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The flip side of that coin is that it's a very big trick. Watching him run by Norman is encouraging and shows he has legit speed with him on the field defenses have to take notice
Never bought the victims story of the incident. The details in her story always changed and having Cops and a lawyer in my family as well as friends when a story like her's changed that much you try to get more info on that person from family and friends. If I'm correct the case was thrown out after a witness that night said the victim lied about the whole thing with the except of them banging and it was consensual. The Lake Tahoe incident the friend of the alleged victim told investigators that her friend bragged to her countless times about sleeping with Ben. I won't say anything more on the subject other then I'm not defending Sexual Assault. There's just a lot of girls who take advantage of Celebrities for a quick payday Many of these IG Models (Instagram Models) stalk male celebs to start dating them hoping they mess up and can get a quick cash out. There was a recent incident of one of these where a Rams player was accused of DV by his now ex he had broke up with got back together. She apparently berated and hit him in his car and he just took it didn't lay a hand on her. Witenesses said the guy played his cards right and wouldn't have blamed him for laying a hand on her with the way she acted. Either way Celebrities at all levels and orientation should be mindful where they hangout and who they date.Lehigh98 said:
He looked more like Aaron Rodgers with a less accurate deep ball with his escapability. The Big Ben comparison is more of his sheer size and how he's tought to bring down.
Yes. I've always liked Ertz and feel he gets underrated by the locals. I like Abreu but a lot of fans issues with BA came from when he ran short of the wall on a ball he could've caught but he didn't keep running as he was afraid of the wall. Good player, his defense was overrated a bit but he was also pretty soft character wise. Never really fit the Philly type athlete which is why people undervalued him.
Maybe they could invest in an actual FB or put Burton back there like they said they planned on doing for a couple of yrs now. Both Chip and Doug have said that's possible. Here's are the Fullbacks available and theres a few good ones as well as Wentz College teammate TE/FB hybrid Andrew Bonnet who was with us last year in camp.
I've always thought of Ertz as more of a WR then TE. Mike Mayock either Pre 2 or 3 said something to the effect you can't look at Ertz as a TE as he's more athletic and naturally moves like a WR. He's a Hybrid WR of sorts.
That and have Rodgers ability to get people to jump offsides and get the too many men on the field Penalties. He already has the Payton Manning thing going calling plays at the Line.
It's just one game but I think Barnett isn't going to be draft a bust. He's performed pretty well in the preseason and when his snaps increase I think that will shine through.
We will get our RB soon enough. Cook looked great though. He made more sense for them. They already have a defense
considering Tarik Cohen went in the 4th round to the Bears, i agree RB is available if they really need to go after one
Cook wasn't really there for us unless you're talking in round 1 which would have been too early. We had him lined up in round 2 to pick but Minny traded in front of us to get him. Not sure what we could have done there except maybe offer more and move up to that spot. Do wish we had him though.
He went the pick after we took Mack Hollins at 118. We could have likely taken him there, then Hollins with our next pick at 139 (instead of Pumphrey, who we traded up to 132 in order to get.)
It's why the draft is such a crap shoot. You can analyze till you're blue in the face. But then you pick a guy who's 5'8" 175 and he can't play while another team picks a 5'8" 175 guy and he's a dynamic force.
It's instructive to go back and read the so-called draft sharks' analyses on Bell, Johnson, and Shady. Bell's stop-start style was gonna get him killed in the NFL. Shady had nowhere near the top-end speed or explosion to make it as a #1. And DJ was a long-strider with poor vision and no quicks. Today they're three of the top 5 backs in the league, while dozens of guys drafted before them have washed out.
The second paragraph is key. Joe Banner was actually talking about this not to long ago. In short, the "hit rate" (he said they used being a starter for 2+ years equaled a hit) around the league is 50%. So adding more picks to the equation obviously gives you more chances to hit.
Couple things on this.
Let's not get back into this but c'mon, the guy played lights out. (I'm still happy we let him go and have Wentz).
Or maybe you would have taken a different DE that ends up even better. Or maybe Barnett ends up being bad vs. getting a stud in Cook. I get that hindsight kind of stinks, but saying Cook wouldn't be good value at 14 is also based on hindsight of knowing he went 41. Had you drafted him, the next thing we would see Schefter saying is "my sources tell me Team Z was making a move to get Cook and he wouldn't have lasted another 6 picks" or some other garbage. I also dispute the whole "you could have gotten him later" argument for the same reason. I get that all the time in my drafts to which I always respond "I'll be busy later being right there too". Bottom line is the best picks are the best picks and if a team makes them it's entirely irrelevant what they paid. There's no substitute for successful picks and there's no such thing as "too early" if you get them right. Go check out the Bears/Trubisky threads to see this in action. Heck as Eagles fans the Wentz deal should show this. Do you care one iota that you paid out the nose for the pick? Because I guarantee you the Skins fans do.
No, it was pretty common knowledge he wasn't going in round 1. He was being mocked mid 2nd round (even to us at 43 often). Even if Cook was great in Philly (we don't know he would be) we could say we reached and could have had him later. It's all about value... and at the time, there's no way Cook was value at pick #14 of that draft. I would be impressed if we liked him enough to move up to pick 40 for him, but we clearly didn't like him that much for some reason, so 14 would have gone against everything they and 30 other teams saw. Likely not one NFL team would have taken him at 14, so no matter how good he turns out, it was a smart move to pass on him at 14.
Agree. Don't think it's time to "give up on him" but this backfield is really crowded, and our true #1 RB is coming in next year's draft. Let them all chip in a bit here and there for now. I don't really care if Pump does much this year or not.
haha, we'd (hopefully) have to move up too much for him. There will be plenty of good guys there for us in the 1st or 2nd rounds. Then we can clean house and Blount/Sproles/Pump can all goSell the farm for Saquon Barkley!!!!
Lol. I meant just in general about the QB. Almost all the teams that took a RB early or traded up to get one did so because of the QB's they had IMO.
I think Wentz can handle it, I just think having a dynamic runner would be awesome as well and open things up. My hope is it's in round 2 next year but we'll see.
New Eagles kicker Jake Elliott 7/7 on his kicks today in practice from 33, 36, 39, 42, 45, 49, and 52.DJackson10 said:
Agreed he went lower do to some few off the field issues but talking to friends who went to FSU said he really matured off and on the field since then. He also got burned on the good ole lets take the Combine #s way too seriously crowd. We all know what happens when you base too much on Combine #s. You get Mike Mamula instead of Warren Sapp.
I might be one of the few fans who thinks Jones is incredible overrated. I hope he proves me wrong but he looked very soft in college size wise as it looks like he can be pushed around by the big WRs in our division. PAC didn't really have a great WR class, and the achilles scares me as he relies a lot on Speed. .1 of a sec he's slower could be a difference in this league of being good and being avg and Achillies injuries aren't like ACL injuries where you are guaranteed to play well again. I'm no a JU JU Shuser fan much but JuJu gave him fits. I liked Kevin King a lot more honestly. I thought the 2nd round was too early for Jones and would've been better "value" as a 4th. I thought there were better players not just at DB who were healthy we could've had. Again I hope he proves me wrong but I really didn't like the pick because 1 I thought Jones was kind of overrated coming out and I didn't like taking an injured player in the 2nd round. Like I said later in the draft taken I'd have had no problem.
Think he is worth holding as a handcuff to Blount or is he a lost cause this year fantasy wise?
you know shadys first year he didnt blow me away. second year was crazy good
