Just now, Connecticut Eagle said:

Tanking for them would still make sense.  Getting a bunch of picks for #1 or #2 would accelerate their rebuild.

What do you think is a fair trade for him, though?

1 hour ago, mr_hunt said:

eagles' fans are violent animals!    

 

 

 

Did I just see a wig go flying? 

Wasn't it Trotter that would say he'd go out on the field trying to split somebody's wig?

1 minute ago, BigEFly said:

I don’t really think Wichita is "Kansas life” as I would define it. It’s city life.  Aircraft manufacturing and healthcare.  Not a lot of rural in Wichita.  I would suggest that Kansas life is probably more like Elk City (where my Kansas relatives are) or Hazleton (KS).  (I thank @HazletonEagle for my even recognizing I was driving through it. Kansas has some of the best soil in the nation.  Wheatbelt.  The cattle spreads in the Flint Hills.  

But that’s the thing.  States tend to be diverse, you just have to look for it.  Get down to southern Utah and there are the Utes and the upper part of the Navajo nation.  Also a whole lot of nowhere out of the tourist areas in Utah.  Hard to get to because there aren’t much in the way of roads.

Heck,  San Francisco is quite different from Alameda or the vegetable farms on the southern part of the peninsula and way different from the Central Valley, the south coast, the Mojave or the redwood forests.

We love to lump people and areas together.  The Castro is different than the Haight, which is different than the Financial District, Beacon Hill, the Presidio or the piers.  We can split that with Philly too if you want or any big city and even a lot of small towns.  I think it’s safer to say, there are jackasses everywhere.

Soil In Kansas is good😆😂😆.

Tell my backyard garden. Everything where I live is Clay for 6ft.

Having said that I'm sure the wheat belt is a bit better though the farmers here in Kansas are having a rough go as they haven't got enough rain this year☹️

As for Utah most the native American live out on the reservations, I didn't know too many native kids, but more than I did black kids.

Was friends with a kid named big bear long horn, cool kid really cool name, he went by Marvin🤷‍♂️

Utah also has a large Latino population a large Polynesian population and Believe it or not a larger Asian population that black population.

Last I checked and it's been a while Utah has a 2% black population.

Where as when we lived in SF my son's day care was full of all sorts of diverse kids and now in KS while I dont think most would consider it diverse it's way more diverse than Utah.

Wichita is still city life but it's slower here than SLC was/is  and definitely slower than SF.

I dont know if I've been through elk city, I'm sure I've been through Hazelton, though nothing memorable sticks out😁

I'm not really a country sort of guy, I grew up in the suburbs of SLC but 30 minutes west or south were farms and though I'd like to think I could live out in the sticks on a porch with my dog, whittling on my rocking chair, I hate fishing, never rode a horse hate hunting and like more than one restaurant where i live.

For Now Wichita will do...

 

17 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

I'll take driving through Nebraska looking at corn vs 80 through WY.

Exactly😆

14 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

My bad, I keep thinking Albert Brooks every time I think about Albert O for some absurd misfire in my aging brain.  Can’t explain it.  Must be because they could be twins.  It’s must be that they have the same hair cut.

Allen is an interesting idea.  Similar size to Watkins and certainly has speed.

Fun fact: Albert Brooks' real last name is Einstein. 

6 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Tanking for them would still make sense.  Getting a bunch of picks for #1 or #2 would accelerate their rebuild.

They don't have a 1st round pick this year. Tanking to go from #39 overall to #33 overall? Not worth it.

6 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

What do you think is a fair trade for him, though?

Pinkston and a fifth.   

SUPERBOWLZZZZZZZ!@!!#@!@#$!!!

1 minute ago, RLC said:

They don't have a 1st round pick this year. Tanking to go from #39 overall to #33 overall? Not worth it.

Yup.  My bad.

11 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

What do you think is a fair trade for him, though?

I think it would be a lot closer to CJGJ trade compensation than Minkah Fitzpatrick trade compensation.

But the Safety market is really weird now so who knows.

8 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

Fun fact: Albert Brooks' real last name is Einstein. 

Fun fact: Mike Nichols was a third cousin twice removed of scientist Albert Einstein.

Carolina is involuntarily tanking this year. Does that still count?

They are already 2+ games back (0-2 in division) of all 3 teams in their division after 2 weeks.

They will be lucky to be 1-5 at the bye instead of 0-6.

15 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

I'll take driving through Nebraska looking at corn vs 80 through WY.

Why anyone would stick to the freeways in either state is beyond understanding to me.  Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Devils Tower, Fossil Butte, just to name the highlights in WY.  Scott’s Bluff, Chimney Rock, the Sandhills, Carhenge, the Strategic Air and Space Museum, the Sandhill crane migration, pheasant hunting in that corn, the stadium at Lincoln on football Saturday, the Nebraska Badlands and Toadstool Geologic Park, the Oglala Grasslands just to name something other than corn (of which there is plenty from Nebraska all the way through Ohio if you drive the Interstate).  

FWIW the refs have spoken and they said that they looked at the video and the punch to the face by Williams last night was not "flagrant enough" and it was a "judgement call"

Translation: Yes, we cheated for SF. We even watched the replay and absolutely decided to cheat for SF.

Didn't have fisting and sidewalk poop on my Blog bingo card for the day...

At least I marked off my free space of "Punter"

2 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Why anyone would stick to the freeways in either state is beyond understanding to me.  Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Devils Tower, Fossil Butte, just to name the highlights in WY.  Scott’s Bluff, Chimney Rock, the Sandhills, Carhenge, the Strategic Air and Space Museum, the Sandhill crane migration, pheasant hunting in that corn, the stadium at Lincoln on football Saturday, the Nebraska Badlands and Toadstool Geologic Park, the Oglala Grasslands just to name something other than corn (of which there is plenty from Nebraska all the way through Ohio if you drive the Interstate).  

Because that awful freeway is the fastest way to get from Wichita to SLC when taking 3 kids to visit their grandparents.

I've actually told my wife I'd rather drive an extra hour + through I think it's Nebraska/Colorado just to avoid Wyoming all together 

Now there are some beautiful spots in Wyoming like the mentioned above, but that's  like saying a huge turd is beautiful because it has a flake of gold in it.

Vast majority of Wyoming is as said a barren wasteland and to get to that flake of gold you're gonna have to drive through a lot of poop.

20 hours ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

They’re playing QB, not RB or CB 

Ward

McCarthy

Rattler

Howard

Reed

Pratt

would be my favorite QBs

14 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Why anyone would stick to the freeways in either state is beyond understanding to me.  Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Devils Tower, Fossil Butte, just to name the highlights in WY.  Scott’s Bluff, Chimney Rock, the Sandhills, Carhenge, the Strategic Air and Space Museum, the Sandhill crane migration, pheasant hunting in that corn, the stadium at Lincoln on football Saturday, the Nebraska Badlands and Toadstool Geologic Park, the Oglala Grasslands just to name something other than corn (of which there is plenty from Nebraska all the way through Ohio if you drive the Interstate).  

If you are north there are things to see. If you are driving through WY on 80 you don't even want to be on the highway let alone getting off. The point is that stretch of road is a freaking wasteland as you are rolling through it. It's boring driving through Nebraska, and it feels like it will never end, but I'd still take that.

18 minutes ago, SkippyX said:

Carolina is involuntarily tanking this year. Does that still count?

They are already 2+ games back (0-2 in division) of all 3 teams in their division after 2 weeks.

They will be lucky to be 1-5 at the bye instead of 0-6.

Dalton=Darts=Wins!

Just now, Diehardfan said:

If you are north there are things to see. If you are driving through WY on 80 you don't even want to be on the highway let alone getting off.

I drove west to east through Wyoming once while it was blowing snow across the highway with black ice underneath. I really did not want to be there.

I avoid the Colorado - Wyoming route since then and go through NM, Cortez, Utah now. (to and from Texas)

 

3 minutes ago, Freshmilk said:

Dalton=Darts=Wins!

I know you are being sarcastic but I am sharing this for everyone.

Go check for his last winning record.  The Eagles had a #1 overall pick at QB that year.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DaltAn00.htm

31 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Soil In Kansas is good😆😂😆.

Tell my backyard garden. Everything where I live is Clay for 6ft.

I dont know if I've been through elk city, I'm sure I've been through Hazelton, though nothing memorable sticks out😁

 

Arkansas River clay in Wichita.  Need to get away from that to get the soil I speak of.

If you head down towards Independence and Coffeyville, Elk City can be on the way.  Coffeyville is famous for the Dalton gang raid where they tried to rob two banks and the gunfight that followed.  Straight south of there headed towards Tulsa is Bartlesville, OK, original home of Phillips 66.   Second to last time I was in Wichita, I took 400 east.  My next trip, probably next month, I plan to take the Elk City route down to Tulsa via Coffeyville and Bartlesville on the way to my father in law’s in Texas.  Weather willing. 

Sounds like he'll be out Monday

2 minutes ago, SkippyX said:

I drove west to east through Wyoming once while it was blowing snow across the highway with black ice underneath. I really did not want to be there.

I avoid the Colorado - Wyoming route since then and go through NM, Cortez, Utah now. (to and from Texas)

 

We drove through a couple years ago, huge ice storm black ice, there were upside down cars on the side of the road, jack knifed semis, almost zero visibility, I was white knuckling the whole drive was scared to stop and pullover be ayse I thought if I did my wife and kids would die in the frozen wasteland so we took out chances in the road, the drive usually takes us about 13 hours from Wichita to SLC it took us about 26 hours that time 

Scariest drive of my life, I hate that road, at that time it was sadly the safest of the routes as the others were snowed in 

Since then we never go back home in the winter months only in summer and spring.

I'll wait for a grizzled vet like Caplan to confirm this first