16 minutes ago, Utebird said:

It's not that people don't want to work they just want a livable wage and the cost of living is a lot more than it used to be, especially in bigger cities.

Not sure where you are located but if in a bigger city 70k a year is tough to make work especially for a family.

Back in the 50s a one worker household could afford a house a car and yearly vacation on a high school diploma factory workers pay, unfortunately that's not our reality any longer for a litany of reasons, one not being because people don't want to work 

Baltimore County MD. By comparison, Teachers straight out of school in this area with no experience make 55k/year. That is plenty enough to live off of in this area. No you’re not getting a two bedroom place to yourself and paying for multiple trips in a year but you can still have a life. 

I’m talking about a business that’s not even open yet so there’s no money coming it. If they come in and work hard, they’ll be making what they want a year from now. My frustration is they scoff at the idea of having to hustle. 

7 hours ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

Nah, it's all good. I just have a whole lot going on at the moment and having every video that I post to to try to promote the board get 'protest' comments, just kind of ticked me off. Had it happened at any other time, I'd have just ignored it and set comments to be off.

But you know when you have one of those moments where something just gets under your skin and you react? That was my moment yesterday lol. 

Does anyone have a link to the YouTube channel?

1 minute ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Baltimore County MD. By comparison, Teachers straight out of school in this area with no experience make 55k/year. That is plenty enough to live off of in this area. No you’re not getting a two bedroom place to yourself and paying for multiple trips in a year but you can still have a life. 

I’m talking about a business that’s not even open yet so there’s no money coming it. If they come in and work hard, they’ll be making what they want a year from now. My frustration is they scoff at the idea of having to hustle. 

I think teachers should be paid more but that's beside the point.

Good luck going forward though, it's tough out there for workers and employers.

And you are right, seems there is an attitude from some that think they should just be handed something without working and putting In the time for it.

Hopefully you can find some good people that are willing to work hard and hopefully you can fairly compensate them for that hard work, good luck!

I havent watched this yet. But should be interesting.

 

1 minute ago, mattwill said:

Does anyone have a link to the YouTube channel?

Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the red youtube icon

6 minutes ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Baltimore County MD. By comparison, Teachers straight out of school in this area with no experience make 55k/year. That is plenty enough to live off of in this area. No you’re not getting a two bedroom place to yourself and paying for multiple trips in a year but you can still have a life. 

I’m talking about a business that’s not even open yet so there’s no money coming it. If they come in and work hard, they’ll be making what they want a year from now. My frustration is they scoff at the idea of having to hustle. 

Liveabe wage is one thing but another factor is the sheer amount of cash the government has just been throwing around and is now being taken away.  People who might not have been working for the last few years could have been making $35-$40k by just sitting at home collecting a check.  If you were getting SNAP benefits, all of the sudden you were given an extra $700 a month just for food.  Bad, lazy habits were formed and people are just expecting handouts now.  No wonder people don't want to work.  The shut downs and the governments resposne is going to have a long lasting, negative effect on so many levels.

44 minutes ago, Utebird said:

It's not that people don't want to work they just want a livable wage and the cost of living is a lot more than it used to be, especially in bigger cities.

Not sure where you are located but if in a bigger city 70k a year is tough to make work especially for a family.

Back in the 50s a one worker household could afford a house a car and yearly vacation on a high school diploma factory workers pay, unfortunately that's not our reality any longer for a litany of reasons, one not being because people don't want to work 

No its that people dont want to work and are entitled

the 50s are irrelevant ad a reference point due to ww2 and technology.

2 hours ago, ManuManu said:

@Original Sin

Was Keanu Neal any good last year?

I thought he played well when out there ,Bowles ask his guys to do a lot on the back end . They just couldn’t afford to bring players back , rebuild mode while getting cap straight for next year .

they lost a few guys in the secondary 

Edwards

Bunting

Ryan 

 

 

I don’t watch every team’s games and haven’t watched Morrow play to say he’s great or he’s awful.

But knowing this:

1. 6’ 220lb LB starting next to an already pretty tiny Dean.

2. After watching Morrow start for a year, a professional team felt it worthwhile to invest $20m in upgrading the position with TJ Edwards.

3.  Prior to TJ Edwards (not making him out to be prime Ray Lewis), the Eagles’ scouting and results with the interchangeable parts scrap heap philosophy at lb has almost exclusively unearthed really bad players.  
 

All the evidence really points to Morrow as the brand new whipping boy for the defense above anything else.

3 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

In the latest BGN pod, Kempski said what a lot of other reports have said about CJGJ. The Eagles pivoted and when they signed Slay and Bradberry they could no longer afford CJGJ.

...but then later in the pod was asked to make a prediction about what safety the Eagles sign and he said Taylor Rapp.

Now, if Rapp gets like 2 million that would be one thing. But if he gets the going rate of other safeties(somewhere in the 5-7 million range) then them not being able to afford CJGJ was nonsense. You can't claim that and then go out and sign another safety for a price in the same ball park.

You do realize that it's about to be Friday. CJ signed on Sunday, and the other safeties signed last week. The longer you are a free agent the more your price goes down. If they are patient they should be able to get Johnson or Rapp on the cheap.

35 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

No its that people dont want to work and are entitled

the 50s are irrelevant ad a reference point due to ww2 and technology.

Ok Boomer...😒

The top tax rate in 1930 was much higher, anything past 400,000k was taxed at 97% now that should be adjusted for inflation but failed Reaganomics cut that down to 30 something % and republicans keep slashing it further telling us that giving tax breaks to the rich trickles down, 40 years of failed trickle down have shown otherwise, the rich don't create jobs or share the wealth they hoard it.

In the last few years the top 10% have captured 80%  of created wealth, inequality is higher than it was before the depression.

2 people in the US control more wealth than the bottom half of the rest of the US population.

80% of the worlds resources are controlled by the top ten% of the population.

That means if there were ten people sharing 10 dollars 1 dude would get 8 dollars and the other 9 people would split the remaining 2 dollars, would you work for that?

Real wages are way down, Inflation is up and every time capitalism in this country fails we bail it out, socialism bails it out, banks, stock market, housing market etc..., I'm still waiting for my refund...😒

The ave. Earner pays about 30-50 dollars a year in taxes towards welfare like SNAP, that same ave. earner pays between 400-700 dollars in corporate subsidies yet I don't hear you calling them lazy moochers who don't want to work...

That's our current situation, it didn't get that way because people are lazy and don't want to work it got that way because a  select few are greedy.

Tax the rich increase social safety nets that keep people out of poverty and allow them to live decent lives and people will be more willing to work when they're  Not  working just to merely survive another day in the rat trap.

People want to work, they don't want to be exploited. There's gotta be a better way than the current path we are on as a country.

 

I mention Tippmann as one of my 10 favorite players in the draft , I think he goes earlier than consensus says , imo he is the best athlete of all the IOL 

6 hours ago, TorontoEagle said:

Well the posters in the Hurts thread kept posting incorrect things... It’s not my fault there was a high frequency of such posts

Amazing lack of self awareness in this post.

Just now, Utebird said:

Ok Boomer...😒

The top tax rate in 1930 was much higher, anything past 400,000k was taxed at 97% failed Reaganomics cut that down to 30 something % and republicans keep slashing it further telling us that giving tax breaks to the rich trickles down, 40 years of failed trickle down have shown otherwise, the rich don't create jobs or share the wealth they hoard it.

In the last few years the top 10% have captured 80%  of created wealth, inequality is higher than it was before the depression.

2 people in the US control more wealth than the bottom half of the rest of the US population.

80% of the worlds resources are controlled by the top ten% of the population.

That means if there were ten people sharing 10 dollars 1 dude would get 8 dollars and the other 9 people would split the remaining 2 dollars, would you work for that?

Real wages are way down, Inflation is up and every time capitalism in this country fails we bail it out, socialism bails it out, banks, stock market, housing market etc..., I'm still waiting for my refund...😒

The ave. Earner pays about 30-50 dollars a year in taxes towards welfare like SNAP, that same ave. earner pays between 400-700 dollars in corporate subsidies yet I don't hear you calling them lazy moochers who don't want to work...

That's our current situation, it didn't get that way because people are lazy and don't want to work it got that way because a  select few are greedy.

Tax the rich increase social safety nets that keep people out of poverty and allow them to live decent lives and people will be more willing to work when they're  Not  working just to merely survive another day in the rat trap.

People want to work, they don't want to be exploited. There's gotta be a better way than the current path we are on as a country.

 

The wealth gap has been increasing consistently and drastically in this country for a very long time. I'm not 100% certain when it started but it was likely when Reagan introduced his "trickle down economics" scam. Anyway, the middle class is getting smaller and smaller of the time. As you mentioned, a one income family with a modest job in the 50's was able to own a house, two cars, and live a comfortable life.  That is a distant memory now.

Showed schmoopie an article where Zeke listed the Eagles as one of his preferred teams. 
Ugh, no.  I will shove that fake spoon up his a**.
 

So if he signs, I guess baby girl isn’t getting her his jersey. 

Neal would be a strange acquisition for the Eagles since he is more of an in the box safety and they prefer versatility from both safeties. Not to mention, we already added a depth guy who should beat out Wallace as the 3rd S and is insurance if Blankenship craps the bed. Signing another guy like that is weird since we need a number 1 S. 

Just now, T-1000 said:

Neal would be a strange acquisition for the Eagles since he is more of an in the box safety and they prefer versatility from both safeties. Not to mention, we already added a depth guy who should beat out Wallace as the 3rd S and is insurance if Blankenship craps the bed. Signing another guy like that is weird since we need a number 1 S. 

guessing he could play WILL here. Maybe good depth behind Dean and Morrow.

1 hour ago, mattwill said:

What free agent DTs would you have signed?  and why those particular players?

It's in the post you quoted, Jones is a 26 year pass rushing 3 down DT.  

1 minute ago, HazletonEagle said:

guessing he could play WILL here. Maybe good depth behind Dean and Morrow.

Yeah he's kind of a hybrid type, I mean kyzir white was only about 215 pounds I imagine they would envision Keanu Neal in the same light.

5 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

guessing he could play WILL here. Maybe good depth behind Dean and Morrow.

As cheap competition for Morrow I guess it would make some sense. Not sure they'd want a 215 pound LB playing next to Nakobe but who knows.

5 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Yeah he's kind of a hybrid type, I mean kyzir white was only about 215 pounds I imagine they would envision Keanu Neal in the same light.

Yeah there's a best case scenario with Dean & Morrow which could be ok but I'd say the expected scenario is probably not good. And the depth behind them is pretty much nothing.  Definitely need more help & other options.

1 hour ago, Utebird said:

It's not that people don't want to work they just want a livable wage and the cost of living is a lot more than it used to be, especially in bigger cities.

Not sure where you are located but if in a bigger city 70k a year is tough to make work especially for a family.

Back in the 50s a one worker household could afford a house a car and yearly vacation on a high school diploma factory workers pay, unfortunately that's not our reality any longer for a litany of reasons, one not being because people don't want to work 

Back in the fifties most workers did not have a pension, no one had a 401k and many workers did not have a substantial portion of the benefits that may be offered today. The house was on a thirty year mortgage and there was one car in most families, if one at all. Most households did not have a single TV and avoided calling long distance.  Party lines still abounded. The "good old days” really weren’t.  The cultural and economic comparisons with today really aren’t accurate.  

5 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

As cheap competition for Morrow I guess it would make some sense. Not sure they'd want a 215 pound LB playing next to Nakobe but who knows.

In today's NFL I don't think LB weight really means all that much in the vast majority of cases. Quicker is a more desired attribute now.  There are exceptions but not that you'd re-orient your every day starters for imo

1 minute ago, pgcd3 said:

Yeah there's a best case scenario with Dean & Morrow which could be ok but I'd say the expected scenario is probably not good. And the depth behind them is pretty much nothing.  Definitely need more help & other options.

I'm not a big fan of Dean, his lack of length is a problem in pass coverage and even though he's faster more athletic than Edwards he hasn't shown equal instincts in coverage, could partly be due to rookie head swimming and all that we'll see. he has the speed to run side line to side line but in pre season didn't show the consistent ability to get off blocks.

He needs to make that 2nd year leap, if not he's JAG.

And you're right the depth behind morrow and Dean is pretty non existent.

Shaun Bradley, Ellis, Davion Taylor ☹️ not good.

Only position that is worse off is safety.

4 minutes ago, Utebird said:

I'm not a big fan of Dean, his lack of length is a problem in pass coverage and even though he's faster more athletic than Edwards he hasn't shown equal instincts in coverage, could partly be due to rookie head swimming and all that we'll see. he has the speed to run side line to side line but in pre season didn't show the consistent ability to get off blocks.

He needs to make that 2nd year leap, if not he's JAG.

And you're right the depth behind morrow and Dean is pretty non existent.

Shaun Bradley, Ellis, Davion Taylor ☹️ not good.

Only position that is worse off is safety.

I think he can grow if thrown into the fire. But there's certainly no guarantee of that.  Safety and LB both need work still and both seem unlikely to benefit from a top 50 pick in the draft as the Eagles will probably not choose to address those positions early