WhitewalkerInPhilly

Ehhh. It's not like we get all that much cap space for cutting him and it's not like he has a roster bonus. I think it's worth keeping him around at least through the draft/UDFA. If we get a better UDFA to take his spot, great, but I'd rather not worry about yet another empty roster spot. It's ok, nate had four more changes to blow away

I see what you did there I honestly felt bad for him. At the time, he was considered a lock for the first round, and they kept cutting back to him. And of course, over the course of many hours, as you anxiously wait about your future, you don't feel great. Now, I loved pounding him as a Jet, but until he got taken, I couldn't hate on him too much. It's just a sad monkey's paw wish I got when I hoped EJ would be better than him.

I based it off of the article written by the vet who said that it was, in terms of functionality, nearly identical to ease of use and effectiveness as what they use on the range. I figured they would know better than you or I. I do appreciate the nice little side step about not addressing how access to weapons is somehow equivalent to a ballot.

I just need to ask...how tar covered does a shell where a soul once was have to be look at a mass shooting, where a 19 year old had access to a civilian model assault weapon, gas grenades, the wherewithal to flood the range with targets and then sneak out, and decide to start blaming the discipline of other children? ...Because access to being involved with civics is the exact same as access to a device whose sole purpose is bodily harm and death. I think drinking age should be lower too, but come on, it is lunacy to try to equate the two things.

It would definitely be outside the box to franchise a player you already have under contract

I'm on board for signing both, but you will never see be complain about spending a day 3 pick on an extra corner. If anything, it's cheap depth. I was so annoyed when Cockrell got cut, only to become a solid corner for the Steelers

I am especially ok with the price of our two firsts this year and our first next year. That still leaves our two seconds to fill in obvious gaps at D-tackle and WR

People who have seen me post know that I've been an advocate for Tyrod as bridge QB. But if the Bills love Rosen, and are willing to leverage every asset possible to get him, let's roll with it!

I'm going to repeat what a lot of people have said: that Jeffrey checked the formation with the line judge beforehand. Now, if you want to hit the Enhance button enough times to figure out down to the millimeter where someone was lined up, and it was off, then it's a no call, but it looks like the Eagles make legitimate attempts to make sure they were in an acceptable formation. And of course, no one is mentioning how, on the play before that, Alshon Jeffrey was mugged in the end zone with a no call. Scoring there would have eliminated the need for the "Philly Special". Same thing on the interception, where if the refs were being ticky tak, that could have been holding. They called fairly consistently through the game, and gave the Patriot DBs plenty of leeway.

Make no mistake, I would like Frazier back. Our DB group was very sound. If not...maybe try to get Donnie Henderson back? Our DBs had some very good years under him..

There's is a moment when it's officially over when a girl at the front downs her drink with a forlorn look of disappointment. I have been that person too many times not to relate.

I think that is partially why I get along with Eagles fans. Philly fans yesterday: "DALLAS! SUCKS!" Me: "I can get behind that." Philly fans: "F**K TOM BRADY!" Me *shouting now*: "F**K TOM BRADY!"

OK, summary time. For reasons I will go into later, I got back fairly late and was too out of it to post. First of all, the city of Philadelphia might not know how to handle snow, but they know how to handle crowd flow. Roads were shut down well in advance, and the strategically slowed down/limited public transport downtown. This was ultimately necessary to keep crowds manageable, but for those who took mass transit in and out of NJ, it was easily an hour wait to get onto a platform in and out of the city. Special train service in opened at 6 am. by 6:30, when my wife (the Eagles fan) and I arrived, the train parking lot was almost entirely full. The line to get into the building snaked a block up, curled around the next block, and then snaked over itself again. People were, for the most part, really well behaved. There was public drinking, open containers, gouts of weed smoke and loud chanting all around. And yet, the worst things that happened all day was a couple of drops of water or beer got splashed on me, and a drunk grabbed me by the back of my jacket to say how nothing else mattered anymore. That was in 7 hours of standing around with people getting liquored up. Mostly there was high fiving, and hugging. Legitimate passion and joy. Of course, there were things that couldn't be accounted for: it was cold. Not direly, but below freezing, and by 9:30 you couldn't move without risking your spot. There were limited bathrooms and, in contrast to how I do most Bills days, was stone cold sober. I am never doing that again. I didn't have nearly the emotional impact of everyone around me. I am sure that if the day comes in my lifetime when the Bills win it all, my face will look the same as everyone else around me.

Actually everyone is pretty well behaved so far. A little drinking and shouting but it's happy go lucky.

It is crazy on Broad 3.5 hours before start time

Well, my work shut down on so I'm going to the parade. Pictures and reflections to come. Wish me well and let me know if you are out there too.

I call that a good no call. Every Eagle is turned around, and contact is far less than the mugging than Gronk regularly doles out to DBs

It's a crazy story. Back in 2015 he was effectively banished, stripped of authority and sent around the building because Chip Kelly wanted to be GM. He got brought back after Kelly imploded. In 2016 he gets Carson Wentz. In 2017, he assembles a Super Bowl squad. But to the OP... It's an interesting case. *Good* RB's are indeed a dime a dozen, and can be obtained pretty easily in the 3rd-5th rounds. RBs that change the game, like Shady, or Bell or Zeke can, well, they go higher.

It's in a high level business meeting

Philly looked at it similarly two weeks ago. Even while they were up going into half time and were due to get the ball back, Pederson zipped down the field for another field goal while Marrone one else. It was the same mindset last night where they got the touchdown

Amen men. I am one of those, and I would like to point out: the rest of the team matters. Wentz was there all last season, and they ended 6-10. Of course, last year Johnson was out with a suspension for most of the year. They had no running game. Their best WR was Jordan Matthews. Roseman realized that it wasn't enough, and last offseason splurged on Torrey Smith, Alshon Jeffrey, and Blount (and Darby), and then traded for Ajayi during the year. He even took a shot on Chance Warmack to see if it would upgrade the line. Suddenly, Wentz looks like an MVP and they have the best 3rd down conversion % in the league. What I take is their methodology: it is ok to struggle for a year if you have to spend your resources to get your franchise QB, whether that be picks, or cap space. Then, once you have that, identify your weaknesses and go out and get the players you need. The Eagles will not have many draft picks this offseason. There is no way they keep all their FA's. Do they care about that right now? Heck no.

I think they do. Wentz was the NFL leader in touchdowns before he went down. He is the better consistent player. That said, Foles had two nigh perfect games back to back. I have to commend that. But he is not worth a 1st like some people here are asking for.

I've also been around last year when Eagles fans were roasting him for going for it on 4th and long instead of kicking a field goal. There were calls for him to be fired after the end of his first season. His playcalling was considered suspect even through the start of the season because he was considered pass happy. Now, we have the benefit of hindsight. But let's try to take a few lessons about jumping the gun on coaches, ok?

Blunty, from a business perspective, there is no reason he should from any way you look at it. The impending Smith trade and new contract resets the market. Cousins hitting the open market is going to explode it further. I was thinking that his contract was looking cheap (for the position!) if we want a bridge QB to prepare a rookie. So really, the options are: A) He takes yet another paycut, diminishing what he can ask for going forward in FA. B) He refuses to take a paycut, and gets cut. He enters a FA market on a short team deal, probably as a high end backup making Chase Daniel money for a minimal amount of work or waits until someone gets injured in training camp like Bridgewater or Tannehill. The Bills are forced to eat his dead cap and likely have to pay more overall to find what posters here consider an "upgrade". C) He refuses to take a paycut, and is kept as a bridge QB. He takes his money, and enters a FA market with a new bar set by Smith and Cousins. He really has no incentive, long run, to take the cut.

I would love it, be as others have pointed out, you would think that McDaniels wouldn't take that job if he was going to get rid of Luck. If he was, that should be a red flag. But man, I would still pull the trigger...I can fantasize, right?