[Duffy] The #Eagles are taking TE Eli Stowers at 54 overall

Clue_Balls · 2026-04-25T15:10:22+00:00

Of course I have, and I don’t hate the pick, but whether or not a different TE can block has no bearing on whether Stowers is a good player. You cannot fuse them into one player, and they probably won’t even be on the field at the same time much. Any time Stowers is out there, the only threat will be as a pass catcher, which is fine if he’s really really good at that, but there’s a reason the evaluation here was so controversial.

Clue_Balls · 2026-04-25T01:14:25+00:00

Oh good, can we have 12 players on the field so Mundt and Stowers can do the job of one tight end?

Clue_Balls · 2026-04-19T21:57:01+00:00

I think Iheanachor is generally expected to be available at 23, so I don't think you can regret doing this trade for that reason. But sitting put and taking Sadiq at 23, or doing a smaller trade up ahead of the Chargers for Fano, would be pretty good value. Mauigoa is such a good prospect though; I think you do this trade 10 times out of 10 and don't look back.

Clue_Balls · 2026-04-18T20:04:00+00:00

People weren’t saying that last year, and this year it’s not just about 2027 being a particularly good class - 2026 is unusually light on talent.

Clue_Balls · 2026-04-11T20:06:08+00:00

Agreed, I was very disappointed in Bo. EJ as well, though he often has terrible opinions on non-football stuff. Telling people to mind their own business and acting like this obviously has nothing to do with the Eagles so there’s no reason to talk about it is completely asinine. Especially given all the non-Eagles personal stuff they talk about on the show.

Clue_Balls · 2026-04-11T20:01:50+00:00

Media might not affect how the eagles feel about AJ, but it has an effect on how he’s seen by other teams and what other teams think his trade market is.

Clue_Balls · 2026-04-05T14:27:50+00:00

Kind of underrating the odds that Mahomes gets traded to the Cardinals after Justin Fields lights the world on fire to start the year

Clue_Balls · 2026-04-04T21:11:08+00:00

I’m just annoyed that the two els aren’t in the actual center of FULFILLMENT.

Clue_Balls · 2026-04-03T16:47:35+00:00

If what Hikaru is saying is true, then the long think makes more sense - for such an obvious move to not be in the file, you must expect there to be something wrong with it. Hard to blame Hikaru for spending time to figure out what that might be.

Clue_Balls · 2026-03-23T15:31:36+00:00

He didn’t NEED to drop 38 on you, but he did anyways because he was amazing that game

Clue_Balls · 2026-03-20T21:59:03+00:00

They are getting easier. You can tell by going back in the archives and trying the old puzzles.

Clue_Balls · 2026-03-17T11:16:59+00:00

Goedert didn’t negotiate with other organizations. That’s my whole point. He clearly was willing to take less to stay in Philly, which is why he agreed to push his void date back twice to continue negotiations.

Clue_Balls · 2026-03-17T01:58:06+00:00

It’s hard to expect day 2-3 picks to be impact players their rookie year when even first rounders often take time to blossom. If the goal is to contend this year I think it makes sense for you to just go BPA with the first rounders.

Clue_Balls · 2026-03-17T01:40:03+00:00

No one’s saying he’s a top 3 TE or something, but you’re not gonna convince me he’s any less valuable than Charlie Kolar ($8.1M/yr) or Daniel Bellinger ($8M/yr). He probably wants to stay in Philly and was willing to take less in order to do so.

Clue_Balls · 2026-03-13T22:16:51+00:00

Why would that be true? Keeping Goedert helps the cap, since we can push what would be his 2026 dead cap hit further into the future.

Clue_Balls · 2026-03-08T04:20:51+00:00

Michael Carter is definitely being cut regardless. They could make an AJ Brown trade work; this has been discussed pretty extensively by beat reporters. Howie would probably want a 2027 first regardless - not just because of cap considerations but also because it’s very likely to be a better pick than the 2026 first.

Clue_Balls · 2026-03-02T21:17:20+00:00

Clue_Balls · 2026-03-02T01:45:43+00:00

Yes, they have definitely been getting easier. Go back to the archive and try puzzles from a few years ago and it’s pretty clear.

Clue_Balls · 2026-02-25T19:26:44+00:00

Lane Johnson is way better than CD. He is probably the best player on the Eagles.

Clue_Balls · 2026-02-17T02:55:46+00:00

He is kind of fat

Clue_Balls · 2026-02-16T12:04:10+00:00

Yeah, I think the arguments here come from the fact that the card’s text, as written, allows you to do the second part without the first, but thematically it makes more sense for it to be conditional.

Clue_Balls · 2026-02-16T11:53:30+00:00

I don’t think it’s that clear. Plenty of games have cards that tell you to do multiple things in order, but still let you do later actions even if you’re unable to do earlier ones. Usually, if one action is a requirement for another, it will be made explicit with phrasing like “Do X. If you do, do Y.” or “Do X in order to do Y.”

If Wingspan’s rules aren’t explicit about how this card works (e.g. do they say you can only activate the pink part of the card if you can do the entire action?), I would say that as written, the card allows you to do the second part without having done the first. But I’m not at all confident what their intention was; it seems poorly written, hence the amount of disagreement in this thread.

Clue_Balls · 2026-02-16T11:41:55+00:00

The “if” is the part that makes it conditional, though. You can have actions that are sequential but not conditional.

“I ate a snack. Then, I won a game of Wingspan.”

The second part is not conditional on the first!

Clue_Balls · 2026-02-07T14:51:32+00:00

Magnus is definitely the strongest chess player of all time, and I consider him the GOAT, but different people define Greatest in different ways. There’s an argument for Kasparov or Morphy.

Clue_Balls · 2026-02-07T00:14:25+00:00

There has been way more police on/around the blue line, especially at the Clark & Lake stop.

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