The crafting of a suspension, without a suspension, of Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter got the process to the right place. Carter didn\u2019t play, but got paid, in Week 1. In Week 2, he\u2019ll play but not get paid.<\/p>\n
There was one other wrinkle that needed to be addressed, however. A suspension allows the Eagles to void Carter\u2019s remaining guarantees in his first-round rookie deal. Per a source with knowledge of the discussions, the Eagles agreed not to do that.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t really matter, given that voiding guarantees is a precursor to cutting the player. The Eagles won\u2019t be cutting Carter (unless, of course, Carter suddenly loses his abilities and\/or becomes a general and overall pain in Philly\u2019s butt). He\u2019s in the third year of his contract, and he\u2019s on track to get a new deal after the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
The decision not to void Carter\u2019s guarantees doesn\u2019t mean there will be no internal discipline. On Monday, coach Nick Sirianni made it clear that, whatever the team does to Carter for getting ejected before taking a single snap will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to keep everything that I do with him private, regardless of if you see it on Sunday or not,\u201d Sirianni told reporters. \u201cEverything, every conversation, whether it\u2019s a personal conversation, a disciplinary thing, all those things will always be handled privately. I just think that\u2019s the way to go about doing team business and when you\u2019re doing things with a football team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Does that mean Carter will be benched for part of Sunday\u2019s game at Kansas City? It could. But Sirianni won\u2019t announce it in advance. And, apparently, he won\u2019t disclose the connection between, for instance, Carter\u2019s actions and Carter missing a series or two after the fact. It will either happen, or it won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
And, yes, the Eagles have good reason to punish a player who harmed the team\u2019s interests by making himself unavailable. Even if, in the end, it didn\u2019t keep the Eagles from winning the game.<\/p>\n
Actually, if anyone should be upset about the ejection, it\u2019s should be anyone who made a legal wager with an NFL-affiliated sportsbook on the Eagles minus-8.5. Without Carter, the Eagles won the game but didn\u2019t beat the spread. With Carter, the Eagles very well may have covered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crafting of a suspension, without a suspension, of Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter got the process to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-145313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}