40 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 

 I'm fine with Tucker as a defender/enforcer but they need to get rid of Harris and find a way to get more athletic on the wing. Not that either one was great but Rivers should have played House more and benching McDaniels in the Boston was dumb. They need to more talent on the wing and shooting though.

I would also agree that the 2019 offseason was what killed this team as well as one other thing which I will get to. They essentially chose Brown and Simmons over Butler which was dumb, then they felt the need to overpay for Harris since Butler was leaving. The Horford signing was just plain dumb since playing two bigs consistently only works for a team like Boston who have shooters everywhere and against one of the 3 or 4 teams in the league who have a dominant big to try to stop.

The other mistake was the Harden trade. Not only was losing Curry and Drummond more significant than initially thought, IF the rumors are true and they had Haliburton, Hield, and Barnes on the table for Simmons and Harris than Morey straight up messed up. Imagine have a backcourt of Maxey and Haliburton, and a having three point shooters to surround Embiid with like Hield and Curry. Now Morey is almost definitely going to double down and give Harden a four year max deal.

I could also go back to Hinkie himself and the start of the process for big mistakes. Drafting Okafor 3rd was a terrible pick and not because he didn't work out but because they already had Embiid and Noel at the time. The other thing is, they got lucky drafting Embiid because had he not broken his foot he would have went 1st and had they won the lottery they would have taken Wiggins regardless.

The two things I will defend the franchise about are this. Drafting Simmons was 100% the right move at the time. The dude had/has all of the talent in the world and it's hard to imagine that a 19 year old kid will become a total headcase and even if there were signs of that you chalk it up to him being immature and expect that to change. The other thing is the Fultz thing. First of all, every time I hear someone say they could have had Tatum I want to claw my own eyes out. They were never getting Tatum. Boston wanted him and knew the Lakers were taking Ball. They played the Sixers and got the trade and their guy they would have taken at 1, and as part of the deal the Sixers told them they were making the trade for Fultz. Had they taken Tatum after telling the Celtics they were going Fultz the organization would have been buried with every other team/agent/player in the league. Fultz also looked like the perfect combo guard to play with Simmons, and there was no way of knowing the dude would show up to camp a few months later and literally have a mental block where he forgot how to shoot.

Either way, so many mistakes over the last 8 years or so made by so many different people that blaming any one person or front office is silly. Hinkie made mistakes, Colangelo was a moron, and Morey hasn't exactly pressed all of the right buttons either. Quite honestly, it's just an organizational failure from top to bottom. The idea of the process was great and they had every opportunity to cash in with multiple championships but the execution of it was really bad.

5 hours 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.  

Covey could be a WR if the Eagles wanted him to.

They don't need him to.  The Eagles have 2 great WRs and 1 great TE and they don't really need more than that, unless there are injuries.   Quez isn't good.  But he's good enough.  Covey seems to be better as a PR than Watkins is as a WR.  The Eagles should look at who they have,  maybe one of those players will emerge,  but Covey is not a problem at PR.

9.3 yards per punt return was 8th in the NFL last year.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CoveBr00.htm

Looking at Georgia Bulldogs,  Nolan Smith had 1 PR and 1 KR.  Swift had 2 KR.

 

 

21 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

 I'm fine with Tucker as a defender/enforcer but they need to get rid of Harris and find a way to get more athletic on the wing. Not that either one was great but Rivers should have played House more and benching McDaniels in the Boston was dumb. They need to more talent on the wing and shooting though.

I would also agree that the 2019 offseason was what killed this team as well as one other thing which I will get to. They essentially chose Brown and Simmons over Butler which was dumb, then they felt the need to overpay for Harris since Butler was leaving. The Horford signing was just plain dumb since playing two bigs consistently only works for a team like Boston who have shooters everywhere and against one of the 3 or 4 teams in the league who have a dominant big to try to stop.

The other mistake was the Harden trade. Not only was losing Curry and Drummond more significant than initially thought, IF the rumors are true and they had Haliburton, Hield, and Barnes on the table for Simmons and Harris than Morey straight up messed up. Imagine have a backcourt of Maxey and Haliburton, and a having three point shooters to surround Embiid with like Hield and Curry. Now Morey is almost definitely going to double down and give Harden a four year max deal.

I could also go back to Hinkie himself and the start of the process for big mistakes. Drafting Okafor 3rd was a terrible pick and not because he didn't work out but because they already had Embiid and Noel at the time. The other thing is, they got lucky drafting Embiid because had he not broken his foot he would have went 1st and had they won the lottery they would have taken Wiggins regardless.

The two things I will defend the franchise about are this. Drafting Simmons was 100% the right move at the time. The dude had/has all of the talent in the world and it's hard to imagine that a 19 year old kid will become a total headcase and even if there were signs of that you chalk it up to him being immature and expect that to change. The other thing is the Fultz thing. First of all, every time I hear someone say they could have had Tatum I want to claw my own eyes out. They were never getting Tatum. Boston wanted him and knew the Lakers were taking Ball. They played the Sixers and got the trade and their guy they would have taken at 1, and as part of the deal the Sixers told them they were making the trade for Fultz. Had they taken Tatum after telling the Celtics they were going Fultz the organization would have been buried with every other team/agent/player in the league. Fultz also looked like the perfect combo guard to play with Simmons, and there was no way of knowing the dude would show up to camp a few months later and literally have a mental block where he forgot how to shoot.

Either way, so many mistakes over the last 8 years or so made by so many different people that blaming any one person or front office is silly. Hinkie made mistakes, Colangelo was a moron, and Morey hasn't exactly pressed all of the right buttons either. Quite honestly, it's just an organizational failure from top to bottom. The idea of the process was great and they had every opportunity to cash in with multiple championships but the execution of it was really bad.

Who publishes your novels? 

19 minutes ago, Random Reglar said:

Covey could be a WR if the Eagles wanted him to.

They don't need him to.  The Eagles have 2 great WRs and 1 great TE and they don't really need more than that, unless there are injuries.   Quez isn't good.  But he's good enough.  Covey seems to be better as a PR than Watkins is as a WR.  The Eagles should look at who they have,  maybe one of those players will emerge,  but Covey is not a problem at PR.

9.3 yards per punt return was 8th in the NFL last year.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CoveBr00.htm

Looking at Georgia Bulldogs,  Nolan Smith had 1 PR and 1 KR.  Swift had 2 KR.

 

 

Huh?

2 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

Huh?

Covey is fine

3 minutes ago, Random Reglar said:

Covey is fine

Huh?

37 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

 I'm fine with Tucker as a defender/enforcer but they need to get rid of Harris and find a way to get more athletic on the wing. Not that either one was great but Rivers should have played House more and benching McDaniels in the Boston was dumb. They need to more talent on the wing and shooting though.

I would also agree that the 2019 offseason was what killed this team as well as one other thing which I will get to. They essentially chose Brown and Simmons over Butler which was dumb, then they felt the need to overpay for Harris since Butler was leaving. The Horford signing was just plain dumb since playing two bigs consistently only works for a team like Boston who have shooters everywhere and against one of the 3 or 4 teams in the league who have a dominant big to try to stop.

The other mistake was the Harden trade. Not only was losing Curry and Drummond more significant than initially thought, IF the rumors are true and they had Haliburton, Hield, and Barnes on the table for Simmons and Harris than Morey straight up messed up. Imagine have a backcourt of Maxey and Haliburton, and a having three point shooters to surround Embiid with like Hield and Curry. Now Morey is almost definitely going to double down and give Harden a four year max deal.

I could also go back to Hinkie himself and the start of the process for big mistakes. Drafting Okafor 3rd was a terrible pick and not because he didn't work out but because they already had Embiid and Noel at the time. The other thing is, they got lucky drafting Embiid because had he not broken his foot he would have went 1st and had they won the lottery they would have taken Wiggins regardless.

The two things I will defend the franchise about are this. Drafting Simmons was 100% the right move at the time. The dude had/has all of the talent in the world and it's hard to imagine that a 19 year old kid will become a total headcase and even if there were signs of that you chalk it up to him being immature and expect that to change. The other thing is the Fultz thing. First of all, every time I hear someone say they could have had Tatum I want to claw my own eyes out. They were never getting Tatum. Boston wanted him and knew the Lakers were taking Ball. They played the Sixers and got the trade and their guy they would have taken at 1, and as part of the deal the Sixers told them they were making the trade for Fultz. Had they taken Tatum after telling the Celtics they were going Fultz the organization would have been buried with every other team/agent/player in the league. Fultz also looked like the perfect combo guard to play with Simmons, and there was no way of knowing the dude would show up to camp a few months later and literally have a mental block where he forgot how to shoot.

Either way, so many mistakes over the last 8 years or so made by so many different people that blaming any one person or front office is silly. Hinkie made mistakes, Colangelo was a moron, and Morey hasn't exactly pressed all of the right buttons either. Quite honestly, it's just an organizational failure from top to bottom. The idea of the process was great and they had every opportunity to cash in with multiple championships but the execution of it was really bad.

I 100% agree with you on almost all these points. I have said for years this theory of the process is a brilliant idea. The execution the Sixers used throughout the process was garbage. And it’s because they had instability in the front office. Ownership that was bad. And then they made a million mistakes throughout the whole thing.

actually brought up to HE in the sixers thread, mcdaniels should’ve been brought into game 7 when tobias and the sixers were getting torched by Tatum. They needed someone with some sort of athleticism on him to at least attempt to make it tougher on him. Heck, even in game six they should’ve thought about doing it when Tatum was just killing Harris at the end of the game because Harris was gassed. This goes into a whole other argument because Isaiah Joe would’ve been a nice player to have on the sixers this year. but Doc Rivers refused to play him over korkmaz for multiple years. And korkmaz didn’t even get to play this year anyways. Joe went to OKC and now he’s actually a competent shooter and role player.

there’s people all over Twitter that feel like docs didnt deserve to be fired after this series as it wasn’t his fault. But I would argue embiid and harden were bigger culprits but doc had a hand in this failure. Biggest coaching adjustment of the series was Mazz inserting Robert Williams into the starting lineup. That lineup routinely killed the sixers in game 6 and kick started the massive 3rd quarter run. What was doc Rivers adjustment to that? Nothing. He went with the same plan he went with against the Nets that i predicted would ultimately doom the sixers vs. the Celtics. The nets didn’t have the horses to pull it off as effectively as the Celtics did. His strategy was our role players will just make shots and will be fine. The problem is when you have to be that reliant on your role players and you’re not getting your MVP in better position to be affective. It eventually is going to catch up to you against better teams. That’s not letting Joel Embiid off the hook because he was god awful with the ball and in game 7. However, Doc Rivers did him no favors when he didn’t do anything to adjust to what the nets tried and what the Celtics eventually did late in that series. The only thing doc did in this series was in game 5 he inserted house into the lineup and made tobias/tucker as cutters from the corner  in game 5. Otherwise he did nothing that he hadn’t been doing all year. Eventually mazz got smart and adjusted to making it more difficult on embiid with Williams playing more with horford, sending double and even triple teams and daring role players like tobias, melton and tucker have to beat him

 Yeah morey’s biggest mistake was harden. However i dont think that was all morey though. Michael Rubin is super close with harden so i also think sixers ownership at the time also wanted harden and a major reason they brought in morey. Either way the biggest mistake was not taking kings offer. they declined because they felt it wasn’t good enough which was ridiculous. It was always good enough because Tyrese Haliburton was still on a rookie contract, and there was a chance he and Maxey could become a really good backcourt for the foreseeable future. And it kept your window open longer than James Harden, where there were concerns he was already declined, and he didn’t take care of his body through his career.

The thing with the okafor pick is there’s a ton of rumors that hinkie wanted porzingis but ownership squashed it cause they didn’t want a year worth of tanking and nothing to show for it when porzingis didn’t come over right away. Especially after they had nothing to show from the embiid pick at that point. And if the rumors are true that Sam Hinkie wanting Porziņģis and then I put that more on ownership not trusting him to make the right decision, and forcing him into taking a guy just because they wanted something they could visibly see the following year. frankly the lakers taking Russell i think killed what the sixers really wanted 

Don’t disagree on the Simmons move. Only thing i had an issue with is they should’ve been more willing to move him earlier. There were people like brand who said when they traded for butler he wanted to deal Simmons cause he didn’t view him as ever changing. He was right in that instance.

As for fultz, agree when people complain about Tatum. They were never going to get Tatum cause of what you said. I said it on draft night and before the draft that the biggest mistake the Sixers made was not just waiting to take fultz at 3. The Lakers were never passing on Lonzo Ball at two. especially considering he was a local La kid. The Celtics were always going to take Jayson Tatum. They weren’t going to trade out of 1 and fall far enough back to miss on Tatum. So the Sixers realistically could’ve just sat at three and grabbed fultz. This was Boston used the desperation of colangelo. And there were also reports inside the Sixers organization that not everybody was sold on Markelle fultz as he was a losing type of player. So the fact that the whole organization wasn’t sold on him should’ve been enough for the Sixers not to trade up to get him. Instead, they moved up and gave up another lottery pick that could’ve been used to help build the bench or move up in that 2019 draft or in general to acquire another player. 

Yup the amount of mistakes the sixers made makes it damn near impossible to come out with a title. I’ve said the same thing you have. You look at all these teams that are constantly title contenders and making it past the second round they don’t have a ton of mistakes and just 3-4 hits. The sixers are likely fortunate embiid had his pre-draft injury fell to them otherwise the execution of process would’ve been immensely worse right now and it already looks bad  

10 minutes ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Who publishes your novels? 

Mine is published by Ulysses Press

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

Mine is published by Ulysses Press

Nerds 

19 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

Huh?

 

13 minutes ago, Wentz_Era said:

Huh?

One of the more lucid posts.

10 hours ago, garingovt2000 said:

Where does Collinsworth land in our next racist bracket?

The racist bracket doesn't exist anymore.

Bacarty would win every year.   

6 hours 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.  

Covey also filled in as the emergency holder when Siposs got hurt and he handled that just fine (in the rain too).

 

I was not impressed with Covey at all in the first half of 2022. But he did show, IMO, nice improvement as the PR in the 2nd half of the season. He's a smallish guy and likely just not going to be an effective blocker (which is a must if you want to play with the starters on the Eagles). So, unsurprisingly, he didn't get many snaps as a WR as a rookie. Pascal had 338 snaps and only 19 targets as the 4th WR. Face it, if the Eagles are ahead in a game and riding the run game, they will have bigger guys than Covey in the game. Last year, Pascal had the WR "blocker" role. The year before, it was JJAW. 

It is possible for Covey to improve in that area. Smith isn't exactly a large person and he was a surprisingly effective and willing blocker. But when we are running the ball, would you rather have 5-8, 170lb Covey in for the play or another TE? I really only know Covey the punt returner. I don't know much about him as a WR. He could possibly develop into a poor man's Cole Beasley (probably the closest height / weight player to compare him to) in a system that uses small, shifty slot WRs. That just isn't the Eagles right now. So until we find a better punt returner ...

Maybe Zaccheaus will get a look there. He has a few NFL returns. He has the physical attributes to be effective there.

30 minutes ago, Random Reglar said:

Covey is fine

We can do better than just getting fair catches.

17 minutes ago, brkmsn said:

Covey also filled in as the emergency holder when Siposs got hurt and he handled that just fine (in the rain too).

 

I was not impressed with Covey at all in the first half of 2022. But he did show, IMO, nice improvement as the PR in the 2nd half of the season. He's a smallish guy and likely just not going to be an effective blocker (which is a must if you want to play with the starters on the Eagles). So, unsurprisingly, he didn't get many snaps as a WR as a rookie. Pascal had 338 snaps and only 19 targets as the 4th WR. Face it, if the Eagles are ahead in a game and riding the run game, they will have bigger guys than Covey in the game. Last year, Pascal had the WR "blocker" role. The year before, it was JJAW. 

It is possible for Covey to improve in that area. Smith isn't exactly a large person and he was a surprisingly effective and willing blocker. But when we are running the ball, would you rather have 5-8, 170lb Covey in for the play or another TE? I really only know Covey the punt returner. I don't know much about him as a WR. He could possibly develop into a poor man's Cole Beasley (probably the closest height / weight player to compare him to) in a system that uses small, shifty slot WRs. That just isn't the Eagles right now. So until we find a better punt returner ...

Maybe Zaccheaus will get a look there. He has a few NFL returns. He has the physical attributes to be effective there.

I have no problem with his return skills.  Sure, I'd love a gamebreaker back there but Covey 100% improved as the year went on.  What I'm looking for is a player who can offer more than JUST being the PR/KR.  It would be great if one of the nickel CB or RB could do it all.  Every roster spot counts and having flexibility to do more is always better.  Covey being the holder was nice to have but I'm sure someone else could have done so if needed.  If we're arguing for a guys roster spot because he's the emergency holder....well that tells me all I need to know.

17 minutes ago, RLC said:

We can do better than just getting fair catches.

Exactly.  The Chiefs had a huge return in SB which pretty turned the game around to their favor.  Having good returns for the team would be nice.

34 minutes ago, brkmsn said:

Covey also filled in as the emergency holder when Siposs got hurt and he handled that just fine (in the rain too).

 

I was not impressed with Covey at all in the first half of 2022. But he did show, IMO, nice improvement as the PR in the 2nd half of the season. He's a smallish guy and likely just not going to be an effective blocker (which is a must if you want to play with the starters on the Eagles). So, unsurprisingly, he didn't get many snaps as a WR as a rookie. Pascal had 338 snaps and only 19 targets as the 4th WR. Face it, if the Eagles are ahead in a game and riding the run game, they will have bigger guys than Covey in the game. Last year, Pascal had the WR "blocker" role. The year before, it was JJAW. 

It is possible for Covey to improve in that area. Smith isn't exactly a large person and he was a surprisingly effective and willing blocker. But when we are running the ball, would you rather have 5-8, 170lb Covey in for the play or another TE? I really only know Covey the punt returner. I don't know much about him as a WR. He could possibly develop into a poor man's Cole Beasley (probably the closest height / weight player to compare him to) in a system that uses small, shifty slot WRs. That just isn't the Eagles right now. So until we find a better punt returner ...

Maybe Zaccheaus will get a look there. He has a few NFL returns. He has the physical attributes to be effective there.

I like Covey. Solid.  And he developed and improved. He even had a few impactful returns. He was tough as steel too. I kinda want him back but of course prefer him or his replacement to handle some offensive snaps.  

12 minutes ago, Penn7980 said:

Exactly.  The Chiefs had a huge return in SB which pretty turned the game around to their favor.  Having good returns for the team would be nice.

More like a competent punter

3 minutes ago, jamiller said:

I like Covey. Solid.  And he developed and improved. He even had a few impactful returns. He was tough as steel too. I kinda want him back but of course prefer him or his replacement to handle some offensive snaps.  

Covey is a jag on his best day

Lets go Heat

1 hour ago, ToastJenkins said:

Lets go Heat

If the heat pull this off without Herro it’s the ultimate feather in the cap of spoelstra. That’s the biggest advantage the heat have in this series. 

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

I 100% agree with you on almost all these points. I have said for years this theory of the process is a brilliant idea. The execution the Sixers used throughout the process was garbage. And it’s because they had instability in the front office. Ownership that was bad. And then they made a million mistakes throughout the whole thing.

actually brought up to HE in the sixers thread, mcdaniels should’ve been brought into game 7 when tobias and the sixers were getting torched by Tatum. They needed someone with some sort of athleticism on him to at least attempt to make it tougher on him. Heck, even in game six they should’ve thought about doing it when Tatum was just killing Harris at the end of the game because Harris was gassed. This goes into a whole other argument because Isaiah Joe would’ve been a nice player to have on the sixers this year. but Doc Rivers refused to play him over korkmaz for multiple years. And korkmaz didn’t even get to play this year anyways. Joe went to OKC and now he’s actually a competent shooter and role player.

there’s people all over Twitter that feel like docs didnt deserve to be fired after this series as it wasn’t his fault. But I would argue embiid and harden were bigger culprits but doc had a hand in this failure. Biggest coaching adjustment of the series was Mazz inserting Robert Williams into the starting lineup. That lineup routinely killed the sixers in game 6 and kick started the massive 3rd quarter run. What was doc Rivers adjustment to that? Nothing. He went with the same plan he went with against the Nets that i predicted would ultimately doom the sixers vs. the Celtics. The nets didn’t have the horses to pull it off as effectively as the Celtics did. His strategy was our role players will just make shots and will be fine. The problem is when you have to be that reliant on your role players and you’re not getting your MVP in better position to be affective. It eventually is going to catch up to you against better teams. That’s not letting Joel Embiid off the hook because he was god awful with the ball and in game 7. However, Doc Rivers did him no favors when he didn’t do anything to adjust to what the nets tried and what the Celtics eventually did late in that series. The only thing doc did in this series was in game 5 he inserted house into the lineup and made tobias/tucker as cutters from the corner  in game 5. Otherwise he did nothing that he hadn’t been doing all year. Eventually mazz got smart and adjusted to making it more difficult on embiid with Williams playing more with horford, sending double and even triple teams and daring role players like tobias, melton and tucker have to beat him

 Yeah morey’s biggest mistake was harden. However i dont think that was all morey though. Michael Rubin is super close with harden so i also think sixers ownership at the time also wanted harden and a major reason they brought in morey. Either way the biggest mistake was not taking kings offer. they declined because they felt it wasn’t good enough which was ridiculous. It was always good enough because Tyrese Haliburton was still on a rookie contract, and there was a chance he and Maxey could become a really good backcourt for the foreseeable future. And it kept your window open longer than James Harden, where there were concerns he was already declined, and he didn’t take care of his body through his career.

The thing with the okafor pick is there’s a ton of rumors that hinkie wanted porzingis but ownership squashed it cause they didn’t want a year worth of tanking and nothing to show for it when porzingis didn’t come over right away. Especially after they had nothing to show from the embiid pick at that point. And if the rumors are true that Sam Hinkie wanting Porziņģis and then I put that more on ownership not trusting him to make the right decision, and forcing him into taking a guy just because they wanted something they could visibly see the following year. frankly the lakers taking Russell i think killed what the sixers really wanted 

Don’t disagree on the Simmons move. Only thing i had an issue with is they should’ve been more willing to move him earlier. There were people like brand who said when they traded for butler he wanted to deal Simmons cause he didn’t view him as ever changing. He was right in that instance.

As for fultz, agree when people complain about Tatum. They were never going to get Tatum cause of what you said. I said it on draft night and before the draft that the biggest mistake the Sixers made was not just waiting to take fultz at 3. The Lakers were never passing on Lonzo Ball at two. especially considering he was a local La kid. The Celtics were always going to take Jayson Tatum. They weren’t going to trade out of 1 and fall far enough back to miss on Tatum. So the Sixers realistically could’ve just sat at three and grabbed fultz. This was Boston used the desperation of colangelo. And there were also reports inside the Sixers organization that not everybody was sold on Markelle fultz as he was a losing type of player. So the fact that the whole organization wasn’t sold on him should’ve been enough for the Sixers not to trade up to get him. Instead, they moved up and gave up another lottery pick that could’ve been used to help build the bench or move up in that 2019 draft or in general to acquire another player. 

Yup the amount of mistakes the sixers made makes it damn near impossible to come out with a title. I’ve said the same thing you have. You look at all these teams that are constantly title contenders and making it past the second round they don’t have a ton of mistakes and just 3-4 hits. The sixers are likely fortunate embiid had his pre-draft injury fell to them otherwise the execution of process would’ve been immensely worse right now and it already looks bad  

The other big mistake was trading Mikal Bridges. Obviously it would be hindsight to say he was expected to get as good as he did. However, he was perfect for the team. A lengthy athletic wing 3 and D player is exsctly what they needed. Not to mention he was a Philly kid. Jusy a terrible move and example of trying to be the smartest guy in the room instead of do the obvious thing.

2 hours ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Who publishes your novels? 

Sorry, I forgot how rare it is around here to string a few coherent thoughts together 😉

2 minutes ago, T-1000 said:

The other big mistake was trading Mikal Bridges. Obviously it would be hindsight to say he was expected to get as good as he did. However, he was perfect for the team. A lengthy athletic wing 3 and D player is exsctly what they needed. Not to mention he was a Philly kid. Jusy a terrible move and example of trying to be the smartest guy in the room instead of do the obvious thing.

Tbh i wanted them to take Michael Porter Jr at 10 cause without his back injury he was a top 3 pick in that draft. Was worth the risk to take him considering how high his ceiling was and where you were picking. Frankly him or bridges would’ve been better than what they got out of that trade. 

That Jimmy Butler guy is good.

4 hours ago, Random Reglar said:

Covey could be a WR if the Eagles wanted him to.

They don't need him to.  The Eagles have 2 great WRs and 1 great TE and they don't really need more than that, unless there are injuries.   Quez isn't good.  But he's good enough.  Covey seems to be better as a PR than Watkins is as a WR.  The Eagles should look at who they have,  maybe one of those players will emerge,  but Covey is not a problem at PR.

9.3 yards per punt return was 8th in the NFL last year.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CoveBr00.htm

Looking at Georgia Bulldogs,  Nolan Smith had 1 PR and 1 KR.  Swift had 2 KR.

 

 

Nolan Smith and Swift aren’t returning punts. Lay off the peyote.