WhitewalkerInPhilly

To his credit Murray is better than Shady at going North-South. But I agree with you that every bad thing that's supposedly wrong with the Shady trade is even more so with Murray: He's a year older, coming off a year when Dallas rode him half to death, has a worse injury history and will likely have competition to sign when Shady had GONE ON RECORD that he'd be willing to take a pay cut for the Eagles. Not just a restructure a cut. As someone mentioned in another thread it looks like Chip the GM is killing Chip the genius HC.

There's plenty of room there. All the Eagles fans I know are off the bandwagon and are currently standing over the Ben Franklin bridge.

I don't see it. Bradford can throw well enough when he's healthy, but the injury and salary cap concerns are problematic. It would be a questionable trade if it was pure player for play. Trading AWAY a 2nd rounder AND Foles is mystifying to me.

To be fair, he likely is often the smartest man in the room where he is most of the time. Unfortunately for him, there are a lot of rooms with a lot of smart people across the NFL who are smart in different ways. Whaley wasn't brilliant giving Shady a deal with lower $/year, but more overall and more guaranteed. He just saw a good player and made a reasonable option.

Well...so much for speculation. Thanks Shady!

I know this is a double post, I came across this in the official Bills sitdown interview with Shady. It seems that he and Gore were friends, to the point where Shady was asking about Roman's system and what to expect: I wonder if the way that Chip treated Shady had anything to do with Gore changing his mind.

And...all of the likes. Seriously, I love this guy. My girlfriend does too...and as an Eagles fan she is PISSED

Fair enough, and I respect asking for a courteous answer. Overall in the league the movement has been to more of a passing game.This is the common trend the league is going, but it requires a dominating passing QB, and there are maybe six of them in the league. If you are not so blessed, you make schemes that make it easier. One way is the spread offense, which we saw make Fitz look like a long term starter for a while with barrel scraping receivers. Other examples are the Chip Kelly system. Greg Roman's (it's arguable how much of it is his how how much is Harbaugh's) revitalized the deemed bust Alex Smith, and plugged in a 2nd round pick that few had heard of to superstar status by forcing teams to send 8 or 9 men into the box to contain a power run game, leading receivers to be free in 1 on 1 matchups. If you have talented guys like Sammy and Woods (and hopefully an easy dump off TE who can fight off a safety and get 5-10 yards after the catch consistently), you tend to win those matchups. But you still need to run the ball effectively when you have those mismatches with 8 or 9 men in the box. Good fullbacks, really good fullbacks, when used in creative systems can help a ton. They can not only grind out hard short yardage situations, but they tend to be used in the screen game, and most importantly clear blocks for the superstar speedster running backs. In unglamorous work, and it tends to not get you big paychecks, but if you don't want the RB you are spending $8M a year for to get clobbered, and hit the hole for big yards. If you set up them as primary blockers, you can also fool some teams when they are the main ball carriers to get reliable yardage. Felton is considered one of the best in the game, and Vikings fans I've heard from say that he was a big component to AP getting his 2,000 yard season.

His cap hit is fairly high, even if the signing bonus stays like Shady's did.

I'm not saying it's out of the question. Bradford, when not hurt, can run and fits the Chip Kelly syste. SL gets a quality QB on the cheap to save against the massive cap hit.

Do they accept souls? They would get every Bills fan's

Well, they certainly filled the hole left my Suh. Possibly a literal hole.

I'm not seeing any confirmation on this.

WHAAAAAAT?

Perfect. With Incognito at LG, Boling at RG would give us a starting line of Glenn-Incognito-Wood-Boling-Henderson/Kujo. That's pretty solid.

That would be solid. With Iupati, Franklin and Bulaga taking the big money deals, we could get him at a more fair market price.

Maybe next year when Greg Roman's been poached to be a head coach after winning a Superbowl we can get Chip to be OC [/sarcasm]

I saw this article a while back, talking about how Roman used players in the power run game. The section on the F-Tight End/H-Back looks a lot like what we might be doing. http://billsmafia.com/2015/02/25/breaking-buffalo-bills-oc-greg-romans-power-run-game/

And that's the downside of overspending when you're already in cap purgatory.

I completely agree. Everything else you can get a contributor for in the draft.

I wonder if the Eagles will consider it outside tampering. Either way Stephen smith completely trolled his audience hard, and him crowing about it now is annoying.

I'm now going back to the old Raffi cassettes which have bored a hole into my subconscious: "Baby Bulaga in the deep blue sea..."

I'm just worried that Chip looks at this, looks back at Shady, looks at the entirely reasonable new contract he intends to sign as says "Hey, we could do that!"

I also saw a Tim Graham tweet that they like Brown. Seriously, last year we went in with CJ, Freddy, Boobe and Brown. What makes you think we wouldn't just swap out CJ for Shady and call it a done deal?

Yeah like Poojer, I live in the area and have heard no local response of the sort. That isn't to say that people aren't a little mystified. DJAX was cut for nothing but dead money on the cap after a Pro Bowl year, Shady was a fan favorite and Maclin had a great year, and was their last really good receiver. Chip truly trusts his system, and the idea seems to be that he considers himself General Patton in regards to personnel, the system and play calling. If you stray, or talk or don't buy in, you are replaceable. I am curious to see how it works.