
If you’re a Philadelphia Eagles fan, what’s your opinion of Howie Roseman now?
Thinks surely change in the blink of an eye, don’t they? When the curtain closed on the 2017-2018 NFL season, the Philadelphia Eagles had earned their Vince Lombardi Trophy, and one of the reasons why they had done so was a masterful job of roster building by the team’s vice president and general manager Howie Roseman.
Everything he did, from the signings of LeGarrette Blount, Alshon Jeffery, Torrey Smith, and Patrick Robinson to the midseason trade for jay Ajay worked.
When the ‘Birds’ had finally taken care of business, winning their fourth NFL Championship overall and their first Super Bowl, Howie was awarded the Pro Football Writers Association’s Executive of the Year Award for the 2017 season. Even though it wasn’t, it feels like that was ten years ago.
Those ‘HowieSZN’ hashtags that we all used to see on Twitter every time a well-known free agent became available have evaporated. All of those moves that used to work often don’t work anymore, and it seems like every two weeks, he’s at the negotiating table for a game-changing player that could help this Eagles team soar, but that always seems to end with someone else snagging that player for a bounty Philly could have paid easily (think DeAndre Hopkins and Yannick Ngakoue).
Reality is starting to settle in as that Super Bowl win gets further and further in the rearview mirror. Roseman isn’t the worst GM in the NFL, but he may not be as great as we all give him for being. The question is how do you feel as a fan? Do you still trust him as your favorite team’s GM? Let’s take a closer look at both sides of the argument.