Eagles Exec VP/Football Operations Howie Roseman has returned to run the club in the "most hands-on way" of any GM in football after being "consigned to an invisible fate last year when Chip Kelly took over all things football," according to Peter King of THE MMQB. King: "Has any general manager ever hit the ground running the way Roseman has in the 10 weeks since he re-took control of the franchise that was once his?" Roseman this offseason has "run the head-coaching search that resulted" in the hiring of Doug Pederson and "signed five veteran starters" to new contracts. Roseman also "traded three starters ... signed six free agents in a 48-hour span" and "moved up from 13th to eighth" in the first round of the NFL Draft (MMQB.SI.com, 3/14). On Long Island, Bob Glauber noted the Eagles "wasted no time further distancing themselves from just about everything" Kelly did "during his calamitous run as the team’s football operations czar." The roster remake "has been as swift as it has been stunning." Roseman has "flushed the Kelly era down the toilet after a series of moves to undo most of the former coach’s decisions." Bradford is the "only significant holdover," but Roseman "has swept most of Kelly’s other high-profile acquisitions out the door" (NEWSDAY, 3/13).
WHEELIN' & DEALIN': In Philadelphia, Mike Sielski noted Roseman trading CB Byron Maxwell and LB Kiko Alonso to the Dolphins in order to move up in the first round of the draft is an "indication of his strengths as an executive: his ability to read the player-value market and his understanding of the needs and tendencies of other player-personnel people in the league." His familiarity with Dolphins Exec VP/Football Operations Mike Tannenbaum "worked to his advantage in this instance." Roseman said, "The great thing about the combine is that you get to talk to every team in the league and see your friends in the league, see the people you can talk trades with. What helps in that process is communication and being able to talk about different ideas and knowing that it's not going to go anywhere. It really helped being able to throw things against the wall and seeing what stuck. We're excited, and they're excited" (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 3/13).
