Howie Roseman Does It Again: The Eagles Sign Julio Jones To Create The Greatest Receiving Trio In All The Land
Kevin Sabitus. Getty Images.Howie Roseman. What a menace to society this ol' sneaky bastard appears to be. Talk about a signing that came out of absolutely nowhere.
Everyone knows the Eagles need major help with their secondary. Everyone knows the Eagles probably need to sure up the Right Tackle position just in case Lane Johnson's injury continues to nag on throughout the season. Everyone knows they'll probably run a constant carousel at the punter position. But nobody had the Eagles going out and bringing Julio Jones to South Philly.
And I gotta tell you--I love the shit out of this move. Obviously Julio is 34-years-old and his best days are behind him. But we don't need Julio Jones to be the Julio Jones of 2015 and 2018. Why is that? Well because the Eagles already have two of those guys in AJ Brown and DeVonta Smith. The Eagles had 2 Julio Joneses before today, and now they have 3 of them.
The issue is that Olamide Zaccheaus and Quez Watkins just aren't consistent enough to be a legitimate threat out there. So defenses get to just pick their poison on whether they want to completely take DeVonta Smith away or completely take AJ Brown away. Obviously one of those guys is always going to get you, but defenses are able to at least make sure that both of them aren't going crazy at the same time because they don't even have to worry about Zaccheaus or Watkins. But if you add Julio Jones to the mix? Well now that makes everything wide open because you can't just completely forget about a guy like that.
The Eagles now have two WR1's, and a guy who has led the league twice in receiving yards as WR3. That's a wagon. Buy your stocks on Eagles explosive plays now before the price goes through the roof.
P.S. #1 -- It all makes sense now. Julio Jones dropped that pass in the end zone in the final play of the divisional round to let the Eagles go on and win a Super Bowl. In return, they just needed to sign him in the end of his career.
P.S. #2 -- Always great to add another disciple of Nick Saban to the program. Jalen Hurts, DeVonta Smith, Landon Dickerson, Julio Jones. The more of those guys you can get in the building, the more this team will be as locked in as possible when its time.