12 minutes ago, blindside said:

Wait.. on Thursday Night Football they’re playing with a children’s ball? A different ball than the rest of the season? Is this a joke? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my entire life. How is that even a thing? I’m appalled. Kenny Pickett is gonna love Thursday nights. But what about teams that don’t get Thursday games? Or get multiple Thursday games? The NFL is becoming a joke. I’m glad I got to see the Eagles win a Super Bowl before it totally collapsed. 

5 minutes ago, blindside said:

I just watched a video of Russell Wilson throw the ball like 3 times faster than a normal ball. It’s much narrower. It’s not so much about hand size as much as velocity. But what bothers me is the lack of continuity. It’s like basketball players playing 5 games a year with a volleyball. It’s downright stupid. 

Good thing it's fake.

2 minutes ago, Utebird said:

You know you and your little circle jerk cult are quite amazing, I mean how are you able to type so much while In The circle???

Honest question, do one of you exit the circle, I'm assuming the one who lost and has to eat the saltine, and then post what the others say, or do you all take like a 5 minute break from the circle hopefully wash your hands and then post???

Wtf is with the saltine thing?

57 minutes ago, Doc S. said:

Found this regarding Vic at Eagles.

Seems he wasn't employed at any time, didn't spend ALL TC with Birds but was a welcomed visitor. Clarified the situation.

Copied and Pasted;

Having spent three seasons as the Denver Broncos head coach from 2019 to 2021, when it was announced in February that Vic Fangio wouldn’t return for a fourth run, an accompanying statement came straight from the source. He announced that he had no plans to coach in 2022.

Had he decided to seek new opportunities, he wouldn’t have been unemployed for long. Poll Birds fans, and you’re certain to hear a few of them tell you they’d take him as this team’s defensive coordinator in a second. That won’t happen though because, as you know, Philly has Jonathan Gannon in their wheelhouse.

That begs a question though. Most of you know where this is headed. Why is he here then? Coach Sirianni addressed that.

"We like to bring in guys. like to make it very clear to the staff that we bring guys in that we trust and that we’re close to. Vic has some relationships on the staff, and it’s great to have him here . They come in. They eat, and they watch practice. And, you make them work for that a little (chuckles). You pick their brain. So, he’s here because he’s got relationships with guys, and of course we’d be foolish not to use him."

Coach Siriani also mentioned that, throughout the week, they’ll bring in other guys, Jim Smith of Indiana University at Pennsylvania for instance (their defensive coordinator). There’s no need to start any rumors though.

For now, there’s no need to connect dots between Fangio and the Eagles. Gannon is safe as Philadelphia’s defensive coordinator, but once this season passes and, maybe, J.G. lands a head-coaching job, who knows?

 

FWIW.....,

 

Can’t hurt towards expanding the coaching tree of Nick, Shane and Gannon.

33 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

This  factually incorrect statement comes from your misunderstanding of his logic on borrowing from the future. But yes, COVID did indeed hurt him.

The idea that borrowing a whole dollar today, and only paying back 75 cents comes from the expectation of salary cap increases every year. With Covid, that didnt happen as expected. So now his loans for that year became more expensive than he ever could have planned for. 

Think of this. 1 dollar today equals x% of the salary cap currently. When you kick that dollar down the road, and the cap increases, that dollar is now worth y% of the cap. Y represents a smaller % than x. For example 1 dollar out of 100 is a larger % than 1 dollar out of 150. But when you borrow that dollar expecting it to be a % of the 150, and it remains at 100 for unforseeable circumstances, now your plan is in big trouble. 

The decision to keep bringing back Peters when he was cooked had nothing to do with Covid.  The decision to overpay Brooks after his first Achilles injury and get almost nothing at all out of him after that extension kicked in had nothing to do with Covid.  The Desean Jackson trade and extension wasn't Covid related.  The precipitance decline of Wentz had nothing to do with Covid.   The Alshon re-structures had nothing to do with Covid.

Agreed that Covid exacerbated it.   But, he made some really bad contract decisions before Covid... and also right after Covid.

Just now, Outlaw said:

Good thing it's fake.

Wtf is with the saltine thing?

You don't know, it's your circle jerk you tell me?

3 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Outbid is outbid.  

Yep.  The "we had a number we would not exceed" crap is exactly that, crap.  It is the excuse Howie uses when he could not outbid another team due to the dead cap situation he created.

29 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Howies plan forsees that the chunk of dead cap continues to represent a smaller % of the actual cap.

Because of COVID that didnt happen, for 1 year, but that probably threw off his future projections as well.

I figured he would change his approach to play catch up. And we would experience a hell year. But he hasnt. He has continued using dead money as a tool. So I can only assume that he has adjusted his plan and knows how far he can go with it. 

27 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

As you post that I see your dead cap numbers going from 63, to 58, to 50. Thats a clear decrease.

So he is shrinking that pile, WHILE the cap will continue to increase. (barring another unforseen pandemic). Which means the % of the cap represented by dead money is exponentially decreasing. We are in good shape.

You are explaining why his plan is a sound one.

Please don't use that word.  It is not an exponential decrease.

5 minutes ago, Utebird said:

You know you and your little circle jerk cult are quite amazing, I mean how are you able to type so much while In The circle???

Honest question, do one of you exit the circle, I'm assuming the one who lost and has to eat the saltine, and then post what the others say, or do you all take like a 5 minute break from the circle hopefully wash your hands and then post???

@HazletonEagle the rest of us are trying to move on with football discussion, those who are upset about the non football stuff keep bringing it up.  

Maybe you should address them during your next complaint about the blog, its football season, the rest of us have moved on from offseason hijinx.

 

17 minutes ago, austinfan said:

That was more about McNabb's limitations, he always struggled on the touch passes.

But the WCO was built for Montana, who had a weaker arm than Hurts. But was smart and mobile.

Reid adjusted it to McNabb because of his limitations as a passer (worms still shudder at the mention of his name).

So, you admit he changed the offense for McNabb... and then changed it back for Garcia?     Cool.

2 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The only push back on this is dead money is designed to decrease over time. We haven't even been able to have dead cap in 2023 until June (plus the two post June 1st designations), so that number in 2023 will obviously go up as time goes on and as we enter the 2023 offseason. Also, 63 to 58 looks like a decrease, but I think it's fair to point out the majority of the 63 was Wentz. Wentz has no 2022 dead cap so it's not great that the gap is that small and only a $5M decrease.

Why does it have to decrease? If you think the team can be competitive, you can keep rolling it over. There's no real penalty for doing that. 

58 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

And you ignore the dead that brought us nothing.   Alshon Jeffery's dead money?  Malik Jackson's?  Brandon Brooks'?  

Howie isn't perfect.  And he doesn't stretch the $1 to make it worth $1.50.   It's still worth the same, he's just pushing the problem down the road...  IIRC, our dead money amount has grown every year for quite a while.  When will it come back down again?  

Howie isn’t getting a dollar fifty for a dollar. Yes, barring a pandemic, the cap increases every year.  So maybe one could argue that he is getting that dollar for an actual cost of $.97 but that dollar isn’t 50% greater. The cap doesn’t increase that much every year.  As you point out, he potentially weakens future years by burdening them with bygone years.   

8 minutes ago, Utebird said:

You don't know, it's your circle jerk you tell me?

It's your weak attempt at humor. Explain it.

11 minutes ago, downundermike said:

@HazletonEagle the rest of us are trying to move on with football discussion, those who are upset about the non football stuff keep bringing it up.  

Maybe you should address them during your next complaint about the blog, its football season, the rest of us have moved on from offseason hijinx.

You know when my son makes a mistake or does something wrong he apologized to those he wringed or hurt and I always ask him what does surry mean?

He replies, sorry doesn't mean anything if I don't change my behavior, sorry means I'll not or try not to do what I did again.

Maybe try apologizing to RTK and the rest of the board for a scheme that threatened the integrity of the board instead of justifying it as harmless fun or just, moving on.

So talk about football, you replying isn't talking about football is it???

5 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

It's your weak attempt at humor. Explain it.

FU I don't owe you anything, figure it out yourself troll.

2 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

Why does it have to decrease? If you think the team can be competitive, you can keep rolling it over. There's no real penalty for doing that. 

It doesn't "have" to. It's a balancing act. It's advantageous to keep the dead money as low as possible but it's also not realistic to make roster moves and only be concerned about the dead money behind each roster decision. 

I was just pointing out that because today looks like a decrease in future dead money doesn't mean we are on any type of path. It's an ever changing number that only has one direction to go. 

3 minutes ago, Utebird said:

You know when my son makes a mistake or dies something wrong he apologized to those he wringed or hurt and I always ask him what does surry mean?

He replies, sorry doesn't mean anything if I don't change my behavior, sorry means I'll not or try not to do what I did again.

Maybe try apologizing to RTK and the rest of the board for a scheme that threatened the integrity of the board instead of justifying it as harmless fun or just, moving on.

So talk about football, you replying isn't talking about football is it???

Stop trolling

Just now, UndyTaker said:

Stop trolling

Stop defending trolls.

 

Just now, Utebird said:

Stop defending trolls.

No you

3 minutes ago, downundermike said:

 

Meh

3 minutes ago, UndyTaker said:

No you

No you...

 

2 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Meh

No you...

 

14 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Howie isn’t getting a dollar fifty for a dollar. Yes, barring a pandemic, the cap increases every year.  So maybe one could argue that he is getting that dollar for an actual cost of $.97 but that dollar isn’t 50% greater. The cap doesn’t increase that much every year.  As you point out, he potentially weakens future years by burdening them with bygone years.   

And for every year that the cap increases, so does players salaries. 

12 hours ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Man I was definitely wrong on Josh Rosen 4 years ago 

dumbarse! 

1 minute ago, hputenis said:

dumbarse! 

Sorry Howie 

13 minutes ago, Utebird said:

You know when my son makes a mistake or does something wrong he apologized to those he wringed or hurt and I always ask him what does surry mean?

He replies, sorry doesn't mean anything if I don't change my behavior, sorry means I'll not or try not to do what I did again.

Maybe try apologizing to RTK and the rest of the board for a scheme that threatened the integrity of the board instead of justifying it as harmless fun or just, moving on.

So talk about football, you replying isn't talking about football is it???

FU I don't owe you anything, figure it out yourself troll.

Oh lighten up Francis 

21 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

The decision to keep bringing back Peters when he was cooked had nothing to do with Covid.  The decision to overpay Brooks after his first Achilles injury and get almost nothing at all out of him after that extension kicked in had nothing to do with Covid.  The Desean Jackson trade and extension wasn't Covid related.  The precipitance decline of Wentz had nothing to do with Covid.   The Alshon re-structures had nothing to do with Covid.

Agreed that Covid exacerbated it.   But, he made some really bad contract decisions before Covid... and also right after Covid.

What do you think of the Rams decisions this offseason to attempt to repeat? 

You can't criticize the decisions the Eagles made and then be fine with the Rams taking the same approach this year. That is being results oriented. 

Either the strategy is right or wrong.