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For the second time this summer, Howie Roseman has made a player-for-player trade.
This time, the Eagles have acquired safety Rudy Ford from the Arizona Cardinals for defensive tackle Bruce Hector.
Ford, 24, was a sixth-round pick out of Auburn in 2017 and has played in 23 games (one start) in the last two years for the Cardinals. Hector, a 24-year-old undrafted rookie out of South Florida last year, played in eight games for the Eagles in 2018.
Like most of these player-for-player trades (which are rare for most teams, but not the Eagles), it seems like Ford and Hector will each have a better chance of cracking rosters with their new teams. Earlier this month, Roseman moved undrafted OL Ryan Bates to Buffalo for DE Eli Harold for similar reasons.
During his two years in the NFL, Ford (5-11, 205) has primarily been a special teamer. He played 65 percent of the Cardinals’ special teams snaps in 2018 and just 5.5 percent of their defensive snaps. He didn’t play on defense at all as a rookie and played just 62 defensive snaps in 2018. He has played 455 special teams snaps in two years.
Even after trading for Ford, it doesn’t seem like he’s anywhere near a sure thing to make the roster. First, training camp is already over and we’re just two weeks from the start of the season. And the Eagles still have Malcolm Jenkins, Rodney McLeod, Andrew Sendejo and Johnathan Cyprien. And when the Eagles go to three safeties in practice, it’s still Sendejo who stays on the field.
We’ve talked about this for a while: the Eagles would basically recoup a compensatory pick if Sendejo isn’t on the roster. But based on how much they’ve been using him all summer, that hasn’t seemed likely.
In addition to those top four, the Eagles also still have Tre Sullivan, Deiondre’ Hall and Trae Elston. Sullivan and Hall were each on the 53-man roster in 2018. So this move has provided the Eagles even more depth at the safety position.
The Eagles did move on from Blake Countess on Aug. 13, so perhaps they just traded for Ford to fill the requirement for Auburn safeties on the roster.
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Another good player might become available in a trade, so Howie Roseman and the Eagles’ front office should at least look at the possibility.
Just like we talked about withMinkah Fitzpatricklast week, the Eagles are never shy about kicking tires when a quality player might be up for grabs.
That should be no different with Pro Bowl cornerback Jalen Ramsey, who would absolutely help the Eagles.
Sources:#JaguarsPro Bowl CB Jalen Ramsey has requested a trade from the team. This stems from his frustration with how he’s being used and from a confrontation with coach Doug Marrone on Sunday. This has been steadily building.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet)September 16, 2019
We’ve seen the Eagles’ struggles early this season to defend the pass. They’ve given up 680 passing yards in two games, the second-most they’ve ever given up in the first two games of a season. The Eagles have been rotating their outside corners with varied results. Ronald Darby, coming back from a torn ACL in 2018, has struggled early this season.
Meanwhile, the 24-year-old Ramsey was the fifth-overall pick in 2016 and has been a Pro Bowler in each of the last two years and was an All-Pro in 2017. To put it simply, he’s good. And he’s much better than anyone the Eagles have right now.
It’s also worth pointing out that the Jaguars lose plenty of leverage because this rocky relationship between Ramsey and the team is so public. That doesn’t help them get the best possible haul, but they should start by looking for a first-round pick.
Unlike Fitzpatrick, whom the Eagles would have cost-controlled through 2022 with a fifth-year option, Ramsey is in the final year of his four-year rookie contract and is on a fifth-year option in 2020. So Ramsey, presumably, will be looking for a big-time contract soon. That’s not a deal-breaker, but it does make a trade a little more complicated.
Ramsey certainly has a loud personality and isn’t afraid to speak his mind. That is always part of what the Eagles look at when they inquire about potentially adding a player. But the Eagles have faith in their locker room’s ability to absorb unique personalities. In thatnow-infamous interview with GQlast year, Ramsey gave his honest (and brutal) assessment of many QBs, but at least he spoke highly of Carson Wentz.
Since entering the league in 2016, Ramsey has nine interceptions and 45 pass breakups. During that span, Malcolm Jenkins and Rodney McLeod are tied for the Eagles’ lead in INTs with six and Jalen Mills leads the Eagles in pass breakups with 30. So Ramsey would immediately help.
It’s probably a long shot that the Eagles end up getting Ramsey, but based on Roseman’s history with trades, you certainly can’t rule them out.
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It’s rare that we see this side of Carson Wentz.
The pissed-off side.
Wentz was definitely angry at the way his concussion test was handled late in the second quarter of the Eagles-Falcons game Sunday night in Atlanta.
On a 3rd-and-10 with 1:51 left before halftime, Wentz threw incomplete to Mack Hollins, setting up an Eagles punt.
Wentz went over to the sideline and stayed there uneventfully while the Falcons went 3-and-out.
But at some point late during that Atlanta drive, the NFL’s neurosurgeon assigned to watch players’ behavior for possible concussions and then having them tested, instructed Wentz to enter the medical tent.
This coincided closely with the Falcons’ punt.
So when the Eagles returned to the field with 43 seconds left, Josh McCown was at quarterback.
If the concussion specialist saw concerning behavior from Wentz, why not have him tested immediately?
Good question.
Honestly, that was super frustrating,” Wentz said. “I was sitting on the sideline for about five minutes and then they called down to look at that. To me that is something that they need to figure out. It’s incredibly frustrating when I feel fine, but I understand that they need to look at that and that it is part of the game. But the fact that it took so long is really frustrating.
McCown played six snaps and actually converted a couple first downs as he drove the offense from the Falcons’ 41-yard-line down to the 13.
Wentz finally returned and a second later Jake Elliott hit a field goal to bring the Eagles within four points at 10-6,.
Head coach Doug Pederson said the Eagles will have conversations with league officials to try to figure out why things went the way they did.
“We’ll have communication obviously about it, but that stuff is out of our control,” he said. “If they see it, they are going to pull the player and it’s out of our control. It’s out of my hands. I can’t do anything about it. It’s a medical issue. It’s a player-safety issue. I’m sure we’ll have discussions on it but quite frankly, it’s out of our hands.”
Wentz seemed upset that in his eyes he wasn’t showing any concussion symptoms, but he and Pederson were most upset about the delay.
Why not call Wentz into the tent immediately when he got back to the field? He certainly doesn’t think he began displaying symptoms five minutes after leaving the field.
“That’s the part we have to have communication and dialogue with and make sure they are seeing the same things we’re seeing,” Pederson said. “But again, it’s out of our hands when the spotter sees something.”
The NFL’s concussion testing protocol has come a long way, and that’s a positive.
But when it starts affecting when a perfectly healthy star player can go back on the field, there’s a problem. A big problem. And the NFL needs to figure that part of this out in a hurry.
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