Can't believe people are still trying to attack him over the vaccine when it's well known at this point how meaningless that is for young healthy people and it did/does absolutely nothing to stop thr spread.

15 hours ago, BigEFly said:

@greend would. I have had bear roast. Will admit a bit of me (who has eaten possum, raccoon, squirrel, armadillo etc.) was a bit hesitant because a bear is a canine (dog family), but it was actually pretty good.  My great grandfather on my mom’s mom side grew up at the Kansas/Indian Territory border. (As a young adult he participated in the Cimarron Strip land rush. He saw most of those cattle drives that were in westerns.). He talked about going over the river to trade with the Indians (his father, a civil war vet, was a miller.) He said they invited his father and him to share a meal.  He wanted to but his father was insistent on declining.  He said it smelled good.  Once back over the River, his father told him that the meal was dog.  That kind of was in my mind as I took my first bite of bear. A little voice reminded me I had eaten tree rat (squirrels are a rodent) stew so this wasn’t any worse. But I am a firm believer of "you shoot it, you eat it”.  If more practiced that in the US, we’d have a hell of a lot less gun deaths. 

And a lot more cannibals...

This is a fun account to follow.  Didn't realize the Michael Irvin injury game was AR's first win for the Eagles.

Hearing the old ESPN NFL Primetime music with Berman and Tom Jackson just takes me back.  I can remember how excited I would be to watch that show, especially the better the Eagles got.  Then after it was over finishing up homework and getting ready for school week.  

 

1 hour ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Can't believe people are still trying to attack him over the vaccine when it's well known at this point how meaningless that is for young healthy people and it did/does absolutely nothing to stop thr spread.

Don't post this nonsense in the blog. 

Eagles GM Howie Roseman says 'magnitude' of reaction to Jalen Hurts draft pick was 'a little surprising to us'

Back in 2020, it seemed like Carson Wentz was the surefire quarterback of the future for the Philadelphia Eagles. Wentz had played at an MVP level during the 2017 season, and even though he ended up missing the playoff run due to a torn ACL, the Eagles were good enough to win the Super Bowl that year.

He returned from the injury and played at not quite the same level, but he was still pretty good -- enough to earn a significant contract extension from the franchise. In two seasons following his ACL tear, Wentz completed 66.2% of his passes at an average of 7.1 yards per attempt, with 48 touchdowns against 14 interceptions.

And yet, the Eagles saw fit to choose another quarterback with a second-round pick in 2020, nabbing Jalen Hurts at No. 53 overall. The pick came under an intense amount of criticism, even as Eagles general manager Howie Roseman defended it by noting that the team wanted to continue developing players at the league's most important position.

"We believe (Wentz) is a guy to lead us to our next Super Bowl championship," Roseman said at the time. "For better or worse, we are quarterback developers. We want to be a quarterback factory."

Obviously, we know what happened next. Wentz took a significant step backward. He was eventually benched in favor of Hurts, who took over as the team's starter. Hurts had a solid, if unspectacular sophomore campaign, then fully broke out in Year 3 and was an inner-circle MVP candidate himself. He led the Eagles to another Super Bowl berth, though the team ultimately fell short against the Kansas City Chiefs He played well enough over the past two years to earn a massive contract extension of his own. 

Looking back, Roseman said the reaction to the pick was surprising, Jared Dubin of CBS Sports reports. . 

"I think the magnitude of the reaction was a little surprising to us, and I think that just the conversation around it for weeks and months to come kind of surprised us a little bit," Roseman said, per the Athlectic "I'm not saying we would not have chosen (Hurts) if we had known that. We were just surprised by how much life it took on."

Roseman noted that part of the rationale behind the Hurts selection was about the future of the quarterback position itself. We have seen over the past few years how important it is for passers to be able to win with not just their arm in the pocket, but their legs and ability to create outside of structure. 

"When you look at where the quarterback position was going, with these multidimensional talents who could create plays with their arms, their legs and their minds, we were trying to predict where we were going with the position," Roseman says. "Carson had that ability, too."

 

Too easy

Kevin Kolb use to hunt boar with a knife.  
 

 

I’ll just leave that there and be back tomorrow.  

Kareem Hunt 

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

This is a fun account to follow.  Didn't realize the Michael Irvin injury game was AR's first win for the Eagles.

Hearing the old ESPN NFL Primetime music with Berman and Tom Jackson just takes me back.  I can remember how excited I would be to watch that show, especially the better the Eagles got.  Then after it was over finishing up homework and getting ready for school week.  

 

Wow....I had no idea Andy was the coach when that happened.

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Too easy

First one has to be pre-TO, so before 2004

Second one Taylor i think was a seahawk by 2004, and I think not an eagle in 2003 either, so pre-2003?

Third one could be multiple years

Fourth one Westbrook drafted in 2002 so that’s the year unless I’m wrong about Taylor. Pretty sure Sheppard and Brown started their second year so Taylor and Vincent were gone by 2003

6 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

First one has to be pre-TO, so before 2004

Second one Taylor i think was a seahawk by 2004, and I think not an eagle in 2003 either, so pre-2003?

Third one could be multiple years

Fourth one Westbrook drafted in 2002 so that’s the year unless I’m wrong about Taylor. Pretty sure Sheppard and Brown started their second year so Taylor and Vincent were gone by 2003

Taylor and Vincent were both last here in 2003. But Taylor led the team in INT’s in 2002.

4 hours ago, bpac55 said:

The Carson Wentz situation, as much as it sucked to see him go from MVP status to a shell of his former self couldn't have ended any better for the Eagles. Hurts is proving to be the guy. At the end of the day, the Eagles essentially traded Wentz for Devonta Smith, Jalen Carter and a 2024 2nd. Carter hasn't played a down in the NFL yet but even just getting Smith and a 2024 2nd is a win for the Eagles. If Carter is what everyone thinks he can be, it's an absolute walk off, grand slam trade. 

Carson Wentz helped the Eagles get their 1st Super Bowl and trading him puts them in a fantastic position to get their 2nd.

So Wentz was basically a martyr for the franchise? 

Trea Turner with a Little League HR.

Walk.  Stole 2nd.  Stole 3rd and scored on a bad throw to 3rd.     

NFL HoF had a specific position they enshrine called the "U”; it is an isolated part of Olineman and seems to be made up of mostly centers of tackles, very few guards. The most recent enshrinee retired in 1953. What is this denomination?

Utility Olineman?

2 hours ago, RLC said:

Don't post this nonsense in the blog. 

May 2023 COVID Vaccine Effectiveness results

How effective has the COVID vaccine been so far?

Compared to no booster, updated booster shots were roughly 72% effective against hospitalization and 68% effective against COVID-19-related death. In the study, 541 people who didn't receive an updated booster ended up going to the hospital; this is compared to 32 people who did receive one.

Another season, another year we have the best Lines in the game.

Life is good!

2 hours ago, RLC said:

Don't post this nonsense in the blog. 

Not the one who brought up the nonsense of it being any issue for Wentx to not get it.  Sorry not going to appease conspiracy theorists like you that mention something first.

12 minutes ago, D-Shiznit said:

Another season, another year we have the best Lines in the game.

Life is good!

This is Howie’s legacy above anything else. If we’re weak at a trench position, it doesn’t last long

43 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

This is Howie’s legacy above anything else. If we’re weak at a trench position, it doesn’t last long

That belongs to Andy Reid.  Howie has just continued that.  Before Andy, the OL was a laughingstock.  Since he arrived, or more exactly since 2000, and he brought in Jon Runyan, the OL has been at the top of the league, with the exception of the year we saw Jamon Brown gloving up... 2020.

Wild 8th inning for the Phillies... to just stand there, get walked or get hit... but they take the lead.  . 1 strike away from the win now.  Crazy.

3 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

That belongs to Andy Reid.  Howie has just continued that.  Before Andy, the OL was a laughingstock.  Since he arrived, or more exactly since 2000, and he brought in Jon Runyan, the OL has been at the top of the league, with the exception of the year we saw Jamon Brown gloving up... 2020.

I think some credit has to be given to Jeff Lurie and his vision for the team. Runyan by far was the first big FA splash but during the Ray Rhodes years, there were some key draft picks and veteran FA signings.

@bpac55 I should have mentioned that Rope was a Hitchcock film as well. It's sort of a gimmick because it appears to be shot in one take with no cuts, but it's still fun. There are cuts but Hitchcock hides them well.

You asked if he did Psycho. No. That was Anthony Perkins. Great film.

A propos of horror films, this past week I watched X and Pearl, both with an actress I'd never seen before - Mia Goth. Absolutely fantastic performances. I mean, Oscar-worthy, especially in Pearl. Pearl is a prequel to X. If you can handle horror movies, these are among the best I've ever seen.

1 hour ago, mattwill said:

May 2023 COVID Vaccine Effectiveness results

How effective has the COVID vaccine been so far?

Compared to no booster, updated booster shots were roughly 72% effective against hospitalization and 68% effective against COVID-19-related death. In the study, 541 people who didn't receive an updated booster ended up going to the hospital; this is compared to 32 people who did receive one.

Wentz had covid and didn't need hospitalization. The shots are good, especially for at-risk individuals because they can significantly lessen the severity of covid, but it unfortunately didn't prevent people from still getting and spreading covid. So I don't understand the hate still directed at people that chose to decline. 

2 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Wanting to improve the OL and actually doing it are two different things.  It started actually working in 200 with Reid, the rest were band-aids.

Yep. Buddy trading for Ron Solt, whose knees were shot. Ugh!

1 minute ago, just relax said:

Yep. Buddy trading for Ron Solt, whose knees were shot. Ugh!

Knees shot and steroids banned.