2 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

You realize that us people who are so diehard about the NFL, the Eagles, etc. that we contribute daily on an online message board are NOT the casual fan audience they're targeting, right? It's not about NFL advertising. It's NFL on streaming service Amazon Prime on Thursday nights advertising. And Wilson football gets a nice bump as well.

That's why. 186k views on Twitter in 4 hours.

 I mean, it's so apparently a ploy. Can't believe anyone on here actually bought it.

So they actually do have a new ball. That's interesting

Just now, Iggles_Phan said:

Just when I thought I couldn't hate TNF any more than I already did... they found a way.   Everything has to be sleeker and faster...

 

 

Another one.

7 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

In an earlier encounter, I believe CGJ ripped his mouthpiece off his face mask and threw it on the ground... likely while saying something that Ms. Manners would deem unkind.

Makes sense. He took his mouthpiece so he tried to take his head. Lucky he didn’t break his knuckles on that facemask.

15 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

No you’re not.  

Youre right. Im a problem solver.

Just now, Mike030270 said:

So they actually do have a new ball. That's interesting

It's STILL a marketing ploy.

29 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

QB - Give the edge to 2017 now since we know the great Season Wentz was able to have.

How generous of you to give the edge to the QB who brought home the hardware.

I would also give the edge to 2017, it made you have such an epic meltdown you got yourself banned from the board.

9 minutes ago, TorontoEagle said:

So you're saying we should bring back Foles? I like it. 

I love nick. Would love to have seen him come back cause he’s a great guy and he’s given the organization some great moments in the last decade. But it’s such a bad dynamic for the eagles with any QB they have unless foles is the starter. As soon as things get rocky or some adversity, fans will call for foles and QB starting is looking over his shoulder routinely cause nick is a Philly folklore. I think looking back at the foles/wentz time, that foles staying after winning the SB was a shadow that wentz continuously tried to get out of and never would. I actually agree with vick after the fact that Carson was never getting out of that shadow unless he went on to win a super bowl himself and every year he didn’t fans were going to hold it against him and say hey Nick did it. 

37 minutes ago, mattwill said:

It is really good advertising.  By going with the absurd they clearly got you to pay attention to their ad.

And gave me one more reason NOT to tune in.   

22 minutes ago, jsb235 said:

We will play a lot of zone, and Gannon said that the slot and safety do a lot of the same things in those instances. So the only time it really matters is in man coverage, which we don't use a lot. 

You’re reading the Beats too much. They are mostly crappy at identifying coverages. Only pure zone is quarters.  Most "zone” is a combination of "man” and "zone”.  Eagles played a lot of Cover 2 and Cover 4 last year.  Basically combinations where some players played man and some zone.  The beats say Bradberry is a great zone defender.  He is in that when asked to play zone, he plays it tight.  Bradberry is a great off man cover.  In other words, he doesn’t press.  Neither does Slay.  But off man is still man.  Now in good coverage schemes, there are switches and too many read that as only occurring in "zone”.  It’s quasi-zone.

Saban and Belichek play a great technique of this in there Cover 1 variation.  Now, basic Cover 1 is with the "high” S being the only "zone” player.  Basically old free safety style from my high school days.    In the Saban/Belichek version, the Ss line up almost like a combination of Tampa 2 and Cover 1.  Depending on the offensive lineup, the interchangeable Ss may switch depending on what the offense throws at them.  So, for example the strong side S may line up shallower and the weak side deep, but a shift may cause the strong side to drop and the weak side to cover, usually a slot receiver or inside receiver, which can be a TE, RB or WR.    Now what I find interesting is that Gannon is obviously looking for Ss with nickel skills or should I say Howie because that fits Wallace too. CGJ, Scott, Chachere, Vincent. All nickel/Ss.  Arguably Maddox too.  That fits with the Saban/Belichek version of Cover 1.

Eagles don’t play a lot of pure "Man”. That’s all DBs and some LBs playing strictly man on man in coverage.  That’s good because as bad as the Eagles are in Quarters, they absolutely suck at Cover 0.  But that’s because they aren’t particularly good at press.   Cowpads play a lot of press and probably play more man than any other team.  Brown and Smith are press killers more often than not and you had better succeed at pressing the man at the LOS or Smith, Brown and Watson are going to leave your press DBs behind. 

3 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

I respect Foles what what he did but that's what he is.  He isn't a good QB or else he would be starting int he league.  He is a highly inconsistent QB that got hot at the right time for two games while playing on a stacked team. 

But I think our current backup QB situation is just as good as 2017 with Minshew. 

Wrong

11 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

Its a shame we are in such terrible cap shape so we cant take advantage of other teams cap casualties. 

Oh wait... just this season alone, AJ Brown, and CGJ. Hmmm.....

 

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

I love nick. Would love to have seen him come back cause he’s a great guy and he’s given the organization some great moments in the last decade. But it’s such a bad dynamic for the eagles with any QB they have unless foles is the starter. As soon as things get rocky or some adversity, fans will call for foles and QB starting is looking over his shoulder routinely cause nick is a Philly folklore. I think looking back at the foles/wentz time, that foles staying after winning the SB was a shadow that wentz continuously tried to get out of and never would. I actually agree with vick after the fact that Carson was never getting out of that shadow unless he went on to win a super bowl himself and every year he didn’t fans were going to hold it against him. 

Oh ya he's not coming back. Hell, the hypothetical second they sign him I'd be clamoring for him to start over Hurts. I wouldn't be alone. 

2 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

It's STILL a marketing ploy.

I'm all for it. It got people talking about it whether it's real or not lol

Howie back in wizard mode, love it!

12 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Hurts is a starter, not a journeyman backup. 

Temporary starter status 

1 minute ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Holy F.  Yes.  Read my other posts.  The same people who are going to watch no matter what,  are the same people who’s Twitter page will show the ad.  It’s not like some soccer loving twink down the street is going to start to follow a bunch of football related Twitter accounts and because of that, the ad shows up and then Devon the soccer guy says, "hey, they have a new football.  I’m gonna tune in and watch football now in between my disc golf and hacky sack tournaments”.  

Yeah, this kind of thing doesn't get shared on all kinds of feeds. It's already viral. It's achieved it's goal. Far more people know today that Amazon owns the exclusive rights to TNF than yesterday. This is a weird hill to die on.

1 minute ago, Godfather said:

Wrong

 

What was wrong? 

2 hours ago, pallidrone said:

When you break it down, it is around 1,400 posts a day which really is not a lot in this day and age. That is the reason why the official site was taken down.

It depends on the time of year. During the season, it's more, of course. During the offseason, less at times. 

The lowest point in our existence (so far), is July of this year, at around 16,300 new posts for the month. 

Spoiler

 

I can't see the exact numbers of people on the board at any given time period (when we upgrade, I think I will be able to see the numbers),  but here's the last month:

Spoiler

 

Looking at the page source code, I can see the numbers but it would take a long time to compile them. So I looked at just the 29th of August and between Midnight and 6 AM, 2,203 users and guests were logged at 15 minute intervals. That's not to say that 2,203 unique individuals were on the board during those hours. I'm sure that a lot of those numbers are counting the same people multiple times. 

But activity wise, for those 6 hours of the early morning from yesterday, that's what was counted. 

4 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

So they actually do have a new ball. That's interesting

 

Just now, Bacarty2 said:

He's got 19  as a starter, 12 as a back up and 2 injuried. 

There is ZERO and I mean ZERO doubt in my mind he ends up having more back ups next to his name then starts. 

Between me not thinking he's good enough. Teams not wanting to trust him because of injuries and him being a "good teamate"(where my bingo board) He'll be a career backup. 

Here you go friend!

44 minutes ago, TorontoEagle said:

But Thursday nights are usually only one game?? 

Usually a college game on Thursday nights too.

Just now, RememberTheKoy said:

 

What was wrong? 

All of it

10 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

There's some weird stuff going on with him right now though. He just removed all references to the Saints from this social media accounts, fwiw.

No big deal.  That's just the way players say I want more money.

1 minute ago, Bacarty2 said:

He's got 19  as a starter, 12 as a back up and 2 injuried. 

There is ZERO and I mean ZERO doubt in my mind he ends up having more back ups next to his name then starts. 

Between me not thinking he's good enough. Teams not wanting to trust him because of injuries and him being a "good teamate"(where my bingo board) He'll be a career backup. 

 

Yeah just a reminder you don't have any impact on his career.  Teams aren't going to be reaching out to you for advisement. 

1 minute ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

And let’s say every Fing Twitter follower in the world got the ad because of Amazon’s reach.  If you’re not a fan of a something, do you seriously spend the time clicking on an tweet/ad about that very thing?   I know I don’t.   

You're right. Coke should stop marketing.