The New Orleans Saints’ collapse on Monday evening needed to be a factor of magnificence for Philadelphia Eagles fans.
Thanks to a pre-draft commerce final yr, the Eagles are the homeowners of the Saints’ 2023 first-round choose. Every New Orleans loss pushes Philadelphia additional and additional up the draft board.
That places the Eagles within the distinctive place of getting the league’s best report whereas additionally having an opportunity to land one of many prime picks within the following draft class.
As of Tuesday, that Saints choose could be a top-five choice (No. 5 general) within the 2023 draft and would give the Eagles numerous choices so as to add to what’s already a legit Super Bowl contender. Especially if there’s a run on quarterbacks (a place the Eagles don’t want) forward of them.
If the Saints preserve dropping, it may put the Eagles able the place they might add someone like defensive deal with Jalen Carter (a school teammate of 2022 first-round choose Jordan Davis), an elite edge rusher like Myles Murphy or Tyree Wilson or even perhaps a prime cornerback like Kelee Ringo. They have an opportunity to not solely win the Super Bowl, but additionally add a franchise participant the next offseason.
All of it’s a persevering with reminder of simply how a lot the Eagles and common supervisor Howie Roseman dominated the 2022 draft.
The Eagles had been armed with a number of first-round picks and utilized a number of trades to show these picks into A.J. Brown (in a commerce with the Tennessee Titans), Davis and a 2023 choose that’s nearly assured to be within the prime 10 and maybe even within the prime 5. It would have been tough to extract transfer worth out of these picks.
The Brown commerce was introduced again to the front-burner this previous week when he torched his former crew in a blowout Eagles win on Sunday. It won’t be a coincidence that simply two days later the Titans fired the overall supervisor that made the commerce.
But it’s that Saints choose that’s actually intriguing now. Especially with their remaining schedule.
The Saints have misplaced 4 out of their previous 5 video games (with the one win coming over a Rams crew that’s decimated by accidents and falling aside) and nonetheless have video games remaining in opposition to Atlanta, Cleveland and Philadelphia. Despite their dangerous data, the Browns and Falcons nonetheless have slim playoff hopes and may have one thing to play for, whereas the Eagles can additional enhance that draft place on the Saints choose by beating them on New Years Day in Philadelphia.
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