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[PhillyPhreak54]

Houston is going after Maclin

[ice grillin you]

They need to bring back Thornton and should be a very good buy low signing.

McCourty would also work well because he's a solid safety, which gives some flexibility if they needed to use Jenkins at CB.

mcourty can man up as well...he was drafted as and played corner in the league....he has that versatility chip covets...in fact hes not that different a player than jenkins

[BigEd76]

CharlesRobinson
A league source says the #Eagles have made safety Devin McCourty a top priority. #Patriots still want him back.
Byron Maxwell and Devin McCourty looks like an either/or situation for #Eagles. I'm not sure they can make the best offer to both.

Rand_Getlin
No one will be surprised if it happens, but a source indicates the #Eagles are definitely out in front for CB Byron Maxwell.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Robinson also said to watch out for Orakpo to be gone after

[ice grillin you]

eagles WILL sign the top 10 free agents on the market and trade for MM

[PhillyPhreak54]

@Jeff_McLane: Jeremy Maclin wanted around $11 mil a year. #Eagles got to $9 mil during season. He won't get to $11 in free agency w/ Randall Cobb ahead.

[AshishPatel81]

I'd really like McCourty, but I'm still skeptical on Maxwell. If they are going to go crazy for him, he better be the real deal, because once you commit that kind of money to one guy at corner, it's not like you can just go out the next year if he doesn't work out and throw about $10-12 million per at another corner. This team seems to be in a little bit of a retooling process at the moment anyway. It's not like Maxwell is the final piece to get this team a Superbowl...

[Munson]

@Jeff_McLane: Jeremy Maclin wanted around $11 mil a year. #Eagles got to $9 mil during season. He won't get to $11 in free agency w/ Randall Cobb ahead.

Wonder if he and Eagles agree to terms if he sees he's not getting more than 9 mil per.

I'd throw him 4 years/38 mil if he'd take it. That'd put him at his next contract at age 30/31, lets him cash in another big one if he performs.

[SD]

@Jeff_McLane: Jeremy Maclin wanted around $11 mil a year. #Eagles got to $9 mil during season. He won't get to $11 in free agency w/ Randall Cobb ahead.

$9 I could live with although that's still overpaying...$11 Maclin can eat a fleshpop. I'd rather trade for a veteran for a year or two.

McCourty I'd be fine with but I can't see them paying a safety $10+ million per year.

[MDS]

the either/or maxwell/mccourty thing makes sense

if you get jenkins and mccourty you can drop down a class in corner. you cant drop down to bradley fletcher. but you can drop.

[ice grillin you]

reminder: jenkins is not a very good safety

[QB Eagles]

He's about as good a safety as Maxwell is a corner. Guys like that are there to stop the bleeding.

McCourty is legitimately a very good player, which is why I'd be surprised if the Patriots, who have some cap room also, let him escape.

[ice grillin you]

agreed on all counts

this notion that because you have Jenkins you just need to add mcorty then you can go soft at corner is ridiculous...especially when your running a press man defense like billy d does...Jenkins is a nice little piece...a guy that you can move around a little and do a few different things with but hes not a difference maker...if there were such thing as a nickel or dime safety that's pretty much what he is

an interesting question to me is would you rather have mcourty or maxell...I think you are so weak in the secondary that you probably have to go with the best player (mcorty) but if you believe that a. they don't like boik outside and b. they don't like carroll at all then CB is a monsterous black hole and a bigger and more important need right now

[PhillyPhreak54]

@GeoffMosherCSN: Nevermind. Source tells me #Eagles didn't not show interest in Mark Ingram. Also told no interest in Reggie Bush.

[QB Eagles]

My thought about CB is that there's a wealth of them on the market right now, many of which I think are better and cheaper than Maxwell. A lot of them are old or have other liabilities, but would be steps up from what we've seen at the position lately.

The position is a black hole though. The Eagles don't seem to like either Carroll or Boykin starting out wide and I'm sure they have their reasons for thinking that.

I'm upset the Eagles don't seem to be giving Chris Culliver a look at CB, but he doesn't seem to fit in with the "salt of the earth" plan.

If they have to pick one between Maxwell and McCourty, I say go McCourty and grab cheaper vet CBs who won't be liabilities. But that's only because I'm not particularly high on Maxwell anyway.