Eagles 2014 Draft

[General_Failure]

Eh. I don't know college players, but I know they drafted players that play positions they needed to fill. If they can play, a couple of them might even start. They didn't draft OL, QB, TE, or RB, so that's a plus. C+ grade then?

[Rome]

This class has the potential to rival the 1974 Steelers class.

AAAAAAAAA++++++++

[ice grillin you]

there is a good segment of fans looking at the draft with an open mind....but i feel like chip could draft a garden gnome and the philly media would praise it to death

[General_Failure]

Andy would have drafted a smaller garden gnome from BYU.

[Rome]

there is a good segment of fans looking at the draft with an open mind....but i feel like chip could draft a garden gnome and the philly media would praise it to death

Can you really blame them, though?  Andy was such an unbelievable icehole to those guys, it's not really surprising that they'd give a guy who doesn't treat them like parasites a fairer shake.

And by the way... they weren't exactly genuflecting during the silence after Jaccpot's release. 

[ice grillin you]

yeah i can blame them....your job is to honestly report and critique....you don't report on one person because of the way you felt about the previous jobholder

i also don't think it has anything to do with andy....i think they believe that chip is a football genius (he may be) and no matter what he does in regards to the team it is the right thing

[Rome]

LOL @ the suggestion that those jackals are bowing down to Chip like he's some sort of golden boy coaching savant.   You'll never find a more cynical group of bitter iceholes in your life than Philly sportswriters and the first chance they get they'd be all over him.  He just hasn't given them much of a chance yet what with all the winning he's done so far. 

[ice grillin you]

ive never seen a draft where every pick was praised by 99.9% of local media....the only conclusion i can come too is that they think he is a genius...im not insinuating that they love chip as a person cause they clearly dont...they were killing him for his silence subsequent to the pimp release....but they honestly think hes a football god


on another note....

hart #97
reynolds #30
allen #94
smith #90
matthews #81
huff #11
watkins #37

[Eagles_Legendz]

Kiper and Prisco both gave them B+.  I'm not as down as igy is on it, but I still think a B+ is generous.

[Rome]

Matthews, Watkins & Reynolds were straight "A" grades for me.  The rest are either B, C or who cares (Beau Allen).

B+ might be a tad high but a solid B isn't unreasonable especially if Marcus Smith turns out to be a legit starter.

I really think Matthews is going to be the star of this draft for the Birds but as in anything else I could be wrong.  There were no home runs like the Desean Jackson pick a few years ago, though.

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/05/13/nfl-draft-johnny-manziel-teddy-bridgewater/

An impeccable NFL source told me this on Monday night:

    The Eagles, who held the 22nd pick in the draft, informed teams after several players they loved at 22 were snatched—LSU wideout Odell Beckham, who went 12th to the Giants, and Virginia Tech cornerback Kyle Fuller, who went 14th to Chicago, among others—that they were auctioning the choice.

    Six teams inquired about pick number 22. Philadelphia got four solid offers.

    Though it was reported by Jay Glazer that the Vikings and Browns jousted for the 22nd pick (absolutely true), they were not alone. The source said that another team, not Minnesota, was the leader in the clubhouse when Eagles GM Howie Roseman told Cleveland GM Ray Farmer with three minutes left in the 10-minute draft period that he had to make a better offer than the one Cleveland had on the table.



    If Farmer didn't include the mid-third-round pick in the deal, Philadelphia absolutely would have made the deal with Team Unknown for the 22nd pick. Cleveland would have had to move on. In that case, Cleveland would have called Kansas City at 23 and Cincinnati at 24 to try to get a deal done. I am told Kansas City would have been receptive to an offer for the 23rd pick, but Cincinnati, in love with cornerback Darqueze Dennard, would have held onto the pick.

[SD]

Heard that on wip this morning. The further we get away from the draft the more I understand reaching for smith...it was pretty obvious he was rated higher than where the draftniks had him going. Thd Eagles probably could have swindled another late pick to move down a few spots but they'd chance losing out on a player they wanted. They missed with their top 6 guys so they went the safe route. They didn't have many other options. To move up they would have had to sacrifice their 3rd which is a lot in a deep draft when you only have 6 picks.

[ice grillin you]

there were certainly better players and many other options....just not at that position...i also agree that trading up was not a good option

basically what happened is once a lot of their guys were gone they tunnel visioned in on whatever 3-4 OLB they had highest rated no matter what....its another example of how the BPA philosophy all teams profess to is complete bullshtein...the eagles clearly put pass rushing 3-4 OLB ahead of their board

[Diomedes]

of course there were better players but you don't know which ones they are anymore than I do

tunnel visioned...lol 

you know nothing

[ice grillin you]

i know the draft was incredibly weak at that position...i also know that it was a position of great need for the team

doesnt take a genius to see that they locked in on the position at that point and went for greatest need way over best player

come on dook even you can see this