Re: Free Agency '06 continued

[The BIGSTUD]

That is if you want to call them fans. I've heard people say they are going to buy a dallas TO jersey and wear it this year, because the Eagles screwed him.

... something like that.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I'm sure the Banner interview will be enlightening and provide us all with a lot of new information.

[The BIGSTUD]

Banner is going to be on with Eskin at around 4 or 4:30. I'm not going to listen because everyone is going to call up and ask

HEY JOE R WE GETTING JAVON WALKER?!?!?!?!

Then he'll say we haven't really had talks with him.

and everyone will be like NO DAMMIT THE EAGLES R CHEAP THEY NEVER WANT ANYBODY!!

When obviously he can't tell his plans on the air.

Howard's already scolding people warning them not to call in and ask questions like "Hey Joe, who are the Eagles gonna pick first?".  I'm tempted to call in and ask "Hey Joe, who are the Eagles gonna draft in the sixth round?" just to get Howard all worked up.

Hey, Joe, what's the latest on the Urlacher front?

[ice grillin you]

banner crying poor

saying they have the most stadium debt in the nfl and that lurie lost a ton of money keeping the team in philly

[SunMo]

this is why he should never talk, ever.

[SD_Eagle5]

banner crying poor

saying they have the most stadium debt in the nfl and that lurie lost a ton of money keeping the team in philly

Waaaahhh...whatever Joe, I'm not buying that for a second.

[The BIGSTUD]

Stadium debt... 

[reese125]

Stop it Joe..please stop moving your mouth

[reese125]

JW...love it Howard

[ice grillin you]

what an amazingly off topic answer he gave to the 'has TO been adequetely replaced' question

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

JW...love it Howard

Please don't assume we're actually listening to WIP and instead give us more details.

[reese125]

my bad bud, Howard was pretty blunt to the fact in asking Banner if we have an interest in Walker and Banner gave why he couldnt elaborate. Banner gave him a "competitve advantage" reason with other teams, he wont reveal their plans and if any player can help the team out at any position, they will take a strong look at them..blah blah blah

Howard then asked him again, "why not?" The info's already out there about Walker....how do we value 3rd rounders, what would we give up for him? Banner acted clueless like he didnt understand the question and he doesnt handle that type of stuff, again...blah, blah, blah.

I like the fact that Howard beared down on him and tried to at least get a solid answer, rather than dance around it like Tony Manero. Nothing new that we dont already know about this drawn out topic

[reese125]

Howard just asked about Arrington, and the signing bonus hes asking for...Banner danced like Manero and didnt answer

[The BIGSTUD]

OMG!!11! NOOOO

BANNAR DIDN'T SAY HE WANTED WALKUR, NOW WE WON'T GET HIIIM!!1111!

[PhillyPhreak54]

IGY,

You kind of took what he said out of context and made it sound like he was speaking solely about the stadium and how they have no money. Not true at all. What he said was, and he used the stadium as an example, was in response to the Eagles being cheap. Someone asked if they were cheap and he broke down the. He said they could've gotten a better deal in S. Jersey on in one of the Philadelphia suburbs but not that they ever thought about it or it was ever an option. He said that Jeff Lurie put up $350M of his own money and that the Eagles were still the 4th highest revenue team and also a team in the upper echelon of profits despite having the biggest stadium debt in the NFL.

He was responding to a question. And I thought the interview was rather good. It lasted a long time. I listened for about an hour and he was still on when I got home. So I didn't hear the end of it.

But I did hear him say there was no interest in Stephen Davis.

He also said that the reason behind the Runyan pay cut was that they had some plans that they were thinking could get done in free agency and extensions and they thought they would need that money. He said in hindsight it obviously didn't pan out (he didn't say what player they failed to land or the extension that didn't get done) but my guess on the extension was either Rod Hood, LJ Smith and the best guess is Mike Lewis.

Eskin was trying to get him to comment on Walker but he wouldn't because of the tampering issue. But he did say that if a situation came up to get a stud player they would certainly look at it. And it is up to Andy and Tom to decide if they want that guy. They will tell them who they are targeting and then Joe will go research the money aspect of the deal and compare what players comparable to that player grade the Eagles gave him are making and then provide the info to Andy and TOm for a final decision.

He also suggested that since the fans won;t be able to throw snowballs at TO then they should use caramel pop corn because it is able to be thrown farther than regular (in response to Eskin asking Joe if he has his popcorn ready for TO).

One other thing he said about TO -- he said (and some of us did this when TO signed w/ Dallas) that if you look at the money he signed for in Dallas and compared it to what he would've made in Year 1, year 2 and year 3 in his Eagles deal and he would've made more here. He lost $4M in supension last year and would've been paid around $8M this year - so money was obviously not his only problem since he proclaims he is happy with the Dallas contract. But it just goes to show how irrational the guy is.