I'm 2–7 Emotionally Too: Jordan Davis Is a Jaguar

I already said the short version on X this morning. I am not taking it back.

Woke up and Jordan Davis is a Jaguar. 6-6, 336 pounds of my heart, shipped to Jacksonville for a first and a second. I’m 2–7 emotionally too. Big Jordan, I hope Florida treats you right. Please don’t run us over if we ever see you.

That was the post. This is the longer one. A trade this size does not fit under the character limit, and I live in Bucks County, which means a Monday Eagles headline is a personal problem I then have to walk around with.

Denial

The deal was announced Monday, November 9, one day before today’s 4 p.m. ET trade deadline. Jacksonville sent a 2027 first-round pick and a 2029 second-round pick. We sent Jordan Davis.

I refreshed it like the headline might apologize. It did not. Denial does not last long when you are an Eagles fan and the coverage is already calling this a lost season. This fan base has had the reps.

Anger

We are 2–7. Seven straight losses. Sunday the Giants beat us 19–11. Into that week, the 26-year-old we drafted 13th overall in 2022 was the one who got moved. Not after the year. On the Monday before the deadline. 6-6. 336 pounds. Very large bad news for anyone who still wanted to run the football.

I am not angry at Jordan. I am angry at a season that keeps subtracting. At 2–7 you get precious about whatever is still solid, and he was on that list. You do not ship him in the middle of a seven-game skid and expect the group chat to be graceful before lunch. Unreasonable, and then done. Anger does not get a second chapter.

Bargaining

In March he signed a three-year extension: $78 million, $64.4 million of it guaranteed. I had already done the fan math where that meant he was here through the ugly part. Keep him. Let a 26-year-old who has already been to two Super Bowls in this uniform be one of the adults while the rest of us remember how to win a game. Spend the deadline on some other problem. There is always some other problem.

Jacksonville spent the day on this one, and not only this one. The same day they traded for Davis, they traded for Jessie Bates III and Davon Godchaux. Going all-in. It looked like it. He reunites with Travon Walker, his teammate from Georgia. I hope that is good news for him. It is better news than the notification I woke up to.

A 2027 first and a 2029 second is not a shrug. It is how a 2–7 team admits the present is a mess and drafts toward a roster that does not exist yet. I can see the logic from here. Bargaining is me asking the logic to wait until I feel like looking at it. The deadline is at 4 this afternoon. The trade did not wait.

The sad part

Jordan Davis is from Charlotte. At Georgia he was a captain, a unanimous All-American, and the Bednarik Award winner, and he won a national title in 2021. The Bednarik is a name that already means something in Philadelphia. We took him 13th overall in 2022. From that draft through this season he has 193 tackles, 17 tackles for loss, and 9.5 sacks. Two Super Bowl appearances. A sack in the Super Bowl LIX win, the title from the 2024 season. I will bring that sack up in conversations that are not about football. I am not sorry.

In 2025 he had 4.5 sacks and 72 tackles. This year, in nine games: 31 tackles and 1.5 sacks, and he played through ankle and hand issues. He kept showing up while the losses stacked. If you want the contract instead of the person, it is in the section above. Read the games first.

The Eagles’ statement thanked him for what he gave on the field, in the community, and to the culture of the team. I agree with a press release. That is how I can tell which stage this is. I do not cosign statements. This one is true, and I am too far in to pick a fight with a true sentence.

Acceptance is a letter

Big Jordan.

You are a Jaguar now. I hope Florida treats you right. You get Walker back, on a team that just spent a Monday acting like it wants to win. Please don’t run us over if we ever see you. I know the request is comedy. You are 6-6 and 336 pounds, and runs have not been having fun. I am asking for a personal exemption anyway. Manners, fan edition.

Thank you for the ring. Thank you for the sack in the game that came with the ring. Thank you for the years the sturdy thing in the middle of our defense was you.

The picks are for the rebuild. A 2027 first and a 2029 second will not stuff a run in December, and they will not make the next Sunday shorter. They are what a lost season gets in return for a great player, the day before the deadline, and they are a bet that some later Eagles team gets a season worth wanting. This one is not that season. I hate that you are gone. I understand why they made the trade. I can hold both.

I’m 2–7 emotionally too.

Go be great in Jacksonville. If we ever line up across from you, leave a little of the run game standing. We do not have much else right now. We did have you. That counted.