Eisen "He really did".  The way Eisen said this line was hilarious, like he was pleading for the guy to agree with him.

The producer instantly threw the 61.3% completion number at him.

7 minutes ago, austinfan said:

Really, JR, you're old enough to know not to take these kinds of things seriously.

Yes, a number of players they've interviewed at the Senior Bowl have been drafted, but the majority of players they interviewed weren't drafted.

Sometimes b/c they weren't available, sometimes b/c they weren't interested.

I think Howie is going to talk to and invite anyone credible who might be available in the range of their 1st rd picks, both to gather information on those players, but also to incentivize teams that might be thinking about trading up to ether trade with the Eagles, or just as good, trade up to take a player he doesn't want, pushing a player he does want further down.

This time of year there's more misinformation generated by NFL teams than by a Russian troll farm during a US election.

Keep telling yourself that, there is nothing about what they have done, said, interviewed that tells you that they are not looking for an upgrade. Read my signature, read it again, they are not going to be happy with the current QB situation, and they have the ammo to do something about it.

2 hours ago, Utebird said:

You talking about foles or hurts???

If hurts I think yeah sure he can improve those things mentioned and I still don't think it's going to make a significant improvement on his arm strength.

I don't think hurts has the arm strength to threaten all levels of the field which limits ones passing scheme.

 

 

Hurts. Sorry   Although Foles also had bad mechanics coming out of college.  His windup was ridiculously long.  I mean Randy Johnson long.  But he worked on it and fixed it but occasionally would slide back to that and his long step throwing. 

I agree that I don’t think Hurts can throw across his body across the field but most QBs can’t. Like I said, there are deficiencies in his game that are worse than his arm strength and less fixable.