Eagles Talked ‘Real Money’ with Pro Bowl WR: Report

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Eagles Talked ‘Real Money’ with Pro Bowl WR: Report

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• By Mike Greger

• Updated Jul 15, 2022 at 12:38pm

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Allen Robinson

Wide receivers were flying off the shelves at ridiculous prices when free agency opened in mid-March. The Philadelphia Eagles were thought to be in serious conversation with a few of the top targets but decided not to break the bank.

Instead, the Eagles executed a draft-night trade for A.J. Brown. Which ended up costing them a team-friendly $100 million; yes, general manager Howie Roseman masterfully structured Brown’s deal. He’ll earn a $986,000 base salary in 2022 with a potential out in 2025. It was a stroke of good fortune and perfect timing.

Philadelphia’s top target was Calvin Ridley until an investigation into his alleged sports gambling blew that trade up. The deal was done until the league handed him an indefinite suspension. But the Eagles had a Plan B and his name was Allen Robinson. Not Christian Kirk or D.J. Chark. 

According to Inside the Birds’ Adam Caplan, they had productive talks with Robinson and talked "real money.” Then the Los Angeles Rams swooped in with a three-year, $46.5 million deal. That was too rich for the Eagles. Caplan wrote the following:

After Calvin Ridley [trade fell through], it was going to be Allen Robinson. They were in pretty good, we had heard, but the Rams blew him out of the water. I would not say that the Robinson deal was close, but they talked real money. They were never in it for [Christian] Kirk because, like every team, when they had heard what his agent thought he was getting, they were never in. The Eagles have had, and every NFL team has done this, dozens of players in free agency over the years where they target a guy, then find out what the guy wants and end the discussion.

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Howie Roseman Climbs Up Top GM List

NBC Sports Edge’s Patrick Daugherty recently ranked all the general managers in football – well, 27 of them since the league saw five new hires – and Howie Roseman was pretty high up the list. The Eagles top executive held down the No. 8 spot for the way he cleaned up Chip Kelly’s mess and won a Super Bowl. The way he has handled a short rebuild following the Carson Wentz trade earned him extra points, too.

"If [Jalen] Hurts lacks a second gear, Roseman has left himself well positioned to find his replacement with another pair of 2023 first-rounders,” Daugherty wrote. "Roseman is a whirlwind, but one that has made the playoffs four times in five years and has a Lombardi Trophy to show for it.”

 

Hurts Looking Jacked in Workout Photos

It’s the time of the year when players share eye-popping photos from their offseason workouts. Lane Johnson does it all the time. Ditto for Brandon Graham and A.J. Brown.

But the biggest gains might be from Jalen Hurts who looks jacked with lean muscle. His biceps are bulging and veins exploding in a new Instagram post. Yes, Hurts appears ready for the start of training camp on July 26.

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[Rob331]

4 hours ago, time2rock said:

Eagles Talked ‘Real Money’ with Pro Bowl WR: Report

No kidding.

At the end of the day I'd rather have Brown

[UK_EaglesFan89]

I think in the end we got a much better player so it worked out. 

[EaglesAddict]

Ultimately I'm fine with how it shook out...Brown is 4 years younger than Robinson so we should get a much better ROI.  That said, I thought ARob would have been a solid addition for at least the next 2-3 years.  We could have used pick 18 on a number of players.  We won't know this answer for a while, but the question would be: Would we be better off with ARob + a player like George Karlaftis, Jermaine Johnson, Lewis Cine, Daxton Hill or Trent McDuffie?

[time2rock]

22 minutes ago, EaglesAddict said:

Ultimately I'm fine with how it shook out...Brown is 4 years younger than Robinson so we should get a much better ROI.  That said, I thought ARob would have been a solid addition for at least the next 2-3 years.  We could have used pick 18 on a number of players.  We won't know this answer for a while, but the question would be: Would we be better off with ARob + a player like George Karlaftis, Jermaine Johnson, Lewis Cine, Daxton Hill or Trent McDuffie?

In agreement with liking how things worked out and was also on the ARob bandwagon, but I do wonder how much we would have had to pay him (can only assume it wouldn't have been as much as we did Brown) had we elected to go that route.  If we had, I likely would have been hoping to find a trade partner for 18 to move down to late 1st and pick up an extra 2nd in the process, especially after coughing up 3 picks to move up for Davis.  But all in all, I feel pretty good about the additions we made to the roster.  

[EaglesAddict]

4 hours ago, time2rock said:

In agreement with liking how things worked out and was also on the ARob bandwagon, but I do wonder how much we would have had to pay him (can only assume it wouldn't have been as much as we did Brown) had we elected to go that route.  If we had, I likely would have been hoping to find a trade partner for 18 to move down to late 1st and pick up an extra 2nd in the process, especially after coughing up 3 picks to move up for Davis.  But all in all, I feel pretty good about the additions we made to the roster.  

That would have been nice too.  But, if Brown balls out for the next 4-6 years, I suppose it won't matter.  Unless, of course, if ARob blows up, Brown is mediocre (or injured) and one or two of the players "we could have had" blows up too. TATE's worst nightmare, lol