The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions.

Eagles fans everywhere.

This is for you.

Let the celebration begin. This was supposed to be Hassan Reddick's day, Roop.

Well, we heard that before. This is Stacey Andrews Day, right?

Yeah, it was supposed to be Hassan's Day and we'll talk about Hassan Reddick and his press conference.

We'll talk about Howie Roseman and his extension. We'll talk about the guy in Washington in a little bit.

But the big news is Fletcher Cox getting released.

Yeah, and I'm gonna let Dave explain all the cap ramifications but it's it's a it's a tricky one.

It's really complicated. We'll try to give you a sense of of what's happening. I think there's still somewhat of a chance he'll be back at a lower salary. I don't think it's a slam dunk.

We'll see. It's, you know, how he has spoken a lot about taking the emotion out of

Out of doing his job and it's not easy for him and he knows that he's hung out to players too long

who aren't what they used to be

and who are liabilities or just not worth the money

they're making.

And look, Fletcher's an all-time great but he's just not that

good anymore so you kind of understand the move.

I should mention this is the Eagle I podcast if you haven't figured it out quite yet

With Rubin Frank. I'm Dave Zengaro

So the reason this happens on Thursday is because if they didn't release him by 4 o'clock, then basically $18 million would be

guaranteed.

So there was kind of a ticking time bomb in this contract. And the Eagles have tried to trade him. I mean they were listening to offers for him during the season last year. They were listening to offers for him recently. They didn't get anything back,

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