{"id":12094,"date":"2005-02-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=12094"},"modified":"2016-05-26T17:35:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:35:03","slug":"team-needs-nfc-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2005\/02\/26\/team-needs-nfc-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Needs &#8211; NFC East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the final installment of team needs for the NFC. The Dallas Cowboys have already made some noise signing Drew Bledsoe and releasing Marcellus Wiley. But with 2 selections in the first round of the draft, and over $15 million in cap space, they&#8217;re sure to be far from done. The Redskins, Eagles and Giants will all be looking to improve, and you can check out their prerogatives in our Team Needs pages in the Draft section. 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The Redskins, Eagles and &#8230; <a title=\"Team Needs &#8211; NFC East\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2005\/02\/26\/team-needs-nfc-east\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Team Needs &#8211; NFC East\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl-draft"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Team Needs - NFC East | The-Hogs.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2005\/02\/26\/team-needs-nfc-east\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Team Needs - NFC East | The-Hogs.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the final installment of team needs for the NFC. 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