What I would do

[Iggloo]

1) Let Bradford walk. This guy is fool's gold and signing him to a long-term deal would be catastrophic.

2) Draft Jared Goff. The Eagles may get the 10th pick by the time next week is done. That might be close enough to land Goff outright or trade up.

3) Sign a bunch of mid-tier FAs in OL, DB areas. We need depth and talent all over at those positions.

4) Switch to a 4-3. I am a big 3-4 proponent but as others have noted our talent fits a 4-3.

DL: Graham, Cox, Logan, Curry
LB: Barwin, Hicks, Kendricks
DB: Rowe, Jenkins, Thurmond, Maxwell

5) Sign a defensive minded head coach. The defense has a shot to be the strength of the team short term. Sign a guy who can capitalize on that, but make sure you get an OC and QB coach who can develop a young QB.

 

[mall3013]

1) Let Bradford walk. This guy is fool's gold and signing him to a long-term deal would be catastrophic.

2) Draft Jared Goff. The Eagles may get the 10th pick by the time next week is done. That might be close enough to land Goff outright or trade up.

3) Sign a bunch of mid-tier FAs in OL, DB areas. We need depth and talent all over at those positions.

4) Switch to a 4-3. I am a big 3-4 proponent but as others have noted our talent fits a 4-3.

DL: Graham, Cox, Logan, Curry
LB: Barwin, Hicks, Kendricks
DB: Rowe, Jenkins, Thurmond, Maxwell

5) Sign a defensive minded head coach. The defense has a shot to be the strength of the team short term. Sign a guy who can capitalize on that, but make sure you get an OC and QB coach who can develop a young QB.

The Cowboys will be drafting before us. This will be their guy.. Bookmark it!

 

[Iggloo]

The rumor is he won't get past the Niners.

 

[SteelersPride]

really should just take a FA vet

 

[Wings]

I'm not gonna get into a whole lot as far as the draft and much free agency...but I can tell you this, Sam Bradford showed the last 5 games why he was the #1 overall pick the year he came out. He is far better than any QB coming out this year. That said, to be sure I would simply slap the franchise tag on him. Yes we would overpay for one year, but that is it, we would only be married to him for one year. Next i'd go get a couple solid Veteran Wr's to help him out. 2 guys I know right off the top of my head that are UFA and most likely will not sign with their current clubs...Mohamed Sanu 1.7 million there is no way the Bengals sign both Sanu and Marvin Jones. Sanu would instantly give us a solid possession wr and a veteran we could use on the cheap approx 3 mill per.
Next i sign Darrius Heyward Bay....A Speedster WR that can take the top off a defense. No way he signs with his current team, and he will come VERY cheap. I feel so much more comfortable going into next season with a WR core that starts out with Jordan Matthews, Darrius Heyward Bay, Jordan Matthews and Nelson Agholor....is that great, hell no, but it is far better than what we have right now, and we are not breaking the bank. Right there is where I begin.

 

[SixthStreet]

I don't care who the HC is, retaining Bradford is priority numero uno.

 

[DaEagles]

If Bradford would sign a 2 year deal for around 6/7 mil per year then I would keep him. Any more then that and you let him go. He's not worth more then that. Let some other team go in salary cap hell with an avg at best QB. I don't care about a 5 game streak, I care about the whole package. Hell Nabby had a nice 5 game streak, didn't make him an elite QB.

You draft a guy for the future or use a journeyman for a couple years as your looking for your future QB. Then you build your OL and Secondary with all the available $ in FA and draft.

 

[DutchBird]

1) Can Howie Roseman; he is just as toxic to the organization as Kelly is alleged to have been. Not f-ing uo the Lane Johnson pick is not an accomplishment. Howie is just as responsible for the O-line mess as Kelly, if not more (since the O-line problem dates back to the Andy days). It was Kelly who seems to have done more about the secondary than anything else. It is Roseman who is more responsible for the lack of young QB than Kelly. Bradford is the best QB we have had here since McNabb.

Roseman is basically that former Lions GM (who destroyed the Lions' franchize for years) reincarnated.

2) Bann Jeff McLane from the building.

3) Resign/franchize Sam Bradford.

4) Look for a new coach and new GM.

5) Focus on O-line in the draft.

 

[Taz]

Bradford is gone. Next Coach and GM will most likely pick their own QB. We have to draft one at some point this year, Be is Lynch, Goff, Wentz, Cook, Hackenberg whomever the next coach will need to draft and develop an EAGLES QB not a cast off. Go ahead and sign RGIII or Geno Smith or whomever of the younger guys who are going to be released as a stop gap or just go with Sanchez next year. Its going to be a "tank" type year anyway.

How about DeSean Jackson and Evan Mathis coming back here. Could happen Mathis is a free agent and Jackson is going to have a big cap number and is going to be released by the Redskins. Crowder has passed him at this point and he is only on the field about half the time.

Jackson, Agholor on the outside, will open up the middle of the field for Mathews and Ertz and also should open up the run game since the 8th man can't come into the box. Sign Alex Boone and Wisnewski, trade Kelce for a mid round pick and get bigger on the oline. Draft at least 2 lineman.

Going to be hard to go back to the 4-3 since the best ends we have will be free agents and Curry is going to get paid. I want to use that money for Cox. We need to upgrade the pass rush linebacker spot but that probably has to wait till the 2017 draft. This is at least a two year rebuild

 

[skinzfan]

Good move on Lurie's part, been saying here there's a problem with Kelly/players for months.

To keep, or not to keep Bradford....

I wouldn't, he is what he is, he has a large body of work to make that assessment. He's exactly what Rams fans said he was. He'll have real good games, followed by mediocrity. If the goal is to get deep in the playoffs, he's not the guy. I'd try to get Goff in the draft. Rebuilding an OL can take years, ask the Redskins. Teams aren't releasing starting OL unless there's a contract problem.

 

[Screamin Eagle]

First things first; hire a freaking football man as GM and let him do the hiring and firing. Otherwise more of the same is likely to continue. Howie can remain but only as the capologist. Next Monday fire everyone except Azzinaro.

 

[DutchBird]

First things first; hire a freaking football man as GM and let him do the hiring and firing. Otherwise more of the same is likely to continue. Howie can remain but only as the capologist. Next Monday fire everyone except Azzinaro.

That is a recipe for disaster. A report by Eckel - based on office insiders - is basically that Roseman has been undermining Kelly from the moment it was clear he could not control him (and especially since he was thrown out as GM) through his in house minions.

Everybody argues that Kelly is so obsessed with proving he is right that he is willing to sacrifice everything and anything in the process.

In Roseman you have someone who is obsessed with becoming a football GM as a 'non-football' guy, got there by some judicious backstabbing and ingratiating him with the owner, and was described by some insider by paranoia and an obsession with getting rid of everyone who might threaten him as a football GM; someone who overplayed, lost control over the coach he recruited, a coach who was proven wrong in many respects with some of Roseman's pet-projects (Foles!). A coach who got him demoted.

Someone like that would never accept anyone else as a GM, or at most someone who he can manipulate.

 

[Taz]

That is a recipe for disaster. A report by Eckel - based on office insiders - is basically that Roseman has been undermining Kelly from the moment it was clear he could not control him (and especially since he was thrown out as GM) through his in house minions.

Everybody argues that Kelly is so obsessed with proving he is right that he is willing to sacrifice everything and anything in the process.

In Roseman you have someone who is obsessed with becoming a football GM as a 'non-football' guy, got there by some judicious backstabbing and ingratiating him with the owner, and was described by some insider by paranoia and an obsession with getting rid of everyone who might threaten him as a football GM; someone who overplayed, lost control over the coach he recruited, a coach who was proven wrong in many respects with some of Roseman's pet-projects (Foles!). A coach who got him demoted.

Someone like that would never accept anyone else as a GM, or at most someone who he can manipulate.

Quick question will you become a fan of the team that Ole Chipper coaches next? Roseman was the smartest man in the room, he saw right through Kelly and to his credit so did Lurie. Lurie next step will be important to his ownership of this team he screws up again and this town will burn him at the stake.

 

[Screamin Eagle]

That is a recipe for disaster. A report by Eckel - based on office insiders - is basically that Roseman has been undermining Kelly from the moment it was clear he could not control him (and especially since he was thrown out as GM) through his in house minions.

Everybody argues that Kelly is so obsessed with proving he is right that he is willing to sacrifice everything and anything in the process.

In Roseman you have someone who is obsessed with becoming a football GM as a 'non-football' guy, got there by some judicious backstabbing and ingratiating him with the owner, and was described by some insider by paranoia and an obsession with getting rid of everyone who might threaten him as a football GM; someone who overplayed, lost control over the coach he recruited, a coach who was proven wrong in many respects with some of Roseman's pet-projects (Foles!). A coach who got him demoted.

Someone like that would never accept anyone else as a GM, or at most someone who he can manipulate.

I don't see how the capologist has any control but if were a concern then he can follow Kelly. Lurie needs to make sure that his people know their job and its limits.

 

[DutchBird]

I don't see how the capologist has any control but if were a concern then he can follow Kelly. Lurie needs to make sure that his people know their job and its limits.

When Roseman got the GM position, he quickly put his people in place in the building. Not all of those people were gone when he was dismissed as GM.

 

[DutchBird]

Quick question will you become a fan of the team that Ole Chipper coaches next?

No I will not, and frankly you are a dishonest jack-@ss (to put it mildly) for even suggesting this. Roseman taught you well, I see.

Roseman was the smartest man in the room, he saw right through Kelly and to his credit so did Lurie. Lurie next step will be important to his ownership of this team he screws up again and this town will burn him at the stake.

Roseman is not the smartest man in the room. He is the most Machiavellan, not the smartest as far as football matters go. Roseman is also brilliant as a PR man - being able to deflect all the blame for disastrous drafts he was involved in upon Kelly and Andy Reid.

And you are one of those stupid enough to fall for it.

It has been said that Roseman is seen by Lurie as a Messiah. And yeah, if he lets Roseman stay within the organization, Lurie deserves to be burned at the stake.

 

[L.Freamon]

That is a recipe for disaster. A report by Eckel - based on office insiders - is basically that Roseman has been undermining Kelly from the moment it was clear he could not control him (and especially since he was thrown out as GM) through his in house minions.

Everybody argues that Kelly is so obsessed with proving he is right that he is willing to sacrifice everything and anything in the process.

In Roseman you have someone who is obsessed with becoming a football GM as a 'non-football' guy, got there by some judicious backstabbing and ingratiating him with the owner, and was described by some insider by paranoia and an obsession with getting rid of everyone who might threaten him as a football GM; someone who overplayed, lost control over the coach he recruited, a coach who was proven wrong in many respects with some of Roseman's pet-projects (Foles!). A coach who got him demoted.

Someone like that would never accept anyone else as a GM, or at most someone who he can manipulate.

Ahhh...your source here is Mark Eckel? FYI:Anyone over here can tell you he's not a very respected journalist in the Delaware Valley. He's not as bad on the radio but even WIP doesn't let him on anymore i dont think. Back on the old board his articles were always the source of the most outrageous information and predictions that never came close to happening. That fact that this is your source explains a lot.

I would bet maybe 1% of what he ever writes is true. He has not nor ever will have any "office insiders". Maybe the guy thats in charge of recycling.