Got an email from Yelp today.  It had the caption "Would You Visit a Museum of SPAM”, so I opened it because, yes I have visited the Spam Museum in Austin, MN.  They had an Article entitled 11 of the Most Outrageous Attractions.  While I don’t think they hit the top 11 in the US by any stretch of the imagination (not even Jesus in cowboy boots was listed), I marveled at the fact that I have seen 8 of the 11. Get off the Interstates and chase the two lane highways and byways in this great country.  You never know what you’ll see.  (For the dead period the next six weeks @eagle45. (I suspect @mattwill and @just relax have seen some of these as well.)

https://www.yelp.com/article/yelps-11-outrageous-attractions?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Braze_230602_ah_gr_entertainment_outrageousattractions_var1&utm_campaign=Jun-02-2023&utm_term=NFN1m-R9vpnGvqryNlNI_w&ytl_=1682abe201eee793c0d809e3bb61327a

1 hour ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

For the record (yes I just looked up his stats), Hunter Renfrow has 70 career punt returns and has fumbled six times. That’s a freaking lot of times putting the ball on the ground. Be careful what you wish for. 

No idea if this makes it better or worse, but I’m pretty sure he fumbled twice on one punt return I saw last year (he got concussed on the play). 

I had a great Uber driver from PHL this morning. We talked Eagles the whole trip.  He had an interesting take on the 2017 team vs. the 2022 team comparison. Specifically, he wondered who the QB for the 2017 team should be in the comparison … the QB who won 14 games or the QB who won 4 games?

 

31 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Got an email from Yelp today.  It had the caption "Would You Visit a Museum of SPAM”, so I opened it because, yes I have visited the Spam Museum in Austin, MN.  They had an Article entitled 11 of the Most Outrageous Attractions.  While I don’t think they hit the top 11 in the US by any stretch of the imagination (not even Jesus in cowboy boots was listed), I marveled at the fact that I have seen 8 of the 11. Get off the Interstates and chase the two lane highways and byways in this great country.  You never know what you’ll see.  (For the dead period the next six weeks @eagle45. (I suspect @mattwill and @just relax have seen some of these as well.)

https://www.yelp.com/article/yelps-11-outrageous-attractions?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Braze_230602_ah_gr_entertainment_outrageousattractions_var1&utm_campaign=Jun-02-2023&utm_term=NFN1m-R9vpnGvqryNlNI_w&ytl_=1682abe201eee793c0d809e3bb61327a

I’ve only been to one … the Bison Paddock, but I have been to the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota.

40 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Got an email from Yelp today.  It had the caption "Would You Visit a Museum of SPAM”, so I opened it because, yes I have visited the Spam Museum in Austin, MN.  They had an Article entitled 11 of the Most Outrageous Attractions.  While I don’t think they hit the top 11 in the US by any stretch of the imagination (not even Jesus in cowboy boots was listed), I marveled at the fact that I have seen 8 of the 11. Get off the Interstates and chase the two lane highways and byways in this great country.  You never know what you’ll see.  (For the dead period the next six weeks @eagle45. (I suspect @mattwill and @just relax have seen some of these as well.)

https://www.yelp.com/article/yelps-11-outrageous-attractions?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Braze_230602_ah_gr_entertainment_outrageousattractions_var1&utm_campaign=Jun-02-2023&utm_term=NFN1m-R9vpnGvqryNlNI_w&ytl_=1682abe201eee793c0d809e3bb61327a

I have seen none of these. I feel culturally deprived.

I do, however, have a warm spot in my heart for the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota. Those mosaics are made up entirely of corn cobs. It has been described as the world's largest bird feeder.

 

1 hour ago, mattwill said:

How many did he lose?

Plus, I was at the game at FedEx where one of his fumbles happened.  It wasn’t really a fumble, although it goes into the record as one.  The wind blew that ball way toward the sidelines.  It was unplayable, but he stretched to play it regardless.  Bad judgment call, but he learned his lesson from that, and let similar punts later in the season bounce out of bounds

Note: I checked the Gamebooks and only two.  One in Week 3 against the Commanders and one in Week 5 against the Lions.  

 

Point is he doesn't have sure hands back there.  I will never understand why some people want to die on the hill of Covey as if he is this player thar shouldn't be criticized or replaced with a better player.  We have one of the worst special teams units in the league and the only special teams player that we have that's worth a damn is the kicker.

12 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

These things are great to watch, but half the time I'm so lost on the thought process. They really wanted to trade up to 14 for Emmanuel Forbes who they thought was the cleanest prospect in the draft?

Also I find it funny Patriots were definitely trying to play a bad franchise into making a bad decision by giving up pick #97 when Steelers gave up just #120 to do the same trade despite being a pick after Washington. 

I'm glad we have Hurts and did not trade for Wilson but the Wilson bashing is grade Z ignorant.

The Broncos did not have an NFL offense last year. Rodgers' caddie is not an NFL mind. He probably makes the top 20 list of worst NFL head coaches.

Trying that 64 yard FG with 20 seconds left on 4th and 5 vs Seattle is Chuck Pagano special teams play bad. Its Zeke playing Center bad.

 

2021 Trevor Lawrence is also a pathetic chump if you ignore the whole Urban Meyer coaching thing.

 

Wilson has a first 10 year resume in Seattle that is comparable only to someone like Mahomes (eventually)

He was Aaron Rodgers with more playoff success.

 

Wilson had 6 TDs and his team scored 55 points in the 2 games without Rodgers' gimp coaching them.

They lost 27-24 to the SB champs and beat a stupid playoff team (Chargers) playing their starters for no reason 31-28 in week 18.

Throw in Sean Payton who made Drew Brees (See 5 years of Brees in SD) and its pretty clear that Denver will be fine.

Payton is a better coach than Pete Carroll. Pete's offense was Beast Mode and Wilson trying to survive behind a crap O-line.

Pete lost 3 playoff games by himself (iced a game losing FG vs Atlanta, got cute in the red zone vs NE, and ran into the line all day vs Dallas)

 

Wilson had a 34 TD 8 pick 110 rated season in 2015 throwing to WRs  Baldwin, Lockett, Kearse, and 5 jags rotating as WR4

Lockett was a rookie KR in 2015, not the years 4-8 pro with 10 TDs and 1000 yards most seasons.

Wilson had 212 TDs in 7 seasons with another 24 in the playoffs  before he met DK Metcalf.

 

Dude won an NFCCG playing half the game and OT with a concussion.

29 minutes ago, mattwill said:

I had a great Uber driver from PHL this morning. We talked Eagles the whole trip.  He had an interesting take on the 2017 team vs. the 2022 team comparison. Specifically, he wondered who the QB for the 2017 team should be in the comparison … the QB who won 14 games or the QB who won 4 games?

Why not use both?

6 minutes ago, SkippyX said:

I'm glad we have Hurts and did not trade for Wilson but the Wilson bashing is grade Z ignorant.

The Broncos did not have an NFL offense last year. Rodgers' caddie is not an NFL mind. He probably makes the top 20 list of worst NFL head coaches.

Trying that 64 yard FG with 20 seconds left on 4th and 5 vs Seattle is Chuck Pagano special teams play bad. Its Zeke playing Center bad.

 

2021 Trevor Lawrence is also a pathetic chump if you ignore the whole Urban Meyer coaching thing.

 

Wilson has a first 10 year resume in Seattle that is comparable only to someone like Mahomes (eventually)

He was Aaron Rodgers with more playoff success.

 

Wilson had 6 TDs and his team scored 55 points in the 2 games without Rodgers' gimp coaching them.

They lost 27-24 to the SB champs and beat a stupid playoff team (Chargers) playing their starters for no reason 31-28 in week 18.

Throw in Sean Payton who made Drew Brees (See 5 years of Brees in SD) and its pretty clear that Denver will be fine.

Payton is a better coach than Pete Carroll. Pete's offense was Beast Mode and Wilson trying to survive behind a crap O-line.

Pete lost 3 playoff games by himself (iced a game losing FG vs Atlanta, got cute in the red zone vs NE, and ran into the line all day vs Dallas)

 

Wilson had a 34 TD 8 pick 110 rated season in 2015 throwing to WRs  Baldwin, Lockett, Kearse, and 5 jags rotating as WR4

Lockett was a rookie KR in 2015, not the years 4-8 pro with 10 TDs and 1000 yards most seasons.

Wilson had 212 TDs in 7 seasons with another 24 in the playoffs  before he met DK Metcalf.

 

Dude won an NFCCG playing half the game and OT with a concussion.

 

Let's be honest he won that NFC Championship Game because Mike McCarthy opted for like 3 field goals at the galling in the first half instead of going for it.

21 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

These things are great to watch, but half the time I'm so lost on the thought process. They really wanted to trade up to 14 for Emmanuel Forbes who they thought was the cleanest prospect in the draft?

Also I find it funny Patriots were definitely trying to play a bad franchise into making a bad decision by giving up pick #97 when Steelers gave up just #120 to do the same trade despite being a pick after Washington. 

Time will tell with Forbes, I guess -- but I certainly didn't have him rated highly among CBs, not a first round pick for sure.  I think the Commanders got seduced by college production over everything else.  Hopefully for their sake he isn't a first round version of Pumphrey.

FWIW, they're already listing Forbes at 180 lbs on their website; he put on 15 pounds of muscle, even before OTAs .... 

A mark on Wilsons record was that he wouldn't be good without Pete and that defense

So far it's accurate 

3 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Interesting tidbit, Matt Patricia was on the field at OTA's in full team gear, so it is much more of a hands on role than just a remote, special projects role some speculated. 

Blech

5 minutes ago, mattwill said:

I’ve only been to one … the Bison Paddock, but I have been to the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota.

I have been to the Corn Palace in Mitchell.  Second to last time I was through Mitchell in 2017, it was night headed to my hotel in Miller, SD.  It was raining, and seemed like muddy water.  Couldn’t keep my windshield clean.  Then I realized I had hit a locust swarm and it wasn’t raindrops and mud, it was locusts splattering my car.  It was Biblical.  Thank the Fates, it was a rental car.

On my return trip passed by the Corn Palace in the morning. (Freeway has grown Mitchell a bit from my earlier days when there wasn’t the interstate). Stopped off at a winery in Vermillon later that day and actually had a shot of South Dakota whiskey.  Who knew?  There’s a winery south of that in Nebraska. Owner names wine after local outlaws.  Last trip with my sister.  

You’ll catch Carhenge, on that list, coming south out of the Black Hills region of SD, just over the border a bit, close to Alliance, NE.   I didn’t know about it when I was coming back from the Black Hills with my wife and kids. Then, there it was.  Kind of like stumbling on the file cabinet in Burlington, VT.  

Frankly, the only one of those places I targeted seeing was the Spam Museum, which was a family joke because when I first stumbled across it with my wife and kids in tow, they wouldn’t agree to stop.  So headed north out of Wichita on one trip on my own a few years back, I targeted a side trip to Austin, MN.  Worth it for no other reason than the Monty Python exhibit there (and the celebration of Hawaiian love of Spam.) 
 
As Ferris said "Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
 

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

Got an email from Yelp today.  It had the caption "Would You Visit a Museum of SPAM”, so I opened it because, yes I have visited the Spam Museum in Austin, MN.  They had an Article entitled 11 of the Most Outrageous Attractions.  While I don’t think they hit the top 11 in the US by any stretch of the imagination (not even Jesus in cowboy boots was listed), I marveled at the fact that I have seen 8 of the 11. Get off the Interstates and chase the two lane highways and byways in this great country.  You never know what you’ll see.  (For the dead period the next six weeks @eagle45. (I suspect @mattwill and @just relax have seen some of these as well.)

https://www.yelp.com/article/yelps-11-outrageous-attractions?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Braze_230602_ah_gr_entertainment_outrageousattractions_var1&utm_campaign=Jun-02-2023&utm_term=NFN1m-R9vpnGvqryNlNI_w&ytl_=1682abe201eee793c0d809e3bb61327a

I am 0-11 there.

32 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Point is he doesn't have sure hands back there.  I will never understand why some people want to die on the hill of Covey as if he is this player thar shouldn't be criticized or replaced with a better player.  We have one of the worst special teams units in the league and the only special teams player that we have that's worth a damn is the kicker.

Show me a video clip of him bobbling a punt.  Other than the Washington muff and the Arizona muff, I can’t recall any bobbles at all 

5 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

A mark on Wilsons record was that he wouldn't be good without Pete and that defense

So far it's accurate 

Not going to stand up for Russell Wilson, because he was awful last year with Denver. Their oline was bad last year along with Wilson. Why broncos went heavily to fix it this offseason. Also Seattle after they traded him decided they were going to fix their offensive line issues that had been an issue for years. Might have got their bookend tackles for the next decade the offseason after they dealt wilson. Seahawks had a below average oline for what feels like since they made that Jimmy Graham trade. 

1 hour ago, mattwill said:

I had a great Uber driver from PHL this morning. We talked Eagles the whole trip.  He had an interesting take on the 2017 team vs. the 2022 team comparison. Specifically, he wondered who the QB for the 2017 team should be in the comparison … the QB who won 14 games or the QB who won 4 games?

Well, since 2017 is in the books, it's the QB "level of play" they got.  They had MVP level QB-ing all year and replacement level QB-ing until they clinched the last game or so for the #1 seed and in the divisional playoffs...and then MVP level QB-ing in NFCCG and SB.  

That's almost identical to what the 2022 Eagles got, even on a game-by-game basis.

Could you imagine how we’d be looking at Howie today if Wilson agreed to a trade and we signed Allen Robinson?

Kyron Johnson got reps at off ball LB.  Couldn’t get active last year when he was expected to be a STs phenom.  Less of an opportunity there at his size with the new kickoff rule.  As I see it, for him to make the team, he has to show versatility at the LB position.,Of the holdover SAM/OLBs from last year, he had the least coverage experience in college.

1 hour ago, mattwill said:

Show me a video clip of him bobbling a punt.  Other than the Washington muff and the Arizona muff, I can’t recall any bobbles at all 

 

Yeah sure let me just go to my archive of Britian Covey clips.

After reading some OTA recaps from beats I think Joseph Ngata will be the lead dog for the Nasty Nate award.  A big WR described as a poor man's AJ Brown.  He's going to be a training camp and preseason star only to be cut.