2 minutes ago, garingovt2000 said:

What's the deal with Blackmon's shoulder?  I read it was pretty significant and happened late in the season

Good question. I know he was placed on IR but I didn’t see anything about a surgery. 

Howie can hold Reddick and just pick up the compensatory pick in 2025. I'm assuming that would land us a late 3rd, basically. Want no less than equivalent of a 2nd rounder or I'd just keep him and wait it out, like the Chiefs did with Chris Jones. Maybe give him a bump for this 1 year by being creative with baseline incentives. And see if he's worth the BIG money by end of year. He slipped some last year and was kind of invisible for most of the year. Is that because of injury, age or what. Need more evidence, as he turns 30, before we hand over any loot. He's trying to secure  the bag now, as he knows next year could be a totally different story. Can't blame him. But with Huff here, I do think his days are numbered, regardless. He sure did have one dominant year and was a nice story with the homecoming. But that D-line was really strong overall and I"m sure factored into those great stats as well. Wouldn't pay him more than $18M-20M, as of today.

4 minutes ago, jojodancer said:

Howie can hold Reddick and just pick up the compensatory pick in 2025. I'm assuming that would land us a late 3rd, basically. Want no less than equivalent of a 2nd rounder or I'd just keep him and wait it out, like the Chiefs did with Chris Jones. Maybe give him a bump for this 1 year by being creative with baseline incentives. And see if he's worth the BIG money by end of year. He slipped some last year and was kind of invisible for most of the year. Is that because of injury, age or what. Need more evidence, as he turns 30, before we hand over any loot. He's trying to secure  the bag now, as he knows next year could be a totally different story. Can't blame him. But with Huff here, I do think his days are numbered, regardless. He sure did have one dominant year and was a nice story with the homecoming. But that D-line was really strong overall and I"m sure factored into those great stats as well. Wouldn't pay him more than $18M-20M, as of today.

That only works if the Eagles lose more free agents than they sign.

Just now, Iggles_Phan said:

That only works if the Eagles lose more free agents than they sign.

They will not have the cap space next year like they did this year. It'll be like the 2022 off-season.

The real hope has to be that Reddick sees that no one is willing to pay him $25 million AAV, and maybe he does a 2 year extension at a number close to what the Eagles have been offering. There might be too much emotion involved now, but again...if someone was willing to pay him that money, he'd have been moved by now.

8 minutes ago, jojodancer said:

Howie can hold Reddick and just pick up the compensatory pick in 2025. I'm assuming that would land us a late 3rd, basically. Want no less than equivalent of a 2nd rounder or I'd just keep him and wait it out, like the Chiefs did with Chris Jones. Maybe give him a bump for this 1 year by being creative with baseline incentives. And see if he's worth the BIG money by end of year. He slipped some last year and was kind of invisible for most of the year. Is that because of injury, age or what. Need more evidence, as he turns 30, before we hand over any loot. He's trying to secure  the bag now, as he knows next year could be a totally different story. Can't blame him. But with Huff here, I do think his days are numbered, regardless. He sure did have one dominant year and was a nice story with the homecoming. But that D-line was really strong overall and I"m sure factored into those great stats as well. Wouldn't pay him more than $18M-20M, as of today.

 

My guess is that Reddick is going to be a holdout and not be the happiest of campers if he's kept around without a new deal.  Of there was reason to believe he would play out the deal without being disgruntled then I doubt they would be so committed to moving him.

4 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

The real hope has to be that Reddick sees that no one is willing to pay him $25 million AAV, and maybe he does a 2 year extension at a number close to what the Eagles have been offering. There might be too much emotion involved now, but again...if someone was willing to pay him that money, he'd have been moved by now.

He may have found someone already but Eagles are getting lowballed. Hard to say. But that could be a reason he agreed to push his bonus back. 

2 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

My guess is that Reddick is going to be a holdout and not be the happiest of campers if he's kept around without a new deal.

He's losing money holding out, which defeats everything. Eagles really don't need him the same way Chiefs needed Jones. Think Howie has all the leverage here right now with his age, production last year and signing Huff.  Howie needs to hold firm til he gets the right trade. Not worried about Reddick's happiness or feelings.

Anyone you'd consider using 1st and 2nd round pick to move up into top 15 for?

 

2 minutes ago, garingovt2000 said:

Anyone you'd consider using 1st and 2nd round pick to move up into top 15 for?

 

 

5 minutes ago, garingovt2000 said:

Anyone you'd consider using 1st and 2nd round pick to move up into top 15 for?

 

Harrison Jr, Nabers, Fuaga, Alt. 

End of List.

6 minutes ago, garingovt2000 said:

Anyone you'd consider using 1st and 2nd round pick to move up into top 15 for?

 

Caleb Williams. Not for football reasons. I just want to watch the blog turn to chaos. 

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Sure he does. He holds out until the Eagles come to a number on a one year deal he agrees with. He's not going to just throw his hands up in the air and say "welp, that's that. Better show up to play for the deal I'm not happy with". 

And his leverage is what?

They just added a top pass rusher at his spot, a backup with pass rush potential, and kept the other DE/OLB who is 3 years younger. And would like to give Smith more PT.

Reddick wants to be paid a top 5 AAV contract and he isn't worth that at this point in his career, if he was 2 years younger coming off the last 4 years you'd break the bank to sign him for another 3 years, but physically we've seen his peak and paying him what he wants for 3 years is basically paying him for past production.

He's probably worth about what he's due this year, if he's set on $25mill a year than it's time to accept he's leaving at the end of this year, I'd be amazed if he got that outside of a one year 'we've got a boatload of spare cap' deal like the Chargers gave Khalil Mack, I'd expect next year Reddick will be offered closer to $18million after he CGJ's himself out of the Eagles.

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

AP courses save money and offer greater class selection in the long run.  The grade "inflation” also gives greater selection of colleges.  
 

Oh, I know, the post was made in jest. I have a freshman and a junior who are both taking AP courses. My oldest, on the other hand, did the bare minimum just to graduate. I hope the other two are also good at learning by observation...

10 minutes ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

Reddick wants to be paid a top 5 AAV contract and he isn't worth that at this point in his career, if he was 2 years younger coming off the last 4 years you'd break the bank to sign him for another 3 years, but physically we've seen his peak and paying him what he wants for 3 years is basically paying him for past production.

He's probably worth about what he's due this year, if he's set on $25mill a year than it's time to accept he's leaving at the end of this year, I'd be amazed if he got that outside of a one year 'we've got a boatload of spare cap' deal like the Chargers gave Khalil Mack, I'd expect next year Reddick will be offered closer to $18million after he CGJ's himself out of the Eagles.

Yup, he's trying.... but maybe he finds one desperate team, like the Falcons. But after exploring the market, he realizes he's better off doing a Josh Sweat and reworking deal for this year. Add some incentives and full guarantees to bump him up possibly. Regardless, need a 2nd rounder for him or he can pound sand. I think he's been fairly paid up to this point and may decline this year, for all we know.

22 minutes ago, garingovt2000 said:

Anyone you'd consider using 1st and 2nd round pick to move up into top 15 for?

 

Bowers?

21 minutes ago, austinfan said:

And his leverage is what?

They just added a top pass rusher at his spot, a backup with pass rush potential, and kept the other DE/OLB who is 3 years younger. And would like to give Smith more PT.

Not his problem. That's the Eagles problem to figure out. They can deal with an outwardly unhappy player if they don't want to pay him or don't want to get rid of him.

He’s currently playing nice. Why you want to piss him off and create a negative environment makes no sense. 

Reddick is a huge cap hit if he plays and even more spread over two years, assuming a post June 1 trade, split between the two years he is a $20,515,000 dead cap hit. That said, he is a significant dead cap hit next year either way.  

22 minutes ago, garingovt2000 said:

Anyone you'd consider using 1st and 2nd round pick to move up into top 15 for?

 

Nope, there are players I really like like Alt, Arnold and Bowers but nobody that's so special at a position we actually need right now to make it worth a 1st and 2nd

11 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Bowers?

TE is the 22nd most important position on offense and defense. There are maybe 5 TEs in the last 25 years that were actually worth 1st round picks; he’d have to be guaranteed Gronk reincarnated to be top 15, which is silly.

I wouldn’t take him at 22

They have to trade Reddick.  It’s just unquestionably the right move.

30 years old, trending down, wants more money.  What more do you need to know?

Was he the best player on the defense last year?  Maybe.  He WONT be the best player this year.  But he’s a pure pass rusher who had 11 sacks.  He’s nothing special against the run and is a liability in coverage with his hybrid edge role.  11 sacks as a pure pass rusher for the worst defense in the nfl?  Wanting a raise at 30?

Why is it so hard to say no?  Get what you can.

1 minute ago, eagle45 said:

They have to trade Reddick.  It’s just unquestionably the right move.

30 years old, trending down, wants more money.  What more do you need to know?

Was he the best player on the defense last year?  Maybe.  He WONT be the best player this year.  But he’s a pure pass rusher who had 11 sacks.  He’s nothing special against the run and is a liability in coverage with his hybrid edge role.  11 sacks as a pure pass rusher for the worst defense in the nfl?  Wanting a raise at 30?

Why is it so hard to say no?  Get what you can.

Who will so assuredly be better than Reddick on defense this year?

3 minutes ago, Texas Eagle said:

Who will so assuredly be better than Reddick on defense this year?

49 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

The real hope has to be that Reddick sees that no one is willing to pay him $25 million AAV, and maybe he does a 2 year extension at a number close to what the Eagles have been offering. There might be too much emotion involved now, but again...if someone was willing to pay him that money, he'd have been moved by now.

Hard as it is for us to predict Reddick's future as an Eagle, if the market value for him is low to non existent based on his own expectations, it seems strange to push his bonus back by two weeks unless a trade partner was already in place and ready to negotiate terms to a satisfactory conclusion by then.

@LeanMeanGM made a good point about the owners meeting coming up. There could be something brewing there.