34 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

McCollum was the #3 S on a SuperBowl champion team with close to 25% of the defensive snaps and over 50% of the ST snaps. Now part of that hinged on Brown’s availability but part of that hinged on his play. I pointed to McCollum, Q and Ricks because all three play the run and pretty decently and all three hit and tackle. (Personally I think McCollum played more disciplined than Brown, although Brown was delayed by injury to start the year.) If, as you say, Mukuba was 194 at his pro day, then the weight issue is indeed overblown. Just out of curiosity, since you want McCollum gone, who replaces him? Brad Johnson, the 5’9” 179 pound FA S? Castro-Fields? Cine? I figure if Mukuba takes the reins at S with Reed, then the back up competition is Brown, who has missed games, McCollum, Cine and Castro-Fields (?). Note that the latter two couldn’t get on the field last year although Cine was a very late pickup and Castro-Fields was actually waived from the PS in December and then later resigned to the PS (and the mysteriously valued Lew Nichols picked up in his place). Andre Sam, who is as old as Castro-Fields at 26, is the only S that got time and then only on STs.

I don’t have a preference on who replaces McCollum, who was a liability when he played. The defense completely fell apart when he came in for CJGJ against Washington. To be honest, none of our backup safeties are good.

Q and Ricks in the run game is a completely different animal than having to run the alley as a safety. This is not a fair or realistic comparison.

4 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

That's pretty obvious. Selling part of the team. Selling snow. And a dramatic outback in cash spending this offseason compared to really the amount of cash they have spent over the past 20 years.

The reduction in cash spending now is to reduce the future cap hits that follow. They will need a lot of space to keep the likes of Carter, Smith, Q, Coop, etc. That was pretty obvious as well.

53 minutes ago, Arsenal79 said:

Any chance we just release Goedert? How much cap do we save by doing so?

Where is the money going this year that they need it to the point of opening a big hole on offense? Only option of replacing him would be trading with the Raiders. Let him play it out and get a comp back for him after next year. Keep the offense together.

1 minute ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

The reduction in cash spending now is to reduce the future cap hits that follow. They will need a lot of space to keep the likes of Carter, Smith, Q, Coop, etc. That was pretty obvious as well.

I don't see how they keep them all and give Carter 40 million. The only option is drafting a rookie to replace Brown and getting his 30+ off the books. It's going to be difficult but I'm sure they have a plan.

29 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

No. The cash statement about Lurie.

That was the one i questioned. Also him using that they are selling snow is a lousy argument. The eagles also didn’t sell the confetti last time. It was fanatics. So this time they did. Reason? Why let fanatics cash in when they can skip them and cash in themselves on it. The reason they sold snow is because they knew people would buy it. It’s why that same site was created to sell game worn jerseys and less and less going through fanatics

You can't both say Lurie has cash issues and then also state he sold stake in the Eagles. That alone netted him over 600m dollars. And if it was cash issues they wouldn't have paid as many guys as they did this offseason.

Now I think they should pay him, but them wanting to not pay him isn't because he has "cash issues." It's they don't think he's worth the money. I do given the alternatives. We'll see if they end up disagreeing.

3 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

That was the one i questioned. Also him using that they are selling snow is a lousy argument. The eagles also didn’t sell the confetti last time. It was fanatics. So this time they did. Reason? Why let fanatics cash in when they can skip them and cash in themselves on it. The reason they sold snow is because they knew people would buy it. It’s why that same site was created to sell game worn jerseys and less and less going through fanatics

Yea, that's just a lot of nonsense.

If anything, it comes down to a cash budget they have that they want to adhere to, as well as managing future cap allocations. They don't feel it's worth it to pay him $14M given his history and role on the team, especially with all the other moving parts on the team. That's all this is.

37 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

That girl is bad, bad news. I would make the educated guess that she's an escort/prostitute and they probably met on some online service. Everyone can joke around and laugh about the age difference and how he's "killing it" dating a girl that young, but I wouldn't want either of them near my football team. This isn't going to end well.

No happy ending?

17 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

The reduction in cash spending now is to reduce the future cap hits that follow. They will need a lot of space to keep the likes of Carter, Smith, Q, Coop, etc. That was pretty obvious as well.

Doesn't explain selling part of the team and a desperate cash grab like selling snow.

1 hour ago, Sack that QB said:

I'm glad they didn't actually. I was not a big Fannin guy. If they gave up a bunch of 2026 picks and took a non DL I'd have been annoyed by it. I get why they had interest, but I thought other TEs in this class jumped out way more and to give up that kinda haul for Fannin just wouldn't have been it for me.

I didn't like Fannin much at all from the games I watched. He was way down the list of draft eligible TE for me.

1 hour ago, LeanMeanGM said:

He’s due a bonus of $14M. That’s the hold up. The option you are referring to is just the proration for cap purposes of previous option bonuses and the current one that’s due. If they play him the option bonus they probably just keep him for the year unless they are a lost cause at the deadline. It wouldn’t serve them any good to pay the bonus and then keep trying to trade him.

He’s not worth a $14m bonus. I would release him instead of paying that.

16 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Yea, that's just a lot of nonsense.

If anything, it comes down to a cash budget they have that they want to adhere to, as well as managing future cap allocations. They don't feel it's worth it to pay him $14M given his history and role on the team, especially with all the other moving parts on the team. That's all this is.

And it's very understandable. He'll do a lot better in another offense that will throw to him more

16 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Yea, that's just a lot of nonsense.

If anything, it comes down to a cash budget they have that they want to adhere to, as well as managing future cap allocations. They don't feel it's worth it to pay him $14M given his history and role on the team, especially with all the other moving parts on the team. That's all this is.

Yup. They also sold grass from the nfc title at $130 a pop. Sold out. The reason? Cause they knew people would buy it and it’d sell out. To collect the field grass and snow to sell costs them next to nothing as they were charging nearly $30 to ship. it’s an easy profit. So why not do it. Frankly the Phillies have been doing stuff like this for years.

4 hours ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Howie in February...

"I think I would just ask our fans to just have patience throughout the offseason,” Roseman said. "The offseason doesn’t stop in free agency. The offseason doesn’t stop when the draft hits. The offseason, really for us, the talent acquisition season lasts up until the trade deadline. … We got a long way to go here to continue to add talent and continue to make decisions and I’m excited for that.

We know we’re not going to be able to keep everyone. Certainly, we’d like to keep everyone. But at the end of the day, we’re going to have to make some decisions this year, next year, every year going forward to try to balance who are the guys we want to make every effort to keep, who are the guys we’d really like to keep but may have some better opportunities out there.”

What do you think now, two months later?

The post-Super Bowl exodus was all expected to me except trading CJGJ, and I thought Becton might stay but understand it. CJGJ is a mixed bag of good and bad plays, and I figured it was a combo of Fangio wanting more and a financial decision but it created a hole. I wasn't worried about anyone else leaving, they all got their payday. I expected Slay to be cut. I understood the need to pay young players in the next couple years and I really wanted them to keep Baun, my #1 priority.

I'm mostly happy with the results. Keeping Baun and then drafting a LB in the 1st round for the first time in 46 years proves a change in philosophy. In the past, they would rely on Dean coming back from injury and some cheap free agent scrub. Howie signed a bunch of band-aid free agents, some will get cut, others will help hold the spot for now or provide depth. With a weaker draft class, I think he made the most of the early rounds. Mukuba is probably a day 1 starter and if Fangio wanted him, I'm good with it until we see how it actually works out. Campbell I think is the type of pick I love to take in the 1st round: not a reach for a position of need, but taking the BPA on your board. That's how you get great players for the future rather than a decent starter at a position of need.

I didn't like some of the trade backs, like many I thought he could have traded up for a DT or Edge. But, I do like the guys they did select. I'm excited about Robinson getting into the DT rotation and his future development. Potentially, Davis leaves and his snaps are replaced by Robinson and Ojomo essentially takes Milton Williams snaps, then they draft another DT as the 4th rotation in, rinse and repeat on rookie deals around Carter who is going to get a huge contract.

I like the depth they got in the mid to late rounds, especially getting guys for Stoutland U. I think we all were expecting a top DT or Edge and instead they got a top LB (still can't believe we finally did that) and took a Safety they liked which was a need with CJGJ gone. The rest was sticking to the board and getting depth.

I think this was a 2 year plan, getting the best value out of a weaker draft class and preparing for contracts to the star players spread out. Then in 2026 they'll be in position to trade up, take more top prospects on their board vs reaching for a need and continue to fill in the roster with young top talent and then depth. If it all goes according to plan, they should be a competitive team for years and be ok absorbing a loss of a player to a bigger contract, like with Sweat and Williams.

At TE we'll see what happens but I would not be surprised if Goedert is gone and they go with TE by Committee with Calcaterra and the rest of the group, the offense runs through Barkley, Brown and Smith anyway.

It's such a bummer the Colts got Warren. They are in win-now mode and it would have been easy to get 2026 capital for Goedert had Warren not fell.

28 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Yup. They also sold grass from the nfc title at $130 a pop. Sold out. The reason? Cause they knew people would buy it and it’d sell out. To collect the field grass and snow to sell costs them next to nothing as they were charging nearly $30 to ship. it’s an easy profit. So why not do it. Frankly the Phillies have been doing stuff like this for years.

I'm pretty sure a lot of that weird stuff they sell isn't even profit and goes directly to their autism foundation.

37 minutes ago, Arsenal79 said:

He’s not worth a $14m bonus. I would release him instead of paying that.

I think generally speaking he's worth that or close in the NFL. On this team being 4th in line behind Hurts, Barkley, Brown and Smith he's not.

10 minutes ago, RLC said:

It's such a bummer the Colts got Warren. They are in win-now mode and it would have been easy to get 2026 capital for Goedert had Warren not fell.

If "win-now mode" is Daniel Jones and Anthony Richardson at QB, I hope they're not in "hold your breath mode".

Fran and Zach wondered today if the Eagles knew that Watts would still be available with their 3rd round pick, would they have taken Fannin at 64 and then taken Watts in the 3rd instead of going Mukuba at 64?

12 minutes ago, RLC said:

It's such a bummer the Colts got Warren. They are in win-now mode and it would have been easy to get 2026 capital for Goedert had Warren not fell.

It would have been good draft capital too. The Colts are going to suck in 2025. Their QB situation might be the worst in the NFL. Richardson is awful and then they have Daniel Jones. Steichen has no shot. He'll be back here in 2026 if Patullo isn't satisfactory, because he's not going to survive another season with the way that roster is going.

But at this point, gotta figure out a way to keep Goedert. Their depth behind him simply is not up to par. And that includes the difference he makes in the run game. Unless they can do like a Thibodeaux for Goedert swap. But that would be weird with a division rival.

5 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

Fran and Zach wondered today if the Eagles knew that Watts would still be available with their 3rd round pick, would they have taken Fannin at 64 and then taken Watts in the 3rd instead of going Mukuba at 64?

I got the feeling in this draft they'd have done different things if they had perfect hindsight. Though that's probably always true

16 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

I'm pretty sure a lot of that weird stuff they sell isn't even profit and goes directly to their autism foundation.

I’m guessing that’s also true.

Tyler Steen is the youngest starter on offense at 24 years old. All but three of the starters on defense are 24 or younger.

I would say next year they should start overhauling the offense. But where? TE obviously. OL of course. But will it be time to invest draft capital at WR? RB?

Jalen Carter 24

Jordan Davis 25

Moro Ojomo 23

Jalyx Hunt 24

Nolan Smith Jr. 24

Zack Baun 28

Jihaad Campbell 21

Quinyon Mitchell 23

Kelee Ringo 22

Cooper DeJean 22

Reed Blankenship 26

Andrew Mukuba 22

Jordan Mailata 28

Landon Dickerson 26

Cam Jurgens 25

Tyler Steen 24

Lane Johnson 34

Jalen Hurts 26

Saquon Barkley 28

Dallas Goedert 30

A.J. Brown 27

DeVonta Smith 26

Jahan Dotson 25

1 hour ago, RememberTheKoy said:

Doesn't explain selling part of the team and a desperate cash grab like selling snow.

That may have to do with estate planning, he wants to leave the team to his son but there will be a sizeable inheritance tax hit.