Eagles Jump Over Dallas (The Mediocre Football Team) to Draft Dallas (The Tight End)

After a long wait to see the Eagles get their first player in the 2018 NFL Draft, doubt had started to creep in that the moment wouldn’t be big enough. Trading down from 32 to 52 for David Akers to announce? Could this moment still be worthwhile? WITHOUT. A. DOUBT.

Two things jump out with our first selection in this years draft:

1) How about David Akers bringin the heat?! I will be the first to say I didn’t think he had it in him. But when he dropped the, “the last time the Cowboys won a Super Bowl, these players hadn’t been born yet”, I was throwing air punches in front of my television. Imagine hosting the draft for the first time ever only to get trolled by a kicker from the rival team who just won the Super Bowl and hosted a better draft than you. Unreal.

2) Obviously, this point is the most important one: the Eagles made a phenomenal move in drafting Dallas Goedert. They drafted PFF’s #1 rated tight end coming out of college to fill one of the few voids this team had. The one handed reception in the back of the end zone was enough to sell me (*I base all my judgments off of YouTube videos). In losing Trey Burton and replacing him with Godert, the Eagles didn’t rebuild, they reloaded. Not only did they get an absolute STEAL, they jumped the Dallas Cowboys to do it. With the news today that Jason Witten is retiring, it was evident that the Cowboys needed a tight end replacement, even though it leaked 5 hours ahead of time that they wanted Courtland Sutton (how do you let that happen?). Howie knew that Dallas would end up in Dallas if he didn’t make a move. So he jumps his divisional rival, moving up one spot ahead of them to pick No. 49 and takes this stud who is literally named after the fucking Dallas Cowboys…in Dallas.

From Akers, to Howie, to Godert, A+ all the way around fellas.

Go Birds.

By Aidan Powers | April 27, 2018