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The NFL season is over and everything is worse now. We just saw the Seattle Seahawks soundly defeat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 60 meaning the Eagles title of defending champions is over. We now enter the dark days also known as the offseason. Footballless weekends are upon us. How you spend these next few months are up to you but here’s where I’m starting.
Prep for the next Eagles season. There’s been a lot of upheaval to the Eagles staff, particularly on the offensive side. Let’s familiarize ourselves with them. New Offensive Coordinator Sean Mannion, Passing Coordinator Josh Grizzard, and Offensive Line Coach Chris Kuper have joined the Eagles staff for 2026. They seem like promising young hires which is the cliche way of saying we know very little about how they’ll actually perform. We do know that Jordan Love has played well under Mannion, Baker has become the franchise guy in Tampa under Grizzard, and the Vikings rushing game was surprisingly competent despite the revolving door of starter quarterbacks. I’ll also looking to players that may join or leave the team next year.
Brings us to crazy trade scenarios. Is AJ Brown actually going to force a trade out of Philadelphia? Personally I want to keep AJ despite his antics from the last two years. Most reports show Brown’s value around a second round pick which doesn’t justify it to me. Sure a second round pick could be any caliber of player, it could even be an AJ Brown type player. Then again Howie has shown he’d rather pull the plug early than late.
Is Howie going to pull a masterclass and try to get Maxx Crosby? While I would love to see a player like him added to the team, I think it only really happens if the Raiders are desperate to move him. He has a massive contract signed last year and the Eagles need more help on the offensive line than defensive. They’ll likely try and build through the draft.
Speaking of, you can also start prepping for the draft. My early draft prep is to take an o-line or player from either the college playoffs or the SEC. I think the biggest difference for the Eagles from 2024 to 2025 was their running game. Hand up, I’m not much of a college football fan so specifics will come later as we get closer to the draft. I do know that we can’t judge their past season of play until we see how well they exercise before the draft. More to come that later but we have our last idea.
Doom scroll about the team. Not recommended and actually I’m going to try and talk you down on the big ones. Landon Dickerson might retire due to a knee injury rumored to plague his 2025 season and was an issue when he was first drafted. It may surprise you but I’m not secretly a doctor with a great knowledge of players knees. I can say as a sports watcher we’ve seen a lot of players with leg injuries heal faster and back to 100% as of late. There’s ACL’s like Jayson Tatum or even Joel Embiid who got knee surgery and has been playing like he did when he won the MVP.
Lane Johnson also had a surgery and as the longest tenured player on the Eagles (assuming Brandon Graham re-retires) with questions about his future. I don’t actually expect him to retire unless his healing goes worse than expected. What I do expect is that this is his last year so the Eagles better take one of those guys I haven’t researched yet.
Vic Fangio also flirted with retirement but has told the team he’d remain for at least another year. While this would be bad for obvious reasons there’s always the chance that these were just rumors and a return to winning would cure his issues. There’s also our old pal Jim Schwartz, who is taking a year off of football after not being picked as the Browns Head Coach. Would he be willing to take another Defensive Coordinator spot? Who knows but I can tell you he’d get more national coverage with the Eagles than the Browns.
Those are a few things I’ll be doing, I’ll also be writing for all you fine readers. Thanks for your time and let me know in the comments what you’d like to read about next.
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