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Wow! Eagles put Evan Mathis on trading block to avoid $5.15M salary
This guy is the real deal at LG. Maybe the best in the league the last year or two. He's 32 but with minimal wear & tear as he played backup his 1st 6 seasons. He would surely be a big help to a young LT.
DeSean Jackson isn’t the only Pro Bowler the Eagles might trade. The Eagles are also willing to trade Pro Bowl guard Evan Mathis, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports. Like Jackson, Mathis is a good player whom the Eagles’ offense would miss. But there are issues related to Mathis’s contract: Mathis is due $5.15 million this season, and there’s been talk that he thinks he deserves more than that as a first-team All-Pro, while the Eagles don’t want to pay a guard who’s turning 33 this season that much money. When the player wants more while the team wants to pay less, that’s not a good combination. After bouncing around the league as mostly a backup for six seasons in three cities, Mathis has emerged as an excellent guard in Philadelphia, and he still has three more seasons remaining on the five-year, $25 million contract he signed with the Eagles before the 2012 season. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...may-trade-him/ |
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03-26-2014, 08:34 PM | #2 |
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03-26-2014, 08:53 PM | #6 |
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03-26-2014, 09:51 PM | #7 |
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03-26-2014, 09:59 PM | #9 |
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Nobody cares about it until the team can't convert on 3rd and short or Smith gets hit.
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03-26-2014, 10:21 PM | #11 |
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03-26-2014, 11:33 PM | #13 |
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I think how important the position is versus how its filled are two different things. LG is important in that the guy there needs to be your most athletic interior player. That player has to be a good pass protector and good at run blocking in space.
I agree that teams try to find good guards later in the draft, but with that the good teams retain those guys at a premium price. So, I don't necessarily advocate trading for a guard AND paying him, but I'd consider throwing a round 6 pick out there and see if they bite. Guards are very important in the NFL and good NFL teams follow this philosophy. Bad teams overpay for left tackles. Good teams spend their money on retaining very good guards. All you have to do is look at salaries paid to the top NFL tackles versus the top NFL guards for some proof of that. |
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03-26-2014, 11:43 PM | #15 |
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They wouldn't even pay Schwartz $4M a year and they new he could play two positions if need be.
No, they are drafting someone to be on the cheap this season and in the future. (Rookie contract) Kinda the theme this year if we haven't all noticed the players/contracts that have been signed to this point.
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