Jordan Mailata, Philadelphia Eagle

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yep - I sure though he was gone after this season based on those.

But it goes to show sometimes its game reps where guys make or break themselves.

[ice grillin you]

which makes them shoving Jason peters down everyone throat look even worse

[Diomedes]

Dio's Mailata love >>>> My Trotter love

Guilty as charged.

Truly though...can you think of a more improbable story?  It's amazing.

[ice grillin you]

I feel like it's good karma payback for ally villanueva and I never feel like that about any of my teams 

[General_Failure]

The real crime is them not trying him at TE or as a goal line runner, but I guess having a left tackle that might hold his spot for a decade could be nice instead.

[Diomedes]

My thoughts regarding Mailata and luck run darker: I feel like any day now I'm gonna open in the morning to learn he was killed overnight by a drunk driver.

It's just too good to be true.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I want him to return a punt.

[Diomedes]

What I want to see is ten years of Eagles halfbacks sailing through gaping canyons plowed clear by Mailata knocking down men who are not accustomed to being bullied around, and a generation of DEs and OLBs frustrated by snap after snap of facing a monster who swallows them up and smothers them all game long. 

I don't need to see him with the ball.

[Diomedes]

Is this legal play?

https://twitter.com/BrendenDeegNFP/status/1343357992222257153

[ice grillin you]

seems really tame for a football play....in fact it appears that smith goes out of his way to turn so that his shoulder leads and not his helmet

[QB Eagles]

I'd say it's illegal but dirty implies intent that might not have been there. Looks like he was bracing for a trucking that never came. Also just a bad play by both Smith (makes no attempt at Sanders) and Mailata (should have run through Smith instead of that stutter step). Also Pryor (egregious hold).

[Diomedes]

What do you think are the chances this play results in a fine for Smith?

[General_Failure]

He's got a better shot at being fined for his socks being at the incorrect height.

[ice grillin you]

minimal...it only exists because mailata got hurt...also it was such a non descript play i imagine the eagles would have to have sent film to the league and complained about the shot and/or asked for a ruling on a fine

have they done that or is this beef just a guy on twitter who noticed it?...like is this a thing

[Diomedes]

I don't know the rules well enough to guess what will happen but I def. don't see Smith trying to lead with the shoulder.  I see a head shot, which I think is illegal.  Whether it's dirty, that's a whole nother level of "I don't know," because I can't see intent, and it's close enough to a football move that I'm not gonna judge.  It's not like he stomped on a down man's uncovered head or anything.