Darius Slay, Philadelphia Eagle

[SD]

A 3 and a 5 for Slay is highway robbery for Howie. 

The only way this doesn't work out is if the season is cancelled or Slay's legs fall off.

Or if he starts eating lunch in his car during training camp

[Diomedes]

Is Slay a good fit for Schwarz system?  He's a very good man, and press corner....I'm no former football player or anything, but I'm pretty sure I haven't seen much of that kind of play from Eagles D lately...

[SD]

Is Slay a good fit for Schwarz system?  He's a very good man, and press corner....I'm no former football player or anything, but I'm pretty sure I haven't seen much of that kind of play from Eagles D lately...

Schwartz was the Lions HC when they drafted Slay based on that I'd say yes

[ice grillin you]

Now they can get a top notch safety in the draft

oh really?....why didnt you say it was that easy??...that makes giving up the picks even worse...they should have kept the picks...drafted a "top notch" corner AND safety who are both 21 and dont cost anything

instead a team who desperately needs to get younger and has had a TOTAL of ten draft picks in the last two years paid a corner the highest AAV in the league for his age 30+ years and paid a price for it

shtein why didnt they just overpay byron jones and not give up any picks

[Diomedes]

Schwartz was the Lions HC when they drafted Slay based on that I'd say yes

Okay.  That was a long time ago.

Based on what Schwartz has been running in Philly?

[Rome]

Now they can get a top notch safety in the draft

oh really?....why didnt you say it was that easy??...that makes giving up the picks even worse...they should have kept the picks...drafted a "top notch" corner AND safety who are both 21 and dont cost anything

instead a team who desperately needs to get younger and has had a TOTAL of ten draft picks in the last two years paid a corner the highest AAV in the league for his age 30+ years and paid a price for it

shtein why didnt they just overpay byron jones and not give up any picks

Is this the part where you piss all over a good move so that if it doesn't work out you can rub yourself raw over being right?

[ice grillin you]

no its the part where you say crazy shtein cause you dont know what you are taking about and cant explain how they can easily go into the draft and snag a "top notch" safety but not a "top notch" corner

[MDS]

with everything going on i just cant get that worked up over this. so

1. they needed a corner
2. they got a corner
3. they couldve just paid byron jones
4. if they wanted to trade draft capital, why not just pay up and get hopkins
5. i dont care about giving up the 5. the difference between a 5 and a udfa is negligible.
6. i feel like there is going to be no middle ground with slay. he is either going to be a legendary eagle or flame out faster than namdi.
7. film watching nerds and some of his peers have been praising slay, which is great. who knows how good he will be in a new scheme a year older. but what i dig is his swagger. confidence is such a big part of playing cb. dudes got it.
8. he hated matt patricia so more points awarded

[ice grillin you]

he's right at the age where corners go and go quick so he could have a great year this year and then be done so I don't know about all or nothing

[MDS]

that makes sense but can you remember and eagle free agent signing that was initially great then got bad

ok maybe alshon but he got a few new contracts

it just feels like with this franchise its either a disaster or a hit and generally goes disaster

[QB Eagles]

They have been consistently poor at identifying, coaching, or integrating CB talent for a long time. Maybe it's just been bad luck, maybe it's the fault of people who are no longer with the team, but the track record isn't good. Hopefully the team learned what the issues have been.

[SD]

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[Don Ho]

Bored tonight and mostly because you all care, last ten 3rd and 5th round picks:

2010
3rd Te'o - Neshim
5th Riley Cooper & Ricky Sapp

2011
3rd Curtis Marsh
5th Dion Lewis & Julian Vandervelde

2012
3rd Nick Foles
5th Dennis Kelly

2013
3rd Bennie Logan
5th Earl Wolff

2014
3rd Josh Huff
5th Taylor Hart

2015
3rd Jordon Hicks
5th None

2016
3rd Isacc Seumalo
5th Big V

2017
3rd Rasul
5th Shelton Gibson & Nathan Gerry

2018
3rd None
5th None

2019
3rd None
5th Clayton Thorson

[Don Ho]

Some third round gems the past 20+ years:

Duce
Derrick Burgess
Westbrook

Some that will blow your mind:

Chris T. Jones, Greg Jefferson, Bobby Hoying, Stewart Bradley, Chris Cocong, Ryan Moats, Matt Ware, Billy McMullen

[Diomedes]

Matt Ware, another dude I thought was going to be a star.