We’ll get it back to eulogizing the Sixers shortly, but this is a great clip. It shows the moments leading up the Eagles’ second round trade up to select Iowa’s Cooper DeJean:

I could watch videos like this all day long. It’s like seeing prime Emeril Lagasse in the kitchen. Bam! Let Howie Cook.

The operation here doesn’t exactly amount to some secret formula, but you see how these guys have to prepare different contingencies based on a variety of possible outcomes. Howie has to know what assets each possible trade suitor currently possesses, i.e. “Tennessee doesn’t really have a great match for us cause they don’t have a 3rd.” So they’re juggling a few different scenarios while not jumping the gun at the same time and playing the risk/reward game of trying to predict how the teams in front of them are going to approach their selections. You’ve gotta know when to act and when to be patient.

In this case, it’s a short clip, but Jeffrey Lurie seems to be a sounding board more than anything, yeah? He’s in the front row but seems to be someone to ask questions and bounce information off of. Howie is running the show, but communicating with the rest of the player personnel staff. Then you get the fist pump and immediate action on the phone, followed by the celebration.

“Cooper, Howie Roseman brother. You’re a fucking Eagle”