Just now, pgcd3 said:

Baun was near irreplaceable on this team. Had to have him back. Probably won’t pay Burks tho at this point unless his market bottoms out. 

Baun strikes me as the type of guy who’s just a natural born leader too. Type of guy well respected by everyone. 

The Bald Eagle.  Love it!

 

10 minutes ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

Baun just did happen… 😉 I still think Becton is back and I think Rodgers too. There will be more contract extensions and restructures like I’m sure Goedert.

Ha. Corrected that error. Meant Williams.

53 minutes ago, vikas83 said:

 

 

Long term, Dean may be the collateral damage of Baun getting a long term deal. I'll ride with Baun, Burks, Trotter and BVS though. It all worked out I think. Don't trust Dean staying healthy. Like Burks length as well.

A couple of things I've just come to grips with....when it comes to the cap, f it...I trust Howie and his team to do the voodoo they do.  The other, mock drafts are about as useful as boobs on a bull, can't do anything with 'em!!  

2 minutes ago, jojodancer said:

Long term, Dean may be the collateral damage of Baun getting a long term deal. I'll ride with Baun, Burks, Trotter and BVS though. It all worked out I think. Don't trust Dean staying healthy. Like Burks length as well.

We should assume Dean is not playing in 2025.

My guess is Howie is seeing player pay inequities and sees that the RB and LB impact pay per contribution is better priced than DL right now. I expect a lot of young DL to balance cap

I was also worried because of Howie's comment. Made it seem like he wasn't going to give big contracts out and rely on the young guys. Lots on here were okay with that route too

Howie raising RB and LB markets so that others drop for him

40 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

Also, the rush plan was to close up the gaps for Mahomes to escape through the pocket.  I think they wanted to collapse the edges and have Mahome step up into the DT's.  So I am not sure the interior being fixed would have changed the outcome.  

I don’t think their problems would’ve been solved by doing that. However, I think it’s a better gameplan than what they went with and the results they had shown in the run game over the time they made the switch and with the strength being the interior DL of the eagles. they created three holes instead of the two holes they had already as thuney was not solving the problem at LT. Plus, their interior of their offensive line is one of the best in the league when Joe thuney playing guard. I trust them to hold up more then having thuney play LT which he is not great at, a bad LG and bad rt.

keep your interior offensive line together as its your biggest strength on the OL. your tackle spots are still an issue, but I at least have comfortability knowing I’m better running the football when those three are my interior and I trust them to hold uP. Instead, I had to worry about my interior holding up with caliendo and  my tackles holding up. 

Another thing added to this, when Fran Duffy said their running game took a big hit when they moved thuney out to left tackle, he wasn’t wrong. Their running game really struggled. When they had those three in the interior, they were solid to good. They weren’t great, but they were good. You had to at least respect that they could run the football and be effective. I would think and bet the Eagles probably had some the same analytics that Fran Duffy pointed out about the running game. So they weren’t overly concerned or even worried about chiefs trying to run the ball. Not having to be concerned or worried about the chiefs running game is a nice dynamic for the eagles 

 

28 minutes ago, Dwide Schrude said:

Yeah same. This was the only move I wanted to see happen, anything else I’ll trust Howie’s vision

I was hoping this meant Baun. I just refreshed Profootballtalk and yelled loud enough to get the dogs barking.

Its a great day to be an Eagles fan. Congrats to Zack!

16 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

I'd love if Becton came back, but I do think he's replaceable. He was the weakest player on the OL and I do think it would behoove them to have a cost controlled guy there. Not just for the cap this year, but to be able to make a run at someone else down the road whether it's later this offseason or next offseason. They can find a quality RG in the draft. And we still need to see what happens with the Steelers and Seumalo. If he gets cut he could be an option as well. He'd probably be cheaper than Becton. Look at Cappa's contract as a barometer.

Becton is $15M a year or more right now. Can't see how you pay him $15M and Jurgens about the same & maintain fiscal responsibilty. Look at the Chiefs, they had to sacrifice Thuney to make room for cap space and only have 2 reliable linemen now. 1 or 2 have to work cheap.  

1 minute ago, NYEagle said:

A couple of things I've just come to grips with....when it comes to the cap, f it...I trust Howie and his team to do the voodoo they do.  The other, mock drafts are about as useful as boobs on a bull, can't do anything with 'em!!  

They're purely recreation until about a week before the draft.  At that point you can see each team's roster going into the draft and do some kind of assessment what the construction needs to be for the next 4-5 years.

14 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

 

Found @vikas83 twitter account and or Sam Lynch reads the blog

Ha -- I've never Tweeted in my life, and never will.

Plus, I was too lazy to look up the minimum salaries and just used $1.5mm for each year since it would be close enough.

24 minutes ago, RLC said:

Next steps
- Re-sign Rodgers
- Get 3 comp picks for Milton, Sweat, Becton

 

Gotta keep Becton and give Jurgens a new deal. Makes no sense to double down on Barkley and not keep the that indomitable wall in front of him.

Seeing the Dak restructure just made me realize we haven't heard from @Joe Ball lately. Really appreciate his insight and what he contributes to the boards.

 

 

29 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

I'd love if Becton came back, but I do think he's replaceable. He was the weakest player on the OL and I do think it would behoove them to have a cost controlled guy there. Not just for the cap this year, but to be able to make a run at someone else down the road whether it's later this offseason or next offseason. They can find a quality RG in the draft. And we still need to see what happens with the Steelers and Seumalo. If he gets cut he could be an option as well. He'd probably be cheaper than Becton. Look at Cappa's contract as a barometer.

Depends on how you define weakest.

It's raining in LA and Acho is making sense. This may be the End of Days...

 

Time to collect receipts @mattwill and the others calling him a "niche"" player 

Baun went for way more buddy 

34 minutes ago, EagleJoe8 said:

Love that Baun is back! I haven’t been this happy since Barkley re-signed!

Its been that long, eh?  Good for you.

1 minute ago, greendestiny27 said:

Time to collect receipts @mattwill

Baun went for way more buddy 

No, it's a matter of single variants or multi variants.

Time to re-visit the Spotrac Zack Baun Market Value estimate

2 years/19.5M