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THERE are things I liked about this Draft, and some things I didn’t like. Recently, there’s been some bellyaching about Eagles fans not showing enough positivity. So I’ll start off with things I liked about the 2014 Draft:
1) We entered the Draft with 6 picks and ended up getting 7 players, by trading back 4 spots in the 1st and gaining an extra pick.
2) 6’3” 212 pound WR Jordan Matthews. Every indication so far says this was a not just a solid pick but a good one. This team has NEVER drafted a WR with these physical attributes, this high. Instead of seeing (and coveting) T.O. and Larry Fitzgerald type WR’s from other teams, now we’ve FINALLY drafted one of our own.
3) I like the Jaylen Watkins (CB) pick, more than I like the athlete himself. Where he was drafted indicates to our DB’s that he’ll have the chance to unseat them if they slip-up. Nothing improves a man faster than his own desire to work at it.
So that’s what I liked. Here’s what I didn’t:
1) Our first pick was a horrendous reach. I scoured the internet and I can’t find any place that has him rated as a solid 1st rounder. In fact the NFL’s own scouting has him rated as a 3rd – 4th rounder. We paid too much for him.
2) WR Josh Huff may be a fine addition, but A) Right after we’d just picked a WR? And B) Here’s a guy who was rated as a 5th – 6th round talent (also by NFL Draft Scouts), but we took him in the 3rd.
3) Taylor Hart and Beau Allen. Look at the game tapes and find ANYTHING that says they belong in the NFL.
4) S Ed Reynolds. Why draft a S who can’t tackle? You’d think that would be the first thing you’d look for in a last line of defense.
5) The apparent favoritism of Oregon players by Chip Kelly.
6) Drafting for a reason other than pure merit. The evidence? “We’re putting the family back together,” Hart said Kelly told him when he called to inform him of the pick.
I’m not a “hype guy” by nature, but honestly, I’ve been looking for something to crow about for weeks now. I make the site where you post your own articles. Yet I see no one putting out the vibe they claim to want to see.
If my stuff is negative, speak up. But so far when I do see comments on here, I don’t see many that disagree with what I’m saying. So I apparently can’t be saying anything you aren’t already thinking.
This site averages hundreds of hits per day, and for all the positivity fans may say they want, they A) Don’t put out any when they’re here; and B) They apparently don’t think what I’m saying is wrong. If they did, they’d say so, because Eagles fans aren’t a shy bunch.
That’s not negative or positive. That’s just being real.
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I fully understand your worry but I think it is way premature. First of all you can’t say we paid to much for him before he has played a down, the scouts are not always right look at the seahawks team as a whole full of late round picks that if teams were given the chance in hindsight would
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Draft a lot of the 1st round. Do you remember these words “who the hell is Mel kiper” or the fact that tom Brady was snubbed for most of the draft. But my best example is Ryan leaf and jamrcus Russel who were highly sought after in college and ended up being the biggest flops in the nfl. I believe the coaching staff sees a lot of strengths and the drafted players who are intelligent and easily coachable. I wait until after the season to determine how the draft went
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No doubt that people have gotten picks and prognostications wrong, but that takes out of the equation that many of these people make a VERY good living generally being right about these things more often than they are wrong.
If you want to wait 9 months to have an opinion about something you just saw, I am by no means saying you shouldn’t. But most fans don’t think that way. It’s why we go into games assuming our team will win, and are disappointed when they don’t. It’s why some Eagles fans are EXPECTING playoffs again this season, and will be crushed if it doesn’t happen.
Fan is an emotional state, not a logic based one. If it were logic based then it should be a fool’s errand to hope the Eagles win a Super Bowl.
But we believe based on how we FEEL in the moment, not after it all shakes out.
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I loved every pick we made. It seams to me your negative out look on this draft is not one of a high intelligence.
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First: We don’t do the pointless disrespect/e-thug thing on here. That sort of behavior is for FB or the EMB. Everyone here wants the same thing so there’s no need for the disrespect.
Secondly: If you loved every pick, good on you. As a fellow fan I appreciate any opportunity I can get to be genuinely pumped about my team. After the Jordan Matthews pick, I thought this Draft was getting it’s balance back. I was irritated about being wrong.
Understand, the first 4 picks I have no problem with as athletes, and I’m cool with where 2 and 4 went, but we flat out over-paid for 1 and 3. Worse yet, we left legit talent out there for our rivals.
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Hey all players honestly are expensive chess pieces and they are only as good as the man (head coach) playing the game
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In a very real sense I suppose that’s true, but the effort and pride a man takes in his own game has a lot to do with it as well.
Did you see the game film I put up of our D-linemen? Lots of bad technique is why they couldn’t hold ground against the run. The hope is that they can be coached up, but coaches preach leverage from Pop Warner. If they haven’t listened to that message by now…..
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You’re right but at a lower level you can get away being the bigger or stronger kid and once you start doing it one way it’s hard to break that habit.
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