So your basic question is why I defend the team I have been a fan of my entire life? On a message board I frequent every day, just like you.
No. My basic question is why do you get offended so easily when someone posts anything less than glowing about your favorite football team and feel the need to defend the honor of a stupid sports team?
I mean, you guys treat poor
@DJackson10 like **** because he doesn’t post “Eagles are the best at EVERYTHING”. Dudes as much of an eagles fan as any of you guys as far as I can tell. It’s crazy
Show me anywhere you think I actually got offended and I'll let you know. Am I passionate? Sure. Offended by people on here by talking football...no.
Am I surprised at some of the takes on here regarding my team? Sometimes, but that comes with the territory. The media has their schtick about the Eagles. Basic Americans are easily marketed to and manipulated by media narratives, so I understand how that works. But I'm never truly offended lol.
And regarding other fans on here, I can only speak about my personal experience. Djax sure has some hot takes. And his posts often have nothing to do with the team and are very often about his own personal feelings. He is like the Eliott Shore Parks of our board, who is beloved by a lot of rival fans b/c of his weird hot takes that sometime cross into looking like hating on the team. Now for ESP, he got his start I believe trashing the actual Desean Jackson and reporting about gang ties that contributed to his release by Chip Kelly. So you can guess what kind of reporting/hot takes a guy like that has.
As for the guy here, we all as Eagles fans know the type. There is a certain, very particular subset of our fanbase that for whatever reason, and I have my own personal opinions I care not to share b/c politics, that STILL to this day are obsessed with Carson Wentz and STILL refuse to give Hurts credit for becoming the player he is. You can just look at the moment Wentz signed with as a damn backup with the Rams and the guy had like 5 posts about him IN THE EAGLES THREAD in the first hour of the transaction. Its just weird, IMO, to still be that obsessed over a player that quit on us and has been gone for how many years now? And he just seems the type that no matter what success the team has, he goes OUT OF HIS WAY to discredit the team and the success they have, including Jalen Hurts, and finds ways it seems to not ever be happy.
It's not like we all got together and secretly colluded to treat him a certain way. He has certainly earned his reputation on here, and we mostly view it as a sort of sad comedy at this point. He just can't get past certain things, for whatever reasons and to me, its just annoying when you got guys that don't have the ability to have their opinion's changed b/c in their mind, they are still right no matter what about their original take and despite all evidence to the contrary disproving the point they had, almost double and triple down instead of ever considering new information to the contrary. You see it a lot these days from fans, bc again, people often mimic the media and we are in the age of stubborn hot takes. It is what it is.