Eagles and actual salary dollars
The Philadelphia Daily News - Eagletarian
Eagles and actual salary dollars
Daily News staff
The Eagles ranked 20th in the NFL in actual dollars spent on salaries from 2004 to '08, according to numbers obtained by Jason La Canfora, the former Washington Post Redskins writer who recently joined the NFL Network. The numbers are gross totals spent on player salaries and bonuses.
The Eagles spent $495.75 million, and La Canfora says the Birds are among the teams that "stand out, stringing together a good run without grossly overspending." He makes the same case for the Giants (No. 19, $497.63 million) and Bears (21st, $495.57 million). Of course, all three teams reached a Super Bowl during that span, with the Giants winning the title. New England is 10th at $513.31 million.
Conversely, the team at the top of the list in spending -- to no one's surprise -- is the Dallas Cowboys at $566.89 million and still searching for an elusive playoff victory. The Redskins -- backed by Daniel Snyder's cash -- are third at $547.37 million. Seattle is a surprising second at $552.42 million.
Pretty interesting list when you consider how the relationship between spending and success works in baseball, with the teams near the top of the list generally making the postseason with the usual exception or two every year.
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Eagles linebacker Charleston Hughes has picked up his championship ring from last season with the Calgary Stampeeders in the CFL. Now, Hughes is hoping to be able to join the exclusive company of the four players to win both a Grey Cup and a Super Bowl. He signed a 3-year deal with the Eagles in the offseason.
"The goal is to have one of each," Hughes said. "That would be special."
Hughes is featured today in his hometown paper, the Saginaw News in Michigan.
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There are various reasons the Eagles haven't won a Super Bowl. Being too cheap isn't one of them. It might be worth it to shell out an extra 3 million a year for Tom Brady or Peyton Manning, but seeing as how they're not available, the Eagles' approach is fine. Their players are millionaires. What they and many teams need to be called out for 365 days a year is how they treat the everyday workers, like the guy who got fired for saying one stupid thing.— tacklinjoe- Igotswagga, The Eagles record in the last 4 seasons with McNabb, the second most overrated quarterback in NFL history behind Joe Namath, was 26-22-1, which is not way over .500. Nice try though.— VitoCorleone
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- Joe Banner has one job and one job only - make Jeff rich and take a small cut for himself. Jeff probably has paid his mother back by now for her collateral for the Eagles buy. Eagles 33-30-1 mark says more for parity than anything else. Let's see what happens this year with revamped O-line $$$$, real FB, $$$$, Real Draft skill players $$$$$ real safeties, $$$$$ and hopefully someone to replace KK, Rocca. Two things the Eagles must do. Keep #5 and AR upright through January. Who cares about Joe Banner anyway.— oldBird
- Joe Banner has one job and one job only - make Jeff rich and take a small cut for himself. Jeff probably has paid his mother back by now for her collateral for the Eagles buy. Eagles 33-30-1 mark says more for parity than anything else. Let's see what happens this year with revamped O-line $$$$, real FB, $$$$, Real Draft skill players $$$$$ real safeties, $$$$$ and hopefully someone to replace KK, Rocca. Two things the Eagles must do. Keep #5 and AR upright through January. Who cares about Joe Banner anyway.— oldBird
- It'd be nice to know these figures compared to where a maxed out salary cap would put a team at over the same timeframe.
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- dog daze of summer, get it— Onlineps2beast
- Igotswagga......You gots a brain that doesn't work properly.— Voytas
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- Igotswagga, All you had to do was take the overall record in the last 4 seasons 33-30-1, and subtract out the McNabb games 26-22-1, and it yields a 7-8 record without McNabb. Of course you being mentally dysfunctional could not figure this out, so you came to the conclusion that there were 20 non- McNabb games. Furthermore, your assumption that the Eagles would have won 80% (16/20) of the non-McNabb games is of course outrageous. Although winning 80% is possible, it is highly unlikely since 80% of 15 games (12 wins) is slightly more than 2 standard deviations from the mean when compared to the Mcnabb games.— VitoCorleone
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- Maybe Joe Banner should be City Controller he seems to be able to get things running smooth enough that people line up for tickets, while paying his employees in the bottom third contractually. Sure they haven't won a 'Bowl but they have driven the value of the franchise through the roof and they do put on a nice show every Sunday. I just want to live in a city where it's clean, safe, and the services provided match the bill I'm paying, the Eagles pretty much give me that every season.— rhcjr2
