Eagles News: Howie Roseman among biggest winners from the NFL trade deadline

2012 – 2014 Reid’s final year, team went 4-12. Roseman chooses Kelly, saying he’s trying to go from “Good to Great!” Kelly pushes him out the door and he spends his wilderness years learning, and likely vowing never to allow himself to be put in such a position by a coach again. Kelly completely screws up personnel with idiotic decisions, by 2015 Eagles seen as a bottom third roster and Roseman returns.

2015 – 2020 In an incredibly impressive demonstration of what he’s capable of, Roseman flips players for picks, including trading up for a potential franchise QB in Wentz, who was supposed to become what Josh Allen actually became (sigh). Regardless the team get stacked so quickly and so deeply the team wins the SB in 2017 and makes the playoffs the next 2 years. After that he trades the future to try to squeeze another SB run flipping picks for veterans and signing older players. It doesn’t work out and the team collapses to 4-11-1 in 2020, Pederson is shown the door.

2021-2015 Again showing his ability to turn around a roster and gun for a SB, he manages draft picks to gain multiple first rounders which he turns into the best roster in football, allowing another 2 SB runs and 1 more win. Once again pushing for capitalizing on his SB window, he rides with veterans, pushes cap out to the future, and is successful.

However once again the bill comes due. Players age, get injured, become less effective. The lack of cap space makes recovering difficult, and the lack of draft capital caused by low drafting order means there’s no cheap talent replace it, so now he is repeating his playbook, flipping players for picks with the idea of restacking for another window.

To me, the pattern seems clear: Roseman will allow the valleys to experience the peaks. Some teams never achieve the highs, and some teams are content with above average performance year after year without the SB wins.