NBC Sports EDGE Football

 

 

·

2m

 

Giants flag TE Rudolph's medicals, may reset deal

4 minutes ago, greendestiny27 said:

Wow, holy f'n crap, just when you think this team can't be any dumber they hit a new low

Not the team... Howie is the one negotiating these contracts and deciding who to pay.  

 

So, obviously, you go and give more than DOUBLE to a guy who is now another year older.  36 years old now.  

3 minutes ago, downundermike said:

The draft is in 5 weeks.

I am pretty sure that they have not updated for the Brooks restructure, and have not added Anthony Harris deal yet, so the current cap number is in flux.

OTC probably not but I'd think the NFLPA would be the most up to date and have the actual number including those deals

1 minute ago, vaeagle2 said:

doesn't denver need a TE now

They have Noah Fant and Albert O.

Not sure they'd be a team interested in Ertz.

I would have rather signed Mitch Trubisky for less than Joe Flacco for more.

Howie slow played the backup market only to overpay for Flacco when Brissett was far more reasonable. Trubisky looks like a damn steal. 

Hopefully that $3.5M is BS. 

5 minutes ago, vaeagle2 said:

doesn't denver need a TE now?

What happened to their TE 

Just now, ManuManu said:

Howie slow played the backup market only to overpay for Flacco when Brissett was far more reasonable. Trubisky looks like a damn steal. 

Flacco is better than Brissett though

Just now, LeanMeanGM said:

I would have rather signed Mitch Trubisky for less than Joe Flacco for more.

you remember the fun times last year when we wanted a cheap back up quarterback and they said well doing it in the second round was the best possible way to do it cause he’s cheap and multiyears out of him. And we were trying to win a division last year and could’ve actually used a veteran backup in case wentz got hurt (prior to the season not in hindsight) especially during a pandemic. Fun times that now we are ok spending on a veteran QB during a rebuild. 

3.5m can make 7.5 with incentives. Jeez.

Stupid signing.

3 minutes ago, RLC said:

Flacco is better than Brissett though

Lol. 

21 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Who the hell is going to trade a draft pick for Nate Sudfeld?  

A late round QB pick 

4 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Howie slow played the backup market only to overpay for Flacco when Brissett was far more reasonable. Trubisky looks like a damn steal. 

Hopefully that $3.5M is BS. 

Play under Brian Daboll and Josh Allen or all unknowns

Flacco. Meh. 

Flacco signing is dumb.  Waste of money.

Not quite sure what people were expecting in a backup quarterback.  $3.5 is definitely reasonable.  Flacco is a veteran backup who knows he's the backup.  He's been around in different offenses, won a Super Bowl and is a great leader.  It's clear that this is now Jalen Hurts team no matter how we feel about it.  They aren't going to draft a quarterback in the 1st, spend $3.5 on a backup and have Hurts as 3rd string.  

This is the kind of move they should have made last year to backup Wentz.  Instead, they drafted Hurts, messed with Carson's head and here we are.

3 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

A late round QB pick 

Play under Brian Daboll and Josh Allen or all unknowns

He has zero chance to theoretically beat out Allen. Hurts is far from entrenched here. 

Just now, bpac55 said:

Not quite sure what people were expecting in a backup quarterback.  $3.5 is definitely reasonable.  Flacco is a veteran backup who knows he's the backup.  He's been around in different offenses, won a Super Bowl and is a great leader.  It's clear that this is now Jalen Hurts team no matter how we feel about it.  They aren't going to draft a quarterback in the 1st, spend $3.5 on a backup and have Hurts as 3rd string.  

This is the kind of move they should have made last year to backup Wentz.  Instead, they drafted Hurts, messed with Carson's head and here we are.

I remember paying Bradford and Chase Daniel and trading the farm for Wentz. 

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

OK go through that list I put out there of the last 42 Super Bowl teams that played. I’m guessing almost all those teams besides the patriots because they’re an outlier due to Brady probably had somebody around 1000 yards or over 1000 yards receiving.

In fact i did it. of the last 42 teams to play on the super bowl 28 have had 1000 receiver (we not TE who did it) and 14 didn’t. The 2005 Steelers in ward came 25 yards short and Edelman in 2018 came 28 otherwise it’s 30 to 12. Teams that won the super bowl of those 21 teams that won 13 did have 1000 receiver. thats doesn’t include tight ends who also got 1000 receiving otherwise it’s 15. 

 

And yet the eagles won a super bowl without a 1000 yard receiver which was the point of my comment.

I feel like you are either misunderstanding my original comment, taking it out of context or just wanting to argue 

The post had the pic if the dog drinking a cup in a house on fire and below said eagles haven't had a 1000 yard WR since 2015...

Below that it said Howie- everything's fine 

Normally I'd agree with the sentiment except during those all of 4 seasons which they didn't have a 1000 yard receiver they won a super bowl and made the playoffs 3 of those 5 seasons so 

One can argue that one " needs" 1000 yard receivers to win the super bowl using the eagles from 2015-2020 isn't a good example seeing as stated they didn't need a 1000 yard WR to win it all.

The weird issue with Flacco...

If Hurts goes down (and maybe even if he doesn't), the Eagles will ACTIVELY want to tank.  This is a 2-6 win team with Hurts.  We don't need a backup that can step in and win a game.  

Unless we are paying Flacco 3.5m to mentor Hurts (we aren't), this makes no sense.

 

Kind of funny, Carson had the injury prone label, only QB to start all 16 games for the Eagles since 2008, and he did it twice.

 

18 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

I'd rather have signed Shane Falco 

 

Just now, eagle45 said:

The weird issue with Flacco...

If Hurts goes down (and maybe even if he doesn't), the Eagles will ACTIVELY want to tank.  This is a 2-6 win team with Hurts.  We don't need a backup that can step in and win a game.  

Unless we are paying Flacco 3.5m to mentor Hurts (we aren't), this makes no sense.

 

We hate devoting cap space to useful things — like active players and starters. 

Just now, eagle45 said:

The weird issue with Flacco...

If Hurts goes down (and maybe even if he doesn't), the Eagles will ACTIVELY want to tank.  This is a 2-6 win team with Hurts.  We don't need a backup that can step in and win a game.  

Unless we are paying Flacco 3.5m to mentor Hurts (we aren't), this makes no sense.

The GM thinks his team is good though. So a backup QB to keep the team afloat is valuable.

TBF, not having any backup is dumb. We didn't have to pay this though.

1 hour ago, ManuManu said:

 

Hope he gets a comp pick worthy contract. 

14 minutes ago, greendestiny27 said:

What happened to their TE 

i took a swipe there , i read some team just released their TE and for some reason i thought denver

5 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

He has zero chance to theoretically beat out Allen. Hurts is far from entrenched here. 

I remember paying Bradford and Chase Daniel and trading the farm for Wentz. 

I am not saying he wants to dethrone Josh Allen but look what Daboll did to his career. Clearly, Mitch sees previous success with a QB that has a similar style of play.