2018 Off Season Thread (First One As Super Bowl Champions)

[ice grillin you]

it wont help them get to the cap because trading a player is the same as releasing a player in that if the eagles traded curry they would be free of all future base salaries but would still be cap responsible for the bonus money that has already been paid and the still remaining bonus pro rations count against the cap that year

its not like trading him takes away his 11 million dollar hit while releasing him would be 6 mil dead money

also the team acquiring him in a trade are obviously on the hook for his remaning base salary which i believe is over 20 million for the next two years...i cant see anyone paying him that much less giving up something to pay him that

i think its all but a certainty hes released

[QB Eagles]

Right, you have to be under the cap by 4PM EDT March 14, which is when the trading window begins. For the same reason, designating someone as a post-June 1 cut doesn't help for this. Both can help you stay under the cap as you make other signings, but don't help to get under the cutoff on Day 1 of the league year.

[SD]

Smith/Celek cut gets them close to the cap. Curry is either traded (long shot), restructured, or is cut...that's an additional $5 million.

I read something along the lines of, a trade won't help them get to the cap because the deadline for being under the cap is also the opening of the trade window, so even if you have a trade lined up, first you gotta be below the cap.

I'd love to see the Eagles get something for Curry but they farged themselves with his contract.  Everyone knows they Eagles aren't going to keep him, and no one wants that contract, so it seems that the only way he gets traded is if:  a.) it's known that multiple teams are seriously interested in him and b.) one of them is so interested that they're willing to jump the line by offering the Eagles something before he's cut, and finally c.) said team would have to be somewhere that Curry wants to play and is willing to re-negotiate his contract with upon arrival.    Does that seem about right?

Whoever gets him is gonna be happy.  He's no super star, but he's damn good all around.

Agreed all around. Best case scenario would be he agrees to restructure his deal so they can defer money further down the line. Curry's a perfect rotation player and the versatility to move him inside on passing downs cannot be overstated. Usually I'm against deferring money for players I don't think will be around long term but this is a SB team so I agree strike while iron is hot. They're eating the $6 million one way or another.

[MDS]

They still need a back up TE

billy brown will get a real chance to make the 53....not a bad position to draft, too. i cant see them spending much in FA on tight end should celek retire

[Zanshin]

They still need a back up TE

billy brown will get a real chance to make the 53....not a bad position to draft, too. i cant see them spending much in FA on tight end should celek retire

Obviously. If they were going to spend, it would be easier to bring back their second favorite Super Bowl LII touchdown thrower.

[Rome]

Re the 2 for Foles... He's a Super Bowl champion in the prime of his career.  If someone offered me a two for him, I'd laugh and then tell the bonehead to lose my number. 

[Diomedes]

wha?  who?

[MDS]

foles isnt being traded for a 2 now...if they get blown away with like a 1 and a 3 theyd do it...otherwise you hold on to him and wait for phil rivers to tear an acl during camp and for san diego to get desperate.

if this doesnt happen at the deadline you can unload him for a 3 or something. well worth the risk. and also the knowledge that you have a very good backup and your franchise qb is coming back from a shredded acl.

[Diomedes]

According to Adam Caplan/ESPN, Celek plans to keep playing.

[QB Eagles]

According to Adam Caplan/ESPN, Celek plans to keep playing.

Hopefully he plans on playing for a lot less. Or he'll be playing back in Cincinnati.

[Diomedes]

I love the guy but he's not getting a starting TE position in the NFL.  He knows this, he must.  I have to believe if he thinks he's playing, it's with the Eagles, for whatever they'll pay him.

[General_Failure]

Maybe he'll go back up his brother for a couple years.

[ice grillin you]

I love the guy but he's not getting a starting TE position in the NFL.

he might not get an offer at all

[Rome]

Got the LII video on Amazon.  Its very good.  Nice surprise at the end.  I still cant believe they finally won it all. 

[ice grillin you]

mcshay 3.0

32. Philadelphia Eagles
D.J. Chark, WR, LSU

The Super Bowl champions have the luxury of drafting for value, for a roster without many holes. Chark is a raw route-runner but has the tools to develop. His stock is on the rise after a great Senior Bowl week and combine workout, punctuated with a 4.34 40 and 40-inch vertical jump. He could fill Torrey Smith's role as an explosive vertical WR in the future.