Hey, what's up everybody?

Andrew DeCechko here, DeCecho Daily.

And the Eagles strike a deal on the second day of the NFL's legal tampering period.

Though it's a move that I don't think any of us could have forecasted,

the Eagles send safety, C.J. Gardner Johnson, to the Houston Texans,

in exchange for guard Kenyon Green and a 2026 fifth round pick.

Now, C.J. Gardner Johnson is a player that I view as the tone setter and or as a tone setter.

And when you look at what he brought to that defense, the NFL's top ranked defense last season,

it was grit, it was toughness, it was physicality, it was attitude and swagger. He brought all of those things. And as a result, I thought the defense really embodied C.J. Gardner Johnson's personality. And they were a force. That was the best equals defense I'd ever seen. And I think a lot of that stem from C.J CJ Gardner Johnson's mental makeup, his personality.

That seemed to really radiate throughout that defense and I think it really manifested on the

grandest stage, the Super Bowl 59, where the Eagles really took it to the Kansas City Chiefs.

Based on just watching them through warm-ups and watching CJ Gardner Johnson that

week and how locked in and how focused he was, in my mind, there was no way they were going to

lose that game. Not with somebody like that patrolling the back end, holding everybody accountable.

I told you I wrote a story on Gardner Johnson, having sat down with his trainer in New Orleans when I was there for

the Super Bowl and getting a sense of where he was and how he leads and what he's been doing

behind the scenes that a lot of folks, you know, weren't privy to other than those inside that

building. He's an instrumental piece. And when you have a guy who can take the football

way six times, he had six interceptions in 2024, those kind of players are rare. He's a center

fielder that has an innate ability to read the eyes of the quarterback and break on the football

and then turn it, turn it the other way and make something

of it he's a special player i think there's financial motivation behind the move and i think that

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