It's Happening: Eagles Have Asked Jason Peters To Take A Pay Cut

CSN – The Eagles have made it pretty clear that they’d like to have Jason Peters on the team in 2017, but it’s not going to be cheap. Apparently, the Eagles have already approached Peters about taking a pay cut, according to a report Tuesday night by ESPN. Peters, 35, will have a salary cap number of $11.7 million in 2017 after hitting another contract escalator after making his ninth Pro Bowl team last season. That’s a pretty big cap number, but not outlandish for a starting left tackle. The Eagles will have just under $8 million in salary cap carryover for 2017, but will have just under $11 million in cap room. Of that, $4.5 million will go to rookies. That doesn’t leave much room left, so some tough decisions are likely looming (see story). The Eagles will need to figure out their salary cap situation before free agency begins on March 9.

The Purge begins! It’s pretty much expected Eagles starters Connor Barwin, Ryan Matthews, and possibly even Jason Kelce will be casualties to the cap this offseason. And now they’re asking (arguably) one of the best, and most indispensable players on the team to shed some cash for the good of the franchise. I don’t really blame them. Shooters gotta shoot, and Howie has proven to be the biggest gunslinger in the NFL. Not exactly sure where that “Salary Cap Genius” in Howie went. You know, the nerd who rose through the Eagles ranks on the basis he was superb at the financial side of the game – Which he was at one point. He’d cook those books every offseason to the point where the Birds would have the most cap space year in and year out. But I guess that’s what happens when you give the backup QB that doesn’t sniff the taint of a HS JV ballplayer a $21 million contract. Can’t exactly go apeshit building your Dream Team 2.0 when you only have peanuts to play around with. Which, in the end, may be a blessing.

Whatever. Buy a shirt of one of the only positive aspects of this franchise before we subsequently ruin him.