If Reddick gets a 3 year extension at 25m per, that's going to look like a bargain by April when you see what other edge guys get in free agency.

We do this every year. Guy gets paid a lot, it looks like too much money. Within a few months or at a maximum, a year, it doesn't look nearly as bad. So many teams are going to have money to burn and throw insane contracts at some of these pass rushers. The Eagles need to keep Reddick even more now. And they have the excuse now to do it.

7 minutes ago, NOTW said:

Do they have a RAS coach?

Eric Dickerson.

Remember, the cap goes up for everyone, not just the Eagles. It's just going to push salaries up that much more. Don't be surprised to see $20 million yearly averages for the top safeties and $30 million for the top edge rushers. 

 

 

This will forever be the greatest media soundbyte of alltime. Because it was serious, because of how preposterous it was, and because it will follow this guy for the rest of his career

 

Malachi Corley is a WR who very seldom goes down on first contact.  He'd be a very interesting prospect for the slot; not so much for the outside as he's about 5'11 and 210-215.  

WR will be a sneaky position for the Eagles at the draft.  I'm pretty sure they take one at some point; how early/late will say a lot about their long term strategy at the position.

Now that the cap is raised, they can restructure Hurts contract to give him more. Have to keep QB1 happy.

 

Spoiler

 

12 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

Remember, the cap goes up for everyone, not just the Eagles. It's just going to push salaries up that much more. Don't be surprised to see $20 million yearly averages for the top safeties and $30 million for the top edge rushers. 

 

You have the potential to see a $100mm a year QB in the early 2030's the way things are projecting, probably sooner with a new CBA.

 

33 minutes ago, just relax said:

The Quality Control Assistant is a combination gopher, liaison, and coordinator. 

The HC looks at film, a lot. Who sets that up? The QCA. You want to see next week's opponent, or film on free agents, or opponents' injury reports? That's the QCA's job, to provide you with that. You don't expect your HC to set up the projector, root through the databases, extract particular material? No, The HCA does it. Self-scouting, same. Somebody has to convert raw data to information and that's the HQA's job, if he's a good one. Somebody gets injured; is he going to be available next week? If not, when? Instead of having the HC chase round to the medical staff, it's the QCA's job to do the chasing. Howie tracks all the transactions around the league, keeps tabs on who's available, etc. and it's the QCA's job to have that information ready for the HC. When they're on the road the job becomes much more complex and you can't expect the HC, or any of the other coaches for that matter, to take time away from their regular duties for support activities. 

And so on.

The QCAs have their own group and their job is to communicate, to schedule, and to have a rolodex (virtual) to just about everybody in the league.

It's great training for a future AC or HC, you have to watch film on every opponent, learn their roster, schemes, ect. when ding cutouts (easier these days with digital video) and developing summaries. After a couple years you should know the league inside and out, understand how different schemes work and how to attack them, and develop a familiarity with most of the NFL players.

Reddick's future, like a number of players on defense, will depend on how Fangio views him.

If he thinks Reddick is a one dimensional pass rusher who can't drop into coverage and makes it harder to disguise pre-snap looks, he may be gone.

Same holds on the offensive side, Moore isn't going to want to keep skill players who don't fit his scheme.

Watch what Howie does the next couple months, not what he says.

1 minute ago, austinfan said:

Reddick's future, like a number of players on defense, will depend on how Fangio views him.

If he thinks Reddick is a one dimensional pass rusher who can't drop into coverage and makes it harder to disguise pre-snap looks, he may be gone.

Same holds on the offensive side, Moore isn't going to want to keep skill players who don't fit his scheme.

Watch what Howie does the next couple months, not what he says.

I'd rather not watch some of what Howie does.   Some of it is just ludicrous and short sighted.

The agents are also drooling over the new cap number.   Everything is relative…asking prices for those top free agents go up with the cap 

Just now, austinfan said:

Watch what Howie does the next couple months, not what he says.

He was picking up laundry this morning, then a prescription at the pharmacy.

37 minutes ago, austinfan said:

Reddick's future, like a number of players on defense, will depend on how Fangio views him.

If he thinks Reddick is a one dimensional pass rusher who can't drop into coverage and makes it harder to disguise pre-snap looks, he may be gone.

Same holds on the offensive side, Moore isn't going to want to keep skill players who don't fit his scheme.

Watch what Howie does the next couple months, not what he says.

I think we are eventually heading for a break up with AJ Brown. Hes clearly not happy here. I dont mind being pro-active this year, in an awesome free agent WR class. Let him find a trade. Sign Tee Higgins, or Pittman long term. Gabriel Davis.

Or even Mike Evans if its for about 3 years. 

Trade for Aiyuk may be another option.

Its best to move on from a player of his caliber when there is a plan to replace him. There wont be a lot of years with this kind of top end talent available. Wait till he blindsides you with a request you might be screwed.

Fangio will have great insight into Howard. But I'd stay away from 30+ CBs if I'm the Eagles. They need long term solutions there. No more stopgaps.

44 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

Remember, the cap goes up for everyone, not just the Eagles. 

Damn. For real?

32 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

 

30 years old no thanks

1 minute ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

30 years old no thanks

25 minutes ago, McMVP said:

The agents are also drooling over the new cap number.   Everything is relative…asking prices for those top free agents go up with the cap 

Its all a ratio anyways, but it did make the rest of the already signed roster cheaper.

Could be a depth DE guy if he's cheap enough. 

17 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Damn. For real?

Just saying because it seems a lot think that just because the cap goes up, Howie can work his magic. Not that simple when everyone has more space. 

Even with the cap going up $30M and way more than expected, the Saints had to tie to the hip of Derek Carr for two more years 

 

Cap going up so much is great news for the Eagles in two areas, lowers Hurts' cap % and makes it easier to get out of bad contracts (Bradberry).

However, Dickerson might be looking at Quenton Nelson money and Smith going for more $ than AJ will necessitate work on AJ's contract at a pretty volatile time.

Google has emailed me a couple of times complaining of 'dangerous and/or derogatory' content in the Blog. Specifically page 652 where there's a lot of accusations of or discussion about race. They (Google) are threatening to 'disable ad serving' because of it.

Can we keep that sort of discussion over in CVON and not out in 'polite public' so as not to lose a big chunk of our funding? 

4 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

Just saying because it seems a lot think that just because the cap goes up, Howie can work his magic. Not that simple when everyone has more space. 

maybe not for other GMs.

But when Howie has cap space, he works magic regardless of other teams existing.

Part of his magical powers is being lucky to work for Lurie in one of the most respected NFL franchises. Players generally want to come here.