Before Evan Mathis' first practice with the Eagles, Howie Roseman walked up to the free-agent offensive lineman and asked, "Are you going to make me look smart?"
Mathis replied to the then-general manager, "I'm going to make you look like a [bleeping] genius."
While the same couldn't be said of the Eagles' other acquisitions from that abbreviated offseason, Mathis would eventually fulfill his prophecy, especially because he was one of the more unheralded "Dream Team" additions in 2011.
The Pro Bowl guard would go on to have the best four-year run of his career, and despite a bitter contract dispute that ended his tenure in Philadelphia Mathis still considers the city "the most home of all my NFL stops.