Rapoport: Leonard agrees to 1-yr deal with Eagles

[Kingofholland]

Leonard would have helped with depth, but look great players don't get cut this late in the season so don't get yourself too worked up over Leonard picking the wrong team.

 

[Elusiv1]

Won't help them and that trash *** secondary!!lol...The Eagles have way more problems on that defense then Leonard to be honest!!lol

 

[nightrain]

Dallas angle, hurts alittle. But not too much. Dallas needs depth especially at LB. But for Leonard, it is a smart move.
He will not win a Superbowl with Dallas, hell, he won't even get to a NFC Conference game with the Cowboys. Even with Jerry Jones trying to sell more of his pyrite ( aka; fools gold ) to Leonard PLUS Parson trying to persuade him to come to Dallas, Leonard goes to the Eagles. DeMarcus Ware had to leave Dallas to play in a conference finals ( AFC ) and a Superbowl ( Denver ) and win a ring and eventually, like Ware, Parson will get frustrated with the Dallas organization and do what Demarcus did and leave.

Ware was released from Dallas. He would have stayed.

 

[DCowboyz]

I don’t care. He’s trash.

 

[garyv]

Who Cares....the Colts basically paid him to leave so what does that tell you

 

[EPL0c0]

As usual, "Dallas" is used as leverage to get a better deal or get taken more seriously elsewhere

Even when Dallas isn't interested, players (or agents) will float the idea of "I wanna go to Dallas. I grew up a Cowboy fan. Blah blah blah"

but Dallas very rarely signs "elite" FAs and doesn't even land non-elite FAs very often either.

Best big name FA signings ever: Deion, Owens... ?

 

[Jumbo075]

How? they are broke. 8(

5-game minimum veteran contract. That is just under $309K. Indianapolis picks up the rest of his $16.5M salary this season.

 

[AbeBeta]

Bet there are some playing time incentives involved. NFL signings are almost always about the money.

Not when there are offsets. He had this year guaranteed by the Colts.

And the reports are 1 year -- 1.08 million -- that's a minimum contact as any reasonable person would expect when someone else is paying the balance of his salary for 2023.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

We've lost our mojo.

,,,, and it was lost a loooong time ago too. Until the track record changes we're still a one and done, deer in the headlights, clown-show.

 

[Jumbo075]

As usual, "Dallas" is used as leverage to get a better deal or get taken more seriously elsewhere

Even when Dallas isn't interested, players (or agents) will float the idea of "I wanna go to Dallas. I grew up a Cowboy fan. Blah blah blah"

but Dallas very rarely signs "elite" FAs and doesn't even land non-elite FAs very often either.

Best big name FA signings ever: Deion, Owens... ?

He did not get a better deal in Philadelphia. He gets paid $16.5M this season. Period. End of story. The only question is which team picks up the tab. Both Dallas and Philadelphia offered him minimum deals, with the Colts picking up the rest of the tab for his salary in 2023. It had to do with best fit for Leonard's career goals. He'll get to play more in Philadelphia. That's the bottom line.

 

[Cowboy4ever]

Not a shocker. Him and the coach was together in Indy so they always had the leg up.

 

[Jumbo075]

Not when there are offsets. He had this year guaranteed by the Colts.

And the reports are 1 year -- 1.08 million -- that's a minimum contact as any reasonable person would expect when someone else is paying the balance of his salary for 2023.

And they only have to pay 5/17ths of that salary, since there are only 5 games left.

 

[Momanpr100]

Smart move on his part.
Better odds for a Super Bowl.

I think it would be a smart move on your part to go join them.

 

[Fmart322]

I don't understand why the Colts, still in the playoff hunt would get rid of "such a great player" in the stretch run of the season?

 

[big dog cowboy]

I cant wait to hear what stephen offered. He most likely low balled.

It wasn't about money.

 

[lwehlers]

wow i am not really surprised that leonard picked the eagles. every free agent aviods this team like the plague.

 

[akcowboy22]

I will enjoy watching him try to cover our TE's and WR's.

 

[GoldenR]

He definitely helps us right now as we have a safety playing LB. We need a LB desperately along with a DT to stop the run and nothing changes with this organization. Eagles needed help at LB and get the help they need. Were gonna have to score over 40 points a game against good teams. Both the 49ers and Eagles put up 70 points combined against this D and a guy named GENO shoulda beat this D.

 

[bigE79]

Love Doc

 

[817Gill]

My theory was he was not playing because he didn’t want to play for them. We will know with his new destination how bad or good he is

Nah, he was devastated when they cut him and in his exit press conference said he was willing to be a back up to stay.

He’s one of those pillar of the franchise retire with the same team kind of guys. Unfortunately for him his play regressed immensely with his neck and back injuries and the colts had no use paying a backup LB top dollar. Especially when they would be on the hook for his salary next year had he gotten injured in any capacity.

This is “player not as good as his contract and prime self” 101. NFL business as usual.