EBG as GM of the Eagles

Since the offseason is full of speculation of trades, drafts and Free Agency signings, Chase, RipperEagle and I have put together our version of what the Eagles should do.

First, resigning some of our own Free Agents is a must. CB Joselio Hanson and S Quinton Mikell are tops on the list. As is LJ Smith since he has been franchised. Now if it were up to us, we would let LJ walk and bring in Ben Troupe or Eric Johnson at a much cheaper price and same amount of production.

Second, make some cuts to free up cap space. DE's Jevon Kearse and Jerome McDougle top the list. Other cuts include RB Ryan Moats and DT Montae Reagor.

Next up is adding some Free Agents. DE Justin Smith, DT Antwan Odom and OT Max Starks tops the list.

Draft day is now upon us so lets work some magic. With the signing of Starks, William Thomas is expendable. He goes to Detroit, along with our 4th round pick for Roy Williams.

Now for the draft itself:

Round 1....... WR Limas Sweed....... he will be the best WR we've drafted in a while. A big physical player, he makes Reggie Brown also expendable.

Round 2...... trade Brown and the current pick to move up and get best available CB. Hopefully that is Rodgers-Cromartie or Cason. This move shores up our CB position for when Lito gets hurt..... as much as I hate to say that.

Round 3....... OT Chris Williams...... we know Reid loves his OL. So drafting one here makes sense. We don't know what we have quite yet in Justice, so Williams may be able to push Justice for a backup spot.

Round 4...... we traded that pick......but fear not. We get one anyways by trading our 5th and 6th rounder for a 4th. With that pick we grab FB Owen Schmitt. One tough sunuvabitch. Could bring an aspect to the Eagles offense that is now missing which is someone that goes out there and tries to bring the pain to players trying to tackle him. Is good in pass blocking, is a bruising runner and can catch the ball out of the backfield but might need to work on it a bit. Tapeh is a FA and Davis has been hurt the past two seasons. So this move works.

After this pick, the rest of the draft is a crapshoot. We will have some comp picks for losses incurred last year to help bring players in to compete.

These moves in our opinion make the Eagles serious contenders again. The 53 man roster would look like this:

QB: McNabb, Kolb, Feeley (3)
RB: Westbrook, Buckhalter, Hunt (3)
FB: Schmitt (1)
TE: Smith, Celek, Schobel (3)
WR: Williams, Sweed, Curtis, Lewis, Avant or Baskett (5)
LT: Starks, Williams (2)
LG: Herremans, Jean-Gilles (2)
C: Jackson, Cole (2)
RG: Andrews, Young(2)
RT: Runyan, Justice(2)

LE: Thomas, Abiamiri (2)
DT: Patterson, Bunkley, Odom, Clark (4)
RE: Cole, Spicer, Howard (2)
WILL: Spikes, Jordan (2)
MIKE: Gaither, (unmentioned rookie) (2)
SAM: Gocong, Bradley (2)
CB: Sheppard, Brown, Cason/Rodgers Cromartie, Hanson, Graham (5)
FS: Dawkins, Reed (2)
SS: Mikell, Considine (2)

K: Akers (1)
P: Rocca (1)
LS: Dorenbos (1)

KR: Reed
PR: ???????