There is something with the name. Howie – Not Howard. Howie Roseman sounds like a friendly man who can be nice to work for or have a beer with, which will make you a fair, honest deal. Howie is disarming, charming.
Howard Roseman? He is a partner in a law firm with white shoe, or maybe a numbering of an accountant or a dreaded IRS auditor. A reckless negotiator. Howard is careful and conventional, wrapped too hard.
But don’t be fooled. This special Howie is not a happy variety. He is not a howie almond or even howie for a long time. No, Roseman is only focused on football and football, a passion 24/7/365 – Obsession, really.
“That’s all I think of all the time,” Roseman said when his Philadelphia Eagles prepared for Super Bowl Lix against Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday in New Orleans.
“I think about how we will do next year in August. I think about what 2026 looks like and 2027 looks every night when I go to bed.”
Roseman has been this way since Philadelphia hired him in 2000 as an eager, 24-year-old unpaid trainee, fresh from the law school.
Today, its 50th birthday is approaching the generally respected architect for its third Super Bowl team in eight years, Eagles CEO/Director General is known for its Roster-Building Supermakt.
What he did to reconstruct this team after last season’s 1-7 collapse (after a 10-1 start) was undoubtedly his finest work so far.
For two days in March last year, Roseman signed back Saquon Barkley and Linebacker Zack Baun and brought back the safety CJ Gardner-Johnson. Barkley continued to rush for more than 2,000 meters as NFL’s offensive players for the year. Baun picked up 151 tackles and was a finalist for this year’s defensive players. Gardner-Johnson helped a passport defense that ranked 31 in 2023 First in 2024.
For two days in April last year, Roseman signer Aj Brown signed and prepared the defensive slopes Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper Dejean. Brown delivered his third year on 1,000 farms for three seasons since Roseman swindled Tennessee Titans for him in 2022, and both Mitchell and Dejean were finalists for this year’s defensive beginner.
These were not miracles made by “Saint Howie.” These and countless other features, including signing and subsequent Lazarus-like resuscitation of the offensive line man Mekhi Becton, were the result of countless hours of juggling present and future considerations and successfully navigate in the shady financial flexibility.
“That’s my role. While I like the team on Sundays, the rest of the week I think about next year, and that is very opposite to what happens during the week,” Roseman said.
“Everyone is focused on how we beat that opponent, and I also want to beat that opponent, but I think of the players in the draft, the players in free agency, how we allocate our resources, how we” make sure we are set up Employee who leaves, and I think that’s the way our job is kind of set. ”
This how is all business. Sure, Roseman is proud to be back in Super Bowl. But there is no time for Beignets and Bourbon Street, not free agency and the draft around the corner and head coach Nick Sirianni’s contract up after the 2025 season.
There is work to be done. There is always more work to do.
