Are they trying to sign free agent cornerbacks today, or not? Do they have enough salary cap room, and a starting vacancy?
These are questions the Eagles and the Dolphins thought they'd resolved, and are finding they haven't, as the free agent market lurches on without them toward its official 4 p.m. Wednesday opening.
There was a caveat to that Eagles-Dolphins trade, negotiated Monday but remaining unofficial until the 4 p.m. Wednesday start of the league year. The players the Eagles traded, Byron Maxwell and Kiko Alonso, were told they'd been dealt "pending physicals."
For Eagles Nation, there was some mild concern about Alonso's repaired left knee, which checked out fine, it turned out.