13 minutes ago, schuy7 said:

Will Levis with Carson Wentz-esque pocket awareness there.

Almost an identical 1 to 1 comp between Levis and Wentz.

18 minutes ago, schuy7 said:

Will Levis with Carson Wentz-esque pocket awareness there.

Yeah having not watching a lot of him, I came away disappointed by Levis's pocket presence/indecisiveness. Not loving this QB class right now.

9 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Whats up with Quentin Johnson's lack of production compared to the expectations for him coming in to the season?

lots of dbl teams , new offense , I think he will improve as year goes on 

12 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Whats up with Quentin Johnson's lack of production compared to the expectations for him coming in to the season?

Other than Addison, all the other top WRs have had disappointing seasons so far: Smith-Njigba, Boutte, Johnston etc.

8 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

My sister texted me and said that movie was "Weird”.   I was like, yeah.  The guy killed and ate people.  And Fed mannequins.  What did you expect, a love story?  

Reminds me of some stand up I saw a long time ago who said "my Dad is an eternal optimist." Once I told him "I just heard that the guy down the corner was killing people and burying them in his basement." And my Dad thought for a second and said "well at least he owns his own home and cleans up after himself."

Well the Bama game is pretty much over already.

49 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Context matters. What is meant by "not been good"?

Absolutely everyone in here agrees hes not been good- at getting returns.

Most people though, also realize hes good at securing the ball and has generally made the right decisions.

Its way too early to devlare him a big miss. 

troll

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Definition of troll — a person, or persons,  who refer to a UDFA signing as "one big miss” by the General Manager of a football team

Im a natural born leader

2 hours ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Maybe the couch doctors were right @Bacarty2
 

 

I’m not taking sides here, but I will say that nfl teams and athletes are the worst patients and customers.  It’s great for marketing to slap a team logo in your office and boast that affiliation…but the second there is a re-injury or extended recovery, instant lawsuit and blame.  
 

That’s one reason I have a ton of respect for Peyton.  He did have a botched c-spine surgery that cost him his arm strength and one year of playing…never sued, never blamed anyone.  

1 hour ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Lisye ing to the latest BLG and Kempski podcast and look at that they are saying the same thing I said.  Covey at PR is not good and it's the one big miss from Roseman this past offseason. 

If Covey has another bad game, then we'll go get a PR. It's not a hard position to fix off the street. Worst-case, you just get a sure-handed guy who can fair catch.

1 minute ago, RLC said:

If Covey has another bad game, then we'll go get a PR. It's not a hard position to fix off the street. Worst-case, you just get a sure-handed guy who can fair catch.

That’s all we need.  Well, I’d prefer they be able to decisively cut up field for a bit, even if they can’t break a tackle.  And that’s harder to find than you might think.

1 hour ago, HazletonEagle said:

Context matters. What is meant by "not been good"?

Absolutely everyone in here agrees hes not been good- at getting returns.

Most people though, also realize hes good at securing the ball and has generally made the right decisions.

Its way too early to devlare him a big miss. 

 

He isn't good at securing the ball, he has already muffed a punt.  He isn't a big miss because he's an undrafted free agent.  He just isn't a good punt returner.  He gives the Eagles nothing there.  One of them speculated that maybe Cordarrelle Patterson being a good trade deadline target but both agreed it doesn't seem likely the Falcons would actually trade him.  Although he's never really returned punts in his career, he'd be more of a KR and a RB to split with Miles. 

I'm going to add this post about Amazon revenue in here (as well as the other thread that it's in), since a lot of people read the blog. Just kind of a reminder to use our Amazon link whenever possible. 

This is September's revenue. For the year (so far), we're closing in on $400.00

1 minute ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

Here's September's numbers. Over $2 per day average. 

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If we can get that up to an average of $5 a day, we're all set!

 

 

The front office clearly doesn't listen to the same podcasts RTK does.

 

 

30 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

The front office clearly doesn't listen to the same podcasts RTK does.

 

 

Now I can sleep at night.  53 on the team.  Not that anyone was going to claim Covey

33 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

The front office clearly doesn't listen to the same podcasts RTK does.

 

 

 

 

I just hope he doesn't muff another one tomorrow. Going to be raining the entire game so the conditions will be far from ideal for fielding punts. I said it in the two weeks heading into the season and I say it now, Howie has to be looking to make a movie to get someone in here that can return punts and kicks.  It would make this team that much more dangerous to now be able to start with drives that aren't 80+ yards everytime. 

3 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

 

I just hope he doesn't muff another one tomorrow. Going to be raining the entire game so the conditions will be far from ideal for fielding punts. I said it in the two weeks heading into the season and I say it now, Howie has to be looking to make a movie to get someone in here that can return punts and kicks.  It would make this team that much more dangerous to now be able to start with drives that aren't 80+ yards everytime. 

Through three weeks, the Eagles lead the league in 80-yard drives (6) and TDs (5). 

That statistic wouldn't have been possible with better returners.

Be careful what you wish for.

Even though Covey wasn’t on the 53 man roster til now, it was obvious that the Eagles always viewed him as their 53rd player and were always planning on him being put on the active roster. But because of the rules allowing them to activate players "for free” off the practice squad thee times, there was zero reason for them to hurry up and put him on the roster until today. They were able to play that game for three weeks. That’s the reason they were carrying only 52 guys all this time. 

And before anyone says, "But they could have been using that roster spot!”, just remember that they would have to then cut that player (or someone equivalent) today and he would have to clear waivers in order to be re-signed to the practice squad. As it stands now, he (whoever he is) has already cleared waivers and is already on the practice squad.

It’s actually intelligent thinking.

I also like Chachere.

Not looking forward to having to don rain gear and sit in the weather for four hours. PITA.

Liking jahmyr gibbs.  upgrade over scott/kenny g?

1 hour ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

He isn't good at securing the ball, he has already muffed a punt.  He isn't a big miss because he's an undrafted free agent.  He just isn't a good punt returner.  He gives the Eagles nothing there.  One of them speculated that maybe Cordarrelle Patterson being a good trade deadline target but both agreed it doesn't seem likely the Falcons would actually trade him.  Although he's never really returned punts in his career, he'd be more of a KR and a RB to split with Miles. 

What about David putney 

2 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

Context matters. What is meant by "not been good"?

Absolutely everyone in here agrees hes not been good- at getting returns.

Most people though, also realize hes good at securing the ball and has generally made the right decisions.

Its way too early to devlare him a big miss. 

Agreed on Covey, but I think the big miss could still be the idea that they didn't need a better PR option.  But... they didn't exactly put any resources to mention into adding Covey.  He was a lottery ticket UDFA signing.  But this team generally likes to go low cost, low reward at PR.  

1 hour ago, RLC said:

If Covey has another bad game, then we'll go get a PR. It's not a hard position to fix off the street. Worst-case, you just get a sure-handed guy who can fair catch.

Its not a hard position to replace off the street... fixing is another thing.

2 hours ago, D-Shiznit said:

Other than Addison, all the other top WRs have had disappointing seasons so far: Smith-Njigba, Boutte, Johnston etc.

How's Demus for Maryland? Haven't paid attention but loved him if he came out last year. 

Tua got up from a hit last week and started to wobble/collapse.  It looked concerning.
 

Somehow, that was spun as something spasming or giving out.  Maybe by the team, maybe by Tua himself.
 

Then he has no objective or subjective symptoms all week.

What exactly is an independent specialist supposed to do? It’s easy for all the literal Monday morning qbs to say he never should have played…

46 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Through three weeks, the Eagles lead the league in 80-yard drives (6) and TDs (5). 

That statistic wouldn't have been possible with better returners.

Be careful what you wish for.

 

You're proving my point.  We keep having to do these long drives because have some of the worst punt and kick returners in the league.  You'd think given the history of some really good returnees for this franchise over the years and major all time franchise and season defining plays some of those returnees have had that people here wouldn't be so defensive and big on such below average returners. 

 

Would be a good move for Howie to find a way to bring one in.  With the roster as stacked as it is its a bit of a luxury to be able to focus on getting a good returner in here and that just insts tly has a big impact on the team and helps our great offense.  I think back to when the Seahawks traded for Percy Harvin at the deadline.  Of course they were expecting a bigger impact at WR for them but he came up huge for them in the return game that post season and in the Super Bowl.