DeCamara & Ritchie debate: Roseman's involvement in game planning

[time2rock]

DeCamara & Ritchie debate: Roseman's involvement in game planning

Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon revealed this week that Eagles general manager Howie Roseman is involved in the team's game plan.

Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie debated whether that is a concern, with DeCamara saying he is "OK with it," while Ritchie believes it is negatively impacting the football team.

"He controls personnel acquisition, not personnel deployment," Ritchie said. "Stay in your lane. Too many cooks in the kitchen, spoil the broth, especially when the cooking we're talking about is coaching football and the extra cook is an accountant by trade.

"I am worried about this concept," Ritchie continued. "This was always a suspicion. Howie and Jeffrey [Lurie] over stepping."

"Howie Roseman is in fact an accomplished football guy," DeCamara replied. "You referred to Howie Roseman about five minutes ago as an accountant by trade...Howie Roseman is an accomplished football guy. He's been a successful general manager. His team, as the GM, won the Super Bowl."

Here's the exact quote from Gannon earlier this week on Roseman's involvement, causing a bit of a stir in the media.

"We set up the game plan a certain way and say, 'Hey we want to come out of the game kind of looking like this,' right? And we do that with the head coach and Howie."

https://www.audacy.com/94wip/sports/eagles/jon-ritchie-worried-about-howie-rosemans-involvement

[nipples]

It’s such a non-story that’s being extremely overblown. Just because Gannon goes over their gameplan with Howie does not mean that he is making decisions or being involved in X’s and O’s.

It makes sense to let them GM know the game plan. Howie is ultimately responsible for adding players they need to execute the game plan. For example, if Gannon is planning on running a lot of 3-4 looks in the game, then maybe it makes sense to call up Taylor from the practice squad so they have an extra linebacker on gameday. 
 

The bottom of the roster is very fluid. The GM needs to know what the coaches are planning on focusing so he knows who needs to be on the roster to execute. 

[time2rock]

@nipples hit the nail on the head

[UK_EaglesFan89]

Got to say I don't really see the issue here. I'm sure a lot of GMs are involved with the coaches etc because it's surely got to be a joined up approach? If it isn't then you end up with a roster that's built which doesn't fit the scheme. Howie and his coaches should be working together all year. Just like in the offseason Sirianni, Gannon etc should be involved in personnel decisions to some extent. 

[Rob331]

On 9/15/2022 at 8:23 AM, time2rock said:

Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon revealed this week that Eagles general manager Howie Roseman is involved in the team's game plan.

He did not. He said Howie was there in the meetings. 

Richie has always been a negadelphia media member and has historically been very negatively biased towards the Eagles coaches and front office. This wasn't an issie and Richis tried to make one out of an obscure comment by Gannon at a news conference.