Hawkeye0202
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I know it's the Eagles but let's be honest, these questions/answers could greatly impact our season.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/02/13/super-bowl-57-takeaways-eagles-chiefs-mmqb
Handling Jalen Hurts’s contract sits atop the list of the Eagles’ top orders of business this offseason. Because Hurts was a second-round pick, there’s no fifth-year option, and no resulting cushion for Philly to lean on should the Eagles and Hurts struggle to find common ground on a new contract. That means there’s more pressure on the team to do something, and avoid turning this into a Kirk Cousins or Dak Prescott situation (where nonfirst-round QBs played on franchise tags).
One thing we know is Howie Roseman’s Eagles will be creative in trying to find a solution to this “problem” (it’s a caviar problem, for sure), and that’ll probably mean looking at a few different models for negotiating a quarterback deal. Are the Eagles comfortable that Hurts’s game is sustainable enough for the team to seek a Mahomes-type of structure? Or are they good with giving him a shorter-term deal that’d carry an average per year around what Russell Wilson ($49 million) and Kyler Murray ($46.1 million) got last year?
These are open questions, for now. Here are three more Philly faces this offseason …
1) Will Jason Kelce, Brandon Graham and Fletcher Cox return? One thing the Eagles have that’s unique is two 10-plus-year linemen on each side of the ball. Nick Sirianni has said those four (Kelce, Cox, Graham and Lane Johnson) are the foundation of the team. Three are free agents, and cap space figures to be tighter. I’m sure all four would be welcomed back. The question is whether the Eagles can make it work, and who in the group may mull retirement.
2) How will the Eagles manage their secondary? This is another area where there’s potential instability, with James Bradberry, C.J. Gardner-Johnson and Marcus Epps (three of the four DBs to play more than 90% of the snaps in the NFC title game) among the guys at those spots set to hit free agency. Also, the Eagles haven’t used a top-100 pick on a defensive back in six years. So this could be a year where you see some of Roseman’s aggression directed toward the secondary.
3) How will they rework Nick Sirianni’s staff? There’s a good chance the Eagles will lose both coordinators this week (we’ll get to that). Both Johnson and Patullo would be in play to replace Shane Steichen as offensive coordinator, but Johnson’s likely going to have options elsewhere, as well. And on defense, my sense is Vic Fangio would have been the top choice to replace Jonathan Gannon, but he’s already agreed to terms with the Dolphins. So there definitely will be some level of shakeup in a staff that’s been an organizational strength since Sirianni arrived two years ago.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/02/13/super-bowl-57-takeaways-eagles-chiefs-mmqb
Handling Jalen Hurts’s contract sits atop the list of the Eagles’ top orders of business this offseason. Because Hurts was a second-round pick, there’s no fifth-year option, and no resulting cushion for Philly to lean on should the Eagles and Hurts struggle to find common ground on a new contract. That means there’s more pressure on the team to do something, and avoid turning this into a Kirk Cousins or Dak Prescott situation (where nonfirst-round QBs played on franchise tags).
One thing we know is Howie Roseman’s Eagles will be creative in trying to find a solution to this “problem” (it’s a caviar problem, for sure), and that’ll probably mean looking at a few different models for negotiating a quarterback deal. Are the Eagles comfortable that Hurts’s game is sustainable enough for the team to seek a Mahomes-type of structure? Or are they good with giving him a shorter-term deal that’d carry an average per year around what Russell Wilson ($49 million) and Kyler Murray ($46.1 million) got last year?
These are open questions, for now. Here are three more Philly faces this offseason …
1) Will Jason Kelce, Brandon Graham and Fletcher Cox return? One thing the Eagles have that’s unique is two 10-plus-year linemen on each side of the ball. Nick Sirianni has said those four (Kelce, Cox, Graham and Lane Johnson) are the foundation of the team. Three are free agents, and cap space figures to be tighter. I’m sure all four would be welcomed back. The question is whether the Eagles can make it work, and who in the group may mull retirement.
2) How will the Eagles manage their secondary? This is another area where there’s potential instability, with James Bradberry, C.J. Gardner-Johnson and Marcus Epps (three of the four DBs to play more than 90% of the snaps in the NFC title game) among the guys at those spots set to hit free agency. Also, the Eagles haven’t used a top-100 pick on a defensive back in six years. So this could be a year where you see some of Roseman’s aggression directed toward the secondary.
3) How will they rework Nick Sirianni’s staff? There’s a good chance the Eagles will lose both coordinators this week (we’ll get to that). Both Johnson and Patullo would be in play to replace Shane Steichen as offensive coordinator, but Johnson’s likely going to have options elsewhere, as well. And on defense, my sense is Vic Fangio would have been the top choice to replace Jonathan Gannon, but he’s already agreed to terms with the Dolphins. So there definitely will be some level of shakeup in a staff that’s been an organizational strength since Sirianni arrived two years ago.
