14 minutes ago, greendestiny27 said:

Oh goody, just what we need, three late day 3 picks next year

Add that to the 3 7ths or whatever we have currently and we are stacked!!!

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

I agree that they have money to spend, but sometimes those contingency plans get swallowed up while waiting for the big fish. There’s plenty of money season left and players who can help. It makes sense to let the FAs wait out the market a bit to avoid paying stupid money like team did yesterday.

Yeah Berman's been touting that they avoid the middle class of 8-15 and either go higher or lower. As with Epps last year there always seem to be a safety who is decent in the lower end of the market. Not too worried there. Big issue for me is DE. And they can draft there which makes sense given economics but then they need to fill other holes first.

A CB who won't effect comp picks

Howie saw the writing on the wall for the center market and signed Jurgens early, even before he fully recovered from his injury. It was the smart move to make then, and I think it still looks great now. Jurgens has no guarantees after 2026 and his cap number he would realistically play under never goes above Linderbaums cheapest year.

Decently youthful - low risk - low cost options.

RB:

Miles Sanders

Isaiah Pacheco

Brian Robinson

Najee Harrison

WR:

Marquis Brown

Gabe Davis

Romeo Doubs

OL:

Evan Neal

Bechton

Will Hernandez

Daniel Faalele

Fred Johnson

Max Mitchell

Edge:

AJ Epenesa

Derek Barnett

Marcus Davenport

Arnold Ebiketie

David Ojobo

LB:

Kenneth Murray

Jack Sanborn

Mykal Walker

Brian Asamoah

CB:

Jeff Okudah

MJ Emerson

Kindle Vildor

S:

Nick Cross

Andre Cisco

Geno Stone

Jaquan Brisker

What about signing someone like K'Lavon Chaisson? Only 26 and seems to be heading in the right direction and shouldn't cost a ton

1 hour ago, eagle45 said:

It tells you something that all 3 eagles defensive starters are off the board day 1, even Blankenship, but Goedert is still available.

Starters? Maybe Dean was a 1/2 starter WHEN healthy. Phillips was part of a rotation. Reed was a starter and quite possibly the second weakest part of the defense. (Jackson being the weakest). (Well until Mukuba went down, then both moved up a position and Epps took the bottom). Eagles brought in two DEs at the back half of the season. I would argue snap for snap, BG outplayed Philips.

9 minutes ago, pgcd3 said:

A CB who won't effect comp picks

Only if I get to call him Hate Nobbs.

13 minutes ago, pgcd3 said:

Yeah Berman's been touting that they avoid the middle class of 8-15 and either go higher or lower. As with Epps last year there always seem to be a safety who is decent in the lower end of the market. Not too worried there. Big issue for me is DE. And they can draft there which makes sense given economics but then they need to fill other holes first.

CB2 is mine along with swing T

10 minutes ago, GoEagles614 said:

LB:

Kenneth Murray

Jack Sanborn

These guys are not an answer…I watched them all year last year.

They can still keep 1 or 2 in that range. Howie gets fixated on certain things for a few years then course corrects later.

1 hour ago, ManuManu said:

What does it tell you?

Goedert isn't that valuable.

1 minute ago, NOTW said:

They can still keep 1 or 2 in that range. Howie gets fixated on certain things for a few years then course corrects later.

I don't really agree with Zach framing that Howie is avoiding that range by design. It's just naturally is what will happen when you have so many players paid at the top of their position. You can't pay everyone so you need to supplement your roster with low cost vets or rookies while you have those big contracts on the books.

12 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Starters? Maybe Dean was a 1/2 starter WHEN healthy. Phillips was part of a rotation. Reed was a starter and quite possibly the second weakest part of the defense. (Jackson being the weakest). (Well until Mukuba went down, then both moved up a position and Epps took the bottom). Eagles brought in two DEs at the back half of the season. I would argue snap for snap, BG outplayed Philips.

Which is why it tells you something that those 3 are off the board...and I agree they are nothing special... and Goedert still isnt.

This may be confirmation bias but I'm remembering a number of very bad plays by Blankenship last season, mental errors rather than physical ones. Eight million/year for that? Too much.

There are some talented safeties in this draft and I like Mukuba.

3 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

I don't really agree with Zach framing that Howie is avoiding that range by design. It's just naturally is what will happen when you have so many players paid at the top of their position. You can't pay everyone so you need to supplement your roster with low cost vets or rookies while you have those big contracts on the books.

It's an interesting observation, but I do think it's more a result than a conscious plan. They hit it out of the park with several draft picks and ended up with several players on the top of the pay scale....which means they have to let most of the mid-range starters walk.

1 minute ago, just relax said:

This may be confirmation bias but I'm remembering a number of very bad plays by Blankenship last season, mental errors rather than physical ones. Eight million/year for that? Too much.

There are some talented safeties in this draft and I like Mukuba.

Every player has awful plays that you can point at to justify not paying them. Just remember how you were OK with going the cheaper route when you're constantly yelling at Reed's replacement for getting burnt, or missing a tackle, lol

I think it's crazy to say that Graham outplayed Phillips, but I do think that Phillips is insanely overpaid. 2 sacks in 9 games with the Eagles. 5 sacks in 18 games, including playoffs.

He's an interesting upside play as someone with comparable specs to Josh Sweat...but he's literally not half the pass rusher Sweat is. And his contract just blew him out of the water. Frankly, it's a terrible deal for a guy who is a 50/50 shot to be healthy and is overwhelmingly likely to simply be a nice, balanced DE that doesn't disrupt the QB that much.

In a way, I'm almost disappointed the Eagles were as motivated as they were to keep him.

28 minutes ago, wussbasket said:

Howie saw the writing on the wall for the center market and signed Jurgens early, even before he fully recovered from his injury. It was the smart move to make then, and I think it still looks great now. Jurgens has no guarantees after 2026 and his cap number he would realistically play under never goes above Linderbaums cheapest year.

Do you still think it's a smart move if he's injured and not able to play?

There will be internal analytics in place where FO look at contract cost vs performance, It wouldn't surprise if the fall off from that tier means the output from a $3m a year player vs a $10m isn't so small if you get other recruitment right.

Bradley Chubb still hasn't officially been released, I wonder if the Eagles are waiting on that.

Nothing the Eagles do is by chance or off the cuff. Its all planned and run through different scenarios to find the most optimal solutions; we do not see the logic, so at times it seems random.

We're not the Bengals or Cowboys

I really think the move is to sign Carter and trade as many 2026 picks for upgraded 2027 picks as possible. Feels meh but it's just the smarter play. If the offense flops in the first half of the season, we'll all be glad they didn't overdo it with bad contracts that weren't making a difference anyway. If the offense takes off, they'll have immense capital (and some cap room to maneuver) at the trade deadline to patch the holes and get the team over the top.

9 minutes ago, MF POON said:

Every player has awful plays that you can point at to justify not paying them. Just remember how you were OK with going the cheaper route when you're constantly yelling at Reed's replacement for getting burnt, or missing a tackle, lol

That's true except that I was not one of those yelling at Reed's replacements. My problem with Reed was that he was making uncharacteristic mistakes, which was very much not his game.