5 projected waived Eagles who could be gold for the LA Rams in 2021

Recycle former rivals

After all, due to a reduced salary cap for the upcoming 2021 season, almost every team will face intense pressure to shave dollars to get under the cap. Many capable veteran players will be visited by The Turk shortly, in order to get under the financial salary cap bar. (Who is the Turk? That’s the poor individual assigned by the organization to go to a player’s room, knock on his door and utter those dreaded words: “Coach wants to see you. . . and bring your playbook.”)

Conversely, a reduced cap means veteran players will have extra incentive to sign one-year contracts this year (as opposed to previous years). They will do this because they know the following season of 2022 will be a much more lucrative situation for them.

The salary cap should jump because teams will have more earned more money in 2021 to spend next year. Ride this one out on a one-year contract and bet on a 2022 windfall, whispers their agents to them. Or, take a page from the Ndamukong Suh playbook and just sign a series of one-year contracts as you wind down to the end of your career, all the way to the bank.

The Philadelphia Eagles are $43 million over the cap, and have just turned over the key to a second-year quarterback who nobody believes will take them to the promised land. They’re in re-build mode now. Let the de-planing begin.