Let’s take a quick swing around the NFC East:
- The Cowboys plan to start Tyrone Crawford at defensive end opposite DeMarcus Lawrence, and Crawford recently provided some positive news on his surgically repaired hips. “Surprisingly, I’m feeling great,” Crawford recently said (via the team’s official website). “Obviously, double hip surgery is nothing to play around with. But I’m feeling awesome, ready to go.” The 30-year-old’s hip problems date back to the 2018 campaign, and between him, Randy Gregory, Aldon Smith, and fifth-round rookie Bradlee Anae, there is plenty of promise — but not a ton of certainty — in Dallas’ pass rushing contingent.
- The Eagles surprisingly selected Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts in the second round of this year’s draft, but the team plans to deploy Hurts as a gadget player in much the same way the Saints have used Taysom Hill. Given that, and given Carson Wentz‘s injury history, Eliot Shorr-Parks of 94 WIP believes Philadelphia needs to go out and sign a veteran signal-caller. The Eagles believe they can be a championship contender in 2020, and a player like Cam Newton or Joe Flacco could keep the club afloat in the event of a Wentz injury. In Shorr-Parks’ estimation, the same cannot necessarily be said for Hurts, Kyle Lauletta, or Nate Sudfeld.
- Like it or not, the Giants‘ offense will not contain too many elements from what the team ran last year and will instead look a lot like the system that new OC Jason Garrett ran in Dallas (Twitter link via Kimberly Jones of the NFL Network). Garrett garnered plenty of criticism over the years, but the Cowboys did finish first in yards per game and second in offensive DVOA in 2019. New York head coach Joe Judge clearly believes 2019 is a good indicator of what a Garrett offense can do.
- Yesterday, we learned that the Giants are exploring training camp sites outside of New Jersey, one of the states hit hardest by COVID-19.
I guess Rory isn’t a Redskins fan…they got ignored.
More like Rory didn’t have anything to write about the Redskins at this time.
Yeah, it’s a bit of a dry hole now that the Trent Williams saga has run it’s course.
Did you just go third person on us. Come on.
It’s actually a pretty clever trick to see who is paying attention and poor Miklo failed the test.
Who?
Did no one watch Flacco play last year? He is awful. Hurts is a much more dynamic player
He was in college. Throwing him out there as he is now would not give you better results than an aged Joe Flacco.
Eagles = Welcome back the available Sam Bradford !!
I don’t see the Eagles signing a veteran backup QB now. The biggest idea behind drafting Hurts was a cheap salary cap backup option for Wentz, and Sudfeld will be #2 this year….
No thanks to Newton in Philly!