Eagles News: Philadelphia owns 3 of the NFC East’s worst 8 contracts
Philadelphia Eagles news and links for 5/23/21.
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8) Joe Flacco. [...] In his initial press conference with Philly media, Flacco was asked several different ways about a possible mentorship relationship with Hurts. While Flacco made sure to say that he would support Hurts, he also made it clear to point out that he was there to compete. Can’t blame him. Including the playoffs, the guy has started 190 games over his career. Making the transition to anything else can’t be easy. But certainly, Flacco doesn’t seem to be about that mentorship life in the same way that, say, Josh McCown was. As for the logic behind the pay increase, sure, we now know he’s healthy, but who cares when he was bad in his four starts last year. Some know-nothing, know-it-all wannabe salary cap experts have pointed out that Flacco will only count for $1,560,000 on the cap in 2021, not the $3.5 million that was originally reported. Well, sure, he’ll only count for roughly $1.5 million in 2021, but it’s not like the remaining $2 million just doesn’t exist. That’ll count toward the 2022 salary cap, when he’ll very likely no longer be on the team. Is a $3.5 million guaranteed contract going to cripple the Eagles’ salary cap? No, certainly it will not. However, because many took extreme issue with the initial criticism of this wholly illogical contract, you have to continue to hear about it. Argue about it again here, and I’ll keep cramming it down your throats until I become unreadable.