The Eagles Are Gearing Up For A HUGE Decision That Has MAJOR Impact...

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The Philadelphia Eagles have a huge decision to make after this upcoming season in regards to Jalen Carter's contract extension. Will they make him the highest paid DT in the NFL? In other news, PFF dropped a surprising ranking that included an Eagles position group on the defense. Lastly, ESPN writers put out their NFC East predictions for this upcoming season, and you'll never guess who one of them had winning it. Today, RB discusses all of this and more!

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00:00The Eagles have a huge decision to make after this upcoming season and the way things play

00:05out could severely impact the future of this roster so we will talk about the most likely

00:11outcome for Howie Roseman as he navigates this situation also one huge surprise from

00:16PFF in terms of positional rankings as it relates to the birds and ESPN had NFC East

00:22writers pick their winners of the division this upcoming year and you won't believe what

00:27one guy had to say we'll talk about all of it and more but welcome into A to Z Philly

00:32I'm RB and the man of the day is Jalen Carter what an absolute beast talk about being a national

00:41champion and a Super Bowl champion at such a young age he's an absolute stud but we have

00:47to start it off on something even more important and that is what Jason Kelsey did at the beach

00:53for his Eagles Autism Foundation this is a yearly event where a bunch of the Eagles guys get

01:00together and the fans and they just have a lot of fun in C Isle City in New Jersey and Jason and

01:06Kylie Kelsey raised over 1 million dollars last week for the Eagles Autism Foundation and I mean

01:13look at that you know the impact of Jason Kelsey's not even playing football anymore I wish he still

01:17was but he this guy's everywhere he just finds ways to bring positivity and I'm so happy for him and

01:24I'm happy for the Eagles and everybody that contributed to this also one surprise ranking

01:30from the Philadelphia Eagles in PFF's latest unit rankings the linebacker position can you believe

01:38that the Eagles are number one I never would have thought in a million years if you asked me this

01:44question let's say four years ago that PFF would rank the Eagles at number one on the list I mean

01:51this is how much the team has improved the linebacker unit has improved obviously led by

01:57Zach Bond but N'Kobe Dean was stellar last year he's rehabbing the injury and now they draft Jihad Campbell

02:02they had Jeremiah Trotter Jr. from last year and they just brought in a bunch of studs and the fact

02:09that the Eagles are the number one linebacker unit is just crazy Zach Bond a well-deserved

02:14contract extension after he finished 2024 with a league-leading 90.2 PFF overall grade and speaking

02:21of the defense we have to talk about the main man in topic today that is Jalen Carter and his contract

02:28projection okay there was a article put out here on SB Nation from Kevin Knight and we're already starting

02:34to talk about the Carter contract because let's be honest after this year it is going to happen but

02:40the headline of this article is Eagles DT could be the highest paid ever now this is interesting okay

02:47keep in mind here Jalen Carter becomes eligible for an extension after this year his rookie contract

02:53takes him through the 2026 season and if the Eagles wanted to pick up a fifth year option they could do

02:59that for 2027 well let's be honest they're not going to do that you don't do that you don't play around

03:03with a guy like Jalen Carter who is an absolute beast looks like a franchise cornerstone and you

03:10don't want to make him mad you don't want to piss him off you're going to have to pay him the question

03:14is how much how much obviously you hope he doesn't get injured or anything like that and has another

03:20great season but let's go over and look at the numbers a little bit here's Jalen Carter's contract

03:25like we said last year the rookie deal is in 2026 it is crazy when you think about the fact that he's

03:31only been in the NFL for two years feels like a little bit longer with how he plays and just his

03:36level of dominance you know week in week out he's incredible and as we see the club option 2027 that

03:44won't even be a thing because you want to get it done before the final year of their rookie contract

03:49now let's talk about defensive tackles in the league because it's all about timing right it may not be

03:55about who's the best at this time it's all about resetting the market we talked about that yesterday

04:00as a related to TJ Watt and Jalen Carter is going to be the guy that resets the defensive tackle

04:07market so Chris Jones is well above and beyond everybody else 31.75 million per year Christian

04:15Wilkins number 227.5 Nnamdi Matabuke Ali McNeil Derek Brown so where does Jalen Carter fit into the mix

04:23well if he goes out there and has another stellar year and just is the absolute mammoth on that line

04:29controls that unit continues to generate pressure could he surpass Chris Jones I think it is very

04:35possible we look at Chris Jones who is a six-time pro bowler a six-time all-pro player he has obviously

04:42been the man over there in Kansas City has helped them win Super Bowls really has just been the rock

04:47solid piece of that defense almost for his entire career and he's a guy that's going to give you

04:52anywhere from 10 to 15 sacks a year and at this point he is now 30 years old so Jalen Carter

04:58much younger okay he is only 24 he's only been in the league two years and when you look at his

05:04numbers you sit there and you're like oh I mean it's not anything crazy right only 10 and a half sacks

05:09in two years but if you actually watch the games you know he is constantly double teamed triple teamed

05:14and he can beat anybody at any given time big player in the playoffs and is already a Super Bowl

05:19champion at his age so if we go back to the numbers well yeah I think he is going to surpass

05:25Chris Jones and if not it's going to be very close I'm sure Jalen Carter's agency representation

05:30will certainly ask for it and we'll see if any other deals come up at this point but I think

05:36Jalen Carter definitely deserves 30 million a year and it'll probably be a four or five year contract

05:42so if we go back to the article he says that a projected Jalen Carter extension could be four years

05:49120 million dollars 30 per year he says it's entirely possible that he asks for a similar

05:56contract to Chris Jones and this contract would leap him up ahead of Christian Wilkins and former

06:02teammate Milton Williams and it wouldn't match Chris Jones's average per year it would give Carter

06:08a significantly higher amount of guaranteed money and sometimes that's really all it comes down to

06:14right you hear these big numbers in these NFL contracts but how much is really guaranteed you know

06:19Jalen Carter is going to want a huge chunk of it guaranteed and in this case he would get 72

06:24million guaranteed versus 60 which is what Chris Jones has so given Howie's tendencies I'd expect this

06:30contract to mirror other recent Eagles extensions you think about all the guys coming up on this team

06:35Quinion, Cooper Dejean, even Nolan Smith guys like that there's a lot of guys that the Eagles are going

06:41to have to pay and a lot of the work that has been done this offseason has been to shape that

06:45opportunity and line it up perfectly so when they have to strike they can and Jalen Carter is one of

06:52the dominoes in this defense that you don't play around with you give him the money you get it done

06:57you don't piss him off because this guy looks like a future Hall of Famer already and you have to keep

07:03him here no matter what you have to pay the price tag Howie Roseman knows that and that's why he is

07:08going to get out in front of it as quick as he can this extension would keep Carter under contract

07:13through 2030 and avoid the drama of a fifth year option or franchise tag it's a massive contract to

07:20give out to a player with only three NFL seasons under his belt but Carter could very well be worth

07:25the risk so I agree 100% what do you think the Jalen Carter contract will look like would you give him

07:31the most money and guarantees would you give him a higher annual value per year

07:36than Chris Jones let me know down below and keeping on the theme of the defensive line how

07:41about Nolan Smith who was actually working out a little bit with Robert Mathis this was at an

07:46event called the sack summit which I'm not too familiar with but Brian Baldinger was there captured

07:51a little bit of video here Robert Mathis who most likely wound up making the Hall of Fame great player

07:57for the Indianapolis Colts and Nolan Smith learning some of the technique all he's doing is pushing you

08:04towards the surface yeah yeah yeah I mean towards the target yep yep yep so yeah so it's chop

08:09real chop spin ice pick gotcha spin ice pick okay chop spin ice pick I mean you gotta love the fact

08:20that Nolan Smith is just young and really wants to take in all this knowledge and continue to absorb it

08:25and get better and better and like we've talked about multiple times Nolan Smith is the guy that's

08:30going to have to really take another big leap this year and I love that he continually wants to learn

08:35and just you know get his hands in the mud and continue to go to work every single day lastly we

08:41will look at ESPN they had a roundtable where some of the writers picked their division winners and

08:50everybody was asking can the Eagles finally break the NFC East curse what is it 21 years now can they

08:56finally break it where the NFC East will have a division repeat champion I think this is the best

09:02chance you're going to get to do it and if we go down and we scroll down the last question they asked

09:09was who is going to win the division we have one from the Eagles we have another from the Eagles we

09:15have a third from the Eagles but look at the last one are you kidding me this is from Jordan

09:20Rannon who covers the Giants he's been involved in a couple controversial things if I remember

09:26correctly before but Jordan Rannon picks the Cowboys and the first line in his piece here is let's get

09:34a bit crazy here so off the bat I don't need to read anything else he said let's get a bit crazy here

09:41yeah that's not even crazy that's just delusional the Cowboys are not winning this division for a very

09:48long time the Giants are not winning this division commanders maybe they have a chance Eagles are very

09:55dominant got even better continue to improve and they brought back most of the nucleus that just won

10:02them a Super Bowl so it's either the Eagles or the commanders those are the two that are separated

10:07above and the Cowboys and the Giants are going to continue to rot and smell like the bad franchises

10:13they are because they're not run correctly so the fact that a Giants writer picks a Cowboys division

10:20winner is absolutely insane the Cowboys might finish in last this year there you go you want a bull take

10:27from RB in the middle of the summer with nothing going on there it is I think the Cowboys might

10:32finish in last this year give me your thoughts down below who's going to win the NFC East how many games

10:37will it take appreciate everybody for tapping in give me all your thoughts down below and with that

10:42being said I will catch you all on the next one

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