{"id":803711,"date":"2026-03-10T04:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/803711\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T04:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:26:16","slug":"nakobe-dean-stayed-loyal-to-the-eagles-by-signing-with-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/803711\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakobe Dean stayed loyal to the Eagles by signing with Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">There had been some speculation after Christian Parker was hired as the DC for the Cowboys that he would try to lure some of his former Eagles players to their NFC East rival, including Nakobe Dean. The linebacker ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleedinggreennation.com\/philadelphia-eagles-free-agency\/170629\/nakobe-dean-is-not-returning-to-the-eagles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:agreeing to sign with the Raiders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;agreeing to sign with the Raiders&quot;}\" class=\"link \">agreeing to sign with the Raiders<\/a> at the start of the NFL\u2019s legal tampering window, but it turns out that the Cowboys made a big push to get Dean to Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SlaterNFL\/status\/2031153952549421533?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jane Slater reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jane Slater reported&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Jane Slater reported<\/a> that the Cowboys were very competitive for Dean, but couldn\u2019t pull it off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201c[Nakobe Dean] was one of their 5 zooms allowed. I\u2019m told their offer was similar to the Raiders but ultimately he went with his gut feeling but was told he could have seen himself in both places and it was \u201c51\/49\u201d margin but Raiders won this one.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Perhaps Dean\u2019s gut feeling was a tinge of loyalty to the Birds and to the City of Philadelphia \u2014 or perhaps he knew that the Cowboys wouldn\u2019t have the kind of success he\u2019s been used to with the Eagles. Either way, it\u2019s good for his former team that they won\u2019t have to face him twice a season, and it\u2019s a small gesture, intentional or not, that will keep Dean welcome in Philly for the rest of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There had been some speculation after Christian Parker was hired as the DC for the Cowboys that he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[257,25,7,477,6,242,109,2476,525,1119],"class_list":{"0":"post-803711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nakobe-dean","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","16":"tag-raiders","17":"tag-the-cowboys"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116202988439689962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803711","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=803711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}