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Free Agency Preview w/Greg Hard | BLWB #7 Podcast Episode · Eagles Pin-Pull: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast Network · March 9 · 1h 3m

@greghartpa.bsky.social and I recorded yesterday as we Boiled the Offseason Ocean on Tampering Eve!!!

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Ps: Greg your last name is spelled wrong, will fix

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Hahah i was good with the book. It worked!!!

Personally I would not pay Phillips and just scratch the edge itch on day 2, and maybe trade for a low cost vet role player in addition.

My guess is only two years will be guaranteed when Howie makes his offer.

He’s an awesome player and don’t want to see him leave. But yes I think him leaving can be ok since we have both Ojomo and JD. If he leaves in trade, I hope they add a run stuffer or two to help in the DT rotation. They had weakness at DT4 that killed them vs the run in ‘25.

We would also have to extend Goedert in that scenario. There is zero chance of trading AJ before June unless we extend Goedert to push out his future cap hit.

Trade AJ now instead of post June1:

Extend Goedert 0.5% chance
Extend DG+trade JC 1-2%
Goedert leaves zero percent

If JC is traded, which sounds crazy and prob is just folks looking for clicks, that would free up a couple more mil to maaaaayyybe squeeze in a pre-june 1 trade of AJ right now. But it would be very tight.

The Pats 1st is likely to be better next year for sure. We have so many team needs right now, I wish we could do it now.

Unfortunately, due to our salary cap, I don’t think getting a 1st round pick for this April’s draft is in the cards and it might be best to wait to see if someone gets desperate.

You may be correct. It might be what happens. The risk in doing that is that if things go south you might no longer be able to get a first round pick and it seems like Howie might have a shot at the first round pick if he does it this off-season instead of waiting.

With young players coming up for contract extensions in a couple years, I get the desire to front load Phillips‘s cap hit.

My guess is he does not front load because there simply is not enough room under the 26 cap to do so. More of the Philips hits may come increasingly in the next 2-3 years.

Yeah, it’s a rat race to see who can say on paper who has the highest annual average salary. And that does matter, but the guarantees matter more.

And that’s why we are at where we are at with AJ. His money after this year is not guaranteed. We’ve reached an impasse.

I was wrong before when I did the math on the feasibility of trading AJ before June 1.

It is mathematically possible ONLY if we extend Goedert. But it makes managing the team in season almost impossible from a cap standpoint.

99% it happens after June 1

They are both very good. I’m may have Greg on for a free agency eve pod later today.

Ooooof dunno bout that. I’ve been told I am a know it all before, but it might have been meant a different way.😀

Same folk who disagreed w/5th year option only to be proven wrong, a year later worry about the money again.

Among DL:
3rd in run stops
4th in solo tackle
6 PDs
1 batted FG, close on others
Takes doubles well
Often eliminates 2 gaps when singled
4.5 sacks despite low 3rd down reps

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Instead of counting sheep, this is what I do to sleep at night.

That’s pretty darn close to what my plan would be tbh. Not that I have a crystal ball….more than one way to do it.

I think can get both a solid WR and a cheap edge in this draft.

The hard part for me to solve is CB2

That’s my kind of factory!!!!!

It does stink. I think it’s justifiable to go light at edge cap dollars and pay Ojomo. But I doubt Howie looks at it that way.

It would be nice. I doubt they extend all 3 of him, JC, and JD. So Ojomo may be odd man out. He may be the next Milton Williams comp pick.

This is Ojomo’s last year. They unfortunately cannot 5th yr option him like they did w/JD.

Additionally, this lowers the 26 cap hit for Jordan Davis. And that was desperately needed just to create some Operating space for this season for things like injured reserve, and the practice squad.

Howie is more up against the cap than usual this year.

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Jordan Davis extension:

1) cap keeps going up
2) DT value vs the cap and draft has also gone up (check out the nifty link here from @greghartpa.bsky.social )
3) Howie is fine with slight overpay now on the 3 yrs since 5th yr option provides a discount in ‘26

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Me too
And thanks much!!

Tasty Nuggets from the NFL Combine w/Devin Jackson | BLWB #6 Podcast Episode · Eagles Pin-Pull: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast Network · March 6 · 49m

Howdy Folks! Some post Combine analysis with @devinjackson.bsky.social and how the results may affect the Eagles early in April’s NFL draft.

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So many ways to do it. I’m leaning add 1-2 legit WRs in draft and use the strong role player depth at TE to fill out a TE room.

We haven’t had a legit WR3 in….
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Screenshot pretending to add A.J. Brown as a muted word because I'm tired of hearing about these trade rumors

This is the way

Not sure what I’d do. I only watched two ‘25 games and did not feel like he was a 1st round TE.

He’s probably got a better floor than I initially thought. I knew he’d test like a freak, but not THAT freaky.

Solid move blocker. Explosive down field speed when has time to get rolling.

I turned off Dunker’s tape early. I might have been too harsh. But when I do that, it’s usually bad news for the prospect. Maybe he can be a solid NFL starter. But he’s not really Eagles’ type. And I thought there were better players at OT or G.