It's a bummer kids these days don't have the Saturday morning NFL Films shows to watch. I learned so much about the history of the game by watching Steve Sabol share the old NFL Films highlights with Facenda narrating away. 

 

someone is gonna have to report lane 

Call of the Fing year 

 

Just rewatched the safety

carter and davis did work but neglected to give credit to Cunnigham setting the edge. Really knocked the tackle back

 

5 hours ago, NCiggles said:

Jordan Davis should be the FB for Jalen Carter.  

Some facts - the Eagles have an amazing number of the top of the line athletes.  Best of the year. All on defense.  Some aren't playing much yet, and even the ones who are playing don't play that many snaps because the Eagles have so many good players on defense, especially DL.  

And so many of those players have done stuff on offense.  Jordan Davis, Jalen Carter, Nolan Smith, Kelee Ringo, Nakobe Dean,  all top athletes who have done good stuff on offense in college or high school.  These days defense pays more than offense,  and the best athletes who played both offense and defense in high school generally are moved to defense, especially the ones in the 230-300 range. 
2 of those 5 are 4.3,  Ringo at 4.36 which is blazing fast, he was a running back, and he isn't being used much, he can do jet sweep.  207 isn't particularly light for a RB.  Teach him a go route and he can be the deep speed that Quez does.  Nolan Smith at 238 pounds 4.39.  1.47 10 split, which is amazing.  He could do any skill position.   I'd look at running back.  What can he do at 238 and 4.39 with those huge holes in the line that Swift was running through.   I saw him run on youtube or hudl,  people were bouncing off him then,  and I would have to think that if you showed him how to do that one thing, run between the tackles, run,  he might just be dominant.   Dean could be a rb as well, he's got the size, bigger than Jalen by a small bit, did it in high school.  Davis and Carter are not going to be as fast as typical running backs,  but as fullbacks they'd be great, and fullbacks can catch run and block.

And Ben VanSumeren who is on practice squad.  He should spend some time practicing running back, practice short yardage rushing.   Fullback at Michigan for 2 years is a good enough resume to be fullback in the NFL, and in college at least fullback does short yardage runs, at times.  If the Eagles drafted some guy who was the Fullback for Michigan, you might think that they would use him as a Fullback,  Big Back, Power Back,  short yardage back, 4th Q back.  6'2 231 4.45 40.   really strong.   good for pushing I'd think.  He's on the practice squad, I'd think he should be practicing that.

A few years ago there was a real fear that the Eagles had very little young talent.

So much for that...

6 hours ago, pgcd3 said:

He's been good. Week 13 is somewhat an arbitrary start point though.  That's only a half dozen games

yes, if you change the start point,  instead of being extremely great,  it would only be great.  It's a cherry picked start point to make Covey's numbers look best.  That's a legit way to go.  That number isn't any worse than any other number, if you aren't going to count the whole year.

Maybe the Eagles might think that the skills he's showing in punt returns could be useful on offense.  He's good at avoiding tackles.  Short passes, getting separation from quickness.

21 minutes ago, D-Shiznit said:

A few years ago there was a real fear that the Eagles had very little young talent.

So much for that...

It was like Goedert, cross your fingers for Mailata and a bunch of old guys. Amazing what Howie did in such a short time. 

2 hours ago, LeanMeanGM said:

One play I haven’t seen mentioned that was kinda surprising was after the Hurts interception to Swift, Devin White returns it and has only Jalen Hurts in his immediate way…. and steps out of bounds. I’m surprised he didn’t try to run through him there. 

They said something about how White was playing on a bad wheel and he may have tweaked it on the return so he went easy out of bounds.

I don't know that is what happened but its what they guessed in the booth.

I was expecting him to try to truck Hurts as well.

Maybe im blind but i really thought we'd see more of Nolan Smith.. 

6 minutes ago, Random Reglar said:

yes, if you change the start point,  instead of being extremely great,  it would only be great.  It's a cherry picked start point to make Covey's numbers look best.  That's a legit way to go.  That number isn't any worse than any other number, if you aren't going to count the whole year.

Maybe the Eagles might think that the skills he's showing in punt returns could be useful on offense.  He's good at avoiding tackles.  Short passes, getting separation from quickness.

I think he could be a backup slot WR next year. This is probably Quez last year

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

It's a bummer kids these days don't have the Saturday morning NFL Films shows to watch. I learned so much about the history of the game by watching Steve Sabol share the old NFL Films highlights with Facenda narrating away. 

 

We had John Facenda and NFL pencils and we liked it!

 

And we borrowed books like this from the school library at recess.

And instead of the internet we had this:

27 minutes ago, justwinbaby said:

It was like Goedert, cross your fingers for Mailata and a bunch of old guys. Amazing what Howie did in such a short time. 

Just amazing.  Best there is. 

18 minutes ago, SkippyX said:

We had John Facenda and NFL pencils and we liked it!

 

And we borrowed books like this from the school library at recess.

I have asked this here before but do you remember the Sunoco sticker books?  About 22 (11/11)?  Different players from each team. And you got the stickers for filling up?  

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

During the game i said they should try a fake with it. But i want Aj brown on the far side running a slant route. With everyone else besides the corner covering him going for hurts, you have aj brown one on one with the corner and he’s strong and fast enough it’s gonna be a touchdown on the goal line and if run elsewhere on the field might go for a big touchdown. 

When they tried that fake sneak, it felt kind of telegraphed that it wasn't going to be a legit sneak. It had the perfect setup for a fake. It was third down, not fourth. And it was about two yards, not less than a yard. The Eagles don't generally run that on third and two. So it just "felt" obvious to me. And on re-watching it, I have to question what was really going on there in terms of design. It looked to me like there was only one receiver running a route and he was absolutely covered. Even if Hurts doesn't trip, I don't think there was a play to be made there.

Basically I thought the first time they ran a fake off that -- and we've all known that it was coming -- they'd have dialed up something that might actually work.

4 hours ago, wussbasket said:

I’m looking forward to seeing AJ Brown line up against Forbes.

Washington fans are already dismayed about the decision to pick Forbes, who has hardly played and hasn't done much, over Christian Gonzalez, who already looks like a future star for the Patriots. Apparently their second round pick has done squat too.

 I like it.

3 hours ago, mattwill said:

With all due respect to Mike Schmidt, the best 3rd Baseman in MLB history.

Ummm...no. Not even close. The difference in offensive skill is too vast. And Schmidt was a great fielder too.

3 minutes ago, FranklinFldEBUpper said:

Ummm...no. Not even close. The difference in offensive skill is too vast. And Schmidt was a great fielder too.

We will have to agree to disagree ... no slight to Schmitty

3 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

I've been watching baseball for decades. Nola is the best big game pitcher I've ever seen. Comes up big again.

(again. again. again).

Either RTK hacked into your account, or you’re really sh!tfaced on a Tuesday evening.  Phillies might as well have had a position player on the mound for Nola’s starts in the playoffs last season.

17 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

Either RTK hacked into your account, or you’re really sh!tfaced on a Tuesday evening.  Phillies might as well have had a position player on the mound for Nola’s starts in the playoffs last season.

He was good wild card round and nlds. But he was bad in the nlcs and ws. As the games got bigger, he got worse 

 

 

3 hours ago, mattwill said:

Agreed 100%. Not the best LB in Eagles history, but the one who matches today’s game best.

I always loved Carlos Emmons

36 minutes ago, mattwill said:

We will have to agree to disagree ... no slight to Schmitty

My all-time All Star team by position for my lifetime (watching since about 1973, so, 50 years)

Catcher — Johnny Bench

Third Base — Mike Schmidt

Shortstop — Ozzie Smith

Second Base — Ryne Sandberg 

First Base — Frank Thomas

Right Field — Ichiro Suzuki

Center Field — Ken Griffey Jr.

Left Field — Rickey Henderson

 

Starting Pitchers (LH) — Randy Johnson, Steve Carlton, Tom Glavine

Starting Pitchers (RH) — Greg Maddux, Nolan Ryan, Justin Verlander

Bullpen — Dennis Eckersley, Mariano Rivera, Trevor Hoffman, Bruce Sutter, Lee Smith 

 

2 hours ago, D-Shiznit said:

A few years ago there was a real fear that the Eagles had very little young talent.

So much for that...

Ghost didn't make the list???