Philadelphia Eagles news and links for 5/26/25.
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NFL commish Roger Goodell questions ‘integrity’ of current salary cap system – Acme Packing Company
The recent success of the Philadelphia Eagles, a team that spent $115 million more in cash than the Las Vegas Raiders in 2024 and is set to be a top-seven cash spender in the NFL again in 2025, almost certainly is an issue for some ownership groups. The Eagles’ mantra has been to extend players early on their rookie contracts, sometimes immediately after their third year in the league is over, and to consistently convert their salaries into signing bonuses to spread the cap payments over several years, by which point cap dollars will be more diluted. The timing of their contracts all escalate up to the 2029 season, which is when the NFL is expected to opt out of their current broadcast deals and sign a massive new set of contracts with streaming services. In the world the Eagles are operating in, it’s a legitimate strategy to be hyper-aggressive at the start of new broadcast contracts and then slowly make cap payments on those teams as you reach the end of the deal. That only works if owners are willing to pay that kind of big cash immediately, though, which we’ve seen teams like the Raiders and Cincinnati Bengals balk at over the last decade. The game is different when people are playing the game. The idea of the “hard cap” made sense up until Covid, but now teams are well aware of how salary conversions and void years can be used to manipulate the current cap system. If I were to guess as to what Goodell was referring to, the “integrity” question that league members are asking themselves is whether how the NFL treats the accounting of signing bonus and/or roster bonus dollars on the cap should be changed under the next collective bargaining agreement. Funnily enough, the biggest benefactor of this might be the Eagles, the team that has taken advantage of this strategy more than anyone. A change to the cap system will mean that teams will no longer be able to do what Philadelphia executed, all the way to a Super Bowl.
Changes the NFL Could Consider with the Salary Cap and CBA – Over The Cap
think when you look at loopholes in the cap there are also other things besides the void years that some may think are not in the spirit of the cap. The modification of contracts to allow for a post June 1 designation is something I could see the league considering removing. There are a few teams that have done this, with the Eagles being the first I can recall, and they have gotten around the NFL’s original rule prohibiting the renegotiation after the end of the regular season by reworking a deal the last week of the year. In general the June 1 designations could be a discussion point. Massive bogus void year salaries have allowed teams to get around rules surrounding renegotiations while also escaping certain salary cap treatments. Certain teams are tanking or finding ways to carry over massive amounts of cap room to increase the ability to spend the following year. Per game bonuses hidden as NLTBE incentives. Even insurance premiums could be a point of discussion. I think it is clear that as the NFL approaches their next CBA they have already identified areas that they may want to discuss tweaking to try to bring things back to how the NFL functioned and spent from 2011 to 2018. Some teams would certainly be strongly against these changes but many I think would support changing things if it means finding ways to reduce player compensation and bring costs down more in line to what the NFL owners felt was fair about a decade ago.
5 questions and answers about Azeez Ojulari – BGN
The Philadelphia Eagles signed one free agent this offseason who qualified for a contract that counts against their compensatory pick formula: Azeez Ojulari. In other words, he’s their biggest veteran free agent investment. Let’s learn more about the 24-year-old edge rusher by getting a New York Giants perspective on him. Here’s what Ed Valentine of Big Blue View had to say about Ojulari through answers to my questions.
Eagles rally around Sirianni as coach signs extension – ESPN
Eagles star wide receiver A.J. Brown said he didn’t know how long Nick Sirianni’s new multiyear contract ran, but that didn’t stop him from synching his future with that of his head coach. “[Last week] I told him congrats, and I told him I’m done when he’s done,” Brown said. Player after player who took to the podium on Tuesday welcomed the news of Sirianni’s extension, a group that included Brown, quarterback Jalen Hurts and left tackle Jordan Mailata. That makes plenty of sense. Philadelphia is coming off a Super Bowl-winning campaign. Sirianni is 54-23 with the Eagles, including the postseason. His .701 win percentage is the fifth best by any coach in NFL history (minimum 75 games), per ESPN Research. He is the first head coach to earn four playoff appearances, two conference championships and a Super Bowl title in his first four seasons. But it’s been a more turbulent ride than the final results suggest.
Love to Hate – Iggles Blitz
I jokingly asked a couple of co-workers how excited they were by the news that the tush push wasn’t banned. Both of them responded they were actually disappointed. They also told me they had developed a hatred for the Eagles. This caught me off guard. One is a Broncos fan and the other a Panthers fan. Neither of those teams is a rival for the Eagles. I thought about their response for a bit and then it hit me. The Super Bowl champion Eagles are so good they are now worth hating. That’s actually quite a compliment.
Every NFL team’s biggest question after the 2025 NFL Draft – PFF
Philadelphia Eagles: Who wins the right guard spot? When you’re the defending Super Bowl champions and didn’t suffer catastrophic personnel losses, there aren’t a ton of questions entering the following season (besides if you’ll be good enough to repeat). However, one of the few uncertainties surrounding this Eagles team resides at right guard. With Mekhi Becton now a Charger, Philadelphia made two moves to land potential starters in his stead, including re-signing Matt Pryor (78.1 PFF pass-blocking grade) and trading for former first-round pick Kenyon Green (38.6 PFF overall grade). Philadelphia also returns Tyler Steen (40.7 PFF overall grade), who played 186 snaps at right guard in 2024. Pryor seems like the odds-on bet to claim the job next to Cam Jurgens and Lane Johnson, but Jeff Stoutland is capable of cultivating turnarounds, as we saw with the former first-rounder Becton a year ago.
Jets’ support for tush push could be a sign that they plan to use it with Justin Fields – PFT
The Jets were among the 10 teams that voted to keep the tush push, defying the league’s desire to kill the play. Could it be a sign that the Jets are planning to incorporate the technique into their offense, given that quarterback Justin Fields is on track to be the starter? As noted by Rich Cimini of ESPN.com, Fields has attempted 12 push sneaks in his career. Eleven resulted in first downs.
The 10 worst contracts in the NFC East – PhillyVoice
1) Dak Prescott, QB, Cowboys. […] Last offseason, Prescott was set to play on the final year of his deal. For some dumbass reason, Jerry Jones said that he wanted to “see more cards played” before getting a deal done with him. Predictably, that didn’t work out, as the Lions’ Jared Goff got a new deal worth $53 million per season, followed by the Jaguars’ Trevor Lawrence getting a new deal worth $55 million (!) per season. OOPS! Just before the start of the 2024 season, Prescott signed for $240 million over four years, or $60 million per season. That made him the highest-paid player in NFL history, a title he still holds. Prescott is obviously far from the best player in the NFL. He’s a borderline top 10 quarterback, and certainly other teams around the league would rather have him than their current quarterbacks, but he is also coming off arguably the worst season of his career, with career lows in QB Rating (86.0), QBR (45.3), and a 3-5 record before he was shut down for the season with a hamstring injury. He also turns 32 in July.
New York Giants site questionably ranks Giants quarterbacks ahead of Dak Prescott – Blogging The Boys
But as users pointed out in the comment section at BBV, this rationale was not used for literally any other position in the analysis. Even if you want to lump contractual value into things, you can make a very strong argument (I’m sure Brian Schottenheimer would and since we are counting Brian Daboll’s gushing as a value) that Dak is worth his current contract relative to what the Giants have going on. Just because the Giants have some lower-value quarterbacks on their roster does not make them good. Wilson and Winston were available for what they were because they are not very good. Dart is admittedly an unknown commodity, but he was so important to the Giants (even with all of the gushing) that they let him fall almost out of the first round entirely before ending his slide. Again, no one here is advocating for anything other than the fact that there is no argument on this planet or any other in our solar system that the Giants have a more preferable quarterback situation to the Cowboys. Even Prescott’s biggest critics likely agree with this. Once again, the Giants have lost 13 straight games to Prescott-led Cowboys teams.
10 things to watch during New York Giants OTAs – Big Blue View
Russell Wilson: Wilson is the starting quarterback, but he won’t be the one anyone is most interested in. That will rookie first-round pick Jaxson Dart. How will Wilson handle the dynamic of having the player who will take his job — this year or next — already in place? Wilson, by many accounts, can be an acquired taste. There were reports out of Pittsburgh that some Steelers teammates weren’t buying his leadership efforts. How does the dynamic between Wilson and his teammates look, and feel? Oh, and how does the passing game look with Wilson at the controls? … Jaxson Dart’s every move. Like rookie minicamp, there will probably be an over the top interest in everything Dart does. How do he and Wilson interact How much time does head coach Brian Daboll spend focused on the rookie? What does Dart do while Wilson is taking reps? How does he look when Dart does take reps?
NFL trivia: Your in-5 daily game, Monday edition – SB Nation
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