2 minutes ago, Procus said:

Well this is good news

That’s very good news! Might make things a little easier for the FO to bring guys back and bring others in.

On 2/19/2025 at 10:52 AM, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

That’s very good news! Might make things a little easier for the FO to bring guys back and bring others in.

Conversely, more teams will get in on the free agent bidding wars and the market value for all positions is getting a bigger reset.  

In a way, it's all relative for new contracts, but when something like this happens it makes all the contracts currently on the books better values than they may have seemed initially. 

6 hours ago, brkmsn said:

Conversely, more teams will get in on the free agent bidding wars and the market value for all positions is getting a bigger reset.  

In a way, it's all relative for new contracts, but when something like this happens it makes all the contracts currently on the books better values than they may have seemed initially. 

That’s very true but I guess as you say it pushes up the contract values too? A higher cap leads to more cap space and the players asking for more money as a result.

I’m afraid to say I think out of the big FA’s, they only resign Baun. I think they feel they can replace Becton, Williams and Sweat with Steen, Ojomo and Hunt. Howie loves to play the Comp pick game and probably feels we have great depth at those positions (which they do). 

If they think Becton can bump outside to RT maybe they figure a way to keep him as an eventual replacement for Lane. 

14 minutes ago, Road to Victory said:

I’m afraid to say I think out of the big FA’s, they only resign Baun. I think they feel they can replace Becton, Williams and Sweat with Steen, Ojomo and Hunt. Howie loves to play the Comp pick game and probably feels we have great depth at those positions (which they do). 

If they think Becton can bump outside to RT maybe they figure a way to keep him as an eventual replacement for Lane. 

Huff sucks, Sweat is gone, and BG is retiring. What depth do they have at DE? They really only have two. They will draft one for sure, but they will need at least one other vet.

1 minute ago, Diehardfan said:

Huff sucks, Sweat is gone, and BG is retiring. What depth do they have at DE? They really only have two. They will draft one for sure, but they will need at least one other vet.

When you can bump a rookie 3rd round draft choice into the starting lineup and not miss a beat, that’s depth. We’re stuck with Huff who was horrible last year but maybe after a year in the system he’ll develop. They’ll probably draft a DE in the 1st or 2nd or maybe trade for one of the best 😀. We’ll be fine at DE. 
 

3 hours ago, Road to Victory said:

I’m afraid to say I think out of the big FA’s, they only resign Baun. I think they feel they can replace Becton, Williams and Sweat with Steen, Ojomo and Hunt. Howie loves to play the Comp pick game and probably feels we have great depth at those positions (which they do). 

That would seem to be Howie’s typical MO but with having just won it all (that’ll NEVER get old saying!!) and a good chance to repeat with the current roster, he may stray from his usual practice and try to run it back for a chance at another.  We shall see.  

1 hour ago, time2rock said:

That would seem to be Howie’s typical MO but with having just won it all (that’ll NEVER get old saying!!) and a good chance to repeat with the current roster, he may stray from his usual practice and try to run it back for a chance at another.  We shall see.  

Running it back with vets seems like a bad long term cap move

5 hours ago, pgcd3 said:

Running it back with vets seems like a bad long term cap move

Not saying I disagree, but most said the same last offseason about signing a RB to such a large contract.  Point being Howie has been somewhat non-Howie recently.  

17 hours ago, Road to Victory said:

I’m afraid to say I think out of the big FA’s, they only resign Baun. I think they feel they can replace Becton, Williams and Sweat with Steen, Ojomo and Hunt. Howie loves to play the Comp pick game and probably feels we have great depth at those positions (which they do). 

If they think Becton can bump outside to RT maybe they figure a way to keep him as an eventual replacement for Lane. 

The original plan for drafting Steen was for RT replacement.  Lane kept playing, Steen was tried at RG.  Then Becton emerged, won and played well at RG. 

If you consider both RG and RT positions, we need 2 players to fill them and may end up keeping both guys.  If they like and take a RT from the draft, then they would decide whom to keep at RG with an option as back-up at RT until the rookie is ready.

1 hour ago, Penn7980 said:

The original plan for drafting Steen was for RT replacement.  Lane kept playing, Steen was tried at RG.  Then Becton emerged, won and played well at RG. 

If you consider both RG and RT positions, we need 2 players to fill them and may end up keeping both guys.  If they like and take a RT from the draft, then they would decide whom to keep at RG with an option as back-up at RT until the rookie is ready.

Bacon kinda won by default. Steen had a high ankle sprain in the beginning of camp and so … Becton was out there. 

2 hours ago, Penn7980 said:

The original plan for drafting Steen was for RT replacement.  Lane kept playing, Steen was tried at RG.  Then Becton emerged, won and played well at RG. 

If you consider both RG and RT positions, we need 2 players to fill them and may end up keeping both guys.  If they like and take a RT from the draft, then they would decide whom to keep at RG with an option as back-up at RT until the rookie is ready.

Steen was drafted as a guard, not a tackle. 

https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/video/tyler-steen-2023-nfl-draft-eagles-the-pick-is-in

He took reps at guard at the Senior Bowl and elevated his draft stock. The versatility is always a plus for depth purposes, but he was never seen as Johnson's future replacement. Stoutland wants Steen to play guard and that's where he's had virtually all his practice and playing reps over the last 2 years. When the Eagles feel Lane is considering retirement, they will draft a replacement then --- not two years ago. In fact, if you listened to Lane's parade speech, he said he was looking forward to many more seasons. Lane loves playing football. 

Thanks for providing the true scoop.