got his, the Eagles got theirs and the mega deal of the summer locks in a player who has a chance to be one of the great players in the history of the Eagles' franchise through the 2022 season. The Cox contract was a whopper and the latest in a series of stay-at-home moves made by the Eagles, a strategy that the franchise employed during its five-NFC-title-game run in the early 2000s.
The Cox contract is one that gained a lot of national attention and that has created a ripple effect throughout the NFL, but there is more at work here.