In Roob’s Eagles Observations: The free agent Eagles have to bring back originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
A veteran I changed my mind about, why Shady is a Hall of Famer and my favorite Jerome Brown story.
All that and more in this week’s edition of Roob’s 10 Random Eagles Offseason Observations.
1. If you asked me with seven or eight weeks left in the season whether the Eagles should bring back Rodney McLeod, I would have said no way. McLeod looked old and lumbering. He was almost a year removed from that torn ACL but at 31 and coming off two torn ACLs in three years, it looked like he had lost about three steps. It wasn’t out of a lack of effort, because nobody can ever question Rodney McLeod’s effort. But he legitimately looked like he was at the end of the line in his 10th season. Hey, it happens.
Then Jonathan Gannon began cutting his snaps. After playing 100 percent of the snaps in almost every game he played since he got here in 2016, McLeod played about 75…