Falcons should offer Josh Rosen for Calamari straight up. 

1 minute ago, RLC said:

There's no way Arizona is trading him. They're in win-now mode.

If they're in win-now mode they'd better get rid of Murray.  He's taking them nowhere

 

Every time that I do one of these, I ask myself...."Will Howie really invest in a quality LB early?"

 

 

Just now, E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles said:

Every time that I do one of these, I ask myself...."Will Howie really invest in a quality LB early?"

 

 

If the Eagles make 3 first round picks they'll start at edge rusher as long as a 1st round prospect is still there.  I'd prefer it's not Karlaftis, but Thibodeaux, Hutchinson, Ojabo, Jermaine Johnson -- you'd think one of those guys will still be on the board at #15.  If not I think the likely first pick will be CB.  

The board never falls in order of positional bias, but I assume the Eagles would draft DE, CB, OL, and DT before LB -- maybe even QB and WR if Sirianni likes one of them.  

If they stick at #15, 16 and 19 then it's possible you see DE, CB, and LB taken.  

2 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

If the Eagles make 3 first round picks they'll start at edge rusher as long as a 1st round prospect is still there.  I'd prefer it's not Karlaftis, but Thibodeaux, Hutchinson, Ojabo, Jermaine Johnson -- you'd think one of those guys will still be on the board at #15.  If not I think the likely first pick will be CB.  

The board never falls in order of positional bias, but I assume the Eagles would draft DE, CB, OL, and DT before LB -- maybe even QB and WR if Sirianni likes one of them.  

If they stick at #15, 16 and 19 then it's possible you see DE, CB, and LB taken.  

I know these mock programs aren't 100%, but none of them that I run have a DE in the range that we pick.  Those guys are all going early.

1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

 

 

 

Didn't he show up to a game during their late season slide wearing a jacket or hat of the baseball team that drafted him?

Is it this offseason that he can sign an extension?  Either he's going to tease/threaten the sport jump for those contract negotiations or he is just done with getting beat up in football and wants that easy baseball money.  

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

Probably cardinals ownership being cardinals ownership. 

 

Yeah he's had it rough with them trading for Hopkins and all.  

57 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

The assumption was that there were steroids involved but that one felt like he just like it clicked one year.  It was in the middle of a few years of above average play.  

So if they hire Lovie Smith it's only because they are concerned about race and not because he's the best candidate for the job? 

Hopefully someone Bryce Harper juices up and hits 100 HRs.  

FYP

41 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

If they're in win-now mode they'd better get rid of Murray.  He's taking them nowhere

 

I'd say it's more Kingsbury than Murray. But they're in a tough division with the Niners and Rams.

16 minutes ago, E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles said:

Every time that I do one of these, I ask myself...."Will Howie really invest in a quality LB early?"

 

 

Washington CB's make my buttcheeks clench thinking of how bad Sidney Jones was... I take that back, it's the PAC-12 in general.

47 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Falcons should offer Josh Rosen for Calamari straight up. 

Need a sweetener- garlic aioli sauce

17 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Yeah he's had it rough with them trading for Hopkins and all.  

You do realize the bidwell notoriously have been bad and cheap owners. I know it’s talked about out here consistently for years dating back to the late 90s. Even when they’ve been good they’ve found ways to be cheap. I live in Arizona. So i hear it all the time, read it all the time in the paper and had friends who covered the team talk to me about it. But good thing you know everything… i guess getting Hopkins means that goes all out the window and became good owners cause of that…

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

You do realize the bidwell notoriously have been bad and cheap owners. I know it’s talked about out here consistently for years dating back to the late 90s. Even when they’ve been good they’ve found ways to be cheap. I live in Arizona. So i hear it all the time, read it all the time in the paper and had friends who covered the team talk to me about. But good thing you know everything… i guess getting Hopkins means that goes all out the window…

Think about who you're talking to my friend.

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

You do realize the bidwell notoriously have been bad and cheap owners. I know it’s talked about out here consistently for years dating back to the late 90s. Even when they’ve been good they’ve found ways to be cheap. I live in Arizona. So i hear it all the time, read it all the time in the paper and had friends who covered the team talk to me about it. But good thing you know everything… i guess getting Hopkins means that goes all out the window and became good owners cause of that…

 

They built one of the nicest stadiums in the league (at least from a television perspective) and have always seem to have put talented teams together for the most part for at least the last 15 years or so.  For a cheap franchise they sure had no issue committing to a franchise legend in Fitzgerald for so many years.  Meanwhile Lurie lowballed Dawkins and let him walk.  

28 minutes ago, E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles said:

I know these mock programs aren't 100%, but none of them that I run have a DE in the range that we pick.  Those guys are all going early.

I'd have to take a look at the draft order for teams 1-14, but the great thing about the draft is different teams value different position groups, and have different needs.  I don't think the mock draft sites really take that into account.

I've said before that I think 3 QBs will go in the top 11 picks.  There are other teams that really need OL help.  I think a lot will be determined by how early some of these WR prospects go; if Olave, Garrett Wilson, Treylon Burks go early then the defensive players will get pushed down.  Someone might take Jameson Williams early in spite of his injury; his film really flashes speed.  

2 hours ago, SB52 said:

It would make sense if the drop off came after 1961. He was getting jeers and death threats throughout the end of the season. He was so stressed out his hair was falling out. Apparently, he never fully recovered.

He did follow it up with some good years, though.

HBO did a really good movie about it (Billy Crystal either directed or produced it, maybe both) called 61*.  Starred Barry Pepper (Maris) and Thomas Jane (Mantle).  It painted a picture of some of the abuse and stress that Maris suffered during the season. 

 

28 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

They built one of the nicest stadiums in the league (at least from a television perspective) and have always seem to have put talented teams together for the most part for at least the last 15 years or so.  For a cheap franchise they sure had no issue committing to a franchise legend in Fitzgerald for so many years.  Meanwhile Lurie lowballed Dawkins and let him walk.  

They only got that stadium after years of asking for it because the city was promised a national championship game, fiesta bowl wanted a new home (sun devil stadium wasn’t cutting it) and SBs by the ncaa and nfl. Also fear he’d just move the team if they didn’t do it eventually and they didn’t want to lose a nfl franchise cause odds were they’d never get it back. (They actually promised the cardinals a new stadium when they moved to AZ but reneged on it partially to poor running of the franchise). They didn’t want to build it for the bidwells for years. It’s why they shared a stadium with ASU for 17 years. it took them as long as it did to go from sun devil stadium (a crap hole of an nfl stadium) to that stadium. People didn’t want to pay for a stadium that was considered cheap and not very good owners. Routinely had issues with their players. So when it came up it always got turned down.

City was more than willing to help build bank one ball park for the diamondbacks before giving the cardinals that stadium because of Jerry colangelo. He showed he was a good owner and not cheap with the suns. If the cardinals had better ownership they’d have had that stadium in the 90s let alone 17 years after moving to Phoenix  

let me point out they didn’t have a winning season in Phoenix for the first 10 years. Players often complained the bidwells didn’t care about winning games. They had 1 season over .500 in the first 20 seasons in Phoenix. Probably continues if they didn’t luck into Kurt Warner signing as a backup and finding himself again. 

So they kept fitz but pissed off Patrick Peterson and boldin also two huge figures in cardinals history. And i can bring up others where ownership and FO pissed them off. 

Kyler Murray all day 

1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Probably cardinals ownership being cardinals ownership. 

… and Kyler Murray being Kyler Murray.

Saints hiring Allen as HC

 

 

Just now, SB52 said:

… and Kyler Murray being Kyler Murray.

Also that. I’m guessing he’s not happy they are probably not paying him when he’s eligible for an extension.

i know players and coaches weren’t happy that they weren’t paid their playoff bonuses when they were supposed and were forced to wait nearly 2 weeks cause the owner "was issuing them”

Very blah HCing cycle , I think Phins will end up with best hire , when it’s said and done ,followed by Doug .

Dennis Allen is well-deserving of a 2nd HC job.

I think Hackett will do very well in Denver. 

1 minute ago, Original Sin said:

Very blah HCing cycle , I think Phins will end up with best hire , when it’s said and done ,followed by Doug .

The Raiders too…let’s see what he’s learned in the last decade or so. 

Doug needs to hit it out of park with his coordinators 

3 minutes ago, schuy7 said:

I think Hackett will do very well in Denver. 

I think Denver is dependent on who the heck is their QB. You put a QB that’s like rodgers or watson or Wilson on that team they are a playoff team that could make noise  

i actually think Minnesota is set up to have the most success early. The problem is you have cousins who can get you to the playoffs but then you aren’t advancing past the divisional if you get that far.