Expect the Eagles to make a big splash in free agency

I buy my next jersey….its been a few years :)

Move over Joselio Hanson… we’re going to need your jersey number.

Considering Kolb should also net us a high pick, we’ll have money to burn in free agency and the picks to add at least two top-40 prospects, which would make for a great great offseason.

I have a bad feeling this is going to drag out, but an early ending to the CBA would get the ball rolling.

And they have the same odds as the Eagles to win the Super Bowl in 2011.

Desean is makin pennies……MAclin, mccoy not so much…vick pennies compared to what he will get and the Defense is real young as well…..

The Eagles have a window of maybe 3-4 years then they will break the bank and or lose some of these players…..especially when adding a guy like Nnamdi

Let’s not forget that Logan Mankins might also be available.

Grimes is a restricted free agent.

Just look at all the stars they have that are gettin paid pennies though…..

He wants to play safety

That would be fantastic. Haha…

(As long as the initials are NA)

Then maybe another second tier FA to fill a hole.

After that we can re-sign our own and fill the rest of the roster through the draft.

getting rid of Cutler and Marshall

Denver can thank Josh McDaniels for that.

Well, we all expected this to be a transition year plus with the damn CBA issues, most of the UFAs were restricted last offseason. So, major salaries were dumped to prepare for this free agency.

I don’t know if we laud them for being under the cap so much. I can only speak for myself, but when I see that the Eagles are far under the cap, I get all fired up thinking up what they can do with it. Those are 2 different things. I most certainly won’t be happy if they go into the season with a ton of cap space and glaring holes in their roster.

Yes, there would be. At least, 30 mil for 2011.

Keep in mind d-jack, that the franchise tag is probably only a temporary thing. Vick will cost them a nice chunk of change for sure, but that tag will be nothing more than a way to keep other teams from making him offers while they look to get a long term deal in place. Once that longterm deal is in place, it should be somewhere around 12-14 million/year – I’ll go on the high end and call it 14. Add in the 6-7 million/year DeSean should get, and they’d still be below the NFL average.

I knew vietnnammmmm would catch on haha

D 10

Surprisingly, there isn’t much of a correlation that I can see, aside from the 2 Super Bowl teams being in the top 7. The playoff teams rank 2, 3, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 27, 28, and 30, so it’s kind of all over the place.

A few things:

- The Eagles are going to let most of those 17 UFA’s walk (guys like Hobbs, Buckley, Wells, McCray, Abiamiri, Sims, Gaither, to name a few).
- Trent Cole is signed through 2013. That’s an eternity away.
- LeSean McCoy is signed through 2012. If they can get an extension done this year, it’ll be very team-friendly since they’d be ripping up 2 extremely team-friendly years. Otherwise, it’ll be something to worry about during the 2012 season.
- McGlynn and Dixon aren’t going to cost much to re-up, nor will the depth guys you noted (Jordan, MJG, Nick Cole), nor will the kickers.
- They are also going to shed some money as well – Marlin Jackson is set to make $2M. He’s gone. Juqua Parker is set to make $3.5M. He could be gone. Joselio Hanson is set to make just shy of $2M. Justice might not be back. He makes just shy of $3M. That’s about another $10M right there if they decide to go that route.

Even with Vick and Jackson, the Eagles, compared to the rest of the league, have all sorts of cap space.

Man this myth will never die.

They usually start the season with cap room, then extend young players early in the season or pay out more in LTBEs.

I’m sure this past season was an exception with the offseason contract purge, but the Eagles were famous for spending in the top 5 in the league on players while also using LTBE exceptions and other cap tricks to keep available space.

So in their case, cap space didn’t always = cheap.

Here’s a good read from 2008 that exposes how the Eagles and Vikings use the tricks:

http://www.askthecommish.com/salarycap/adjustment.asp

I’ve actually wondered whether or not teams can sign players to future/reserve contracts after the CBA expires.

if there is not a deal in place.

Only the draft will proceed as scheduled. Everything else will come to a total halt, if I understand correctly.

But line coaches are supposedly the most expensive, and coaching contracts are not subject to the cap, so one way you find out if a team wants to win is see what they spend on coaches.

That said, Castillo is probably one of your lower-paid DCs even though he has quite a few years in the NFL. And lots of young guys on staff.

Mudd and Washburn could not have been cheap, and Marty probably makes a nice buck. As does April.

LB, and either CB or OL, draft whichever you don’t get in the early rounds.

Kolb made $11 mil last year and Vick made $5 mil, so even if Vick makes $20 mil, our overall spending on QBs won’t go up much since Kolb will either be gone or here making less than 2 mil.

In fact, probably a better way to look at it is not in relation to what we did last season, but what we’re going to have to spend per position or per player this coming season.

As noted in charts in the original JimmyK post and on eaglescap.com, you’re looking at Peters and Samuel making $6 mil each, Maclin and Cole making 3 mil each, for a total of $18 mil. Those guys are definitely back.

Factor in whatever raises you want for Vick (20) and Djax (6), and re-signing Mikell (3) and Bradley (3). Now we’re at 44 mil. Celek and Avant , Herremans and Patterson each make one-point something. So 49 or 50.

Then there are 18 young players — from Jamar Chaney to Nate Allen to Clay Harbor to Colt Anderson to Fokou to McCoy — who WILL make the roster and who are making 405,000 or thereabouts, plus Dorenbos making 800,000. So that’s another 10 mil.

Long story short, you see where I’m going with this. We’ve got 30 essential players under contract for $60 mil., and that’s including Vick and Jackson’s new deals.

We can definitely get the next 23 under contract for 40-50 million more, even if another 15 or 20 of it went to two players. There’s probably still room to overpay Juqua Parker and Daryl Tapp and Winston Justice, et. al.

what

your syntax is making my eyes bleed

Vick — 5
Ben — 6
Cutler — 7
Ryan — 27

You can make stats say just about anything you want them to say.

There’s a fairly legitimate argument out there that no team played the Packers tougher in the playoffs than the Eagles did, considering the Bears and Steelers trailed by quite a few more than they ended up losing by. I guess we did too, but we had a shot to win in the final minute.