The Eagles Just TRADED Bryce Huff To The 49ers!

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Breaking news: The Eagles have traded Bryce Huff to the 49ers in exchange for a mid-round pick. Today, we react live to the news and break down what this means for the Eagles. Today, RB discusses all of this and more!

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00:00breaking news the eagles have done it again they made another move another correct move

00:07and it involves bryce huff that is right ladies and gentlemen welcome into a to z philly imrb

00:14breaking news according to adam shefter the eagles are trading bryce huff to the san francisco 49ers

00:21now before we dive into all this i'm going to let you all in on a little secret sometimes the

00:28hard part about doing this stuff is timing i literally just got done hitting end on a video

00:35and i was talking about bryce huff trades i was talking about mock trades and matter of fact i

00:41actually had one of my main ones in there involving the san francisco 49ers so the last 15 minutes i

00:48just spent talking about this is out the window and i am live reacting as i just saw this two minutes

00:54ago the eagles are trading bryce huff to the san francisco 49ers for a mid-round pick the trade

01:02cannot and would not be processed until after june 1st and this is because of financial implications

01:09both sides are working to make it happen and huff has already reworked his contract to help facilitate

01:16the trade in san fran huff will now be reunited with 49ers dc robert sala his former head coach with

01:24the jets so i feel like i'm in a spin cycle right now i feel like i'm going crazy i just literally

01:31talked about robert sala the connection there how it could help the 49ers what the eagles could get

01:38adam schefter posts on top of that before the trade can get finalized next week the eagles restructured

01:44bryce huff's contract he was set to make about 17 million dollars fully guaranteed this season from

01:50philly but now the eagles will take on 9.05 million in salary leaving the niners responsible

01:56for the remaining 7.95 million due to huff this season and i'm guessing that the niners will take

02:02on next year as well listen man this worked out 10 times better than i could have imagined i'm being so

02:09serious right now i just talked about the fact that i thought the eagles were getting a late round pick

02:16matter of fact i thought the eagles were going to have to send a pick to get off of this contract

02:20because i didn't view any way that any team in the entire league would look at bryce huff's contract

02:26not only this year but the financial burden for next year at 17 million dollars and say hey we're

02:33willing to take that on we're willing to take a risk on this guy from bryce huff's perspective i'm very

02:39happy for him i think he gets a chance to you know resurrect his career he had two sacks two sacks

02:46three and a half then he had a breakout season with robert sala right he had 10 sacks and he had

02:51an amazing year but the problem is and the reason that he didn't fit with vic fangio is he's a pass

02:57rush specialist he's a one trick pony and everything we hear everything we see was vic fangio working

03:04with multi-positional players right dynamic talents versatile players that can do multiple things on a

03:11defense those are the kinds of players that he likes he doesn't like the one trick ponies he doesn't

03:16like the bryce huffs who can only come in on third down and rush the passer that's why even in this

03:22year 2023 where bryce huff had 10 sacks he only played like 50 of the snaps or less i think so

03:28it really never made that much sense it was a rare howie roseman miss but you look at the philadelphia

03:34eagles who are now getting a mid-round pick they're going to have 13 picks this upcoming draft if it's this

03:40year maybe even more and howie roseman's philosophy has been balancing the veterans the superstars with

03:47these young players and having this ever-developing cycle of we can rotate guys in on their rookie

03:52contracts right think nolan smith jalex hunt this year right jalen carter still hasn't been paid

03:58quinyon cooper de jean so howie is starting to make this machine where they just continue to cycle in

04:05these young guys and they all have super bowl experience now right so getting rid of bryce huff

04:11is an opportunity now to let some of these rookies play to go out and maybe get another young piece or

04:16just draft a bunch more next season who are going to be productive i think we all saw the divorce

04:22coming we saw the writing on the wall part of me did feel maybe just maybe the eagles could run it

04:29back with bryce huff he could find his way into the rotation he could resurrect his career you have

04:35him on the roster right he he was at least here in the building all year and he was going to just be

04:41you know find a way to get better i thought he even got better down the end of last season before he got

04:45hurt again but the fact of the matter is he never really fit well with the eagles and howie roseman

04:51missed you know maybe it was a little bit of desperation you go out and you get hassan reddick

04:57right you almost lost josh sweat as well but you go out you get hassan reddick he has two amazing

05:04years and then you have to trade him because of a contract fallout so maybe it felt like we had to

05:09replace reddick just like that but i think more teams are even latching on now to the eagles philosophy

05:14and their mentality of we can just draft young players that can actually produce on their rookie

05:19contracts that can come in be successful players and that's how we're going to move forward and i think

05:25ultimately that's why how he's moving this contract if it was one more year of 17 million

05:30maybe they would have took a chance and tried to run it back but it just didn't make sense so now

05:36they are trading bryce huff i'm surprised that they're getting a mid-round pick back and i think

05:42this is a win-win trade right here once again if we look at bryce huff uh 16.75 guaranteed this upcoming

05:50year and if we go to an article on a to z sports.com what they are going to do is make this

05:56transaction after june 1st that will help them split the salary cap fallout between 2025 and 2026

06:03after cutting him a check uh for the 15.58 million option bonus and his base salary both fully guaranteed

06:11the eagles will carry dead cap hits of 7.4 million in 2025 and 21.8 million in 2026

06:20so unfortunately the tenure did not work out here in philadelphia but bryce huff has a new home

06:27you look at the 49ers who have pretty stout run defenders they need more help uh when it comes to

06:33pass rushing they lost a couple big names this past offseason so i think it'll be a good fit for

06:38them and maybe a chance for bryce huff to get his career back on track but the eagles just continue

06:44to find ways how he continues to look at this long-term vision this long-term plan and this is

06:50just another step in going down the path of being able to play all of these young solid incredible

06:57upside players in a couple years and even if there's a few that they may not be able to pay guess what

07:03they have all of these draft picks in the arsenal that can be used to go out and get young

07:08dynamic players which fits right into the vic fangio system so i think howry roseman did very well in

07:14this trade a lot better than i personally would have expected but at the end of the day what do

07:19you think bryce huff out of philly going to san fran and i'm guessing we'll get more info on this

07:25later on but like i said this literally just happened i had just finished recording a video about this

07:31and maybe i spoke it into existence so now the eagles have nolan smith jay licks hunt they pick

07:39up josh uche they pick up aziz ojalary and free agency will that work out will that be the core

07:45moving forward and let's say a couple of those pieces don't pan out this year and they're not

07:49working well then what do they do i'm sure we'll talk about this moving forward but the beauty is that

07:54we still have so much time in this offseason training camp right post training camp cuts guys

08:00will get released you know guys will be available so i think the eagles have a really good opportunity

08:06to still improve in many ways they have a ton of draft capital to work with they could go trade for

08:11somebody if they want you never know what's going to happen but howry roseman continues to play out his

08:17master plan this offseason give me your thoughts and your instant reaction below what do you think

08:21about bryce huff going to the san francisco 49ers give me your thoughts appreciate everybody

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