Maclin leaving Eagles for Chiefs

[scottcarter]

The wild ride of subtraction and addition will apparently continue with the Philadelphia Eaglesbecause receiver Jeremy Maclin plans to reunite with former coach Andy Reid on the Kansas City Chiefs once free agency officially begins on Tuesday, according to league sources.
[h=4]Chiefs Happy To Receive Maclin[/h]

Jeremy Maclin's decision to join the Chiefs should inject a major boost into the K.C. receiving corps. Maclin's production alone was on par with that of the entire Chiefs WR unit in 2014.

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Category	Maclin	Chiefs WRs
TD	10	0
20-yd. rec.	21	19
Rec. yds.	1,318	1,588
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The Chiefs will need to clear salary-cap space to sign Maclin, whose new contract would project in the range of what Randall Cobb received to stay with the Green Bay Packers at $10 million per year. It's possible Maclin could slightly exceed Cobb's salary when negotiations are finished. Unlike Cobb, who chose to remain with his team, the Green Bay Packers, Maclin is prepared to depart Philadelphia, coming off his best season, in which he had 85 catches for 1,318 yards and 10 touchdowns. Maclin played on a one-year, $5.25 million contract in 2014 after missing 2013 with an ACL injury.Reid was the head coach when the Eagles drafted Maclin in 2009 out of the University of Missouri. Maclin turns 27 on May 11.
One candidate to become a cap casualty for the Chiefs is veteran receiver Dwayne Bowe, who counts $14 million against the team's salary cap for 2015. Bowe would represent a $5 million cap savings if he's counted as a pre-June 1 cut and $11 million if he receives a post-June 1 designated cut.
The Chiefs did not have a receiver with a single touchdown catch in 2014.
It will be the second straight offseason the Eagles have lost their leading receiver. They chose to cut DeSean Jackson shortly after the 2013 season. This time, the Eagles made an effort to sign Maclin, but negotiations slowed considerably once he began communicating other teams.

 

[StrikeGoldSports]

Good pickup Howe was decliming

 

[SmallDaddy]

Prediction: Kelly will be on the hot seat by mid season.

No offense can succeed without talent and the Eagles just cut, traded or let go theirs

 

[thekeyman]

as a chiefs fan i see maclin a huge improvement over bowe.better speed to go downfield and goes across the middle without fear.bowe also has way to many drops in his time in KC

 

[StrikeGoldSports]

Prediction: Kelly will be on the hot seat by mid season.

No offense can succeed without talent and the Eagles just cut, traded or let go theirs

Agreed Maclin is a talent. Him and Daniels at Missouri was something

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

Chiefs wide receivers had 0 touchdowns last year??? If that were the case and i owned that team, they get zero money. They can fight it, bitch to that fatass that that runs the union, but my pockets are deeper. So many of these athletes need to be put on plane and dropped off in North Korea unable to fully sprint again.with a tatto on their forhead that says "I must throw poop at Kim il Sung statue"

 

[StrikeGoldSports]

Is that a true statistic?

 

[The Guesser]

As a Chief fan, I'm not thrilled, because I think Maclin will see his numbers drop with Alex Smith, like Bowe did, and he'll wind up being as overpaid for limited production as Bowe was. But he is a good player who fit the Eagles Offense perfectly, and Chip made a mistake letting him go.

 

[thekeyman]

As a Chief fan, I'm not thrilled, because I think Maclin will see his numbers drop with Alex Smith, like Bowe did, and he'll wind up being as overpaid for limited production as Bowe was. But he is a good player who fit the Eagles Offense perfectly, and Chip made a mistake letting him go.

​guesser bowe really only had 1 decent season out of 9 and that was with several QB's as we know.i believe maclin's speed(which i think is faster than bowe's)will get smith to go down the field more now.as far as me,i was upset when they paid bowe all that money on his last contract.

 

[Greenbacks]

These moves by the Eagles seem really dumb.....LOL

They just shipped away two 26 year old players.

That`s 2600 yards and 15 TD`s.

They just picked up Frank Gore.....Frank Gore is a broken down 31 year old running back.....LOL

Maclin at only 26 years old....1300 yards and 10 TD`s....LOL.

 

[Greenbacks]

As a Giants fan i`m happy......Eagles are going to be horrible....Bank on it.

 

[SmallDaddy]

Is that a true statistic?

The announcers had a running gag last year where they had a running clock showing the last time a Chief Wr scored a td.

It was over a year and tickingointer:

 

[MantisToboggan]

These moves by the Eagles seem really dumb.....LOL

They just shipped away two 26 year old players.

That`s 2600 yards and 15 TD`s.

They just picked up Frank Gore.....Frank Gore is a broken down 31 year old running back.....LOL

Maclin at only 26 years old....1300 yards and 10 TD`s....LOL.

Really dumb to pass on giving a guy who prior to 2014 averaged 860 receiving yards a year 11 million per? Have to agree to disagree. Chiefs overpaid.

 

[silver7]

As a Vike would love to have him. Teddy is going to need a #1 type. Spielman is the worst GM in the NFL, will NOT spend any $$$ on FA. We have a lot of needs. IF Iupoti is there please. The OL is bad and we've had some great G's,.

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

WHY dont you losing teams tank hardcore in the draft? Not from 14 to 8, but from 24 to 1? All it takes is 1 bad season and u are set. I would encourage my team to tank.

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

As a Giants fan i`m happy......Eagles are going to be horrible....Bank on it.

Scoreboard......

Giants Blow....

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

As an avid Eagle fan I really thought the Birds would resign Maclin.....will make a reasonable assessment after the draft....but I must think that the Eagles fell in love with Huff because of his talent and willingness to block downfield....

 

[The Guesser]

FA signings that made no sense

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By Sam Monson
Pro Football Focus

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</center>[h=3]Kansas City Chiefs: Jeremy Maclin, WR[/h]

The Chiefs needed a wide receiver; that's no secret. Their stretch of no touchdowns being scored by a wideout has become infamous, and it now stretches 18 games, back to the 2013 season. The issue is that they threw a lot of money at a player who has only really shown the ability to be a difference-maker once: last season, in Chip Kelly's unconventional offense.
Under Kelly this past season, Maclin played a career-high 1,043 snaps, earned a career-high plus-9.1 PFF grade, was targeted a career-high 140 times, caught a career-high 85 balls for a career-high 1,318 and a career-high 10 touchdowns. Can you spot the trend? He also dropped a career-low number of passes; just one.
If you compare those to his career averages before Kelly arrived -- or, under Andy Reid, the coach he will now be rejoining in Kansas City -- he averaged 173 fewer snaps, 39 fewer targets, 21 fewer receptions, 456 fewer yards and three fewer touchdowns. And Andy Reid just OK'd a contract that pays Maclin $11 million per season. That makes him the sixth-highest paid receiver in the league, fourth if you discount Dez Bryant and Demaryius Thomas, who are playing at the moment on the one-year inflated figure of the franchise tag.
Maclin's numbers may go up from his Reid average in Philadelphia now that he is the undisputed No. 1 WR in Kansas City, but the tape shows a player who is unlikely to match, or even approach, his 2014 totals.