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To be fair... F**K them, and i wouldn't want their trash players.

I believe this gives them the space to know what they can or can't fit under the cap. I wouldn't want to be doing it at the 11th hour while trying to nail down terms.

Thats really any level of strength training though.

Its more the 17.5M base salary this year that really kills any chance of this being a thing.

Not to mention - vastly different hail mary defense and it worked really well.

They are not paying big contracts to Carter Davis Campbell Smith Hunt Mitchell Dejean Blankenship Mukuba Kinda...? Theres usually a big bonus up front, then they stagger "option" bonuses which stack void years every year. So your 5 year deal is spread over 10. The challenge comes if you aren't on the roster in year 6 - then all the staggered money you paid out hits the cap at once.

They've hit on a couple drafts here in a row too so the defense is very young. The thing with the "option" year format the eagles use though is that when you want to dump a player, there's usually an excess of dead money associated with doing so. So you kinda have to keep extending the same group, or pay the piper. The other option they have with tiny base salaries is trades, which when you draft so well can definitely help replenish the roster with young talent.

Staggered void years, and an always increasing salary cap. They also have a ton of defensive players on rookie deals right now - Carter, Davis, Dejean, Mitchell, Campbell, Blankenship. The reason they add phillips though? That super young defense hasn't been very good. I've never seen Phillips line up standing at the 1T and loop. He's an edge rusher. They brought in phillips because they aren't getting enough from Uche, and they brought graham back out of retirement because they knew they needed edge pressure.

Not playing has that effect on a running back though. Davis has 65 offensive snaps through 8 games for about 8 snaps per game. 18 of his 22 carries came in blowouts, and he has 11 4th quarter garbage time carries (i assume garbage time when Dawkins and McGovern come out).

I always liked Gabe, i just felt the 13M AAV he got in free agency was not a good fit with what his ideal role is with a team. Like an outsized price for a WR2/4. Agreed. He can be a WR2 in a pinch (he lines up on the LOS, he blocks well, tracks deep balls well), but it shouldn't be the plan.

I saw him at the kornerstone bakery in EA one of the last times i was there.

Correct - dead money is money you already paid him. As for Von - no one was against getting rid of him. He was injured basically his entire tenure with the team, so counting on him in 2025 would have been kind of silly.

Yeah, saw a miscue by washington and you get a wide open worthy.

The current state is 5-2, and even after a bye week they're still insanely banged up. Injuries make a difference and its hard to build a team when everyones in the trainers room. Oliver has basically missed the entire season now 1st round pick hairston just got his first game action in week 8 after starting the year on IR 2nd round pick TJ sanders is currently on IR DQ has missed time Carter is on IR too which kinda sucks when you factor in that like everyone at that position is hurt Strong looked like a useful late round player - also on IR Rapp has played through an injury all season likely as they got poyer back up to speed and shifted hancock to a pure safety role Every linebacker on the roster has missed time this year Offensive side of the ball, kincaids been banged up, now palmer, samuel

Yeah - stats are king in football. They won a lot of tight games though, and i think some of their season long stats are a bit affected by the week 18 game where they had less than 100 yards of offense and were shut out.

They went 15-2, started 9-0, and benched their starters in week 18. They had 2 losses - @Buffalo, and the super bowl. I'm not sure that would qualify as a "down year"

I've noticed we use our motion very conservatively as a man coverage "tell". I think teams are using this to their advantage. Other teams use motion in conjunction with their passing attack, and that is often where the confusion and mistakes happen that lead to wide open guys.

I'm sorry, what? You described blocking and said he's bad at it. WR holding is like the easiest call to make on outside runs, so you're kind of taught to let go. There is no way you lead the NFL in rushing, and the leading snap WR/TE/RB is a "lousy blocker" I think the underrated potential of re-capturing some of that chemistry with allen, who's deep balls have looked off since Gabe's departure.

I'd look at Davis as more of a depth option behind palmer and Coleman - and a replacement for Shavers. Shaheed appears to be an upgrade over Moore, so that would move Moore off the roster. Samuel seems to always be hurt so that can nudge him down the depth chart as well, but his contract is pretty bad. They've consistently utilized a rotation of sub packages for Moore and Samuel, to mostly middling results. Shavers can't seem to make much of an impact beyond his blocking, and palmer being out has definitely created more spacing issues in the passing game. It gives you more options, but I'd be shocked if that resulted in a drastic reduction in snaps from Coleman. He's leading the team in all WR/RB/TE snaps for a reason, and I'm not plugging guys into that spot who haven't practiced yet, or aren't on the team. He's a solid blocker, he lines up on the LOS, and hasn't really been utilized to his strengths. He is not the sole reason for the offenses struggles against NE and Atlanta - The amount this board sours on a player is just stunning sometimes. He's currently on pace for 65/650/5 and he hasn't been targeted much deep or in the red zone.

In preseason i couldn't stand watching him get roasted by screens and just generally looking slow and tentative. However... I'm not all doom & gloom on him. He's a rookie, he doesn't play special teams as an end of roster player should, and with Hoecht back he's 6th on the depth chart of ends.

4 of his carries were in the 4th quarter after Dawkins, Edwards, and McGovern came out of the game up 40-9. Its a 100 percent obvious run down, and those 4 carries resulted in 1 yard total. Did people actually watch the game?

The challenge with separation scores? I don't know the intension of the route (clear out routes are common) i don't know the read against the coverage (if i read 2 high i probably am not throwing the post) i don't know when they were supposed to uncover (i run a deep out, but timing is disrupted so now i'm in scramble mode) i don't know when the ball was supposed to come out (i run a fly route with an option for a back shoulder, neither is likely unless the first read is covered up). Most of the misses in this game's passing attack were just misfire's by Allen, and often they felt like timing was off - they seemed to come out a touch late as player was approaching the sideline. On the plus side, its a marathon not a sprint, and i expect allen to find his way out of his funk.

And the defense got them there when the WRs and QB were all on rookie contracts.

Really working out well for them...

It wouldn't be though. For both contracts they'd be eating cap in 2026 not 2025. Both teams would save just the small base salaries against the cap in 2025, and have dead money hits in 2026. For Wilson: The 20M option bonus for 2026 get picked up by the acquiring team as its triggered by being on a roster on the 5th league day of 2026. Thats 4M per year over 5 years. In 2027 the 10M option bonus triggers which is 2M annually over 5 years through 2031. The Jets would lessen the 2025 hit to 5.78M, and then eat 11M in 2026. Acquiring team would have a 1.25M cap hit for 2025, and 7.074M cap hit for 2026 (3M base salary, 4M of the prorated option bonus) - with 4 additional years at 4M annually as an option bonus thats basically a guaranteed mid-contract signing bonus. For Waddle: They'd eat the signing bonus and option bonus that are already slated for this year at around 6.75M, then it looks like around 20M in 2026. This is kinda up in the air as i don't know if they already lowered the 2026 salary into a bonus. The overthecap tool says they did, but it might not be. If they did, it only hits their dead cap if the money was paid to waddle, so my assumption would be... 5 years @ 3M that was spread from the 2025 salary.