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Stack or Shed Ep.10 Eagles edition · Football Junkies podcast

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  Hey everybody, this is your GM, your back row
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  dom, it's your GM who currently is not on a team
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  right now, but don't you worry about it, Kale,
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  here to bring you episode 10 of the Stack and
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  Shed series. Now in this series, we're covering
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  all 32 teams, so everybody gets a chance to be
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  talked about, all right? Now in this series,
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  we're covering a few different topics, and they
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  include what went wrong, what do they need, stack
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  or shed. Their draft picks, one move I would
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  do in their cap space. Now, in this episode,
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  we're talking about the Eagles. So for all my
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  Eagles fans out there, fly Eagles, fly, because
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  you guys aren't going to the Super Bowl anytime
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  soon. But let's talk about it. All right, let's
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  get into it. So what went wrong in the Eagles
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  season? And I would venture to say it was inconsistent
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  offensive play calling and execution. As we all
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  know, every time a team wins the Super Bowl,
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  they undergo some change. Now, the degree of
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  the change varies. Sometimes an entire coaching
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  staff can leave and a whole bunch of players
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  can leave. And then there's other times where
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  everybody stays for reduced salaries and reduced
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  roles just so they can run it back one more time.
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  As much as Nick Sirianni publicly wanted Kellen
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  Moore to stay with the Eagles, we knew that wasn't
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  going to happen. Now, I would have expected the
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  Eagles to make another external hire at offensive
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  coordinator, but of course they didn't and they
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  decided to make an internal promotion and make
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  Kevin Petula the next offensive coordinator.
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  Regardless if you think that was the right move
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  or the wrong move, it was a move that was most
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  likely going to happen. However, there is a trend
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  that I need to bring to your attention. Whenever
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  the Eagles make an external hire at either offensive
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  or defensive coordinator, the team tends to progress.
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  But whenever they make an internal promotion,
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  that's when the team regresses. Now you would
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  have think the Eagles would have picked up on
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  this by now, but clearly they haven't. Now, according
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  to Summersports, here's the stats for the Eagles
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  passing offense in 2024. They had 448 passing
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  attempts for 303 completions, 3 ,517 passing
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  yards, 206 .9 passing yards per game, 7 .8 passing
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  yards per attempt, 24 touchdowns, 67 .6 completion
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  percentage, and a 44 .3 % pass rate. Now, here's
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  the stats for the Eagles rushing offense in 2024.
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  621 rushing attempts for 3 ,000 148 rushing yards,
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  179 .3 rushing yards per game, 4 .9 rushing yards
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  per carry, 30 rushing touchdowns, and a 55 .7
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  % run rate. Now here's the Eagles passing offense
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  in 2025. 497 passing attempts for 318 completions,
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  3 ,498 passing yards, 205 .8 passing yards per
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  game, 7 passing yards per attempt, 26 touchdowns,
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  a 64 % completion percentage, and a 52 .7 % pass
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  rate. Now when we look at the Eagles rushing
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  offense in 2025, this is what we have. 478 rushing
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  attempts for 1 ,988 rushing yards, 116 .9 rushing
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  yards per game, 4 .1 rushing yards per carry,
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  17 rushing touchdowns, and a 47 .3 % run rate.
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  Now this is how efficient the Eagles offense
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  was in 2024 to 2025. So in 2024, they had a 44
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  .25 % offensive success rate, 210 red zone plays
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  for 38 red zone touchdowns and 12 turnovers.
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  In 2025, they had a 40... 2 .38 success rate
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  151 red zone plays 31 red zone touchdowns and
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  13 turnovers The proof is in the pudding here,
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  folks. The offense from 25 regressed compared
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  to the offense in 24. And it was the same personnel.
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  There wasn't a significant change from both of
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  those offenses. Now, as much as everybody wants
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  to blame Kevin Petullo on why this offense wasn't
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  successful, we need to point fingers at Jalen
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  Hurts as well. Because there were multiple times
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  where Jalen Hurts did not throw it to the open
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  man. There were multiple times in the Thursday
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  night game against the Giants where multiple
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  people were open and he didn't throw him the
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  ball. Literally, Dallas Goddard just ran up the
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  middle. Nobody was covering him at all. You could
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  have had a walk -in touchdown right there. He
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  didn't throw it to him. Devontae Smith was open
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  one time. He didn't throw him the ball. Even
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  when you look at the Black Friday game against
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  the Bears, there were multiple times where people
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  were open. For every two to five games that the
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  Eagles offense struggles and they're not playing
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  their best ball, they'll have two or three games
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  where they're actually playing a little bit better
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  and now everybody wants to talk their stuff.
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  And I'm sorry, I'm not going to accept that.
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  Because at the end of the day, what separates
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  the greats from average is consistency. And if
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  you're not showing consistency, then we have
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  a problem. Now with that being said, what do
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  the Eagles need? And that is better offensive
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  play calling and execution. Now, I don't think
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  Sean Manion is a bad hire. I just would have
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  thought the Eagles would have went after a veteran
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  offensive coordinator, someone like a Mike McDaniel
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  or Brian Dable, for instance, right? Because
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  when we look at Sean Manion's coaching history,
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  he started off as an offensive assistant with
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  the Packers in 24. Then he was promoted to work
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  with the quarterbacks in 25. Now, I'm not saying
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  this is a bad thing, but we have to be a little
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  bit patient before we start giving our opinions
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  on if this move was either good or bad. Now,
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  as far as execution, that falls on Jalen Hurts.
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  If somebody is open, just give them the ball.
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  You have a plethora of different options that
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  you can pass to. Somebody is going to be open.
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  If Saquon isn't open, Devontae Smith is going
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  to be open. If A .J. Brown isn't open, Dallas
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  Gardner is going to be open. If Hollywood Brown
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  isn't open, somebody is going to be open. Nobody
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  is saying that you have to be a perfectionist.
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  Nobody is saying that you have to play at an
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  MVP level. All they want you to do is just execute.
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  If you can execute, nobody will complain. Now,
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  with that being said, the question we all need
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  to ask ourselves is stack or shed? And I will
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  eventually say stack. And the reason why I say
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  that is because this roster is still competitive.
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  All they have to do is just address the few holes
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  on this team. Now, I'm not surprised the Eagles
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  haven't been big players in free agency because
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  I know they've been trying to go after a pass
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  rusher and that hasn't been successful. Now,
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  we all know they signed Tyreek Woolen, which
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  is a good move. And we know that they re -signed
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  Dallas Goddard to a one -year deal. That's good
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  as well. But as far as that big dynamic move
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  that everybody is waiting for the Eagles to make,
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  I don't think that's going to happen. And if
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  it does, it'll probably be at the trade deadline
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  during the season. When we look at their draft
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  picks, they have their first, their second, they
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  have two thirds, two fourths, and two fifths.
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  But the question is this. If you're Howie, is
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  there somebody in this draft that you feel like
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  you may have to trade up to get? Or is there
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  somebody that you feel confident that you can
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  get in the second or third round where you can
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  trade down and you can get more picks? I believe
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  the second and fourth round is the sweet spot
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  in this draft class. And I believe a lot of teams
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  are going to trade down to be big players within
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  that range. And I also believe that a lot of
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  teams are preparing themselves for the 27 draft
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  class. So if you're the Eagles, what do you do?
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  Do you stay put? Do you be aggressive? Or do
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  you try to trade down? Me personally, I would
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  trade down just a little bit. If you just move
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  down maybe two or three spots, I think you're
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  still in a really good spot. However, if there's
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  somebody that you're really high on, that you
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  believe that if you add them to the team, they're
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  going to be a dynamic playmaker, then you go
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  and be aggressive and you make that move. Now,
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  the one move that I would do is draft a right
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  tackle. Now, I know this is a little bit controversial,
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  but just walk with me, okay? In the past few
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  years, we've started to see that Lane Johnson's
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  availability in play has started to regress.
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  And we know in the last few years, there's been
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  rumors going around that he's contemplating retirement.
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  So if you're the Eagles, I think this is the
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  perfect year for you to go after right tackle.
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  If you trade up and get one of the top right
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  tackle prospects, and then you just let them
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  sit and learn under Lane Johnson, I think that's
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  a good move. Because at this point, you're going
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  to have to start making some investments into
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  this offensive line again. Looking at their cap
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  situation, they have $13 .6 million, which is
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  probably going to be used for the draft picks.
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  But the question is this, if you're the Eagles,
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  Do you feel comfortable with your current cap
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  situation right now? Do you feel like you need
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  to restructure a couple deals so you can be players
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  in that second and third wave of free agency?
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  Because I don't think the Eagles are done. I
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  think the Eagles are big game hunting. Now, I'm
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  not saying the Eagles are going to make a big
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  trade for Max Crosby or they're going to try
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  to trade for Chris Jones or, I don't know, somebody
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  else that's, you know, super elite or whatever.
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  But I do expect for the Eagles to do something
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  significant soon. But only time will tell. But
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