It turns out, Howie Roseman does get things wrong every once in a while.

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The Philadelphia Eagles enter the 2025 NFL campaign sitting on top of the world as reigning, defending Super Bowl champions.

All the moves their front office has made over the past couple of years, spearheaded by general manager Howie Roseman, have paid off and then some.

For a while now, it’s felt like everything that guy touched, turned to gold. However, after the news that broke on Monday, teams around the league might be feeling like Philly isn’t invincible after all.

Philadelphia is parting ways with offensive lineman Kenyon Green, whom the team traded C.J. Gardner-Johnson for in the offseason.

Is the Eagles front office cooling off?

For some, this move to cut ties with Green after trading for him months earlier could be a sign that the Eagles aren’t as strong as once thought.

This team isn’t untouchable as it feels like Roseman just hasn’t missed on much of late in the City of Brotherly Love.

After acquiring A.J. Brown a few years ago and pulling off the Saquon Barkley deal last offseason, the Eagles and Roseman felt like nothing was out of their grasp.

One thing about it is when you make these types of moves to position the team for a title run, eventually you’ve got to pay the piper.

In this scenario, piper equals player and at a certain point this means somebody will end up a salary cap casualty like Johnson, who was not happy about the trade.
“I was a test dummy for them. So now they can be like my ‘scheme’ work, or did my skill set make it work.

I had 0 issues. (People) had issues with me. So yeah let the salary cap be the ‘excuse.’

“All I asked them was like, between me and y’all, I told them, I just want to go somewhere where I can go play winning football,” Gardner-Johnson said on a livestream.

“I didn’t ask for a specific place. This honesty. I want to play winning football. Other than that, I woke up the next day and boom there it is, we in Houston.”