03-05-2004, 02:06 PM
Eagles miss daily double
Friday, March 05, 2004
By MARK ECKEL
Staff Writer
PHILADELPHIA - It was a good day or bad day for the Eagles. You be the judge.
Jevon Kearse, perhaps the premier free agent on the NFL market, passed his physical with the Eagles and signed an eight-year, $66 million contract that included a $16 million signing bonus. He will count just about $7 million against this year's salary cap.
Terrell Owens, the premier wide receiver available who the Eagles had a 50-50 chance to acquire, instead was traded to the Baltimore Ravens for a second-round draft pick (the 51st overall selection).
According to two sources very close to the situation, the Eagles had a deal worked out with Owens' agent David Joseph to make him an Eagle and to redo his contract and give him a handsome signing bonus.
One of the sources told The Times that the deal with the Eagles was being done just as the Ravens were making the trade to acquire him.
How did that happen?
According to one source, because the Eagles' offer to the 49ers was a fifth-round pick and a player believed to be wide receiver James Thrash in exchange for Owens. San Francisco opted instead for the Ravens' second-round pick.
However, according to another source, the 49ers and Eagles talked about the deal, knowing that Owens wanted to be an Eagle and had the new contract worked out.
Eagles head coach and vice president of football operations Andy Reid and San Francisco general manager Terry Donahue exchanged names and picks, and Reid left it at a pick and a player for Owens, then waited for a return call from Donahue.
The call never came, and as Reid, Kearse and owner Jeffrey Lurie walked through the NovaCare Complex on the way to yesterday's press conference, they overheard on a television that Baltimore had acquired Owens.
Again, according to the one source, the Ravens and 49ers made the deal without going through Owens or his agent, which is how the league had asked the deal to go down.
Owens, who has not gotten a new deal yet from the Ravens, was not very happy about the way it played out.
"He thought he was going to be an Eagle," a source said. "He thought that's where the trade was headed. He had a deal done. He's not real happy about going to Baltimore."
Friday, March 05, 2004
By MARK ECKEL
Staff Writer
PHILADELPHIA - It was a good day or bad day for the Eagles. You be the judge.
Jevon Kearse, perhaps the premier free agent on the NFL market, passed his physical with the Eagles and signed an eight-year, $66 million contract that included a $16 million signing bonus. He will count just about $7 million against this year's salary cap.
Terrell Owens, the premier wide receiver available who the Eagles had a 50-50 chance to acquire, instead was traded to the Baltimore Ravens for a second-round draft pick (the 51st overall selection).
According to two sources very close to the situation, the Eagles had a deal worked out with Owens' agent David Joseph to make him an Eagle and to redo his contract and give him a handsome signing bonus.
One of the sources told The Times that the deal with the Eagles was being done just as the Ravens were making the trade to acquire him.
How did that happen?
According to one source, because the Eagles' offer to the 49ers was a fifth-round pick and a player believed to be wide receiver James Thrash in exchange for Owens. San Francisco opted instead for the Ravens' second-round pick.
However, according to another source, the 49ers and Eagles talked about the deal, knowing that Owens wanted to be an Eagle and had the new contract worked out.
Eagles head coach and vice president of football operations Andy Reid and San Francisco general manager Terry Donahue exchanged names and picks, and Reid left it at a pick and a player for Owens, then waited for a return call from Donahue.
The call never came, and as Reid, Kearse and owner Jeffrey Lurie walked through the NovaCare Complex on the way to yesterday's press conference, they overheard on a television that Baltimore had acquired Owens.
Again, according to the one source, the Ravens and 49ers made the deal without going through Owens or his agent, which is how the league had asked the deal to go down.
Owens, who has not gotten a new deal yet from the Ravens, was not very happy about the way it played out.
"He thought he was going to be an Eagle," a source said. "He thought that's where the trade was headed. He had a deal done. He's not real happy about going to Baltimore."
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