Boykin Traded

[PhillyPhreak54]

For a farging 5th rounder?!?

[SD]

That's farging terrible

Why?

They have no cb depth...hell they have no db depth

[PhillyPhreak54]

Why? Because he's 5'9

That's the only reason! Stupid farging trade

[Zanshin]

Ridiculous. So stupid.

[QB Eagles]

Hopefully they aren't about to trade Drake too.

[QB Eagles]

They have no cb depth...hell they have no db depth

Shepherd, Evans, Watkins, and even Thurmond could all get a look in the slot.

McLane says the pick can go to a 4th rounder based on playing time.

Still don't understand the point of trading a guy proven in the position. He was going to be gone after the season, but still. Maybe Chip didn't want him outplaying Carroll and Rowe on the outside in camp.

[SD]

Thurmonds supposed to play safety although that might be a ploy to motivate Rowe to step up. Still...Boykin was one of the best 3rd cbs in the league and they gave him away for scrap. DB depth is bad. Yeah maybe those other guys get a look in the slot but training camp hasn't even started yet.

[ice grillin you]

Why?

because he wanted a shot to play outside

culture

kendricks is next

[PhillyPhreak54]

That idiot Billy Davis didn't like him either

He should've been fired for giving Fletcher run over Boykin

[Eagaholic]

Pisses me off, and no matter how much benefit of the doubt I try to give Kelly, he's still coming up clueless in how to build a team.

If he felt he just had to make he trade now, he needed it to be for a solid starting guard that fits, or else another DB. And NEITHER of which should be injured.

The division is going to roast the Eagles secondary, especially if Thurmond gets hurt again.

[QB Eagles]

A slot corner isn't worth very much in trade, even if he's one of the best in the league. He was out there for fewer than half of the snaps. I don't really question what they got back for him, he's been on the market forever, if there was a better deal available they would have bitten. If he proves himself in Pittsburgh the trade is for a 4th, which is what he was drafted as.

The issue isn't what they got, it's why they moved him at all. Clearly it makes the team worse this year. I think it's possible there's another competent slot corner on the roster (and we know Thurmond is, but he's getting a shot at safety first), but it just seems like an unnecessary throwaway of a solid player.

[ice grillin you]

chip bots are the best

[MDS]

i dont get it

boykin is a nothing corner and they got, potentially, a 4th for him. they drafted 2 (taller) boykins in april. this is how this thing works. this is a guy they werent going to sign and before he left for nothing they got a pick for him.

who cares.

[ice grillin you]

chip bots are the best

[MDS]

so should i be up in arms because they traded a replaceable corner who was just going to leave next year anyway?