If another team wants to make a trade offer for an Eagles player, general manager Howie Roseman is always listening.
Rothman explains PFT live His philosophy is that it always pays to listen to what other teams are willing to offer. When asked if he would hang up on AJ Brown if another team’s general manager called him with a trade offer, Roseman responded: “I would never do that.”
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“Part of our job as NFL general managers is to listen,” Roseman said. “Listen to what people are willing to do. If you don’t listen, you might lose an opportunity to do something. So I don’t want to not listen to anybody asking me for anything because there might be something I said yes to that I’m not prepared to say yes to. If I’m sitting there and someone calls me and I say I’m not even going to listen, I don’t know what they’re going to offer. My job is to make the team better. My job is to lead 53 Players, building and developing a team that competes and ultimately wins a championship, you have to make a lot of decisions to do that, and if an opportunity comes up that you’re not prepared for, you just say, I have this plan, I can’t deviate from this plan, I don’t know if this is the best way to run the Philadelphia Eagles.”
For Roseman, answering the phone is free, and knowing what other teams are saying about his players can be beneficial for future planning. Even if a general manager has no intention of trading a player, hearing trade offers from other teams for that player can give the general manager an idea of how much other teams will offer that player when he becomes a free agent, and how much the Hawks will have to pay to keep that player.
So Roseman always answered the phone. About Brown, or about anyone else on the Eagles roster.