Some Background on Chris Clemons

So I guess here's your big-time defensive end signing:

The agent for free-agent defensive end Chris Clemons said his client is expected to visit with the Eagles tomorrow and may even have a deal in place by the time he arrives.

"They're showing a lot of interest and we're showing it back," Donal Henderson said from his Marshfield, Mass. Office this morning. "They targeted Chris and we targeted them. The process started early this morning."

Clemons, 26, spent last season with the Oakland Raiders and registered eight sacks in mostly a reserve role as an outside linebacker in a 3-4 defense. Clemons played in all 16 games for the Raiders, but started only two.

I'm sure the kid has all the potential in the world.  And you don't get eight sacks by being a complete chump -- even if he was playing a position that doesn't exist in the Eagles' defense. 

But this smells like a lot of the Eagles' previous free agent signings, where we bank on a guy who maybe didn't do much for somebody else's ballclub but whso we think will work out great here.  Sometimes that works out (Juqua Thomas).  More often, it doesn't (Mark Simoneau, Matt Schobel, Jabar Gaffney, Darren Howard before we got him, and so on).

I feel like I follow the NFC East pretty closely.  Before reading this and this, I couldn't have told you this guy had played three years with the Washington Redskins.