Eagles Fired Licht?

Noticed this on PFT, but you have to give credit to Mr. Positive for the scoop on this one:

Jason Licht, once thought of as a potential general manager candidate for the Eagles, has been fired by the team, The Times has learned.

Licht, the team's former Vice President of Player Personnel, was told the week before the draft "to start looking for another job" by head coach Andy Reid, according to a source close to Licht...

The Eagles had no comment on the situation, but did not deny that Licht had been fired. According to another source, the team wanted Licht to find another job before it announced that he had left.

Now that's gotta be an interesting story.  Things seemed so good in the Eagles' scouting/drafting world the last couple years. 

Comments

[Cornelius]

I don't see this having much of an effect. Andy and Tom make the personnel decisions. The director of college scouting, Ryan Grigson, is still in place. Their pro personnel guy is still in place. The scouts haven't changed. I wouldn't be surprised if they eliminated Jason Licht's position. It doesn't appear necessary. He was expendable.

[1phillyfan]

Licht was super-tight with Heckert and apparently, they had known each other since the mid-90's when they both worked as grunts for the Dolphins. So Licht was definitely "Heckert's guy" ... and apparently the two had a falling out.

Whatever, the personnel dept in that place is a mess and hasn't been any good since Marc Ross was Director of College Scouting. Funny that the Eagles hired Licht in 2003, fired Marc Ross (and 4 other scouts) in 2004 because Jason Licht was the "next big thing" ... and now Jason Licht gets the boot a few years later.

Oh, and where's Marc Ross, you might ask?!?! He won a Super Bowl w/ the Giants this year.