Howie Roseman Says Eagles Don’t Scout Players with a History of Violence Against Women

This clip is making the rounds on social media. It is actually weeks old, and comes from the Todd McShay podcast episode where Howie Roseman made the sex quip about winning his second Super Bowl. I guess nobody, us included, actually watched the entire podcast, because there was a separate topic about team building in which Howie said this:

Howie Roseman on the #Eagles absolute refusal to even scout players who’ve been convicted of domestic violence

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“It’s easy to make excuses for guys. It’s easy for us, on a case-by-case basis, to go ‘I think we can get this guy.’ For us, we have some objective things that I can’t even overrule, and they’re ours, but for one, violence against women. It’s just not for us. I won’t even watch ’em, I don’t even want to talk about it. It just is dealbreakers for us. So I can’t go, ‘but he’s really good and he did it ten years ago and he learned from it.’ It just doesn’t work for us. I have four kids, I want them to be able to walk into the locker room and me not have to go, ‘just skip over that locker.’

That doesn’t mean we have perfect guys. There are different backgrounds, some guys pop off more than others. Our head coach does that sometimes, but he’s my guy and I love him. But I think for us, having good people, having people that you can rally around, on our two championship teams they had good people. You can’t tell me we can’t win with good people. We can’t be at the top of the mountain with good people? It’s the same off the field.”

Good quote. We’ve talked about how clean the Eagles program has been over the years. They really do not have many instances of off-field or character problems, namely Nigel Bradham’s various transgressions, the D Jax Farrakhan special, Lane Johnson’s PED suspensions, and some fringe arrests for guys like Daryl Worley and Josh Huff, who were here for a cup of coffee. That’s going back 10 years, by the way, just naming those handful of guys.

In the case of Jalen Carter, it seems like a situation they vetted seriously, got Big Dom to do his Ray Donovan investigation, and assimilated the player into their culture. But they do not have wife beaters and domestic abusers like the Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys and other less-reputable programs, and I think fans see that and appreciate it. Jeffrey Lurie and Howie Roseman win at a high clip with genuinely good dudes making up most of the locker room. It’s the emotional intelligence emanating from the organization, blanketing the Delaware Valley in its pleasantness.