Roseman Leaves Door Open To Eagles Drafting Quarterback Or Linebacker Early
BREAKING NEWS, Eagles Draft, News, NFLDraft Friday, March 30th, 2012
Eagles GM Howie Roseman was on 94WIP yesterday with Rob Ellis and Reuben Frank and he had quite a bit to say. One of the areas he talked about was the Eagles mentality in approaching this year’s draft. He emphasized the Birds attempt to not be swayed by their needs.
Roseman was asked if the Birds would be interested in drafting a linebacker despite acquiring two-time Pro Bowl middle linebacker DeMeco Ryans or quarterback, despite having Michael Vick under contract for a number of years.
“I don’t think you can go into the draft saying that we’re not going to take a particular position”, Roseman said. “Again, we go back and look at some of the things we’ve done and try to do a better job. I think one of the the things that we’ve looked at is, if we go into the draft and say, ‘We’ve got to get this or we’re not going to take that.’ If there’s a player on the board that we think is by far the best player, it doesn’t matter the position, we’ll take that player”.
With regard to picking a quarterback in this year’s draft, the Eagles GM didn’t deny reports that the Birds could take a signal caller very early.
“You’re talking about a priority position going forward”, Roseman told Frank and Ellis. “That’s always a spot that we look at. You’re talking about a guy like Andy who came from the Green Bay system, where they drafted one every year”.
Roseman also mentioned Ron Wolf who made sure the Packers always had a young talented quarterback as a back up. I don’t think the Birds can be excited about a guy like Mike Kafka in the backup role because he doesn’t have the arm strength to be a big time starter in the NFL.
Don’t be shocked if the Eagles select a quarterback in this draft and I’m talking about in rounds one, two or three.
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Greenfan – also, they had free public transportation throughout the city with your student ID card while I was there – pretty cool perk.
Also – consider Carnegie Mellon and Pitt like Penn/Drexel – similar vicinity so you get the benefit of two large Universities combining resources often.
And, it’s relatively affordable.
stevo, I have 2 jobs, & flip houses. I just like this site, because of the talk & forum to vent, on my downtime. LMFBO!
lions, nothing personal, bruh! We just see things differently. It’s all good.
Schill – When Rush and Sean and Bill O show up at Pitt – you and me sitting front row right ! You know everyone thinks we are the same person – we can prove them wrong -
too funny today – where the Hell is Pman or GM Cliff to at least attempt to steer this towrds a football topic?
ha Navy, it’s amazing that we’re the same person, yet only one of us met Paulman. And yeah, I’ll be there in the seat next to you, vomiting all over the place and throwing painkillers and black history month flyers at Rush
It is weird how us two can be so aligned when it comes to the Eagles, but yet you are so damn wrong about politics. Fascinating…
Wow – Ryan Leaf got arrested for the 2nd time in like 3 days for burglary and drug charges… man – once you get that monkey (the drugs) on your back – guess it came out that when he was a volunteer coach at West Texas – if you got hurt – you got a visit from Coach Leaf who took half your prescription
Hey – I live in the land of sunshine granola and high taxes – there is a movement afoot for the more conservative counties to the south to defect from CA – LA and SF and there liberal polocies can go there own direction -
but hey we should do that with the country the ULSA and the UCSA – the
The UNited Liberal States of America can have high taxes, high regulation, lax immigration, high deficiets, weak national defense, multitudes of social safety nets, free medical care, and all those other great things libs love to tell us we need in our lives – wait… why not just move to Greece, or Italy, or France or Spain… oh, yeah.. I see, those countries are failing and rioting… yeah -
OK – give me one last good response and then we got to knock this crap off
Ha… wait, we/i/you live on both coasts at one time!? F the political differences in one individual, this is crazy. I’m starting to think we’re actually NOT the same person.
Well, Cali is it’s own case – really different from most of the US. So, I don’t know that you can really extrapolate from a state with a celebrity govenor and unparelleled politics to the rest of the country. You really think that we can’t reduce millitary spending without making our defense weakend? That’s a pretty damn simplisitic view of it – we spend ASSLOADS on the millitary, fight mulitple prolonged wars at a time…etc.etc.etc. And still, there’s really only been one attack on our soil in a long time. So we are all for protecting our country from outside, but ills within – eh, screw ‘em. On the social safety nets – so you’re cool letting poor children die? What about sick people – just let ‘em die? Dude, if you’re seriously for economic logic/sense – as a society, the smart $ move is for more of the Obamacare plan than the conservative approach (unless you call the conservative approach what the republicans like Romney created….)
Ah… that should suffice for the day eh?
yep – clear to see we are NOT the same person
I think you (navy & schill) are really the same guy….there is no way that two people could be more diametrically opposed politally and so aligned in their fandom!! It must be a ploy to throw us all off!!
Thanks schill…I liked Pitt from the tour and reputation. She is getting better packages from other schools, but I think that is where she wants to go. Appreciate the info.
@navy…..saw that story too..can’t believe the Ryan Leaf story…looks like they are going to revoke his probation from an earlier burgulary charge….automatic 10 years without even factoring the latest charges. Crazy. Everyone remembers the debates….Manning or Leaf….guess there are no “sure things” in the NFL draft.
green – yeah, funny we were talking egos on the other article – well look at Leaf – forget Mamula – Ryan Leaf = the definition of NFL bust. And now look where he is in life. Not saying he’s not at fault – not saying that at all. But when your ego gets built up to the level his was on draft day, and then beaten down to where it was when he fell out of the league, well… this aint THAT surprising…
Yeah, but when I think of 2 QB busts I think Ryan Leaf and Todd Marinovich….Mamula actually had a career you could look at…those guys never came close to living up to the hype.