The Eagles “want to continue to be in a position to get better,” and are “going to have to make tough choices,” Howie Roseman said at the NFL Scouting Combine, before trades that subtracted wide receivers Marcus Johnson and Torrey Smith, and added defensive lineman Michael Bennett and corner Daryl Worley.
The choices get tougher this week. Monday signals the beginning of the “legal tampering” period, in which teams are allowed to negotiate with pending free agents in advance of the official Wednesday start of NFL free agency. In fact, such talks have been going on behind the scenes at least since the combine in Indianapolis, but these are the arcane ways of the NFL, and they must make sense to someone, somewhere.