4 Reasons to place Eagles GM Howie Roseman in a much hotter seat

If we’re being honest…

Following the 2017-2018 season, Roseman was named the Pro Football Writers Association’s  Executive of the Year, but how did he earn that dubious distinction? He signed a lot of free agents who all had one great year left in them, and midseason, he traded for a very good running back that had one good year left in him.

That’s always been the strategy. It happened in his first stint as a general manager, and it’s happening now. The cycle unfolds as follows. Philly misses on draft picks, and they make up for it by signing guys or trading for proven veterans. Those guys get injured more often because they’re aging. The “Birds” wind up with a lot of bad contracts, and they walk into every offseason with the same needs that they had the year prior.

Howie’s system of roster building worked one time, and if we’re being totally honest, if we’re going to elevate Howie for the 2017 roster and Super Bowl victory, you also have to admonish him for the “Dream Team”.

Yep, that was him too. The process looks familiar, doesn’t it? We’ve seen a single strategy for team building, and it’s only wound up being successful one time. That Super Bowl win has carried him ever since. So much for the “new norm” that we were all promised, huh?