Eagles Have Luck on Their Side
If luck has anything to do with it, the Eagles should have a great season. People have different rituals or object to summon luck to their side. A rabbit’s foot. Wood to knock on. Lucky coins. Four leaf clovers.
The Eagles organization has what may be the luckiest collection of individuals ever put together for one season. It’s like a four-leaf clover of humans. Check it.
HOWIE ROSEMAN was a general manager who was basically demoted and stripped of his personnel duties. Roseman was then given a raise and basically paid $1.7M to be a sports personnel/football operations intern attending classes, summits, and meeting successful people in the world of sports personnel.
A recent piece by Les Bowen quotes Jeffrey Lurie as saying:
“The whole plan was for Howie to really spend the time studying state-of-the-art decision-making around the globe in sports…We really opened it up, from English Premier League, NBA, NHL, MLB, try to find who the best general managers were . . . take that year and learn from the best. They’re usually open about their successes and their mistakes and where they got lucky.”
Here’s one definition of an internship: any period of time during which a beginner acquires experience in an occupation, profession, or pursuit.
Sounds like an internship to me. I did one. I got to be around successful people and learn what worked and didn’t work in the music industry. I didn’t get paid $1.7M and flown around the world, though. I doubt most interns do. He’s one lucky dude. And, to be even luckier, the power over football personnel decision was returned to him.
DOUG PEDERSON became the head coach of an NFL team after being an offensive coordinator that did not call the majority of the plays for an offense that ranked 27th, 25th, and 21st under his coordination. Luck is this dude’s middle jawn.
SAM BRADFORD came into the league in the last year before the CBA put limits on rookie salaries. He was guaranteed $50M before every playing an NFL game. Bradford earned $78M on his first contract. His new contract with the Eagles guarantees him $22M. That means that a guy with a career record over six years of 25-37-1, who has never won a playoff game, is guaranteed to have won $100M. That’s one lucky SOB.
CHASE DANIEL is a man who has 50 completions and 1 TD in 6 years in the NFL. To date, he’s earned $12M and the Eagles just guaranteed him another $12M over the next 3 years. That’s $24M guaranteed to a guy with 50 completions and 1 TD. He’s been paid $240,000 PER COMPLETION in the NFL with another $24M coming. He might be the luckiest of them all.
I dare you to find four luckier guys on any professional sports team. These guys haven’t accomplished anything significant and yet have been paid major bank.
This, I argue, is a good thing. If the Eagles have guys with this kind of luck running the front office, coaching, and at quarterback, then there’s no reason to doubt their luck continuing with a Super Bowl win. Anything is possible with these guys, they’ve proven that.
God bless them and Eagles fans everywhere!