Howie Roseman went on the 94 WIP morning show Tuesday.

He said this about the Jalen Reagor draft pick (transcribed by Andrew Porter, emphasis in bold is mine) – 

“I think one of my many weaknesses, is that I spend more time thinking about my mistakes than I do any of the successes we may have had,” Roseman told Angelo Cataldi. “I think it continuously motivates me to get better. Whenever we do something like that, I go back and I look at the process and how we came to that decision. It’s obvious, I’m not going to sit here and lie, we’d love to have that moment back. I believe that all of these moments, they lead to where you’re getting. Like I feel like when we won a World Championship there were some mistakes made in that process, but they lead us to get to where we want to be. I can’t go back in time and change it, all I can do is to try and learn from it and get better.

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“I think a lot of the message there is, we just have to take the best players at all times,” he said. “We don’t have to worry so much about fit or what we have on the team. You go back to that moment, we had two tight ends who were really good in the middle of the field, Greg Ward was coming off of a really good year in the slot. Were looking for a specific role as opposed to just grading the players. That’s on me, one hundred percent. At the end of the day, I’m responsible for all of that. But I also promise you one thing , if I make a mistake I’m going to do everything in my power to make it up.”

That’s a good quote from Howie, and it goes back to the thought that Justin Jefferson was a slot receiver coming out of LSU. People weren’t totally sure if he was going to be as effective playing on the outside, which we now know was bullshit with the obvious benefit of hindsight. That was a big topic back then, the idea of Jefferson being fit for a specific role and having a superb QB throwing him the ball.

So whatever, you win some and you lose some. Reagor will go down as another first round Eagles bust, but every team whiffs, every team overthinks it sometimes, and nobody has a 100% track record of drafting great players. All you can do is fix those mistakes, work to improve the roster, and put the puzzle pieces together, which is what Howie has done this summer. On paper, this looks like the best Birds roster since the Super Bowl season. Jinx.