Cap casualties - Jason Gildon?

There will be some cap casualties today, June 1, the date on which teams can cut players and pro-rate the remainder of their contracts (i.e, signing bonuses) over both this year and next. Eddie George, Jason Gildon and Jeremiah Trotter will lead the list. We'll get to Trotter at a later post, but Jason Gildon could be an intriguing player for the Eagles.

Most everyone I know is down on Mark Simoneau. Everyone but the guy that matters most, Jim Johnson. From what I've been able to gather, the team is generally pleased with Simoneau, although he did appear to wear down as the season went on last year (which was only exacerbated by playing behind a decmiated D-line). Still, while the focus has been on Simoneau it seems that at least internally, the disappointment of the LB corps has been Nate Wayne.

Fans have become accustomed to the team just plugging in a player at that position and them excelling: Mike Caldwell, Shawn "the playmeker" Barber, etc. Depending on his price, Gildon might not be a bad pick up to compete with Wayne for the weakside spot, or to play Gildon at strongside and move Dhani Jones over to weakside. Plus, with Gildon at 6'4" 255 and Wayne at only 6 foot, 237 lbs. it would add some size to the LBs that they currently don't have having gotten the smaller Dhani Jones to replace Emmons and, of course, there is Simoneau in the middle. Just something to look at.