The Eagles traded two picks in this year's draft for Ellis Hobbs presumably as insurance in case Sheldon Brown attempts to hold out. The funny thing is, with one year remaining on his own contract, Hobbs has been talking like a player who has money on his own brain as well.
“Everyone is expendable,” Hobbs said. “At the end of the day we’re all dollar signs. Moves need to be made, things need to be done and at the end of the day that’s when you need to be professional about it and know that it’s a business and gone on. Sometimes you don’t fit into their program any more and like I said, unfortunately it was my time, but at the same time fortunately I can go to another team that wants me. Another man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”“I was definitely surprised,” Hobbs said. “I mean like I said I knew something was going to happen, I just didn’t know when. You never know when and how, it’s kind of like somebody that’s about to die. You know they’re going to die eventually but when it hits you it’s kind of like a different impact.”
Hobbs is making a healthy $2.5 mil in the final year of his deal, but he's made it perfectly clear from day one he is unhappy with that amount.
"It's definitely frustrating when you see guys making certain amounts of money that you think you should get just as well and you deserve," Hobbs said. "It is what it is, and I'm getting paid more than a lot of people in this world, so that will come."
One note of interest: in the likely event of an uncapped season in 2010, new rules will make Hobbs a restricted free agent, which means the Eagles are not in a position where they must offer a long term contract if they want to keep him beyond '09.
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