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Here’s what the Sidney Jones pick meant: The Eagles needed a really good cornerback, so they took a chance on one of the best in the second round, knowing that there was some risk. The Eagles, since they’re not contending for a Super Bowl this season, can afford to wait. What it didn’t mean:

DOUG PEDERSON HAS NO SAY!

Mike Sielski:

This was Roseman and Douglas’ show, their exchanged glances and the awkward anecdotes about their collaboration reaffirming how closely they had worked together and how relatively small Pederson’s role had been.

How small? The question became worthy of consideration Friday night during the draft’s second round, when the Eagles selected cornerback Sidney Jones, who ruptured his left Achilles tendon on his pro day and won’t see the field again until October at the earliest. Sure, Pederson has ceded control and oversight of the Eagles’ defense to coordinator Jim Schwartz, but Pederson presumably still runs the team. And the Eagles went just 7-9 last season and were in dire need of talent and depth at cornerback, not merely a year or two from now but this season, and now they had drafted a corner who might not play a snap in 2017. How did he take that?

Jack McCaffery:

By Friday, when the Eagles would formally present first-round draft choice Derek Barnett to the press, Pederson just stood there, then sprinted out of the room before he was able to be approached. By nightfall, after the Eagles had used a second-round draft choice on a cornerback who can’t walk because he recently tore his Achillies’, Roseman made it clear: Doug Pederson is not going to have any say about when Sidney Jones will be put into a football lineup.

“There will be no rushing back from this,” Roseman said. “We will do whatever is in the best interest of getting him 100 percent and being able to help this team going forward, whatever the timetable is for that. We will defer to the doctors for that. That will not be any of our decisions.”

Got that, Pederson?

Got it?

Now remember it.

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Of course, times have changed. But whatever happened to Buddy Ryan snarling at Jerome Brown, who seemed to be taking too long to recover from injury, “you can’t make the club sitting in the tub?” It’s even difficult to envision Andy Reid being made to bobble-head away a curious decision to invest a high second-round choice on a player certain to miss training camp.

Whatever happened to the days when coaches without medical degrees determined what was best for a player? Concussions happened.

 

ROSEMAN IS HINKIE, HINKIE IS ROSEMAN!

Marcus Hayes:

ALL THIS TIME we thought Sam Hinkie was holed up somewhere outside of San Jose in a colony with other shunned geniuses, occasionally surfacing at snooty coffee shops like a hipster version of a mythical monster.

The Loch Ness Hinkie.

Sam-squatch.

But no.

Apparently, Hinkie never even left the 215. All along he was hiding in plain sight down in South Philly at One NovaCare Way. He’d holed up in a basement bunker from which, for the last few months, he’s been guiding Howie Roseman.

He emerged Thursday, blinking and pale, and took over the war room.

Marcus actually liked the pick, despite his strange analogy between two GMs who are wholly different.

 

THIS PICK IS AN OUTRAGE!

Mike Missanelli:

Mike, whose show is embracing the ESPN style of manufacturing BS and then shoveling it themselves, then had a doctor on who told him more or less than Jones could absolutely recover 100%, but he refused to take his word for it. Maybe he should’ve called the corpse of Buddy Ryan.

 

JIM SCHWARTZ IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CARSON WENTZ!

This was the crux of Joe Tordy’s take on 97.5 yesterday. There’s no audio and no Tweets, but I was in the car picking up grass seed and can confirm it was a topic. He liked the draft, but wondered, because the Eagles drafted defensive players with their first three picks, if they were just paying lip service to that whole franchise quarterback thing. Yeah, that must be it.

 

 

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