1 hour ago, ManuManu said:

Live look at Howie's reaction after signing the contract:

 

 

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

 

I’m kind of glad about this. He’s one of three guys I really want in R1. Hopefully this helps him be guaranteed available at 15/16/19. 

 

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

Is this supposed to mean something though?   He should have been escorted out of the building with Doug... as many GMs are when their HC flops, the GM takes the fall with them.  Not here though, the GM stays ever present, even though the crappy roster left behind is the fault of the GM, not the HC.  But hey, we were the recipients of the weakest schedule and took advantage of the really low class of the NFL, and limped to the playoffs as the token 7 seed to increase money to the league through an extra playoff game.  (Both the 7 seeds were thoroughly embarrassed by the 2 seed, but that won't mean that the tournament will be shrunk to 7... on the contrary, it will likely be expanded to 8 and then even the 1 seed will lose a bye opportunity.  Or... they'll put a 'play-in game' between 7 and 8 on a Thursday night at the end of the season and then have them play again on the Monday Night of WC week.  More gamez = more moneyz!  

 

They really are going to kill the golden goose with all this greed.

Extending your GM is normally a good idea because it means they'll care about the long view. You don't want short-term GM modes.
There is no salary cap for GMs, so if we have another awful 2020like year, there's a good chance Howie still goes despite the extension (see Pederson).

It doesn't really matter.

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

Can successfully kicked.  

 

- Last year's draft was awesome.

- He absolutely robbed the Colts in the Wentz trade.

- The draft capital he has accumulated has us in a good position to rebuild.

But none of that means a damn if he can't find a franchise QB within the next 12-15 months.

If he delivers on that, he will be the GM for a while to come, if he doesn't, his days are numbered despite this extension.

4 minutes ago, RLC said:

Extending your GM is normally a good idea because it means they'll care about the long view. You don't want short-term GM modes.
There is no salary cap for GMs, so if we have another awful 2020like year, there's a good chance Howie still goes despite the extension (see Pederson).

It doesn't really matter.

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

BTW... Howie's been in short-term GM mode since the Super Bowl, and hasn't changed that yet.  Kelce's contract is just another example of kicking the can down the road.  Lots of dead money will follow that little peach.   Great to have Kelce back, but this contract 'extension' to Kelce is just a result of the terrible extension structure in the last one he gave to Kelce.  

1 minute ago, D-Shiznit said:

- Last year's draft was awesome.

- He absolutely robbed the Colts in the Wentz trade.

- The draft capital he has accumulated has us in a good position to rebuild.

But none of that means a damn if he can't find a franchise QB within the next 12-15 months.

If he delivers on that he will be the GM for a while to come, if he doesn't, his days are numbered despite this extension.

Agreed with this. Last year’s draft…so far, looks pretty good. Definitely bent Ballard over the table. But to me this is a franchise changing draft. His legacy depends on this one more than any one before it. 

1 hour ago, ManuManu said:

Good morning, my fellow Bloggers. How do you do?

 

The Eagles got their guy 

2 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

BTW... Howie's been in short-term GM mode since the Super Bowl, and hasn't changed that yet.  Kelce's contract is just another example of kicking the can down the road.  Lots of dead money will follow that little peach.   Great to have Kelce back, but this contract 'extension' to Kelce is just a result of the terrible extension structure in the last one he gave to Kelce.  

There are many, many valid criticisms of Howie. His Kelce contracts are not one of them. He's paying a top 3 C and future HOFamer. It's no an issue.

 

 

7 minutes ago, RLC said:

Extending your GM is normally a good idea because it means they'll care about the long view. You don't want short-term GM modes.
There is no salary cap for GMs, so if we have another awful 2020like year, there's a good chance Howie still goes despite the extension (see Pederson).

It doesn't really matter.

He's picked and thrown under the bus two head coaches, his drafting in early rounds is so wayward he might as well be pinning his draft board to a wall and throwing darts at it and in Jalen Reagor includes the most egregious failure of scouting in the NFL of the last 5 years. We're trying to rebuild the roster, one of the few players that would command a lot of interest is Fletcher Cox at 31 but he has a contract that would cost us $41million in dead money to trade him this year and still $28million next year, Brandon Graham is 34 coming off a ruptured achilles and it would cost us $26.5million to get rid of him this year.

This crap should matter and would matter to a franchise that's well run.

 

10 minutes ago, RLC said:

There are many, many valid criticisms of Howie. His Kelce contracts are not one of them. He's paying a top 3 C and future HOFamer. It's no an issue.

Nah.  Rather than going with the simple answer, give him money for this year and not have it stretch into the future (remember all the money he supposedly freed up to allow the Eagles to be players in the free agency game... ) he chose to lower Kelce's cap number for 2021... and then he has to either take a $15M hit in 2022 if Kelce walks away after next year, or $10M in 2023.    

Like I've said, he's unwilling to take the medicine now and always wants to push it to the future, hence the 'short-term' GM moves.  Nothing has changed.  His extension didn't make him look more long-term (aka, make sure that the dead cap hits of the future are minimal, but instead is focusing on keeping the cap hits NOW to the minimum, because he's still paying for the previous kicks of the can with Alshon, M. Jackson, Flacco, Kerrigan, etc. )    

 

My criticism is not of a single transaction, like bringing back Kelce and freeing up a little space for this year... my criticism is that this single transaction follows the exact same pattern of previous moves that created the problem the Eagles are currently in.   The STRUCTURE, not the player, is my criticism.  You need to separate the two to evaluate whether my criticism is valid.

3 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

Dead cap champions!

21 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Nah.  Rather than going with the simple answer, give him money for this year and not have it stretch into the future (remember all the money he supposedly freed up to allow the Eagles to be players in the free agency game... ) he chose to lower Kelce's cap number for 2021... and then he has to either take a $15M hit in 2022 if Kelce walks away after next year, or $10M in 2023.    

Like I've said, he's unwilling to take the medicine now and always wants to push it to the future, hence the 'short-term' GM moves.  Nothing has changed.  His extension didn't make him look more long-term (aka, make sure that the dead cap hits of the future are minimal, but instead is focusing on keeping the cap hits NOW to the minimum, because he's still paying for the previous kicks of the can with Alshon, M. Jackson, Flacco, Kerrigan, etc. )    

 

My criticism is not of a single transaction, like bringing back Kelce and freeing up a little space for this year... my criticism is that this single transaction follows the exact same pattern of previous moves that created the problem the Eagles are currently in.   The STRUCTURE, not the player, is my criticism.  You need to separate the two to evaluate whether my criticism is valid.

And your criticisms continue to be ridiculous and only expose you as someone who cannot understand things past a superficial level.  There's a reason that most teams are following the Eagles lead when it comes to contract structuring but of course you are smarter than the dozens of people NFL teams collectively employ to maximize the cap.  Cap space rolls over and because cap continues to increase, a cap dollar today is worth more than a cap dollar tomorrow.  Like if you have a mortgage of $500k and the bank says to you that you can either pay all $500k today or five years from now you can also pay $500k - no interest.  I hope you can understand why everyone would take the latter option and perhaps with a few more lessons you will be to apply these simple economic concepts to the NFL salary cap.

1 hour ago, greend said:

I see we signed Howie to 3 more years. Lurie is a fool, Howie has some kind of dirt on him, or he's senile. Here's to 3 more years of meh

That is my expectation. .500 or a little better but never a threat post season.

That was cheap. 

2 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

That was cheap. 

Achilles.

12 hours ago, downundermike said:

Howie

And rewarded for that effort with a new 3 year contract.

 

18 hours ago, Texas Eagle said:

 

How exactly is a player on a right of refusal tender trade able?

1 minute ago, BigEFly said:

How exactly is a player on a right of refusal tender trade able?

He signs the tender and gets traded.