Blow this thing up!

[big dog cowboy]

Eagles blew it up and won a super bowl.

When did that happen?

 

[CCBoy]

When did that happen?

Supposedly when Reid was fired. What did he ever do?

 

[75boyz]

When did that happen?

When you cut/trade your no. 2 overall pick QB and take the biggest salary cap hit in history at the time, most, or at the very least some, would consider this a version of blowing it up.

 

[Kingofholland]

Then do your research.

Different definitions of tanking, I don't believe trading away Reddick was necessarily a blowup move. They got good value for some players they moved, but it was more of a retooling than blowup rebuild.

Again I've never been a fan of a team blowup unless it's clear you have an old roster that's not competitive.

 

[CCBoy]

When you cut/trade your no. 2 overall pick QB and take the biggest salary cap hit in history at the time, most, or at the very least some, would consider this a version of blowing it up.

Reid didn't do anything for the Eagles...just compare results since, right?

 

[Rayman70]

Just watched a clip of Micah being interviewed by Todd Archer. Micah basically said he'd take less. But his tone was that of a made man. Like he has arrived or achieved something. I'm not rewarding or giving a pay raise for average play. One time, in a huge game is it too much to ask for a game changing play?

 

[Redline360]

Everything should have been blown up after the GB loss. Dak should have never been extended, I wanted to move on from Diggs, Lance trade was useless, got everything we could for Lamb.

Should have dumped / ate contracts to build around Parsons. Build the trenches and superior D. Could sign a duo of serviceable/ above average rbs for fairly cheap. Even servicble WRs for a year or two can come faily cheap. Hell even start Lance till we rebuild.

We have seen the better front offices rebuild teams into a 2-3 years span after dumping bad contracts, not resigning and overpaying for "we like our guys" approach, dumping aging stars. Oh wait we have Jerry

 

[blueblood70]

We're talking about extending parsons... we are stuck with the highest paid QB that will never ever win. Ever! In a Qb league.
We have more holes that need repairing than NY pot holes.
Blow this whole thing up and accumulate draft picks, this circus needs to come to a end.

Dude you're so far off base this whole shock value nonsense just say whatever is the craziest thing it's supposed to become popular and people are gonna pat you on the back? If they were gonna do this they should've never signed lamb order Prescott last year but once you signed lamb we knew Prescott was down the line and it's too late you don't cut players or trade them in year 1 of a new deal and that's basically what it is they may have signed last offseason but this is the first year of new money and you would end up blowing your salary cap up if you really wanna be bad how about winning three games this year three games next year and it taking about three years just to get back to hopefully winning more than nine games...

Like I said this idea was thrown around last year and I was all for it but it's too late once you go down this road and you already signed lamb and Prescott and now OSA Parsons is coming it's too late you're a year too late and you're so far off base this team is not that far away from being competitive we won seven games with a bunch of backups last year that's how much parity is in this league where you could be competitive the very next year after being somewhat bad but when you're picking 12 that means there were eleven other teams worse than you and ours was mostly because of injuries we're gonna get a lot of those guys back we're gonna fill some needs in the draft and in free agency and I don't see how it's gonna be terrible we have to be lucky with these injuries and we'd be A10 win team at least be competitive..

And I don't know what you mean never win they won 36 games in two division titles and went to the playoffs 5 out of the last eight years with this quarterback you say can't do it how about this this league needs a running back a good offensive line a good defensive line and a good coaching staff to be competitive that's what the eagles did and now they gave Saquon Barkley $20 million which I think is crazy but that shows you how much the run game is important and we didn't have one last year and that's mainly what their focus needs to be on the offensive side is getting a run game established..

You expect our quarterback to win with almost no run game look at the playoff losses the last five playoff losses I guarantee without looking it was at 3 yards per carry on average no big plays or impact plays from the run game the offensive line, no separation by the wide receivers, and also the defense sucked balls.. so maybe you want to take a step back and stop saying it's the quarterback that can never win it's the damn team and they're not far off from at least being back to ten wins which might get you a wild card..

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[blueblood70]

“We are filled with overrated, overpaid stiffs”…….”trade them and a get massive pick package”

Hmmm

exactly so they think our players are not good enough to keep and overpay but other teams would give draft picks and then pay them so this is all Jerry would be stupid to keep his guys but other people would be more stupid by using draft picks and then paying them the contracts they want because that's what would have to happen during the trade those guys would have to be open to new deals pretty much the same deals they would have got here and not wasting a draft pick on them so yes there's a fine line because fans think we have all this trade value but they're not good enough to keep...

 

[Rayman70]

Send Micah to Jacksonville. Football Siberia

 

[BoyzBlaster]

People are getting hung up on "blew up." Call it what you want The Eagles had a QB1 with a huge contract and they were also really old if I recall. They got rid of the QB, restarted with another young, HIGHLY DRAFTED QB, and turned over a chunk of the roster to get a lot younger. That is what people are starving for regardless of what you call it.

 

[conner01]

We're talking about extending parsons... we are stuck with the highest paid QB that will never ever win. Ever! In a Qb league.
We have more holes that need repairing than NY pot holes.
Blow this whole thing up and accumulate draft picks, this circus needs to come to an end.

We are well past that. If we was gonna blow it up then you play lance last year. You dump players. Well past blowing it up now. Now we need to build around what we have

 

[beware_d-ware]

Paying Dak was a mistake. You're just not going to get $60M in value out of him... Cooper Rush gave you probably 80% of Dak's play for $2M.

CeeDee was a defensible signing and he's done nothing but play out of his mind. Micah's a defensible signing at $40M/yr cause he just plays out of his mind and has a QB-ish impact on the team. Look at our defense in 2024 with and without him. I'd even say Diggs was a defensible signing. His problems have been injuries, not ability.

But Dak was an 8 year vet when we paid him, and he'd pretty much hit his ceiling. He's a technician of a QB with steeply declining physical skills, and he doesn't have the uber-quick processing needed to ball out as a weak armed pocket statue.

Now he's suffered another lower body injury, which is going to sap him of even more arm strength, and his mobility was already zero. Dude is morphing into Cooper Rush, while getting paid like Pat Mahomes. And he's got 3 more years fully guaranteed.

 

[BHendri5]

Don't blow nothing up

 

[diamonddelts]

Don't blow nothing up

Run it back JJ. Low brow Dallas fans demand MOAR.

 

[diamonddelts]

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. Dude is morphing into Cooper Rush, while getting paid like Pat Mahomes.

That is a insult to Cooper Rush. He has outplayed Dak in his last few starts.

 

[windward]

This site is a circus.

It’s a hive mind, an echo chamber of the most miserable people ever.

 

[Bullflop]

Jerry & Stephen really need to get together on their free agent strategy. One wants to consider being subjectively aggressive, while the other doesn't want to even consider it. Such stupidity! It really sounds like it's time for Jerry to step aside and permit Stephen to take the reins of this team. If they're not capable of working together, all hope is, apparently, lost. No wonder this aimless team sucks!

 

[BoyzBlaster]

When you cut/trade your no. 2 overall pick QB and take the biggest salary cap hit in history at the time, most, or at the very least some, would consider this a version of blowing it up.

Exactly why are some people even arguing about this?

 

[BoyzBlaster]

Paying Dak was a mistake. You're just not going to get $60M in value out of him... Cooper Rush gave you probably 80% of Dak's play for $2M.

CeeDee was a defensible signing and he's done nothing but play out of his mind. Micah's a defensible signing at $40M/yr cause he just plays out of his mind and has a QB-ish impact on the team. Look at our defense in 2024 with and without him. I'd even say Diggs was a defensible signing. His problems have been injuries, not ability.

But Dak was an 8 year vet when we paid him, and he'd pretty much hit his ceiling. He's a technician of a QB with steeply declining physical skills, and he doesn't have the uber-quick processing needed to ball out as a weak armed pocket statue.

Now he's suffered another lower body injury, which is going to sap him of even more arm strength, and his mobility was already zero. Dude is morphing into Cooper Rush, while getting paid like Pat Mahomes. And he's got 3 more years fully guaranteed.

Great post