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NFL Offseason Thread: 2018 NFL Draft

Disagree. This Philly team was more much likable than either of last year's participants.

Yeah. And the other one was a blowout for much of the game until one team choked. This game neither team choked and it came down to a battered DL making one great play to strip sack one of the all time greats.
 
How The Eagles Went From Catastrophe To Champion In Two Years


https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-eagles-went-from-catastrophe-to-champion-in-two-years/?ex_cid=538twitter

What might have been forgotten Sunday night, though, was just how far the team had come in such a short period of time. A little over two years ago, the Eagles were in a state of disarray after a series of failed personnel moves by former coach/GM Chip Kelly. They’d sputtered to a disappointing 6-9 record before Kelly was fired in 2015, and were staring at a roster stocked with far too many overpaid veterans. It seemed like it might take a while to restock the team with enough talent to contend again.


But once-and-future personnel honcho Howie Roseman moved quickly to erase Kelly’s miscues. He ditched DeMarco Murray, Byron Maxwell, Kiko Alonso and Sam Bradford — the cornerstones of Kelly’s madcap offseason plans of a year before — and used some of the spoils to eventually pick up receiver Alshon Jeffery and running back Jay Ajayi. And although he traded up in the draft (usually a no-no) to grab franchise QB Carson Wentz — a gamble that so far has panned out extremely well, at least until Wentz went down with an ACL tear in Week 14 — Roseman also made a smart, low-risk play to bring Foles back to Philly as an insurance policy.


Needless to say, the repair job paid big dividends. And the Eagles’ Super Bowl team might provide a new (old) blueprint for future championship rosters, built as it was by stockpiling raw talent and amassing powerful offensive and defensive lines.


In addition to extending talented players already on the roster, Roseman admitted that one of his strategies while rebuilding the Eagles was to go after highly drafted players who washed out with other clubs. “Those guys, being drafted that high, they obviously have traits in their body that you can bring out with the right coaching system,” Roseman told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. According to Chase Stuart’s system of measuring the amount of draft value on a roster (weighted by each player’s approximate value), the Eagles had more impact players who were high draft picks than any Super Bowl winner since the 2000 Baltimore Ravens — and they ranked sixth-best among champs during the free-agency era.[SUP]1[/SUP]
 
If the Eagles sustain their success - multiple division titles, a few deep runs, maybe another SB appearance - it's pretty obvious that the next class of head coaches will emulate Pederson's aggressive style. Which will make the NFL way more fun to watch.

It's pretty hilarious that NE is the early favorite for the SB next year. The AFC is garbage.
 
Feels like it's getting better with better coaching and QB play. The AFC South should be p good next year. West as well if Mahomes can play and the Broncos find a QB.

North and East, not so much
 
Outside of New England, really hard to maintain success in the NFL. That said, the vast majority of the Eagles' key players are young and locked up for years to come. Roseman has been very adept at negotiating team-friendly contracts before players blow-up. From a talent perspective, the Eagle should be strong for the next few seasons. Will be a matter of how the players handle success, avoiding injuries and how the QB situation shakes out.
 
Tuesday Morning Quarterback has been beating his highfalutin drum for years:

Head coaches across the NFL resist the sports-analytic logic showing that going on fourth-and-short, and on fourth-and-goal, improves the chances of victory, even if some attempts fail. Many coaches know the math that favors the fourth-down attempt. They also know that if they send in a kicker and the team goes on to defeat, the players will be blamed; if they order a try that fails, they will be blamed. In a profession that pays several million dollars per year but offers scant job security, anything a head coach can do to prolong his tenure makes sense for him, even if not for the team. So coaches send in kickers, secure in the knowledge that’s what owners expect, while network announcers will say they “have to” kick.
 
Wrong thread, but I think Clawson is starting to embrace some of those same analytics hand-in-hand with our recruiting algorithms/analytics. We were so much more aggressive on 4th down this year than in the past.
 
Wrong thread, but I think Clawson is starting to embrace some of those same analytics hand-in-hand with our recruiting algorithms/analytics. We were so much more aggressive on 4th down this year than in the past.

Agreed. Having a better offense is a part of that as well. Being aggressive with a poor offense isn't as good of a decision.
 
Outside of New England, really hard to maintain success in the NFL. That said, the vast majority of the Eagles' key players are young and locked up for years to come. Roseman has been very adept at negotiating team-friendly contracts before players blow-up. From a talent perspective, the Eagle should be strong for the next few seasons. Will be a matter of how the players handle success, avoiding injuries and how the QB situation shakes out.

Because of the communistic, anti-fan, anti-excellence hard cap this is true. Not a single owner would ever limit his own earnings or ability to hire someone for his non-football companies. Nor would they penalize any company they for excellence in hiring or products by saying no more cash.

The NFL should replace their shield with the communist hammer and sickle.
 
Because of the communistic, anti-fan, anti-excellence hard cap this is true. Not a single owner would ever limit his own earnings or ability to hire someone for his non-football companies. Nor would they penalize any company they for excellence in hiring or products by saying no more cash.

The NFL should replace their shield with the communist hammer and sickle.

I'm honestly not sure if this is a failed attempt at humor, or serious.
 
Saw this pop up on Facebook. Thought it was interesting.

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What's the point? One guy is a headache off the field and the other is not. Johnny Football threw for 1279 yards and 7 TDs in his last 6 starts, and he isn't on an NFL roster either. If your off the field distractions are more trouble than your production, you won't be on a team, that is not a difficult concept to grasp.
 
Malcolm Jenkins and Chris Long were quite the distractions to the Eagles.

But they didn't start the fire, so I guess nobody cares
 
NFL Offseason Thread: GOAT Super Bowl?

What's the point? One guy is a headache off the field and the other is not. Johnny Football threw for 1279 yards and 7 TDs in his last 6 starts, and he isn't on an NFL roster either. If your off the field distractions are more trouble than your production, you won't be on a team, that is not a difficult concept to grasp.

So you’re comparing a partying drunk to an activist?

And you’d rather have Nathan Peterman and these other scrubs compared to Kaep?
 
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