Hank Baskett Hysteria

[Seabiscuit36]

Munson appears in 3...2...1....

[MURP]

Hysteria!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

From Dave's latest jizz:

Twice, of course, he scored touchdowns on plays of 80-plus yards, so it isn't like he is a Slowsky.

To quote Chris Walken in "The Continental"... Wowee wow wow wow.

[shorebird]

From Dave's latest jizz:

I tried, I just can't get past a couple of sentances before 

[TexasEagle]

The philosophy is clear as daylight now that the jewels of free agency, as it were, have been picked. The Eagles came into the off-season focused on retaining the players they really wanted to keep -- Juqua Thomas, Quintin Mikell, William James -- and they planned on largely staying out of the high-stakes game of free agency.

They can't really believe anyone's swallowing that trite.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Swallowing it is a lot different from believing it.

[ice grillin you]

hes saying two different things here...


The philosophy is clear as daylight now that the jewels of free agency, as it were, have been picked.

1. the eagles would have liked to been involved but all the good players are gone

The Eagles came into the off-season focused on retaining the players they really wanted to keep -- Juqua Thomas, Quintin Mikell, William James -- and they planned on largely staying out of the high-stakes game of free agency.

2. from the start the eagles never intended to be involved in the free agent market

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I think he's saying that all along, they didn't plan to get any of the "jewels" of the FA market, but only now that they're gone without the Eagles making a move is that strategy outwardly clear.

Either way... they obviously planned to largely stand pat with a team that took miracles to finish 11-7 last year and never truly threatened to beat a top-tier team or win it all.

[ice grillin you]

yeah i can see that...and if thats what he meant he shouldnt have even brought up the jewels of free agency...just say its pretty clear what the eagles strategy was all along

[TexasEagle]

Yeah, he's trying to have his cake and eat it too... I don't think he has a clue what the FO was trying to do this offseason and he's even said as much. With all the crap with Reid's sons I don't think they even had a clue what they were wanting to do this offseason other than try and re-sign Stallworth, and that was a half hearted attempt at best.

[Seabiscuit36]

With his rookie year behind him, wide receiver Hank Baskett is working on fine-tuning his game and his body. Away from football, he's keeping busy with his own charity golf tournament as well as playing on the Eagles off-season basketball team. He talks about that and more in this week's Catching Up With ...

PE.com: Talk about participating in the off-season conditioning program.

Hank Baskett: "It's been awesome. The young guys, we had to come in a little bit before all of the veterans. It's just amazing to be in an NFL off-season because now I feel like I'm getting my body right for the NFL. Before, you're still transitioning between college and the NFL and trying to figure out what to do. But here these guys are the experts so they know how to get your body right for a long off-season and an even longer season.

"They don't leave one muscle unlooked. You'll hit everything in the weight room. Some days you're crawling out of here. But it's all worth it to get your body right.


WR Hank Baskett 
"Being here with all the guys makes workouts fun. Before you work out and after you work out, just sitting in there and joking around with the guys in the locker room. That's what makes this job so much fun, being able to hang around these guys every day."

PE.com: How can your work now help you down the road?

HB: "Our job is fine-tuning the little details every day and that's what we come up here and do. We work on something new every day, get the workout in and then do our extra stuff on our own trying to fine tune those things."

PE.com: What are some of the things you're working on?

HB: "The NFL is still new to me. My initial footwork and my quickness and my release off the line of scrimmage, that's what I've been working on. I'm also working on being fluid in my routes."

PE.com: How would you assess your rookie season?

HB: "I'd say it was pretty good, but there's still a lot I need to improve on. Last year I was kind of thrown into the fire but it's something I'm very fortunate to have experienced because a lot of rookies don't get that, especially undrafted players, they don't get opportunities like that. I just made the most of it and hopefully the coaches saw what I did last year and hopefully by working on the things I couldn't do last year puts me in a good position for a lot of playing time this year."

PE.com: How do you stay hungry?

HB: "I've been that way all my life. My dad raised me like that. The day you stop working is the day someone else is working. Someone is always trying to take my job like I'm trying to always take someone else's job. You always have to be willing to work for it."

PE.com: Talk about some of the non-football things you have done this off-season.

HB: "I got to go to the Hoover Dam with the crew from the Eagles Television Network. I'm going home next week for my first charity golf tournament, Teed Off About Child Abuse Golf Tournament in Clovis, New Mexico so I'm excited about that. My dad has had the tournament for five or six years and now I'm taking it over under my name. It goes to a very good cause. A bunch of the players have helped me with things. Greg Lewis is going to be out there.

"Back here in Philly I've been playing on the Eagles off-season basketball team. That's a lot of fun because I miss basketball."

PE.com: Talk about what's ahead with the draft, mini-camp, etc.

HB: "The challenges that you don't know, that you can't see. That's what comes with our job. There's always that "what if." What if they bring in someone else tomorrow, what if they don't? You have to take each day day-by-day and just come in here and do whatever you can to get better every day and see what happens."

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

"I recall Central Park in Fall..."

[Wingspan]

Is that a calculator watch?

[mussa]

whats with the phones or walkie talkies?

[Stallworth Supporter]

That's the camera remote in their hands.