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[BigEd76]

Floating this idea out there since everyone assumes DeMeco is the next to go: cutting Mathis ($6.5M, 34 in November) would give them another $3.5M to work with

[ice grillin you]

Cutting demeco would be a terrible idea for the locker room...trading shady who was loved is one thing but cutting your best and most respected team leader while he is hurt would not be a good look...if he gets to July or August and can't make the roster then you do what you gotta do...but to cut s guy like that when you are 50 mil under the cap is not a good look

Not sure why you'd cut Mathis either right after herremans when you have zero depth on the line...one or the other to get younger sure but both seems excessive at this time

[PhillyPhreak54]

Agreed.

And Chip seemed to really like Demeco...not that it matters to him since he'd cut or trade his own mother

[ice grillin you]

General inexperience at this level aside that's been my biggest fear from day one with chip..system over team...x's and o's over talent

I'm not sure he knows what the farg hes doing when it comes to the nfl

[Seabiscuit36]

I wont lie, i'm getting excited about the prospects of Kiko and Kendricks.  Not happy about losing shady, but i hate to say it was a given this was going to happen at the minimum by next season.  Clearing this cash, hoping they can make a big splash. 

[ice grillin you]

you dont pay running backs 12 million bucks period....you cut shady before you do that...the one exception might be if you made the nfcc or lost in the sb last year...then you can make a case in trying to make a run by all means necessary...but the eagles are nowhere close to that and have many positions to address

[PhillyPhreak54]

I fully expected them to renegotiate his deal but never expected a cut or a trade.

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://www.bleedinggreennation.com/2015/3/4/8147235/nfl-free-agency-rumors-eagles-mark-ingram-saints-interested

Not sure I would like Ingram here

[ice grillin you]

hes the perfect one cut back for the zone read blocking scheme they run but as the article points out availability is the best ability and he doesnt always have that

[PhillyPhreak54]

Mike Garafolo ‏@MikeGarafolo 20m20 minutes ago

Elsewhere on Eagles front, I really believed Jeremy Maclin would be re-signed or at least close by now. Not the case. Work to be done there.

[ice grillin you]

if they let mack go with this much money available then you have to believe that chip truly thinks hes getting his QB and once that happens it doesnt matter who the farg is at the skill positions around him

[PhillyPhreak54]

The Triplets

Mariota
Maehl
Kenjon Barner

[General_Failure]

if they let mack go with this much money available then you have to believe that chip truly thinks hes getting his QB and once that happens it doesnt matter who the farg is at the skill positions around him

Why would Maclin come back? In the last two years he's seen Jackson get cut and McCoy traded for a broken linebacker. Is he going to come back to spend the next three or four years helping another QB get his shtein sorted out just to get shteincanned by the time that QB is any good?

[ice grillin you]

if they let mack go with this much money available then you have to believe that chip truly thinks hes getting his QB and once that happens it doesnt matter who the farg is at the skill positions around him

Why would Maclin come back? In the last two years he's seen Jackson get cut and McCoy traded for a broken linebacker. Is he going to come back to spend the next three or four years helping another QB get his shtein sorted out just to get shteincanned by the time that QB is any good?

he had a career year with an awful nick foles and mark sanchez....i dont think hes too concerned with who the qb here is and is probably one of the biggest believers in chips system there is....but at the end of the day like 99% of free agents hes going to where the money is...could the eagles get a tiny hometown discount because of familiarlity issues sure but it aint going to be much and mack and his agent are damn sure going to play the market up

my point is that the eagles are swimming in cash and could have him signed right now if they truly were concerened with who their wr's are...i just dont think chip cares

[smeags]

im just gonna let this all play out. i get the sell high/buy low philosophy with shady but kiko better be healthy or the trade is asinine.

now what if shady says farg you buffalo ? can he force kelly into a corner ?