It’s simple to want an explanation of what the Philadelphia Eagles want to do after a season that will end fortunately on Sunday.
But first, the Eagles will have to face their quarterback, head coach and general manager.
Once they do, they will be able to know how to fix a season that has gone extraordinarily wrong in many ways.
Rest a day sure that anything will replace a team that is 4-10-1 before your last opponent of the Washington football team on Sunday night. Eagles general manager Jeffrey Lurie is even more likely to know what to do.
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Here’s a look at each and every situation imaginable for the Eagles’ off-season:
The simplest solution, of course, is for Lurie to remain general manager Howie Roseman, head coach Doug Pederson and Quarterback Carson Wentz as starters.
In this way, the Eagles can keep the frame in the position where Wentz remains the franchise’s quarterback, and then it will be up to Roseman, the players around him and Pederson to exercise them better.
That turns out to be the preference of Pederson, who on Friday expressed confidence that he would be back by 2021 and said he would meet Lurie, as he does after a season, early next week.
But if Pederson returns, he said his precedence to fix Wentz, who will end the season sitting for the last four games and a share, while rookie Jalen Hurts took over.
Wentz finished with a minimum of 57. 4% of his passes before being sent to the bench on December 6 in favor of rookie Jalen Hurts. He also pitched 15 interceptions at the highest point in the NFL and 50 times at the highest point in the league.
That’s a fall from his last four seasons.
“I think the last 4 games have allowed Carson to step back and evaluate, see and paint some of the things we’ve brought him up with, and things we continue with him as we go along,” Pederson said.
“This is probably the most vital thing that has emerged in recent weeks. Look, I’m very confident in Carson Wentz, and I’ve done it. As a team, and it falls on my shoulder. “
On the one hand, the Eagles can argue that much of Wentz’s difficulties stemted from the injury-ravaged offensive line in which Jason Kelce, the only starter to spend the entire season, plus a large number of receivers led through rookies and freshmans. Players.
The Eagles will use another 14 line combinations in their 16 games, an NFL record. Two starters, left player Andre Dillard and right guard Brandon Brooks, have been lost all season, and three others, right Lane Johnson, left guard Isaac. Seumalo and left shot/right guard Jason Peters have missed at least seven games.
Peters, who will be 39 in January, is the only one in this organization who returns.
“I look at the injuries and that’s all we want to communicate in the off-season,” Pederson said. “We want to communicate about it and see if I want to replace the practice or if I want to practice harder or be more physical in education. camping. “
Quarterback Wentz or Hurts will also have a low season with young catchers such as Jalen Reagor, John Hightower and Quez Watkins.
That didn’t happen last spring because of the pandemic.
“The more you do things, the more repetitions there are, the more chemistry there is, the greater,” Reagor said. “Having a low season, being able to do OTA, will only make us better because we’re going to be closer to each other, so it’s pretty self-explanatory. “
But if Lurie believes in Roseman and Pederson – they led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl win just 3 years ago – he may simply call a senior adviser to help him with the draft, loose signing and other types of decisions.
You can also force Pederson to give up his attack duties. Pederson has been reluctant to give up his game call tasks in the past, although he has admitted that he has done so from time to time during the season.
Roseman’s repechage history has been inconsistent at the most productive time since he made full decisions about the workers’ body in 2016.
For his credit, Roseman made his five 2018 draft picks, adding the Dallas Goedert tight finale and the defensive finale Josh Sweat, as an offensive part of Miles Sanders in the 2019 moment round.
But many others were also lost, adding cornerer Sidney Jones and Rasul Douglas at the time and third of the 2017 draft, respectively, and open catcher J. J. Arcega-Whiteside at the time of 2019.
Obviously, these are evident on this team.
The most egregious thing about Arcega-Whiteside, which has been a healthy scratch in four games this season, is that Seattle took the seven-selection DK Metcalf after Arcega-Whiteside. Metcalf has 1,282 yards this season. Arcega-Whiteside is 45.
And although Reagor has the chance to be an NFL smart catcher, Roseman, 21st in the first round, overcame Reagor over Justin Jefferson, who chose the Minnesota Vikings as the next pick.
Jefferson gained 1,267 yards, while Reagor, who missed five games for thumb surgery, had 381.
But Roseman’s disorders don’t end there.
Eagles are expected to exceed the salary cap by up to $70 million by 2021, have little flexibility to face a high-profile loose agent even after losing several veterans and/or restructuring contracts.
Wentz’s contract has temporarily become an albatross. If the Eagles released Wentz, he would have $59. 2 million in dead cash against the salary cap, which would raise $25 million to his estimated maximum deficit of $70 million.
If they went to the Wentz industry, the Eagles would still be at the mercy of a $34 million death by 2021.
The Eagles have had a similar stage with open catcher Alshon Jeffery this season. He would have counted $26 million in cash if he had been released last spring. Ideally, this would have happened because Jeffery was already in decline and coming out of foot surgery.
Instead, the Eagles stayed with Jeffery, even though he missed eight games to start the season. He has only six receptions for 115 yards in seven games. Roseman also redeemed for DeSean Jackson in the spring of 2019. 8 of the 33 games imaginable.
In fact, a new general manager would have a mess to leave blank.
The Eagles have 12 players who will have at least $10 million opposed to the pay cap next season, meaning many veterans, such as the tight ending Zach Ertz, Jeffery, Jackson, Malik Jackson’s defensive version, probably wouldn’t come back.
But it can also mean that the defensive take-off of Fletcher Cox, defensive finisher Brandon Graham, Lane Johnson’s right shot and even right guard Brandon Brooks will have to rework their contracts to stay.
Perhaps the new general manager is already on the staff, while the NFL reported last week that former Kansas City and Cleveland Browns general manager John Dorsey had been running as a representative for a few months.
If there’s a replacement general manager, whether it’s Dorsey or someone else, it’ll probably also mean a new coach is coming. Again, if it’s Dorsey, it’s imaginable that Pederson will just stay. Pederson was the offensive, coordinator under Andy Reid when Dorsey was the general manager in Kansas City.
Still, if the franchise is going on with a new general manager and head coach, chances are the Eagles are looking to climb the draft enough to take a quarterback at Ohio State’s Justin Fields or BYU’s Zach Wilson, assuming Trevor. Lawrence de Clemson spends first at the general in Jacksonville.
But it also means at least a few years of reconstruction, a luxury that Roseman and Pederson probably wouldn’t even have if they came back.
It is imaginable that Lurie will make the decision that a replacement of the coach is necessary.
On the one hand, Wentz went through his worst season, and Pederson may simply not move it or move it anymore; Pederson said earlier in the season that Wentz “dynamic. “
Then there was Sanders’s when asked what was wrong this season: “Just not much wise football the season in all positions, in the whole team. As for the offense, not very wise execution of all, adding myself, a lot of ball losses, adding myself. I feel like a lot of things have gone wrong. “
Pederson didn’t have many paintings to paint with, and that is to say that no one expected Wentz to go back as far as he did.
On the other hand, if Lurie and/or Roseman thought Hurts was the answer to the quarterback, then maybe Lurie might need to pass after Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley, who coached Hurts in 2019, a year after coaching Kyler Murray, who is now an emerging star with the Arizona Cardinals.
Lurie has imagined the Eagles as a cutting-edge and cutting-edge offensive team, so he hired Chip Kelly as head coach in 2013 after seeing Kelly’s rapid offensive in Oregon.
Before that, it was Andy Reid and his attack on the West Coast that he learned from Mike Holmgren, who was a disciple of Bill Walsh.
Even Pederson matched that bill when he hired him in 2016.
So, if Lurie and/or Roseman realized that field marshals who can throw and run, like Hurts and Murray, are the wave of the future, then it’s quite imaginable that he needs a young avant-garde coach to expand Hurts.
If he’s not Riley, then he could be the Chiefs’ existing offensive coordinator with Reid in Eric Bienemy. After all, they helped Patrick Mahomes, the most productive quarterback in the NFL.
But there will be changes, whether at the players’ point, Pederson’s training, Pederson himself or the design of the main office.
They even know them.
“I’d love for everyone to be here, but that’s how it works,” Sanders said. “We’re going to have an absolutely different team next year and that’s how it is every year.
“Honestly, I wish everyone could stay in Array . . . I hope to still be here. “
Sanders’ return is one of the few things that is almost guaranteed.
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