????Eagles will have difficult decisions after the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl hangover will hit the Philadelphia Eagles hard. That’s because the team has a series of complicated decisions to make before March 15, when the new NFL fiscal year begins and, in practice, players become free agents. And the Eagles have a lot of key roster pieces in that situation.

With little space available on the payroll and with the huge renewal of Jalen Hurts coming, Philadelphia will not have room to keep most of its free agents, especially on defense. Howie Roseman will need another 10 offseason if he wants to keep the Eagles as the NFC’s powerhouse.

Hitting the exits is the big point

The Eagles know they’re going to lose key players. That’s about it – and that’s okay. Every team that fights at the top of their conference ends up losing some players to the market, especially when their quarterback is no longer on a rookie contract. What will make a big difference for Philadelphia next month is which players the team needs to work on keeping.

Some of these names are relatively obvious, no matter how well they played in 2022. James Bradberry, Chauncey Gardner-Johnson, Isaac Seumalo, Miles Sanders and TJ Edwards are five examples in which the team cannot do crazy things – the first three because they will be expensive too many on the market, the last two because there are better cost-effective options in the squad and also in the Draft. The exception would be the use of the franchise tag on Gardner-Johnson, but I don’t believe the team will use that method.