Eagles keep signing players

[jujoboys]

I'm not sure how all of these contracts will affect them going forward but they have a ton of cap space committed to voided contract years. In other words, in the next 4 years there is a lot of cap space dedicated to players that aren't under contract.

2025 $56 million cap space on voided contracts
2026 $97 million cap space on voided contracts
2027 $87 million cap space on voided contracts
2028 $23 million cap space on voided contract

In 2026 they only have 15 players under contract and they have $250 million in cap liabilities because of all the players that aren't under contract but have cap hits for voided contract years.

 

[jterrell]

If they didn’t have Brown he would get more looks… he is a dam good wr and is a #1 on most teams

Smith is a really good route runner with solid hands and great quickness.
But he has done zero as a WR1 and paying him 25M AAV without seeing that while your WR1 is stepping back is far less than ideal.
Smith is getting well over 100 targets a season so that's not really holding him back.
Drawing the top coverage guy is a very real issue and most guys who are plus WR2s don't excel when that happens.
See Dallas' Brandin Cooks.

Smith is good but he is 170 to 180 pounds even now after NFL training and off-seasons.
Like Cooks he has physical limitations built in with those otherworldly traits to his game.

 

[jterrell]

This isn’t WR1 money anymore, it was 3 years ago, but the cap has gone up like crazy since then. Lamb, JJ, Chase are all gonna get over 30m. Higgins, Waddle, Ridley, Aiyuk will all sign around was Devonta got. This is top end WR2 money for the best deep ball hands in the nfl

My dude it is 4th right now in AAV at WR. Amonst ALL WRs.
30M is the highest in the league and yes top 10 guys will get or surpass that but 25M AAV is a long way off of WR2 money.

Jeudy just got 17.5M to be WR2.
Godwin considered the best WR2 in football for a few years got 20M

Smith is a heck of a player but that is an overpay unless he can grow into WR1.
Its especially an overpay if you want to build run first.

Part of why the Eagles made that move is they have an out on AJ Brown after this season.
Can wipe 45M of contracts over the next 2 season by releasing him after this upcoming season.
Expect him to pout the way Amari did in Dallas.

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

My dude it is 4th right now in AAV at WR. Amonst ALL WRs.
30M is the highest in the league and yes top 10 guys will get or surpass that but 25M AAV is a long way off of WR2 money.

Jeudy just got 17.5M to be WR2.
Godwin considered the best WR2 in football for a few years got 20M

Smith is a heck of a player but that is an overpay unless he can grow into WR1.
Its especially an overpay if you want to build run first.

Part of why the Eagles made that move is they have an out on AJ Brown after this season.
Can wipe 45M of contracts over the next 2 season by releasing him after this upcoming season.
Expect him to pout the way Amari did in Dallas.

Jeudy got 17.5 as a middling #2. Smith and everyone other #2 worth their salt should clear him easily.

Devonta’s contract is fourth right now because no one else is paid. It is 4th amongst previous contracts signed in 2020-2022. By training camp he’ll be hanging on to the top 10 by a thread, and there will be at least 1 receiver making 8-10 more per season. But that’s only how it appears, his is a futures contract. It doesn’t start until 2026, and by then the top guys will be making 35-40m. Bit different than, say, CeeDee, who’ll sign for 32m$-ish that starts in the 2025 season.

And AJ isn’t going anywhere. He doesn’t whine like Amari and he’s already stated he’s prepared to take less

 

[jterrell]

Jeudy got 17.5 as a middling #2. Smith and everyone other #2 worth their salt should clear him easily.

Devonta’s contract is fourth right now because no one else is paid. It is 4th amongst previous contracts signed in 2020-2022. By training camp he’ll be hanging on to the top 10 by a thread, and there will be at least 1 receiver making 8-10 more per season. But that’s only how it appears, his is a futures contract. It doesn’t start until 2026, and by then the top guys will be making 35-40m. Bit different than, say, CeeDee, who’ll sign for 32m$-ish that starts in the 2025 season.

And AJ isn’t going anywhere. He doesn’t whine like Amari and he’s already stated he’s prepared to take less

My man, AJ Brown was a mess last year and had sideline tantrums then went media silent.
He was so angry at one point he ended up apologizing to teammates after the fact.

DeVonta's deal will look fine if he can be a WR1 or if the Eagles find one in the draft.
AJ isn't going to be there until 2028 that's for certain.
I seriously doubt he is there in 2025.
But DeVonta just got 51M GTD. He's gonna be there a while.

All that said, the Eagles front office is still 10x better than Dallas.
This move is just far more questionable than people pretend.

 

[Pola_pe_a]

That signing is a massive mistake.
DeVonta is a good player but he is no where near a top 10 level guy and playing as a WR1 is a massive question mark.

80 receptions, 1059.3 yards, and 6.3 touchdowns per season on average. And he ran as the number 1 as a rookie and did fine.

His deal puts him 10th in AAV in new money with a bunch more deals coming. It’s a great contract for the team.

 

[MarkP88]

This is nothing but deflection from you.

Do I think we can beat the Eagles? Sure. We've mostly split with them most years and we seem to go back and forth winning the division while the Giants and Commanders seem stuck in purgatory.

None of that changes the fact that they have been the more successful franchise over the last decade.

Over the last 10 years:

Cowboys:

5 divisional titles
3 playoff wins
Zero NFCCG
Zero SB appearances
Zero SB wins

Eagles:

3 divisional titles
6 playoff wins
Two NFCCG appearances
Two SB appearances
1 SB win

Oh and we have them head to head over that time period. By any sane person, the Eagles with their better playoff success and SB win, would consider the Eagles having a better 10 year run. Cowboys fans, the homers, are left to try to argue that head to head and divisional titles means more and that Dallas has been better. LOL.

Never mind just the last decade, go back to the Andy Reid era in the mid-2000s when they were going to Conference title games on a regular basis. They only won one of them (and then lost the Super Bowl), but they were genuine contenders year in, year out. To think we compare favorably to them over the last two decades is laughable. That is an organization that wants to win, and makes changes when they don't. As for us...well, we have "continuity."

 

[Blue&Silver]

Every year the headlines are how well the Eagles offseason went. One SB. Ever. I'm not worried

That's not the point. They've been to 2 Super Bowl's in the last 7 years and won 1. How many have we been to in the last 25 years? I think the point being made is they figured something out while we are still stuck in the mud regarding modern-day free agency maneuvering.