Reader CC (@CforClarity), whose handle I will supplant cookie with in the Sesame Street Alphabet, informs me of a Marcus:

With pleasure.

Marcus Hayes wrote words today. This is the gist of them, as best as my standard bachelor’s degree in Communications can discern: Howie Roseman had a good draft and made decent, relative-value signings to aid a rebuilding team in the short-term while not limiting future success. Therefore, he’s probably going to get the coach fired.

What? Exactly. Herrrrrrrre’s Marcus:

No one was more surprised than Roseman that he was able to sign free-agent receiver Alshon Jeffery for a base salary of $9.5 million. There’s a reason Jeffery took a $5 million pay cut from 2016. Nobody thought he was worth it. Sure, Jeffery can make another $4.5 million if he goes to the Pro Bowl, but, since his last trip in 2013 he’s been creeping further and further away from it.

Torrey Smith, Jeffery’s free-agent bookend, has never been to the Pro Bowl. Roseman spent $5 million this season for Smith and his big-play pedigree. To his credit, Smith has averaged a little more than six touchdowns in his six seasons . . . but, to his detriment, has caught more than 50 passes just once. He has 53 catches since 2014.

Nelson Agholor has 59.

And what exactly is wrong with LeGarrett Blount? What does the rest of the league know? He led the NFL with 18 touchdowns for the Patriots last year, but was still was jobless until last week. Only $400,000 of his $1.25 million with the Eagles is guaranteed; again, this brilliant work by Roseman, who can cut him out of training camp with a minimal loss.

No, Blount’s bargain price does not prove that Blount cannot be a red-zone battering ram or a 300-carry workhorse.

I actually agree with him on Blount. But his conclusion is that the Eagles are a 7-8-win team that won’t make the playoffs, will likely finish at the bottom of the NFC East, and that Doug Pederson will get fired, all of which will be Howie’s fault. The same Howie he commended for an excellent draft. The same one whom he credits here for finding low-risk, high-upside value veterans to give the Eagles the tools to compete in the near-term and flexibility to build for the long-term. The Howie he would blame for getting Doug Pederson fired if the Eagles don’t make the playoffs.

If all that’s confusing and doesn’t make sense, that’s because it doesn’t. I’m not sure what the point of the column is. The implied alternative is that Howie could’ve gone full 2011 Dream Team in an attempt to, what, compete in the NFC and save Doug Pederson’s job? No one thinks that’s a good idea, not even Marcus. We can nitpick any one signing or pick, but the fact is the Eagles are shaping up to be a decent if not good team next season if a few things work out. Further, there’s almost nothing the Eagles did this offseason that could be considered foolish from a cap standpoint. Did the Alshon signing feel a bit weird for a team in rebuild mode? Yeah, but they took a shot on a top 5 wide receiver talent who was hampered by injuries and a shit team the last two seasons. You can certainly do worse when trying to give your young quarterback a target to throw to.

This is a bad column.