OT: Philadelphia Eagles (NFL): When You're Up, It's Never As Good As It Seems, And When You're Down, You Never Think You'll Be Up Again

[Chicken N Raffls]

If nothing else, I think the intrawebs, and social media proves my "People are dicks" theory at a rate that would rival the national debt clock.

 

[GKJ]

Definitely good for the Eagles that the Packers are out and, even though we knew this before today, don’t have to see the 49ers until the nfc championship.

 

[Flyer lurker]

1)CHI - Jalen Carter
2)HOU - Young
3)ARI - Anderson Jr
4)IND - Stroud
5)SEA - Murphy
6)DET - Breese
7)LV - Levis
8)ATL - Gonzalez
9)CAR - Skoronski

My rough idea after today.

Without trades I get where u r coming from.

With trades I would think its stroud/young 1/2 in whatever order.

Let me also add I think ATL or CAR take Richardson at 8 or 9. Not saying I would do it. I am saying it takes one dopey gm who loves ar-15's skills instead of ar 15's results.

 

[BrindamoursNose]

DBs require coaches' tape to have any clue, so I don't yet have a functional opinion outside of scheme fits on those guys that play on teams other than Georgia, TCU, and a scant few players I've snagged some games of via other teams. In no order, that means Witherspoon (Illinois), Porter (Penn St), Jones (TAMU), Smith (S Carolina), Phillips (Utah), and Williams (Cuse) are all giant question marks. I don't think Gonzalez (Oregon) is a scheme fit sadly.

Anderson and Carter have no shot at lasting. I don't think Branch is a top 10 type of Safety.

The short list today would be Murphy, Bresee, and Quentin Johnson. And of course trading down is always good by me. I'm disappointed Jared Verse stayed at FSU, because he would have been perfect and probably available.

A whole lot of people are higher on Tyree Smith than I am right now, but testing could change my mind there. I want to see the 10yd split on his 40 in particular. He looks slow off the ball for an EDGE to me. If you can't beat OTs clean to their outside shoulder in the NFL, you're either a Bosa level outlier or your upside is capped. That's exactly why I hated the Barnett pick.

Thanks for the feedback as always my dude.

I was specifically curious if you'd say Joey Porter Jr. so that's fun to see that he's at least in the mix somewhere for you....we'll see as we get closer of course!

 

[Chinatown88]

I like Branch but not at 10 right now. #TeamTradeDown

 

[DancingPanther]

I like Branch but not at 10 right now. #TeamTradeDown

Safety would be big though

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The Colts losing to the Texans possibly put them in a position to be able to trade up for a QB.

Chess, not checkers.

 

[swami24]

So my top league does not do playoffs, we go straight through week 18. The cancelled game cost me 2nd pl money. I had Allen, Diggs, and Higgins, and lost by 14 I. Week 17. I had high score for the league in week 18. I would have been in 3rd, the 1st pl team beat the 2nd, so I would have jumped I to 2nd by a half game.

 

[BrindamoursNose]

Take the dubs when you can get them

 

[FatTugboatFlahr]

Howie flexing on HC and the Ducks crew.

 

[GKJ]

I like Branch but not at 10 right now. #TeamTradeDown

Will Levis at 2 is very stupid, but I can’t count the Texans out from doing that.

To me it’s Stroud or Young and no other QB is top 20. Duggan and Hooker are my next 2. The best players on the best teams doesn’t have to be hard, those guys getting paid now, so that’s where they’re going to be.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Howie flexing on HC and the Ducks crew.

Nah, I’m good.

He just fell ass backwards into things as per usual.

If he had his way Allen Robinson would be WR1 and Zach Wilson would be QB.

I’ll sit and wait for this fickle fanbase to turn on him again soon enough.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I like Branch but not at 10 right now. #TeamTradeDown

I would be utterly floored if they picked a Safety at 10. While it's true he can fill a hybrid Slot/Safety role like CGJ can, that's not how they used him when he was healthy. They already have and paid Maddox.

Plus it goes against every one of their draft tendencies.

 

[Chinatown88]

I would be utterly floored if they picked a Safety at 10. While it's true he can fill a hybrid Slot/Safety role like CGJ can, that's not how they used him when he was healthy. They already have and paid Maddox.

Plus it goes against every one of their draft tendencies.

It's just Renner being Renner. I don't think there's a shot a safety goes top 10 unless they actually blow the roof off the combine. Insert generic talking point about teams not valuing the position in the draft.

Initial wishes.
1) Trade down and take Bijan [it's in my DNA, I can't help it]
2) Trade down to grab a safety
3) Trade down to grab an OT

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

If there was ever a doubt about the popularity of the NFL...



Apparently #7 was the State of the Union.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The Hotness Scale of NFL coaches is going to take a major hit this offseason.

 

[Chinatown88]

 

[FatTugboatFlahr]

Trade Kyler and try again.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

A list of the final league leaders in EPA/route run.

1. Waddle
2. Diggs
3. Hill
4. Amon-Ra St. Brown
5. DeVonta
6. Kelce
7. Christian Watson
8. Jeudy
9. Ceedee
10. Tee Higgins

Jeudy doing that in an offense that was non-functional is impossible. What on earth.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

A list of the final league leaders in EPA/route run.

1. Waddle
2. Diggs
3. Hill
4. Amon-Ra St. Brown
5. DeVonta
6. Kelce
7. Christian Watson
8. Jeudy
9. Ceedee
10. Tee Higgins

Jeudy doing that in an offense that was non-functional is impossible. What on earth.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Will this gif come back out when Kliff is the new OC at Bama?

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Will this gif come back out when Kliff is the new OC at Bama?

Why are you the way that you are?

Speaking of OC at Bama...

Did we see this?

 

[Chinatown88]

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Call me old fashioned but Geno Smith winning the Comeback Player of the Year after coming back from…*checks notes*… sucking. Just doesn’t sit right.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Go Mouse Go!

The item from Don Van Natta, Jr. characterizes league official Dawn Aponte, who was at the game, as a voice of reason who was being pushed by Vincent to proceed with the game.

“The Lord himself could come down, and we were not going to play again,” an unnamed, high-ranking official from one of the teams told ESPN. “[Aponte] was getting pressure. She was not getting consistent and direct messaging that she deserved to receive.”

Aponte reportedly did not waver.

“Whatever crazy nonsense she was getting, man, she held it,” the source told Van Natta regarding Aponte. “She held it strong.”

Van Natta’s item makes it clear that the postponement of the game came not from the league office but from the site of the contest.

“The league did not cancel the game,” the unnamed team official told Van Natta. “The Bills and the Bengals canceled the game.”

Then there’s this, from the unnamed source: “The league screws this shit up because Troy Vincent screws this stuff up. That’s the wrong person in the wrong position at the absolute wrong time. . . . He wants to be the hero, but he will never take accountability. That’s him to a ‘T’.”

Van Natta’s item also contends that ESPN officiating expert John Parry received word that the game would resume on Monday night from “a senior NFL rules analyst inside the NFL command center.”

The NFL, in a statement to ESPN.com, was “adamant that at no time did [the unspecified rules analyst] say anything related to a five-minute warm-up period to John Parry … John is just plain wrong. . . . We stand by Troy Vincent’s comments and strongly refute this characterization.”

But, as Joe Buck told Van Natta, the league never asked ESPN to put the five-minute toothpaste back in the tube.

“We were on the air for another 40 minutes and no one corrected the idea that the game would resume,” Buck told Van Natta. “No one.”

A source who reviewed the ESPN.com article predicted that the league will try to identify the unnamed team official who spoke to Van Natta. “There aren’t that many,” the source said, “and it’s only two teams.”

And this report likely will cause issues at 345 Park Avenue. Added the source: “I know Troy well enough to know this will cause freaking shock waves.”

The shock waves started last Monday, exacerbated by Vincent’s decision to characterize any suggestion of resuming play as “insensitive” and “ridiculous,” when it would have been perfectly reasonable to explain that the league has a standard protocol that initially was going to be deployed, until it became obvious that the situation called for a different approach.

If that had happened, a huge mess would have been avoided.