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He wasn't double teamed in the playoffs....You think DJax is the cog in the machine. I don't. He's is not the reason Shady and Cooper ALSO had career years. That's that.
You can grab that cap space whenever you want. His remaining contract is essentially not guaranteed. Only 750k for this year is guaranteed and 0 for 2015/2016. From this point on he serves at the mercy of the Philadelphia Eagles. With FA all but over, the question is do you care if Lurie saves $10m this year. It doesn't affect the cap, it only affects the owner's pocketbook. The tradeoff still stands - devote that 1st to defense or to replacing what you lost when you kicked DeSean out the door.
The dead money happens regardless if he is traded or cut. The Eagles owe him the signing bonus (not the 9ers or Panthers), and it is their prorated debt regardless.
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10M in cap space. Awesome! What good is cap space if you don't use it. The Eagles are currently 17M UNDER the cap.
Yup. Jackson got a 10M signing bonus, pro-rated over 5 years. The Eagles would have eat 6M of that this year if traded.
I get that. You can cut/trade him for a one time hit of 6M (the dead money) this season or play him 29.5M over 3 years.
I don't have time to watch it but going by his stats I'm guessing they figured out how to handle him - he only hit 60 yards in 1 of the last 6 games (including the playoff game against the Saints). That one was a big one though against the Cowboys. The Saints held him to 3 for 53 yards - didn't do much outside of the 40 yard catch.
Or choice D. Call his bluff and ignore him. He has no power here and unlike when he was getting underpaid for a bad team, he has money in the bank and incentive to keep playing good to get more of that money. This to me is just a dull offseason story that's getting blown out of proportion because of who Djax is.
As the 2013 season drew to a close, I remember thinking that the Eagles would probably look to redo DeSean's deal, just to lower his cap number in advance of their free agent shopping. I thought maybe they would convert his 2014 salary to a bonus, allowing them to prorate the cap hit while netting him more guaranteed cash. But once he opened his mouth, any chance of that went out the window. Can't let the inmates run the asylum. Even now, I don't believe they have any intention of trading him, but are just letting him dangle a bit as retribution for his shenanigans. Let him hear the branch creak, then pull him back into the fold and insist that the whole situation was a media fabrication. Whatever is going on, I hope it gets resolved soon.
The dangle with a 3rd rd comp leak is a ploy, a backhanded slap like I mentioned earlier. It's a "Settle down son we made you we'd trade you" kind of thing. I love that our coach is too busy at pro days to address his petulance.
It could be blown out of proportion, which I agree, but at the sametime it is very reasonable. Reporters are clawing at each other to break this story during a slow news cycle. Even if I didn't agree with the content I know some of the mainstream guys wouldn't be so irresponsible with their rep. We were just speculating. That's fine and dandy for a internet forum. Some one had to hear something from a reliable source for this much chatter to occur. I wouldn't be shocked if they were sick of dealing with DeSean, felt his was replaceable, or overpaid. The A answer is one I haven't even considered. He had a great season. Can you count on him again? Will he even play the same? Where was that production at most of your career? There is no Vick and Avant to keep him in check when he's throwing a tantrum.Insein said:
Nah. Better chance of Farmer coming back to play here again. We do need a LB...
Nice listen.
Rob Bironas! WOOO!!!!!!!!!
Eskin was on NFL Network and oretty much said the Eagles would do a trade but not until closer to the draft. He said the Eagles arent shopping him now but they wouldnt be anyway since the draft is so far away. He mentioned the 3 as the starting point and used the Brandon Marsjhall trade as his example. He went on to mention the people who say "how are you going to replace his production" by adding that Sproles caught 70 balls and played some WR as well as the return or Maclin.
Thanks. First, I have to get past my hatred for Eskin ;-) I'll echo what a lot of others have said - if they go WR early the draft that means they aren't drafting defense. And their biggest weakness is defense. And as big of an offensive weapon as Sproles can be, I doubt he lines up at WR for the majority of his snaps. They still need someone to stretch the field or else everyone else becomes less effective.
Bull. You guys sign Bironas and it's all in baby! Championship or bust. I'm not jesting.
All I want with them addressing the kicker situation is to bring in like 10 after the draft and sign the best one.
Really? Didn't know that. I do know he's been pretty good at those long FG's though... Seems odd he'd be good at those and bad at touchback%.
Championships are not won with WRs and if he is gone it's not like the cupboard is bare there anyway. I trust Kelly to devise plenty of schemes to score sufficiently. I'd rather have a locker room united with one goal, not fragmented by his idiocy.
I don't care what was asked of him, telling the press he wants a contract renegotiation 2 days after losing a playoff game when he's due to make $10mil and in no danger of being cut sealed it for me. Non essential position. See ya.
Eagles have already paid quite a few guys big money this offseason. They're handing out checks for team players.
Just like NE, pay up for the O-Line and QB.
Yeah, pretty unforgivable. And you have a coach that knows his offense can score, and that free agent receivers will wanna play there. Great time to send a message, little addition by subtraction.Really a bummer, he makes every offense better, when he's on.
