NFL Owners Meetings Give Eagles Opportunity To Shape DeSean Jackson Deal

The NFL owners meetings have arrived and they may be the Eagles last best opportunity to trade DeSean Jackson.

DeSean Jackson's days with the Philadelphia Eagles are quickly coming to an end.

That much has been made clear by the team's actions in recent weeks making it clear that they are ready to move on from the mercurial six-year receiver who is coming off his best statistical season as a professional.

While there appears to be limited interest league-wide for Jackson's services which compounds the difficulty in finding a trading partner for Jackson and his $10.5 million cap number this season, the league meetings this week are the ideal time for the Eagles to make a push to strike a deal.

Obviously the Eagles would prefer to trade Jackson than outright release him and receive no compensation, especially given that this draft is perhaps the deepest overall in a decade and the team currently owns just six picks.

This week very well may represent the team's best chance to make a deal happen before facing the possibility that holding onto Jackson until mid-July when the market dries up for his services could become an outcome to this ongoing saga. While this move would certainly be vindictive in nature, there is precedent here as the Eagles placed the franchise tag on Jeremiah Trotter on April 6 2002, just after teams spent their free-agency budget and just prior to the draft.

Four years ago the Eagles brass arrived at the owner's meetings with the desire to trade Donovan McNabb and five days after their conclusion, he was moved to the Washington Redskins for draft picks.

As the league meetings begin though, it appears that the list of potential suitors for a player who before last season had just seven touchdown catches and five 100-yard receiving performances in his previous 33 starters is dwindling.

Pro Football Talk  reports that the Seahawks won't be making the Eagles an offer for Jackson anytime soon.

Meanwhile, 49ers general manager Trent Baalke told CSN Bay Area that the team was not interested in Jackson and will not be picking up the phone and calling the Eagles anytime soon.

Then there are the Carolina Panthers who have made it clear that if Jackson is willing to take a significant pay cut then they would have interest, but not at his current contract level.

This situation has likely crossed the point of no return for the Eagles and Jackson, but it appears the team will find tough sledding in moving him.

The harsh reality is though, that if the Eagles cannot strike a deal during these owner meetings then it may prove difficult to orchestrate a trade at all and they'll likely be left with the only outcome being releasing Jackson at some point in the not so distant future.