Last offseason it was Desean Jackson, this year it's Lesean McCoy. Good luck with your addition by subtraction strategy. BTW, Darren Sproles is 31.
I think we all know most coaches in the league get rid of certain guys to get their own on the team, it was no different years ago when Bill Parcells coached the Cowboys and hated the fact that Jerry Jones had T.O. on
his team. I am not 100% behind the move of getting rid of Shady, but the defense was abysmal last season and gave up way too many points, so at least they made a gutsy call on a LB that is early in his career, and has the talent to possibly be an all time great.
As far as your addition by subtraction theory, Desean did little to nothing to improve the Skins, and yes he is/was a major deep pass threat. We went out and drafted Jordan Matthews, who did well in his rookie season. As far as Shady, obviously that's a huge loss, and Sproles is not a feature back, but they seem to feel they can get production out of the draft on certain guys..so let's not act like the Eagles don't replace on offense. Defense, is another story..but they're starting to show urgency on getting guys off this team, and bringing better players in...