I agree, Hurts is a big part of that. But they also haven’t sat still with more aggressive moves.
Riskier moves would include moving in the draft to land better picks or picks you truly want instead of sitting there waiting for it to come to you.
While our drafts have been better in recent years we still have had enough misses on early picks especially on defense this era which has limited more success.
If Bland is going to be the method you can’t just hit it big on 1 draft pick a year while little activity in FA. That doesn’t do enough to keep up with Cap casualties.
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Eagles have no sat on their hands. They are aggressive. Constantly moving. AS much crap as I give Howie about his drafting he does a great job at using the cap and getting out from bad deals and bad players. Can't take that from him.
But how he operates and how Dallas operates is totally different. I'm not entirely sure if one is the correct approach and one isn't. ITS easy to say that because they were in the SB last year but Cowboys are right there with them as a team. They on 12 games in spite of losing their franchise QB for 5 games. So that alone says we have a good thing going here. Eagles when they lost Hurts didn't look nearly as competent.
WE've tried the aggressive approach before. It didn't work out for us. This approach seems to work better for what Dallas does.
Let's give this team their due. They do a good job of finding diamond in the roughs. They found Kearse. Gave Malik Hooker a shot when most didn't. Donovan Wilson in the 6th round. Bland in the 5th. Lawrence in a trade up in the 2nd. Diggs in the 2nd round. Micah Parsons was a risk that many teams didn't want to take because they just saw him as a linebacker.
The moves are different but they are just as good as what the Eagles have done.
