1 hour ago, garingovt2000 said:

Chumbawumba there is mentored by Boris Diaw and Tony Parker... You do have to wonder if it's not a little rigged.  Same with Lebron going to Cleveland.  When generational talent is on the line I think that is where the league might step in.

Ewing to the Knicks?

3 hours ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

Rambo fielded 13 kicks and 1 punt his entire college career

How many did Brian Mitchell field in college?  

 

Let Rambo try out for the position.  Its not like the Eagles have a stone cold lock in that position.  If it works out, great.  If it doesn't... we are right back where we were.

1 hour ago, paco said:

I had to look it up.

 

 

Just blow it WAY WAY UP.  And get some top 4 picks!!!  

7 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Media buzz.   Dallas gets a ton of buzz.  Sixers don't get that level of delusion from the media.

39 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

It's a shame Bryz was such a bust.  His mask and pad set up was next level.  Love the blacked out look and goalie masks with black cages.

Boucher and Beezer not far behind

 

I prefer the darker orange that JVB is wearing.

2 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The 76ers are the Dallas Cowboys of the NBA

🥵

45 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I prefer the darker orange that JVB is wearing.

Then I have good news for you...they are bringing that back.

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

As reliable as Covey was last year, he's such a wasted roster spot.  He offers nothing on offense.  Nothing as a gunner on ST.  He's 100% a return specialist.   

However, you could argue the same about Rick Lavato.  Long gone are the days of the LS also being TE3, LB or C.   Mike Bartrum actually had 4 TD receptions here.

I'd love to see a WR5 that can also be the returner.  

Problem with a PR specialist is that Covey basically makes us carry as an active player a fourth specialist.  Covey got fewer snaps than Lovato.  Hell Sisposs got only two fewer and he missed games with injury.   Add in Kern’s snaps and he got more than Covey. Covey was so worthless on offense that Elliss got more defensive snaps than Covey did on offense and only two fewer STs snaps, in 6 regular season games. 

BTW, I really encourage looking at snap counts in evaluating how players are viewed by the coaches.   https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/phi/2022-snap-counts.htm  Dillard got fewer snaps than Opeta for example.  Epps was an Ironman on D but check out his STs snaps versus CJGJ.  When we evaluate non starters, STs matter even more than we at times realize.  I know that Slay, Bradberry and Maddox lead the CBs but I will be watching STs snaps shown on what little we see of TC now and in PS for all the rest of the DBs.  
 

1 hour ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I say,Son, keep your paws of Foghorn.

1 minute ago, BigEFly said:

Problem with a PR specialist is that Covey basically makes us carry as an active player a fourth specialist.  Covey got fewer snaps than Lovato.  Hell Sisposs got only two fewer and he missed games with injury.   Add in Kern’s snaps and he got more than Covey. Covey was so worthless on offense that Elliss got more defensive snaps than Covey did on offense and only two fewer STs snaps, in 6 regular season games. 

BTW, I really encourage looking at snap counts in evaluating how players are viewed by the coaches.   https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/phi/2022-snap-counts.htm  Dillard got fewer snaps than Opeta for example.  Epps was an Ironman on D but check out his STs snaps versus CJGJ.  When we evaluate non starters, STs matter even more than we at times realize.  I know that Slay, Bradberry and Maddox lead the CBs but I will be watching STs snaps shown on what little we see of TC now and in PS for all the rest of the DBs.  
 

Oh I know, that's kind of the point I was making.  I'm anal about snap counts.  Covey played what was it, 109 snaps?  

When breaking down the roster, I always look at snap counts to see which bottom of the roster guys are truly bottom of the roster or if they are bottom of the roster guys playing on all major ST.  The core ST guys I call them.  

10 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Problem with a PR specialist is that Covey basically makes us carry as an active player a fourth specialist.  Covey got fewer snaps than Lovato.  Hell Sisposs got only two fewer and he missed games with injury.   Add in Kern’s snaps and he got more than Covey. Covey was so worthless on offense that Elliss got more defensive snaps than Covey did on offense and only two fewer STs snaps, in 6 regular season games. 

BTW, I really encourage looking at snap counts in evaluating how players are viewed by the coaches.   https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/phi/2022-snap-counts.htm  Dillard got fewer snaps than Opeta for example.  Epps was an Ironman on D but check out his STs snaps versus CJGJ.  When we evaluate non starters, STs matter even more than we at times realize.  I know that Slay, Bradberry and Maddox lead the CBs but I will be watching STs snaps shown on what little we see of TC now and in PS for all the rest of the DBs.  
 

Concur on the point about specialists.  If the RS also contributes on offense, you get more productivity out of that roster spot.  The new WR and other back-up WRs can return kicks, that much better.  The ST was the weakest link of the team and they need to be improved.

1 minute ago, bpac55 said:

Oh I know, that's kind of the point I was making.  I'm anal about snap counts.  Covey played what was it, 109 snaps?  

When breaking down the roster, I always look at snap counts to see which bottom of the roster guys are truly bottom of the roster or if they are bottom of the roster guys playing on all major ST.  The core ST guys I call them.  

Let’s take S.  Let’s say the Brown and Edmunds win the starter roles. Blakenship and McCollum have two years left and McCollum probably survives to PS if they want him.  So the last slot comes down too, unless Evans significantly beats Blakenship as 3rd S, Evans v Wallace and that’s going to hinge on STs play. Heck, the #3 may come down to STs play.  (One has to wonder if one reason that CJGJ isn’t here anymore is that his ego may not have supported STs play.)  For the disappointment in Wallace, he’s a. Ironman on STs. Whoever is #4 S has to be an Ironman on STs.

1 hour ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Just blow it WAY WAY UP.  And get some top 4 picks!!!  

No way Harris will do that and watch his investment lose money while that happens. He's not in it to win...he's in it for profit.

PFT had a whole piece about how cash strapped and over-leveraged Harris is.

They said that the NFL owners want Snyder out so bad they are willing to approve the Harris bid, something they would never do in normal circumstances.

 

8 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

IMO the NFL should take every teams big board after the draft, put it in a vault and release them 10 years later.

Any objections?

4 hours ago, NCiggles said:

Getting rid of Bobrovsky was idiotic.  The Flyers view was that Bobrovsky fell apart in the playoffs and he was benched but the answer wasn't to sign Bryzgalov who was a known head case.  While you can say the return on Carter and Richards wasn't bad, you can't say the same for Bobrovsky.  They got nothing of value for him.    

Revisionist history.  Bobrovsky had a really bad second year and with an undrafted pedigree it looked like his first year was a fluke. NOBODY expected him to become a vezina winning goalie, if that were the case other teams would have been bidding for him and they would have gotten way more than two 2nd round picks for him. Meanwhile Bryzgalov was good in Anaheim sharing the job with JSG and then lights out for a bad Phoenix team for a few years as the guy. His four years in Phoenix he had save percentages of .921, .906, .920, and .921 and a GAA of 2.48 or less in three of the four years. He was legit one of the best goalies in the league during that stretch and for whatever reason imploded after he got the big money deal.

From boat propellers to walls in South Jersey to giving away Forsberg that team is cursed. 

Morey has always been a fraud this isn’t news. He’s never built a championship roster and never will. If he brings Harden back I will be hard pressed to be invested in that team for the next 4 years.

1 minute ago, Texas Eagle said:

Morey has always been a fraud this isn’t news. He’s never built a championship roster and never will. If he brings Harden back I will be hard pressed to be invested in that team for the next 4 years.

Fraud is a bit harsh, overrated is a much better description. He has consistently built good playoff teams. He has never built a true championship level team though and I don't have the belief that he will here. If you look at the roster is kind of surprising they were as good as they were. They don't have enough three point shooters to surround a dominant big with, and they are lacking athletic wing players. He did a much better job his first year here getting Seth Curry, Danny Green, and Andre Drummond. Had they had Harden then as opposed to Simmons maybe they win it all. Since then his moves have been questionable.

2 minutes ago, Texas Eagle said:

Morey has always been a fraud this isn’t news. He’s never built a championship roster and never will. If he brings Harden back I will be hard pressed to be invested in that team for the next 4 years.

Let me preface this as I don’t love James Harden and wish we didn’t have to have him back. The problem with letting James Harden just walk is you don’t just get all that salary you were paying him as cap. If he walks to Houston or anywhere with available cap to sign him tk his 4 year max then you only get $8 million of cap space. This is not enough to get yourself a high caliber starter to replace him. Additionally, if he goes to Houston, he is not going to do a sign in trade. Also rockets owner hates morey so he’s not helping the sixers. The Rockets have the cap space to just pay him. Due to harden’s age, he can only get a four year max from any team in the NBA. So that doesn’t work in the Sixers favor. Because the one thing they could’ve had was the fifth year max and now they don’t. 

So if he goes to Houston, they get screwed in terms of a sign and trade to get anything back for him. So if he is going to leave the Sixers, then we really need him to go to another team  that doesn’t have the available cap and needs to do a sign and trade, so you get something back for him that could help you next year. Otherwise you’re only getting $8 million if he leaves

tbh the sixers screw up making that trade in the sense they should’ve realized he wasn’t rockets James harden and went another direction where they got a talented PG (haliburton) who’s young and controllable for years to come. Now they are in a mess if he walks and a mess if they extend him 

6 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

Fraud is a bit harsh, overrated is a much better description. He has consistently built good playoff teams. He has never built a true championship level team though and I don't have the belief that he will here. If you look at the roster is kind of surprising they were as good as they were. They don't have enough three point shooters to surround a dominant big with, and they are lacking athletic wing players. He did a much better job his first year here getting Seth Curry, Danny Green, and Andre Drummond. Had they had Harden then as opposed to Simmons maybe they win it all. Since then his moves have been questionable.

Well said. Only disagree that I don’t question the PJ tucker move. I thought they needed a guy like him and you knew in the playoffs he would show up and do the things he did. People complained about it but really it wasn’t a bad contract cause after year 2 he becomes an expiring contract so easily movable. and a contender would deal for him and what he brings. He’s older but his game really has been the same at 25 as it is at 38. 

the biggest issue is tobias and tucker in the same starting lineup is not a good fit. Neither are good enough as shooters to be ok with the other one starting.

Id argue the thing that’s killing the sixers the most out of everything was the 2019 offseason.  none of those moves worked. They let butler walk, gave tobias a near max extension, signed horford with the last of their available cap space and gave Ben Simmons a rookie max extension. All four of those moves completely blew up in their face 

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

Well said. Only disagree that I don’t question the PJ tucker move. I thought they needed a guy like him and you knew in the playoffs he would show up and do the things he did. People complained about it but really it wasn’t a bad contract cause after year 2 he becomes an expiring contract so easily movable. and a contender would deal for him and what he brings. He’s older but his game really has been the same at 25 as it is at 38. 

the biggest issue is tobias and tucker in the same starting lineup is not a good fit. Neither are good enough as shooters to be ok with the other one starting.

Id argue the thing that’s killing the sixers the most out of everything was the 2019 offseason.  none of those moves worked. They let butler walk, gave tobias a near max extension, signed horford with the last of their available cap space and gave Ben Simmons a rookie max extension. All four of those moves completely blew up in their face 

Tobias in any lineup is not good...he is no where near a max contract player.  I read back some, ya Embiid has his issues, but the dude straight carried the team all year.  Played this series on a bum knee because he's forced to carry.  Maxey and Embiid are the only pieces that I'd not put a price tag on.  Fire sale the rest of the team.  

Just now, Wentz_Era said:

Tobias in any lineup is not good...he is no where near a max contract player.  I read back some, ya Embiid has his issues, but the dude straight carried the team all year.  Played this series on a bum knee because he's forced to carry.  Maxey and Embiid are the only pieces that I'd not put a price tag on.  Fire sale the rest of the team.  

Imo and felt like this for a while tobias Harris is the ultimate stat compiler on a bad team that makes him looks appealing. but on a good team he’s just a mediocre player. I said this when they made that trade with the clippers, if Jerry West is calling you and asking you if you want Tobias Harris and lets make a deal you should hang up the phone and walk away. Jerry West usually doesn’t make a bad deal and if he doesn’t believe a player is a fit to win a championship you shouldn’t either