Week 2 - Vikings: Feel My Flow

[General_Failure]

It's easy to forget that the Lions nearly beat the Eagles in a shootout, because they're the Lions and all, but definitely keep that in mind when setting your expectations for the season.

[ice grillin you]

weird box with zero second half points

[Diomedes]

on the other hand, the Eagles have won two and beaten teams that are 1-1, not 0-2

[SD]

Drubbing.

Refs were all around terrible. The 20 illegal man down field calls. Whatever the farg they were doing with the play clock, the Devonta smith pick, the illegal contact on the Vikings dback who was making plays...bunch of other shtein

Not sure I ever watched an nfl game with better pass protection than what the birds had tonight. Mailatta had a rough night and he definitely beat the snap more than the once it was called

A few Eagles games I've watched where a defender just completely takes over a game. Seth Joyner during the hop game comes to mind. Slay tonight was there

Sanders dances too much behind the line of scrimmage...starting to prefer Scott who just takes off. The Birds run mostly quick running scheme not power where the rb needs to be patient and set up blocks. Stop giving the ball to Gainwell late didn't he fumble it away at the end of a few games last season?

Special teams were awful. Return Coverage on punts and kicks is bad and not sure why they keep bringing it out of the end zone on kickoffs just take the 25.

Time to get on board with Hurts. He's playing at an mvp level right now. I know it's early but he's done nothing to not at least see what else he's got. Mock away but I'm all in for now.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Good point on the STs

[QB Eagles]

A few Eagles games I've watched where a defender just completely takes over a game. Seth Joyner during the hop game comes to mind. Slay tonight was there

He had JJ locked down which by itself is crazy

[Eagaholic]

Slay on Jefferson:
5 targets
Jefferson 1 catch
Slay 2 catches

[Don Ho]

^^^
Watching the replay on NFL network.  My God I have watched a lot of Eagles football over the last 50+ years but I've never seen a performance like that tonight. Slay was otherworldly.

[Don Ho]

Great observation SD! Probably the best defensive performance by a bird since Seth Joyner's "They brought the house we brought the pain" (god bless you JB!) performance in the Astrodome. 

[Eagaholic]

^^^
Watching the replay on NFL network.  My God I have watched a lot of Eagles football over the last 50+ years but I've never seen a performance like that tonight. Slay was otherworldly.

Yeah, I think BPS salted away not only defensive player of the week but probably also a PB selection by week 2, especially if Diggs in dallas can't clean up his burn rate. MNF can have that effect.

[phattymatty]

Went to my first Eagles game since COVID and man I didn't realized how much I missed it until I pulled into the parking lot.  Atmosphere was great last night, my section was actually way cooler people than it was 3 years ago lol. 

[phattymatty]

also if I didn't just get covid I def would have gotten it last night in those bathrooms.  super hot sweaty mess of gross people, myself included.

[phattymatty]

apparently each eagles home game ticket also gets you a commemorative NFT ticket?  lol I would think this is kinda dumb but I guess since we no longer get ticket stubs it's kinda cool.  and it looks like there's any actual marketplace where you can sell them?  I have not figured out if people will actually pay money for them yet. 

[Diomedes]

If I understood what I read, this "merge" that Ethereum pulled off recently is going to usher in a whole new world of NFTs, allowing people to have unique, permanent digital proof of things like attendance at a concert or a sporting event.

I have no real clue what that means...like, some kind of icon for your avatar....on the metaverse or something? 

[phattymatty]

If I understood what I read, this "merge" that Ethereum pulled off recently is going to usher in a whole new world of NFTs, allowing people to have unique, permanent digital proof of things like attendance at a concert or a sporting event.

I have no real clue what that means...like, some kind of icon for your avatar....on the metaverse or something? 

I can go into detail if you want because I am definitely a crypto bro these days but for the most part yes. Essentially all NFTs are are digital ticket stubs anyway so a good way to get normies into them now that paper stubs are a thing of the past.  numbered so each is unique (although in this instance there are 74,000 of them so not all that unique).  these ones in particular are just collectibles with no other utility but yeah there are 100s of other things that NFTs will be used for.  like you said, proof of attending something, your profile picture somewhere, at some point yeah metaverse but I'm not so much into that and don't really think it's going to take off like the nerds think.

but to your first part, all the merge did was go from proof of work to proof of stake, meaning the network is now supported by people staking their ether rather than mining it. there are no longer thousands of computers mining tokens and sucking up energy. they dropped the network's energy usage by 99.5%.  In one second last week it decreased the energy usage of the entire globe by .02%, it really should have been bigger news.  the fact that ethereum was using that much in the first place is another story, but at least they made plans to correct and and then did it.