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CCFCSteve

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  • Feb 9, 2025
  • #4,971
A real toss up. Eagles have got the better all round team but Id prefer chiefs to win and with Mahomes you just can’t bet against them.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Feb 9, 2025
  • #4,972
Trouble is if KC win, we'll never hear the last of it!
I think (hope) that Barkley, Smith. Brown, Goedart et al will be enough to cover for Hurts' weaknesses. The rookie-on-rookie match up between de Jean and Worthy will be interesting.
 
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robbiekeane

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  • Feb 10, 2025
  • #4,973
hoping eagles keep it up.
 
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Hiraeth

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  • Feb 10, 2025
  • #4,974
So happy right now

Go Birds
 
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rob9872

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  • Feb 10, 2025
  • #4,975
Hiraeth said:
So happy right now

Go Birds
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Congrats if you're an Eagles fan. I wanted them to win and backed them, but was hoping for a competitive contest. As a neutral it was basically done at HT.
 
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Hiraeth

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  • Feb 10, 2025
  • #4,976
Thank you Rob

Yeah I get that for a neutral, it'd have been a tough watch. 38-35 last time out was pretty competitive though.Had 14 years of following them until Andy Reid (ironically) got us to the big game.

No team repeats the NFC East so it's all up for grabs next year.

Hope next year works out for your team and with all the games coming up in UK, Ireland and Spain you get to see your guys soon / again soon
 
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Otis

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  • Feb 10, 2025
  • #4,977
Sky Blue Pete said:
Not the same come on!!!!!
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It is you know. Or certainly can be. You can watch it like it IS live. Done the same myself a few times and it's been no different. Not for me anyway.

Don't look at the internet, just watch the recording. No difference.
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Feb 10, 2025
  • #4,978
Well I guess if the knobhead Eagles get to celebrate a win at least the horrible Chiefs lot have taken a battering.

Will be good to see some fresh blood in the big one next year, sick of Chiefs, Eagles, 49ers rotation with the Chiefs just taking over from New England.
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Feb 10, 2025
  • #4,979
Otis said:
It is you know. Or certainly can be. You can watch it like it IS live. Done the same myself a few times and it's been no different. Not for me anyway.

Don't look at the internet, just watch the recording. No difference.
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Don’t look at the internet!!!!! What!!!!
Lol
I know
 
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tisza

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  • Feb 10, 2025
  • #4,980
Lot of credit to Howie Roseman - eagles GM. Knows how to build a roster.
Chiefs top 4 earners accounting for 40% of their cap - 3 of them not worth the money. Eagles have noone above 7% of the cap. Plus drafted really well.
Mahomes carried Chiefs offense all season behind a line that couldn't protect or establish any sort of run game. Eagles O line gave Hurts a lot of time and can open gaps for the run.
Won't be surprised if Kelce retires before he is shown the door.
Wasn't surprised Eagles went up early. Bit surprised by the ease of it all.
 
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ovduk78

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  • Feb 10, 2025
  • #4,981
Sky Blue Pete said:
Don’t look at the internet!!!!! What!!!!
Lol
I know
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I am the same Pete, I can't watch a game as live after it has finished, especially CCFC, and want to know the score asap. My brother tries to watch F1 or motogp as live but has the problem of stopping me telling him If I want to watch a motogp live that happens early morning then I have to get up.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Feb 10, 2025
  • #4,982
Hiraeth said:
Thank you Rob

Yeah I get that for a neutral, it'd have been a tough watch. 38-35 last time out was pretty competitive though.Had 14 years of following them until Andy Reid (ironically) got us to the big game.

No team repeats the NFC East so it's all up for grabs next year.

Hope next year works out for your team and with all the games coming up in UK, Ireland and Spain you get to see your guys soon / again soon
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Wow - that was a performance. So pleased for Cooper DeJean with that INT return, and Mahomes hasn't faced a D-line like that all year. I think the Birds took their foot off the gas and allowed Chiefs to gain a bit of a respectable score. Or maybe they got tired. Couple of weird flags - that pass interference call against A J Brown early on was odd, i thought.

I think if the Eagles can hold on to the core of this squad, they could have something of a dynasty now that they found the winning habit. Josh Sweat, Zack Baun and Kenny Gainwell are all free agents this year, as is Brandon Graham, who will probably retire. I'm still not entirely sure how the draft and free agent scheme works in the NFL, so i may be talking out of my backside!

Fly Eagles, Fly ....
 
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covcity4life

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  • Feb 10, 2025
  • #4,983
Otis said:
It is you know. Or certainly can be. You can watch it like it IS live. Done the same myself a few times and it's been no different. Not for me anyway.

Don't look at the internet, just watch the recording. No difference.
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100 percent. I don't watch anything live if it a middle of night anymore. Sleeps too important as I get older

I just don't check results and watch first thing in the morning. Feel much better for it too
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Feb 11, 2025
  • #4,984
covcity4life said:
100 percent. I don't watch anything live if it a middle of night anymore. Sleeps too important as I get older

I just don't check results and watch first thing in the morning. Feel much better for it too
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Watching the extended highlights works for me with NFL - takes out all the ads and the time-outs. May lose some of the atmosphere and context of some plays, but i enjoy it.
 
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covcity4life

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  • Feb 11, 2025
  • #4,985
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Watching the extended highlights works for me with NFL - takes out all the ads and the time-outs. May lose some of the atmosphere and context of some plays, but i enjoy it.
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Yeah I can't watch NFL live. Even on same day I let over one half of game pass so I can fast forward inbetween plays.

Game in 40 works well on gamecenter.
 
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tisza

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  • Mar 11, 2025
  • #4,986
Love finally having a QB rookie contract that enables us to have an aggressive free agency. Vikings go out and address the issues that have plagued them for seasons. A proper centre, a guard & two good DTs. Not sexy positions but the major weakness for us for far too long.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Mar 11, 2025
  • #4,987
I don't get how they can vote on the MVP before the SuperBowl. I'm not saying Hurts should have got it over Allen, but the Bills (and Jackson's Ravens too) play in a second-rate division and they have lost to the same team in the AFC game for 5/6 seasons.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Mar 11, 2025
  • #4,988
Glad Seattle got rid of Geno I couldn’t stand him, more sad to see DK go but he is trouble. Darnold let’s wait and see.
 

tisza

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  • Apr 24, 2025
  • #4,989
Draft is here again. A lot of good players but few outstanding ones.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Apr 24, 2025
  • #4,990
tisza said:
Draft is here again. A lot of good players but few outstanding ones.
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What time does it kick off?
 

tisza

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  • Apr 24, 2025
  • #4,991
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
What time does it kick off?
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About 1am but it's a slow old process on day one.
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Apr 25, 2025
  • #4,992
Sanders slipping outside the first is a big shock.

I was hearing rumours lots of scouts weren’t keen on him but you always expect a QB needy team to jump.
 

tisza

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  • Apr 25, 2025
  • #4,993
Liquid Gold said:
Sanders slipping outside the first is a big shock.

I was hearing rumours lots of scouts weren’t keen on him but you always expect a QB needy team to jump.
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Lot of insider talk that he's a problem - ego, decision-making, coachability etc.
may still go to the Browns at top of Round 2.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Apr 25, 2025
  • #4,994
I wonder what the Dept of Homeland Security will do when they hear 67,000 Philadelphians screaming "Jihaad" when their new linebacker Jihaad Campbell puts in a sack on Mahomes! Good pick for the Eagles, and will probably be popular being a Jersey boy!

Can anyone explain to me in simpleton's terms how a team "trades up" a to get a pick higher up the draft? E.g. what did the Jags have to do to swap their place with the Dawgs (2nd for 5th). Never understood it.
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Apr 25, 2025
  • #4,995
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
I wonder what the Dept of Homeland Security will do when they hear 67,000 Philadelphians screaming "Jihaad" when their new linebacker Jihaad Campbell puts in a sack on Mahomes! Good pick for the Eagles, and will probably be popular being a Jersey boy!

Can anyone explain to me in simpleton's terms how a team "trades up" a to get a pick higher up the draft? E.g. what did the Jags have to do to swap their place with the Dawgs (2nd for 5th). Never understood it.
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You just package up your own picks, current or future, and players and offer them to another team.

So in this trade you’ve got lots going back and forward so it looks quite complicated but essentially Jax are giving up enough other and future picks for the Browns to accept moving back.

An example would be a team moving up for 4 to 1 because they’re desperate for the top prospect in the draft. The team in 4 gives the team in 1 their 4, their second round pick and then the next two first rounds. Thats enough for the team in one to drop back to 4.
 
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tisza

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  • Apr 25, 2025
  • #4,996
Happy with the so-called "safe pick" of a top Guard @24. Totally revamped the IOL which had basically killed us at the end of last season.
Going to protect the "new" QB and give us a chance to run the ball as well - loved the move of taking Mason from the 49ers for a 5th round pick.
Can't play in the upper ends of the NFC now without a good O line the way defenses are "swarming" the interior.
If we can find some safety cover in the 3rd round and secondary back-ups lower down it's a much stronger roster than 2024.
 
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tisza

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  • Apr 25, 2025
  • #4,997
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
I wonder what the Dept of Homeland Security will do when they hear 67,000 Philadelphians screaming "Jihaad" when their new linebacker Jihaad Campbell puts in a sack on Mahomes! Good pick for the Eagles, and will probably be popular being a Jersey boy!

Can anyone explain to me in simpleton's terms how a team "trades up" a to get a pick higher up the draft? E.g. what did the Jags have to do to swap their place with the Dawgs (2nd for 5th). Never understood it.
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There are value charts for each pick eg 1st pick worth a 1000 pts, 2nd 717pts, 32nd (last 1st round pick) 184 pts, 6th & 7th round picks less than 10 points. According to one of the main models Browns gave up picks worth 755 pts and received 655 pts for this year's draft + a 2026 first rounder (which could be worth anything between 184 and 1000pts next year).
 
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David O'Day

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  • Apr 25, 2025
  • #4,998
The Browns were quite sensible, need an awful lot of rebuilding and there is no point in having Hunter if you have nothing else.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Apr 25, 2025
  • #4,999
Eagles traded their 31st pick in the 1st round with KC at 32 plus a 5th round pick. I kinda get it now - but the points tally is useful, thanks!!

I just watched Jihaad Campbell's 2024 highlights, and MAN, is he fast off the edge or from the back! QBs and RBs are gonna have to be on their game to avoid him and Zack Baun!
 

tisza

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  • Apr 25, 2025
  • #5,000
David O'Day said:
The Browns were quite sensible, need an awful lot of rebuilding and there is no point in having Hunter if you have nothing else.
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2 big picks coming up beginning of day 2.
 

David O'Day

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  • Apr 25, 2025
  • #5,001
i liked the pats choice, they have a great potentially franchise young QB who was sacked something like 34 times last year. No point in taking anything but OL help, you can't win if you QB is lying on his back all the time.
 
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tisza

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  • Apr 26, 2025
  • #5,002
This Sanders fall is getting silly. Maybe character/profile issues but his upside as a QB is ahead of the likes of Slough & Gabriel.
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Apr 26, 2025
  • #5,003
He must be an absolute c**t of the highest order. No rhyme or reason otherwise.
 
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David O'Day

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  • Apr 26, 2025
  • #5,004
Liquid Gold said:
He must be an absolute c**t of the highest order. No rhyme or reason otherwise.
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I think his refusing to turn up at the combine or pro days has made people think "we'll you are not the kind of c**t we want on our team"
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Apr 26, 2025
  • #5,005
David O'Day said:
I think his refusing to turn up at the combine or pro days has made people think "we'll you are not the kind of c**t we want on our team"
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Happens a lot now though. Burrow didn’t do it, Daniel’s didn’t do it.
 
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