Benoit:https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/02/05/malcolm-butler-benching-eagles-passing-scheme-super-bowl-52

“…the Patriots gave up the fewest points in the NFL after Week 5, but as it turns out, the flush was indeed initiated in that Week 4 debacle. It just took until Super Bowl 52 for the water to disappear.

“We knew they had problems when you force them to defend stacks and bunches,” said one Eagles offensive assistant after the game. “You look at early in the year, against those stacks, they were losing guys.”

What the Eagles saw, particularly in that Carolina game, was that the Patriots couldn’t figure out how to defend receivers who released together on intersected routes, especially when pre-snap motion was involved. New England righted things in Week 5 (and moving forward) by simplifying into more basic man-to-man principles—and that simplification is what Philadelphia exploited Sunday night…
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…The Eagles consistently created favorable angles and leverage for their receivers, and at times they even dictated favorable matchups. They got some significant help here from the Patriots, who shockingly benched starting corner Malcolm Butler. Asked when they realized Butler would not be playing, the Eagles assistant said, “After the first series or two. We were like, ‘This guy’s not in the game! They have 23 [Patrick Chung] in there. That’s crazy!’””

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nittany ram wrote:

When I lived in PA there were occasional sightings by people I would consider credible and the same is true here in Vermont.

But the lack of physical evidence is telling.

I would like to see mountain lions reintroduced here in the east. Wolves too.

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I would like to see Black Rhinos introduced here in WV.

Black Rhinos matter.

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…im also skimming “Fug You,” a kindof gonzo memoir from Ed Sanders, a 60s activist.
Just cuz i Found it at a yard sale.

“…When you read about Mr. Sanders’s journey through the demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago — which led to the arrest and trial of the Chicago Seven — you might marvel at a passage in which he eats some powerful hash-oiled honey. “I looked up through the tear-gas sonata of Lincoln Park,” he writes, “and the Universe from the edge of the Lake up across the wide Midwest sky was made up of pulsing, writhing mountains and vistas of spinach.” These same words, and many others in the same chapter, were arranged almost exactly as poetry in his book “1968: A History in Verse,” published in 1997.

But that’s all right. Mr. Sanders is a creative collector and recycler. Elsewhere in this book he describes a moment of penury in 1964 when he assembled a catalog of literary ephemera, including two packets of the pubic hair from famous poets — O’Hara, LeRoi Jones, Edwin Denby, Ted Berrigan and others — harvested by Ginsberg and donated to Mr. Sanders as a favor. The items “sold briskly,” he notes.

In February 1967 Mr. Sanders appeared on the cover of Life magazine as a leader of “the Other Culture,” but he was perhaps both a little too scholarly and a little too normal to become a true sixties martyr-symbol….”
Review:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/books/fug-you-by-ed-sanders-review.html

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wv wrote:

Well, i like the fact that he might be able to play every single position on the OLine. Think of how valuable a guy like that might be when the injuries start coming.

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from a senior bowl report:

Isaiah Wynn showed why Daniel Jeremiah had him in round 1. I haven’t seen an OG win that overwhelmingly and consistently in as long as I can remember watching these practices … he may go 2nd for interior guys …

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Remember when a lot of folks thought Aaron Donald was too short.

Wynn feels like an A.Donald to me. Just a hunch.

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zn wrote:

Well that wasn’t that much shorter I guess…

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Well, i like the fact that he might be able to play every single position on the OLine. Think of how valuable a guy like that might be when the injuries start coming.

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Eternal Ramnation wrote:

Britt to Woods , what’s his name to Sully at C , June Henley to Marshal Faulk

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Well, i dunno. June Henley was pretty good.

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“…While with the Rams he appeared in eleven games, where he had 88 carries for 313 yards and 3 touchdowns. The following summer, a toe injury effectively ended his career.
Legal trouble

On November 17, 2005, Henley was arrested in Columbus for participating in a burglary. After pleading guilty to aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary, he was sentenced to four years in prison.[1]

Later on September 26, 2013, Henley was arrested again for theft when he was caught on video surveillance stealing from a Walmart. He has yet to stand trial and has only been accused at this time.[2]” Wikipedia
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