14 minutes ago, hputenis said:

This hype vid popped up on my bleacher report app about 30 minutes after reading this.  😂

 

 

 

 

That's the one I was talking about.

21 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

How many bad contracts do those teams have? How many had contracts do we have? How many good young players do those teams have to supplement the cap space eaten up by the voidable years?

Its not bad because Howie did it. It’s bad because we have a bad roster combined with a bad cap. 

Howie's pushing the cap hit down the road only works if 2 things happen

1) We hit our draft picks since signing on high-price UFAs is off the table
2) The cap stays flat or goes up

Neither happened and we're now a bottom 5 team.

14 minutes ago, downundermike said:

The information is the information.  Your opinion of it does not change the facts.  Here are the facts.

March 10th

2022 cap space - 73 million

2023 cap space - 136 million

Today, June 30th

2022 cap space - 12.8 million

2023 cap space - 80 million

 

That is a difference of 117 million dollars.  The majority of that is from re structures and voidable years.  For that 117 million dollars, all we gained for the 2022 season was 9 rookies.  If you do not see that as gross cap mismanagement, I really do not know what to say.

 

These numbers are the hard data facts, and I am going to keep talking about them.

A couple questions...

A) How much of 2021 cap did they have to move into 2022+ because of COVID?

B) What did other teams do?  Are we the only team that moved ~$100 million of cap into later years?

50 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Also these are key cogs on the team. Even though I disagree with Hill overall, the Saints clearly view him as an important piece. They aren't tacking on voidable years to Joe freakin Flacco or anyone making more than $2M a year. 

I might be a Flacco Wacko -- but I'll be damned if I'm just gonna sit here and let your "pathetic hate" ruin my day.

Sorry, I just remembered it's a message board -- yes, I will just sit here -- but I don't have to like it .... 

23 minutes ago, hputenis said:

This hype vid popped up on my bleacher report app about 30 minutes after reading this.  😂

 

 

 

 

All these workout videos are so cringe. Reminds me of all the Dwayne Haskins hype videos last year.

7 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I might be a Flacco Wacko -- but I'll be damned if I'm just gonna sit here and let your "pathetic hate" ruin my day.

Sorry, I just remembered it's a message board -- yes, I will just sit here -- but I don't have to like it .... 

How do you know if I'm not just upset they gave him voidable years instead of real years??

Might be over the top with workout vids, but at least we know he’s working to improve. 
 

People will find anything to complain about. 

39 minutes ago, downundermike said:

The information is the information.  Your opinion of it does not change the facts.  Here are the facts.

March 10th

2022 cap space - 73 million

2023 cap space - 136 million

Today, June 30th

2022 cap space - 12.8 million

2023 cap space - 80 million

 

That is a difference of 117 million dollars.  The majority of that is from re structures and voidable years.  For that 117 million dollars, all we gained for the 2022 season was 9 rookies.  If you do not see that as gross cap mismanagement, I really do not know what to say.

 

These numbers are the hard data facts, and I am going to keep talking about them.

I still don't see a problem here.

There is one player they need to extend this year - Dallas Goedert.

They need to make a decision on Barnett.

There are 3 players that they need to evaluate before extending (Fulgham, Sweat and Mailita) 

Next year they only player of significance they need to extend is Miles Sanders.

The cap will not stay at $208 next year - it should increase. They will roll over some LTBE money to increase that amount. They will probably end up getting rid of both Slay and Brooks, which will increase the cap a lot. Cox will be extended. Kelce will retire, so they will renegotiate that contract to drop it down to help with the cap.

I also come from the camp that I think that Salary Cap does not really matter anymore and that teams should spend as much of it as possible every single year.

10 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

Might be over the top with workout vids, but at least we know he’s working to improve. 
 

People will find anything to complain about. 

Over 90% of players are working to improve right now. It’s nothing special 

8 minutes ago, pallidrone said:

I still don't see a problem here.

There is one player they need to extend this year - Dallas Goedert.

They need to make a decision on Barnett.

There are 3 players that they need to evaluate before extending (Fulgham, Sweat and Mailita) 

Next year they only player of significance they need to extend is Miles Sanders.

The cap will not stay at $208 next year - it should increase. They will roll over some LTBE money to increase that amount. They will probably end up getting rid of both Slay and Brooks, which will increase the cap a lot. Cox will be extended. Kelce will retire, so they will renegotiate that contract to drop it down to help with the cap.

I also come from the camp that I think that Salary Cap does not really matter anymore and that teams should spend as much of it as possible every single year.

The cap absolutely will stay at $208 next year. That is what the NFL and NFLPA agreed to be the ceiling because of their agreement for 2021 to have a floor. 

If you want to get rid of Slay then you only have 3 starting players left on Defense under contract (Cox, Graham, Hargrave). They also can't just renegotiate Kelce's contract. It's automatically voiding and the dead money has to count against the cap. They will probably designate it a post 6/1 but that's about all they can do besides extending him.

I do think they will be in better cap shape compared to 2021, just pointing out I don't think its quite as easy as you made it out to be.

1 minute ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Over 90% of players are working to improve right now. It’s nothing special 

But how many are wearing cool swag sunglasses???

 

29 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

I might be a Flacco Wacko -- but I'll be damned if I'm just gonna sit here and let your "pathetic hate" ruin my day.

Sorry, I just remembered it's a message board -- yes, I will just sit here -- but I don't have to like it .... 

55 minutes ago, hputenis said:

This hype vid popped up on my bleacher report app about 30 minutes after reading this.  😂

 

 

 

 

Who the hell has "Legend” tatted on their back?! 

4 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

A couple questions...

A) How much of 2021 cap did they have to move into 2022+ because of COVID?

B) What did other teams do?  Are we the only team that moved ~$100 million of cap into later years?

Only 14 teams were over the cap before the start of the 2021 league year.

10 teams had 15 million or more in cap space.

Even if Covid had not happened, and the cap had been around the 195-200 million it should have been this year, Eagles would still have been 35 million over the cap and would still had to have done the majority of what they did.  And no matter the cap, Eagles would have still been in the bottom 5 of the league in cap space this year.

1 minute ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

Who the hell has "Legend” tatted on their back?! 

Quez

17 minutes ago, pallidrone said:

The cap will not stay at $208 next year

False

https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-nflpa-agree-to-208-2m-salary-cap-ceiling-for-2022-season#:~:text=NFL%2C NFLPA agree to %24208.2M salary cap ceiling for 2022 season,-Published%3A May 26&text=The NFL's path back to,Network's Tom Pelissero reported Wednesday.

The league and the NFL Players Association have agreed to a salary cap ceiling of $208.2 million for 2022, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reported Wednesday. Pelissero noted that there is not currently an agreed-to cap floor and that the final cap figure will not be set until next February.

8 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The cap absolutely will stay at $208 next year. That is what the NFL and NFLPA agreed to be the ceiling because of their agreement for 2021 to have a floor.

If you want to get rid of Slay then you only have 3 starting players left on Defense under contract (Cox, Graham, Hargrave). They also can't just renegotiate Kelce's contract. It's automatically voiding and the dead money has to count against the cap. They will probably designate it a post 6/1 but that's about all they can do besides extending him.

I do think they will be in better cap shape compared to 2021, just pointing out I don't think its quite as easy as you made it out to be.

But how many are wearing cool swag sunglasses???

I completely missed that. TY.

As for Slay, he was an example but they have other older players that would help with the cap. My main point is that it is not dire straights as people want to make it out to be. It never has been. The Eagles have two major issues - investing in players that either dont fit or are injury prone and drafting players to fit what they do.

Bills ‘close to a deal’ for Zach Ertz, says Eagles play-by-play man

Updated 1:16 PM; Today 1:16 PM

https://www.syracuse.com/buffalo-bills/2021/06/bills-close-to-a-deal-for-zach-ertz-says-eagles-play-by-play-man.html

1 hour ago, NCiggles said:

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article252439933.html

Glad I moved from North Raleigh.  

F that and anyone who keeps pet venomous snakes. If that snake bites and kills someone the owners should get a murder charge. 

40 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Quez

Reminds me of Andrew Quarless having Gods Gift on his triceps 

13 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Are we talking about Ben Simmons?  Oh.....nevermind.  

 

Quick, someone take 20 second video of me taking BP.  I'm making a comeback.  

That would look terrible. Can you hit a baseball further than ESP?

50 minutes ago, dawkdaballhawk said:

Bills ‘close to a deal’ for Zach Ertz, says Eagles play-by-play man

Updated 1:16 PM; Today 1:16 PM

https://www.syracuse.com/buffalo-bills/2021/06/bills-close-to-a-deal-for-zach-ertz-says-eagles-play-by-play-man.html

I'll be thrilled with a 6th rounder.

Word out of DC is Dyami Brown looks like a man among boys.  He's a guy I was hoping the Eagles would target in the middle rounds.  Another of those situations where I hate players that I really liked in college going to teams I hate.

If they can protect Fitzpatrick and let him just manage the offense while having an average running game, that team is going to be good.  I really don't know who the Eagles have that are going to cover the NFCE WRs.

5 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

I'll be thrilled with a 6th rounder.

Their 6th rounder this year was pick #213.  Not sure if "thrilled" would be the word I'd use, but at least it would be done with and some salary would be freed up.

4 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

Word out of DC is Dyami Brown looks like a man among boys.  He's a guy I was hoping the Eagles would target in the middle rounds.  Another of those situations where I hate players that I really liked in college going to teams I hate.

If they can protect Fitzpatrick and let him just manage the offense while having an average running game, that team is going to be good.  I really don't know who the Eagles have that are going to cover the NFCE WRs.

Training camp hasn't begun yet, so perhaps he's actually competing against boys:

 

Just now, Alphagrand said:

Training camp hasn't begun yet, so perhaps he's actually competing against boys:

 

LOL, I know but I think he's going to be a better pro than Terry McLaurin and he's already pretty darn good.  

1 minute ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

You would have said this about Brown no matter what.  Weren’t you the one beating the drum for him all winter?  Like to a stalker degree.  
 

And nothing matters until pads and real football starts.  

No, I was responsible for the Kyle Pitts bandwagon starting.  I definitely wanted Brown but there was no drum beating all winter for him.

Fire Howie

That is all