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Tim Mcmanus
Philadelphia – On Sunday night in New Orleans, the general manager of Philadelphia Eagles, Howie Roseman, was a completely immersed man at the time.
His arms got up and a cigarette between his index and the middle finger in his right hand, Roseman, with a blue dress shirt and a navy blue coat, made his way at the center of the locker room. The players formed a circle around them and let out a “Hello!” Every time the rhythm is restored and its GM changed in rhythm.
Soon, it was equipped with a silver chain with a large and soft replica of a helmet of the eagles that hung from it. The rest of the night surrounded the room, the normal appearance of the concentration moved away from his face, seeking to squeeze up to the last little joy of the victory of the Eagles Super Bowl over the heads of Kansas City, the second Lombardi trophy that He has delivered to a city that previously had none.
It was a rare instance in which the 49 -year -old architect could focus on the here and now. The day before the team left Philadelphia for New Orleans, Roseman offered a look inside a mind that has no choice but to live almost constantly in the future.
“It’s all that I think all the time,” Roseman told a group of reporters within the auditorium in the team’s practice facilities. “I am thinking about what we are going to do next year in August. I am thinking about how 2026 is seen and 2027 is seen every night when I go to bed. I really don’t change.
“I think that is my role, enjoying the team on Sundays, but the rest of the week I am thinking about next year. It is very opposed to what happens during the week. Everyone is focused on how we are surpassing that opponent and also I want to overcome that opponent, but I am thinking of the players in the draft, the free agency players, how we are assigning our resources, how we make sure we are aligned for a staff member.
Obstacles in front of the Eagles in this low season, so not only are they suddenly focusing.
The most pressing, will have to account for the loss of the offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, who was recently hired as Chief of the Saints of New Orleans. Field Marshal Jalen Hurts will work with his fifth different game game since he entered the League in 2020. The Eagles will have to decide if they will rely on the familiarity side and promote the coordinator of the pass game/coach in chief associate Kevin Patullo or looking for an external candidate with more experience in reproduction.
The Eagles have a handful of key taxpayers in the contracts that expire, including the supporter All-Pro Zack Baun, the Milton Williams and Josh Sweat defensive liners, and the right guard Mekhi Becton. They will also have to decide whether to hold on to the 34 -year -old corner, Darius Slay, who has a 2025 limit blow of around $ 14 million.
The outputs are inevitable, especially after a race for the title with others in the League trying to capture a portion of that success. But in general, Philadelphia is well established for 2025 and beyond.
Start with the fact that the main veteran players such as Hurts, the Saquon Barkley corridor, the AJ Brown and Devont a long time. -Term control before their previous ones were close to expiring, Roseman could prevent price labels from getting control. And thanks to the will of the Jeffrey Lurie CEO to put effective for several of these agreements, in the form of signature bonds, the limit blows extend more uniformly during the life of the contract, which allows greater flexibility of the lid .
As it is, the Eagles cost approximately $ 25 million under the limit for ’25, which is in the middle of the NFL package.
An important blessing for the ’24 birds was that they boasted from defense number 1 despite committing the fourth lowest amount of dollars of capitalization on that side of the ball. Vic Fangio credit defensive coordinator for working his magic. But the other component is a successful writing. From ’22, the Eagles have added people like Jalen Carter, Nolan Smith Jr., Nakobe Dean, Quinyon Mitchell and the Super Bowl Lix Star Cooper leave through the Draft.
Seven of the headlines in defense were 25 years or less, and there are other promising first and second year players such as Jalyx Hunt, Jeremiah Trotter Jr., Sydney Brown, Kelee Ringo and Moor Ojomo that can help fill the void of some of some of pending free agents.
“As the limit becomes more tight, as all our expensive players begin to be expensive, you have to go with young players,” Roseman said.
Similarly in the offensive, the combination of having an elite offensive line coach at Jeff Stoutland matched with the writing of types such as Tyler Steen makes Becton’s potential loss more manageable.
With some potential replacements in the pipe, a decent amount of capitalization space and nine draft selections scheduled for April, Philadelphia is well positioned to maintain a first level list.
A main reason why the Eagles could build a sustainable model, averaged more than 10 victories per season since 2017 and have appeared in three Super Bowls during that time, winning two of them, is that Lurie and Roseman take the length. view.
“It is a large part of my personality, it is a large part of Howie’s personality,” Lurie said during the Super Bowl opening night. “It’s probably how we have worked together during the last 20 years. Even this week, we are here, we have some ideas about 2025, ’26, ’27, what we are going to do. It is. A constant obsession, and I love Howie.
Roseman has as much job security as any GM in the NFL, which is a key part of the equation, since many of his classmates are forced to obtain a mentality of this year or beginning.
“I am not worried about the safety of my work, not because I am in a scholarship, just because I think that if you start worrying about that and do not worry about what is better for the team,” Roseman said, “change your approach.”
