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Post by EagleDomiKnation on Feb 13, 2014 9:22:39 GMT -5
It doesn't make sense at first blush. As NFC East champions, the Philadelphia Eagles play a first-place schedule in 2014. But their strength of schedule, based on the 2013 records of their opponents, is just 20th of the 32 NFL teams.
The Eagles' 2014 opponents had a cumulative losing record in 2013 -- a winning percentage of .479 -- even though the Eagles play division winners Seattle, Green Bay, Carolina and Indianapolis.
The reason? The NFC East itself doesn't provide any opponents that had winning records in 2013, and the division is matched up with the AFC South, which had three sub-.500 teams.
It's simple, really. The eight teams with the toughest strength of schedule are all from the NFC West and AFC West. Those were the only divisions in the NFL that produced three teams with winning records in 2013. That's why the toughest schedule belongs to 4-12 Oakland: The Raiders are in a division with three playoff teams -- Denver, Kansas City and San Diego.
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Post by EagleDomiKnation on Feb 14, 2014 9:50:57 GMT -5
The Eagles are one of five teams that rolled over more than $10 million in 2013 salary-cap space into 2014. While their 2014 commitments of roughly $123.4 million bring them close to the projected cap ($126-128 million), that $17 million gives them a spending limit of nearly $144 million.
That means the Eagles don’t have to release any players from their 10-6, division-title-winning team just to get into compliance with the cap. And it means they have more space to add talent than their rivals in the NFC East.
Washington and the New York Giants are two of the three NFL teams that carried over zero cap space from 2013. The Dallas Cowboys carried over $1.28 million, but have a cap-busting $152 million in 2014 commitments that must be severely reduced by March 11, when the new cap goes into effect it must be restated that the Eagles have an edge on many teams because of their quarterback situation. With Michael Vick’s contract expiring, the Eagles will have just $1.4 million tied up in cap space for quarterbacks Nick Foles and Matt Barkley. Teams typically commit 10 to 16 percent of their cap space to their starting quarterback (Vick’s $12.2 million cap figure was nearly 11 percent of the 2013 cap).
That won’t last forever. Sooner or later, the Eagles will have to commit that kind of money to Foles or another starting quarterback. For now, they have the freedom to build the best possible team around the quarterback while setting themselves up with contracts that don’t hamstring them later.
Having cap space isn’t as important as wisely using cap space. But the Eagles remain one of the teams that consistently give themselves space to work with.
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Post by EagleDomiKnation on Feb 26, 2014 10:56:06 GMT -5
Peters’ agent Vincent Taylor told Adam Schefter of ESPN that the team has signed Peters the deal is worth $41.3 million with $19.55 million of that total guaranteed.
5 year deal...still waiting on word how much cap space if any is saved.
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Post by EagleDomiKnation on Mar 28, 2014 8:40:30 GMT -5
Mark Sanchez officially signed to a one year deal. I speculate him to be behind Barkley on the depth chart. Due to Sanchez being new to the program and Offense. Chip doesn't seem like the type to favor veteran status...what you think Goose ? Idiotic reports still out by media members vying to keep themselves relevant siting "sources close to the team" that Evan Mathis and Djax are on the trading block. Good grief.
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Post by Morkim on Mar 28, 2014 12:33:53 GMT -5
Mark Sanchez officially signed to a one year deal. I speculate him to be behind Barkley on the depth chart. Due to Sanchez being new to the program and Offense. Chip doesn't seem like the type to favor veteran status...what you think Goose ? Idiotic reports still out by media members vying to keep themselves relevant siting "sources close to the team" that Evan Mathis and Djax are on the trading block. Good grief. Yeah, this does look idiotic now.
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Post by Goose on Mar 28, 2014 14:34:53 GMT -5
I can't believe they cut Jackson
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Post by Divebitch on Mar 28, 2014 14:47:03 GMT -5
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Post by EagleDomiKnation on Mar 28, 2014 15:48:12 GMT -5
Mark Sanchez officially signed to a one year deal. I speculate him to be behind Barkley on the depth chart. Due to Sanchez being new to the program and Offense. Chip doesn't seem like the type to favor veteran status...what you think Goose ? Idiotic reports still out by media members vying to keep themselves relevant siting "sources close to the team" that Evan Mathis and Djax are on the trading block. Good grief. Yeah, this does look idiotic now. Especially that they didn't trade him...So glad I didn't buy either of my daughters Djax jerseys. So discombobulated over his release.
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Post by EagleDomiKnation on Apr 9, 2014 14:28:41 GMT -5
Preseason schedule: at Chicago, at NE and home vs Pitt and NYJ. Goose ...Chicago is a new one.
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Post by Divebitch on Apr 29, 2014 4:44:59 GMT -5
Especially that they didn't trade him...So glad I didn't buy either of my daughters Djax jerseys. So discombobulated over his release. I actually own one. Yeah, I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. Was hoping to get an answer here, but it was just the same BS. www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000344870/article/chip-kelly-desean-jackson-cut-for-football-reasonsYou come out after a month to regurgitate the same garbage? Can you be a little more specific than "football reasons"? " "Chip told me he wanted to attack the wide receiver position differently," Lurie said. The second-year NFL coach said once the team tried to go in a different direction, it attempted to trade the receiver." So what is this plan of "attack"? What direction are they shooting for, bottom of the div? Then this... " Kelly said he wasn't worried about losing a 1,332-yard receiver, simply stating that the Eagles receiving corps will "be all right." Lurie dismissed the idea that Jackson landing with the division rival Washington Redskins was a blow to Philly. "We're not afraid of any player going to a team in our division," the owner said. "Let's check back in three years and see where we're at." Really? Really? No worries? Three years? IDK which one sounds nuttier.
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