(Part 2) Top products from r/eagles

This is tangential but I highly recommend the book Monsters by Rich Cohen on the 85 Bears. Great read.

I've always watched a lot of CFB and have a particular affinity for defensive players and the defensive side of the ball.


Last year I just kind of went off the games I had watched, combine, rumors and how Mayock felt about guys.



This year I am actually watching these guys snaps on youtube - usually 3-4 games per prospect. I've worked through the defnsive side of the ball over the past month top 7-8 guys at each position. It's pretty hard to see the cb snaps and deep safety play though.

March I am going to be watching a lot of the offensive players. It'll be interesting to see how my opinions on guys will actually pan out in the draft. I am hoping to watch 20-23 minutes of snaps for 4-5 rounds worth of players come draft day.

HAve also been reading Steve Belichik's Scouting Methods

> For some reason the Polish immigrant was avoiding Philadelphia . . . The Poles' negative response to the city of Philadelphia invitation is best understood in terms of the city's positive attraction for the Jews and Italians . . . Italians and Poles, for example, often competed for the same jobs . . . Compared to her sister cities of the nation, Philadelphia was not receiving large numbers of immigrants, especially Polish immigrants. In contrast, Pennsylvania was receiving more Poles, Slovaks, Croatians, Slovenes, and Ukrainians than any other state in the Union - twice as many as New York and Illinois.

> There were over 110,000 Irish-born in the city in 1890, nearly 75,000 Germans born in the same year, over 90,000 Russian-born (my edit - many of these were Russian Jews) in 1910 and over 45,000 Italian-born in that year, but the proportions were less than in many of the other large cities.

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I'd even argue that there is something very interesting in PA. I feel that if you're German, Dutch, etc, even if you live close to Philly, there's almost a cultural Pittsburgh pull, which could partially explain why so many Steelers fans close to Philly (of course considering their many Super Bowls), etc. I think the Irish, Italians and Jews have much more affinity for Philly. The Slavs seem to be all over the place, but I'm already drinking man.

GO BIRDS

EDIT: Slavs

Here's the DVD, which also covers the whole season, for $5 on Amazon. I bought this out of a $5 bin at Wal-Mart a little while back. It's also available for 1 or 2 day shipping, which is great if you or someone has prime.

Hope that helps some, dude. Here's to a speedy recovery for your cousin.

Best back? Almost undoubtedly the best back in the modern era, but I can see you're not a fan of history. You should ask Santa for this book for Christmas. But in case you get the expected lump of coal, you should probably look up the HOF back that lead the team to 2 championships. (Hint: SVB are his initials)

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229

Older book but very interesting read.

Edit:
When everyone is a criminal, the people who decide who to pardon hold supreme power.

Not this super bowl, but when I was a little kid I had this childrens book that you put a picture of your kids face in it and the story is about them as an eagle leading them to a superbowl.

I still have mine in my closet with the news paper from when the eagles won.

Link to it on amazon below:

https://www.amazon.com/If-I-Were-Philadelphia-Eagle/dp/1878338269

Ha! I actually wrote a book on Chip Kelly but I like to think that it's non-fiction.

I actually googled “eagles fly shirt” and found it on amazon. link. Thanks though!

I don't know about Super Bowl but there is an Eagles 101 book. It mentioned previous championships. Don't know if there is an updated one though.

Edit: https://www.amazon.com/Philadelphia-Eagles-101-First-Team-board-book/dp/1607301237

Christmas gift idea for Doug

The New Eagles Encyclopedia by Ray Didinger

If you want controversies, you're going to have to read the blogs though.

One of our regular posters here wrote a book on Chip's philosophy: The Tao of Chip Kelly

QuarterBlack

iWatch? But why not start a thing!

https://www.amazon.com/Casio-Mens-CA53W-Calculator-Watch/dp/B000GB1R7S

This is the one I purchased for the Nick Foles issue last year

You'll also need a euro-plate bracket: https://www.amazon.com/Standard-Black-License-Plate-Holder/dp/B003O4SA2E

Not it but this pretty sweet.

Aw, I was just imagining you in your Eagles jersey, hugging one of these bad boys.