This is a follow up to today’s earlier post, which is a follow up on yesterday’s post.

Is Howie Roseman involved with the Eagles game plan?

This is what Nick Sirianni said at his Thursday press conference:

“What Jonathan (Gannon) was talking about is, when we go in, we talk about the roster all the time. We’re always in communication about the roster. Howie’s expertise is roster management. What we have to do, what we meet with Howie all the time is, like ‘hey Howie, we’re gonna need this guy up and this guy up, we’re gonna put this guy down this week and this guy,’ and Howie has to make that happen. I can’t go in there and say, or make it happen, and move (Grant) Calcaterra up and (Noah) Togiai down. This is a great case in point. Howie has to make it happen. We have to go in there and discuss with him, ‘here’s what we want to happen with the roster this week and you gotta make it happen for us.’ And he does. That’s what Jonathan is talking about. I know it gets twisted and this and that. He may not have said it (exactly how it is) but that is what he’s talking about. We have Howie’s support and he just wants to help us do our job as best as we can do. That’s how he helps us there in that aspect.” 

Good follow up actually by Mike Sielski, who asked if that communication was a one-way street or whether or not Roseman has opinions on who should be up and down:

“Well we discuss everything. At the end of the day, I have the say of who is up on game day and what we need. He’s not sitting in there game planning with us to the point where he’s – I’ll tell him ‘hey we’re gonna be in 13 personnel a lot.’ We discuss everything. The best teams I’ve been on have a great relationship between the head coach and GM. The crappiest teams had a bad relationship between head coach and GM. Of course we talk through everything, but at the end of the day, Howie is gonna say ‘oh you need those three tight ends up because the plan calls for it this week?’ Yeah, no doubt. That’s kind of how it goes down.”

Again, seems plausible. I’m sure there will be people out there who are like “I don’t fuckin believe him,” but what can you do? We share the quotes and people gotta decide for themselves. Like I wrote earlier, I don’t think Howie is in there calling for the flea flicker or whatever, but who really knows?