Darren Howard visits today.

[DonovanTheMessiah]

Who cares about overspending. We're 30+ million under the cap, overspending to land one impact FA won't hurt us.

[NGM]

Who cares about overspending. We're 30+ million under the cap, overspending to land one impact FA won't hurt us.

It would be damn near impossible for the Eagles to overspend this offseason. 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Who cares about overspending. We're 30+ million under the cap, overspending to land one impact FA won't hurt us.

It would be damn near impossible for the Eagles to overspend this offseason. 

Too late:

03/02/2006  Tendered the following restricted free agents one-year contracts: CB Roderick Hood, P Dirk Johnson, RB Reno Mahe, and S Quintin Mikell.

[Diomedes]

You forgot Barber.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

and Juqua

[The BIGSTUD]

Let's get this deal done. It'll be the first step to make us forget about Bentley.

Step 2: Rocky Bernard. Let's load up on the D-Line.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

On obvious passing downs, sure.  But even then, I'd prefer to see what Cole and Patterson can do from inside and let the two range rovers on the outside do their thing.  Cole's scrappy motor is a better fit for getting over a guard.  On the outside, I would always prefer the pure DE, and at 6'3" 275 lbs Howard presents an unusually big and fast threat to most OTs. 

When you first posted this, I was going to question it, but got sidetracked.

Cole can't play DT.  WAAAAY too small.  Motor is one thing, but for a DE to play inside on passing downs, he has to be able to matchup physically with the interior of the line.  Howard has been known to do that, but Cole?  No way.  I would contend that Cole and Kearse are the "range rovers".  Howard's a lot more like Brandon Whiting on crack.

[Diomedes]

Well I can't really disagree with you, but the basic point is that neither Cole nor Howard should be put at DT.  They are both DEs by nature.

I stand by that comment though..if on an obvious passing play, we had to line one of them up at DT I'd prefer it to be Cole because Howard is by far the better end, and I think Cole's activity could present an unusual challenge to your average G or C.

But yeah, he's too small to play DT.  I grant that.

[ice grillin you]

we had to line one of them up at DT I'd prefer it to be Cole

cole cannot be lined up at dt in any scenario...unless the teams offensive formation is one that doesnt include a line...hes barely big enough to play de...he would get destroyed inside


as for howard after yesterday this just doesnt excite me at all

[Diomedes]

And putting Howard at DT is a total waste.  So can we all agree that Cole and Howard don't belong at DT and just drop this subject?   

[Munson]

If they wanted to do something like that, they could put Howard at end and use Cole as the new "Joker".

[The BIGSTUD]

Or they could just rotate them.

[DonovanTheMessiah]

On obvious passing downs, sure.  But even then, I'd prefer to see what Cole and Patterson can do from inside and let the two range rovers on the outside do their thing.  Cole's scrappy motor is a better fit for getting over a guard.  On the outside, I would always prefer the pure DE, and at 6'3" 275 lbs Howard presents an unusually big and fast threat to most OTs. 

When you first posted this, I was going to question it, but got sidetracked.

Cole can't play DT.  WAAAAY too small.  Motor is one thing, but for a DE to play inside on passing downs, he has to be able to matchup physically with the interior of the line.  Howard has been known to do that, but Cole?  No way.  I would contend that Cole and Kearse are the "range rovers".  Howard's a lot more like Brandon Whiting on crack.

It's possible, the Giants used Justin Tuck at DT last year a lot of times in obvious passing downs. Tuck isn't much bigger than Cole.

[mpmcgraw]

Or they could just rotate them.

Brilliant!

[Munson]

Yeah, but I was saying if they wanted all those pass-rushers in on one down liek someone was saying, they could put Cole in the Joker spot like they used to use Kalu.