The Linc - Danny Watkins Still Unsigned, Lofa Tatupu Not A Fit?
by JasonB on Aug 1, 2011 8:01 AM EDT
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Rookie Danny Watkins missed his third day of practice while contract talks between his agent and the Eagles remain at a standstill. By Reuben Frank
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The Seahawks cut MLB Lofa Tatupu when he refused to take a pay cut. I watched a couple of game tapes to check him out as a potential Eagles target. I was not impressed. I went back and looked at his numbers out of curiosity. You can see a huge drop off after his first 3 years to the next 3.
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Hey Danny
The bandwagon is pulling out of the station. Get your middle-aged ass on board.
You have been banned from Big Blue View... "trolling the post game stuff at BBV is just classless and a great mark of a tool. Grow up man, enjoy your victory, but try to not reinforce every stereotype of a Philadelphia fan. Bye bye."
Seriously. He better look at Bunk when he held out. He was shit for that first year.
Eagles next starting QB: "East-West Shrine Game Legend" Mike Kafka
Flyers: Sigh
Phillies:Gah enough with the injuries!.
Come on now. He was decent enough the rest of his career. He didn’t live up to his first round potential, but he didn’t suck.
Eagles next starting QB: "East-West Shrine Game Legend" Mike Kafka
Flyers: Sigh
Phillies:Gah enough with the injuries!.
No, but he did pretty much nothing of what was expected. For someone built like that, and with a game like that in college, to have NONE of those skills translate to the pro level sucks.
Sure, he was a serviceable DT, particularly as a rotation player. But he became a very tiny, minute fraction of what he should have/could have/potentially would have been.
So while “sucks” is strong, so are words like “good,” “above average,” etc. Shame that the first of those three may be the closest to approximate truth.
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Watkins may be looking for something a little extra because he may well only have one contract after this. Panos could really be trying to max him out here (I don’t know what the new rules allow) to compensate for his 4 years of hypothetical “lost” earnings.
Still, for such a supposedly stand up, “blue collar” (in this day of the NFL? Hah!) guy, Watkins is looking like a douche.
really?
a 7th, 7th, and 3rd rounder are starting… i wouldn’t mind adding a guy.
by awd777 on Aug 1, 2011 8:41 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
Did you know that a 6th rounder is the starting quarterback for the Patriots?
Shit, they better shore that up.
you got me...
1 of 32 teams feature a 6th rounder as a starting quarterback. with a 3% rate like that, we should just trade all of our 1st-4th round picks and stock up on late rounders.
by awd777 on Aug 1, 2011 9:03 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
Yea
Anyone who thinks the Eagles don’t need help at LB is delusional. No one has shown they can be a reliable starter yet.
by IggesRule13 on Aug 1, 2011 9:06 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
how many games did he start last year?
I am hardly sold at this point. I hope he ends up being Awesome but I can’t put a “reliable” stamp on him.
cwel87 is saying something else then you think.
He’s saying that it doesn’t matter when you get drafted it’s the play on the field that matters.
mathews has never played...
the 7th rounders haven’t shown me a whole lot either… we have cap room and should still have some after cuts and contract restructures (10 and 7). why wouldn’t we want to make an upgrade?
by awd777 on Aug 1, 2011 9:12 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Well, if they haven't shown you anything, then I apologize
But you’re just bad at evaluating talent.
This.
Chaney is something.
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"the 7th rounders haven’t shown me a whole lot either"
i didn’t say they didn’t show me anything… but you’re just bad at evaluating words.
by awd777 on Aug 1, 2011 9:20 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
awd777
Who do you want to be eagles linebackers?
that ship has sailed, but there are still options...
manny lawson (unless he’s recently signed) is an olb that i wouldn’t mind bringing in if the price is right. he’s not stellar, but an upgrade…. also, if haynesworth can get traded for a 5th, mcnabb for 2 6ths, ochocinco for 5th/6th, we can get a veteran for a late pick.
i’m not saying our lb’s are garbage nor am i saying that we must bring in a pro-bowler, but our current lb staff is really young with little or no nfl experience and could use some kind of upgrade.
Ha, good one
But not really.
Thinking that you’re in a position to be the preeminent judge as to our linebacker talent is dead wrong. The players that we have at linebacker are serviceable.
No one’s arguing that it’s anything but the weakest defensive unit for the Eagles currently. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s ‘bad’, or that we ‘have to’ upgrade it.
This
I have a lot of confidence in Chaney and Fokou, although Matthews worries me at MIKE.
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by sctrojan13 on Aug 1, 2011 9:50 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
oh i'm no judge...
and i didn’t say that they were ‘bad’ or we ‘have to’ upgrade either. i do agree that it’s the weakest area in the d. it can’t hurt to upgrade.
Cause Andy and the other coaches are confident that the players we have now will be fine. Also, Fouku was solid last season and Chaney was very good when he played the last games of the season.
andy doesn't value linebackers...
with a new dc that hasn’t coached a defense since high school, that scares me… plus, ask jerome harrison why we shouldn’t value a player by his end-of-year play. i’m just saying we should still look to upgrade.
by awd777 on Aug 1, 2011 9:25 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Jerome Harrison has been nothing but productive wherever he's been
Front offices should always look to upgrade every position at all times. And ours does. That’s how we ended up with Nnamdi!
Your point of where they're drafted is completely invalid
Once a player is on a team, they all must prove themselves.
And all of these linebackers have either shown flashes (and, in Jamar Chaney’s case, was always an elite linebacker talent – he just got injured at an inopportune time) or have the utmost confidence of the coaching staff. Right now, that’s enough for me.
What's the deal with Maclin?
How come no one is talking about how sick he is? Is there anyone out there who can confirm or deny the severity of his bout with mono?
Thanks
They've been very hush-hush about it
But the ambiguity of Reid’s responses when related to Maclin’s health are not reassuring. Still, I hold out hope that if something was truly wrong, we would have known by now.
They were just talking about Maclin on NFL Network, saying he has lost 15-20 pounds.
by Brad Ackerson on Aug 1, 2011 9:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Lost as in right now, or lost as in past tense? B/c I know there were reports he lost it a while back.
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I’m guessing it was past tense but I’m not sure.
by Brad Ackerson on Aug 1, 2011 10:00 AM EDT up reply actions
Terence Thomas from Villanova
Anybody know anything about him? The birds signed him yesterday.
*On a scale of 1-10 how full of shit is sal pal?
by IhateESPN on Aug 1, 2011 9:29 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
yeah i watched that
skip says Nnamdi took the most money to come to Philly, Cullen took the most money to come to Philly, and something else even more wrong that I bled it from my mind…
"I'm 95% sure that 100% of what he says is wrong."
by Ralf E Chubbs on Aug 1, 2011 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions
On ESPN Adam Schefter said Asante Samuel will report to camp today. He was facing personal family problems.
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!!
by Mikesta on Aug 1, 2011 10:08 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Asante
seems to have a lot of “personal family problems”. Every year he misses some practice or OTA for these secret problems.
Cowboys suck.
22 in the flesh!
Tim_McManus: Asante http://twitpic.com/5zcqme
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So according to Skip these moves put us on top of the NFC East, does he know that we won the NFC East last year?
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No
He doesn’t watch sports. Big fan of Sex and the City though.
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by Dylan Marck on Aug 1, 2011 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
And looking at himself in the mirror.
I haven't died. Right now I'm drinking a beer and eating fried chicken. What were you expecting, a funeral?- Yao Ming
Skip thinks he is.... the most intresting man in the world
by philaeagle10 on Aug 1, 2011 10:34 AM EDT up reply actions
"I don't always watch football,"
“But when I do….I spew out a lot of bullshit on First Take the next day.”
"Don't 'O' me. This is a serious issue here."
-d-jackfan10
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by McNabb2Maclin4Philly on Aug 1, 2011 10:47 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Why do you bring everybody’s appearances into account?
by Philly Eagles on Aug 1, 2011 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions
That makes no sense based on the context - it's pretty blatantly obvious I was playing along with the previous post
But I’d like to see two other examples of where I did so.
Also forgot to say that Skip thinks even after last year that all those long playoff runs were because of McNabb & not Reid.
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Skip Bayless is allowed his opinion
Just as I am allowed to not have to listen or hear about his.
I liked it more when we didn’t bitch and moan about what attention-whore sports analysts on E$PN thought.
Dear Danny
You have no room to hold out. We didnt even like you when you got drafted. Dont make things worse. Thanks.
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