{"id":21402,"date":"2025-05-03T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/21402\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T20:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:16:13","slug":"nfc-east-news-like-cowboys-commanders-still-deficient-at-one-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/21402\/","title":{"rendered":"NFC East news: Like Cowboys, Commanders still deficient at one position"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL analyst: Commanders still need edge rusher – Serena Burks, USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n

Like the Cowboys with WR2, Washington still needs to fill one major position.<\/p>\n

The free agency frenzy died down over a month ago, and the 2025 NFL draft<\/a> concluded this past Saturday. After the conclusion of the draft, NFL teams began signing undrafted free agents and inviting them to mini-camps for further evaluation. But even in adding new faces and players to their teams, no team in the NFL did everything it needed to do this offseason.<\/p>\n

The Washington Commanders<\/a> are no different; they made some great moves, but there is one position they didn\u2019t handle. Fox Sports\u2019 Ralph Vacchiano says<\/a> the one need the Commanders didn\u2019t answer was with an edge rusher.<\/p>\n

Biggest need: Edge rusher<\/p>\n

They needed help off the edge even before they lost Dante Fowler and his 10 \u00bd sacks in free agency, and it\u2019s been their No. 1 need all offseason long. Yet GM Adam Peters doesn\u2019t seem to be very concerned. His only edge signing was Deatrich Wise, who turns 31 in July and had eight middling seasons in New England. They seemed like they were in a perfect position in the draft to grab an edge rusher in the first round, but they went offensive line instead. In fact, they didn\u2019t take any edge rushers at all. So it\u2019s really unclear where their pass rush is going to come from this year.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not wrong, in this case. The Commanders\u2019 pass rush last season wasn\u2019t great, and losing Dante Fowler hurts. Frankie Luvu has promise, but he\u2019s not a true edge rusher. He did have eight sacks last year, plus 99 tackles, including 12 tackles for a loss. He also had an interception and recovered two fumbles. A veteran linebacker, Luvu can help on the edge, but it\u2019s not his forte.<\/p>\n

Adam Peters can still add to the roster should he find a solution to this problem; the final 53-man roster won\u2019t be set until August. But if he doesn\u2019t bring in anyone else, the Commanders better have a plan for their pass rush, or it\u2019s going to be a repeat of last year, only worse without Fowler.<\/p>\n

Phil Simms\u2019 No. 11 to stay retired with Giants amid Abdul Carter search – ESPN<\/a><\/p>\n

New Giant Abdul Carter can\u2019t get a jersey number.<\/p>\n

First, Lawrence Taylor. Now, Phil Simms.<\/p>\n

For Abdul Carter<\/a>, the toughest part about being in the NFL might be finding a uniform number.<\/p>\n

Carter\u2019s hopes of bringing the famed No. 56 of Taylor out of retirement were rebuffed last weekend by the Hall of Fame linebacker, who respectfully urged the New York Giants<\/a> rookie to make his own mark instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Simms then entered the picture when he said on FanDuel TV<\/a> that he would be open to unretiring his No. 11 so that Carter, or fellow Giants first-round pick Jaxson Dart<\/a>, could wear it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told some of my friends and people around me, \u2018I\u2019d let him have it in a second. Can you just help it a little or make it better?\u2019\u201d Simms said. \u201cI think it would be a lot of fun. It wouldn\u2019t bother me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter, who wore No. 11 at Penn State, seemed keen on the idea, writing on social media: \u201cIt would be an HONOR.\u201d<\/p>\n

But those hopes evidently were short-lived.<\/p>\n

Simms told longtime New York Daily News writer Gary Myers<\/a> on Friday that he was \u201coutvoted by his family\u201d and his No. 11 will remain retired by the Giants.<\/p>\n

Eagles GM Howie Roseman on repeating as Super Bowl champs: \u2018We understand that 2025 is a new year, and we haven\u2019t won a game yet\u2019 – Kevin Patra, NFL.com<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a new year and every team has yet to win a game.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> hoisted the Lombardi Trophy in February, pulverizing the back-to-back champion Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>. Philly enters 2025 keenly aware that the Super Bowl<\/a> performance guarantees nothing moving forward.<\/p>\n

Eagles general manager Howie Roseman told Adam Schein on Thursday on SiriusXM\u2019s Mad Dog Sports Radio<\/a> that his club is preparing to be the hunted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand that 2025 is a new year, and we haven\u2019t won a game yet,\u201d Roseman said. \u201cIn 2025, we\u2019re going to have to do our best and work our hardest to have the kind of season that we\u2019re looking for, and nothing in the past is going to guarantee future success.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Eagles won their first Super Bowl in 2017, knocking off the dynastic New England Patriots<\/a>. Philly couldn\u2019t replicate the success of that club, going 9-7 each of the next two years and quickly bowing out of the postseason before sinking to 4-11-1 in Doug Pederson\u2019s final season.<\/p>\n

The 2025 version of Philly Super Bowl winners is vastly different than that initial iteration. For one, there is stability under center with Jalen Hurts<\/a>. The Super Bowl MVP is the clubhouse\u2019s clear leader, and his contract ensures he\u2019s going nowhere soon.<\/p>\n

Roseman also points out that this team is much younger, particularly on defense, with a core that can grow together. He also boasted about the pieces he\u2019ll be able to add in the coming years to sustain success.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to take the lessons we learned from that 2017 team and what we did there and this is a different group for sure, but also, you know, we\u2019re building it a little bit differently,\u201d the GM said. \u201cThis is a young team. I think we have two players projected on our defense that are over 25 years old. We\u2019re extremely young, our core guys, they\u2019re all in their twenties, so this isn\u2019t like we\u2019re just putting the band back together to make one last run, like we feel like we\u2019ve got an opportunity here to continue to build our core players and keep our core guys together. We\u2019ve got a lot of picks next year already, expecting comp picks, and we\u2019ve made two trades to get picks from other teams, so we\u2019re looking at a minimum of 12 picks next year, which is huge for us to keep supplementing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL analyst: Commanders still need edge rusher – Serena Burks, USA Today Like the Cowboys with WR2, Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[882,434,435,427,230,229,257,436,2461,10151,860,7,29,3771,88,854,6,3731,3675,4290,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-21402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-at","9":"tag-blogging","10":"tag-boys","11":"tag-commanders","12":"tag-cowboys","13":"tag-dallas","14":"tag-dallas-cowboys","15":"tag-dallas-cowboys-news","16":"tag-dallascowboys","17":"tag-deficient","18":"tag-east","19":"tag-football","20":"tag-front-page","21":"tag-like","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-nfc","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-one","26":"tag-position","27":"tag-still","28":"tag-the"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114445745117418478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}