'“They reached out after the combine and got the ball rolling there,” Whaley said of the Eagles. “It wasn’t a lengthy trade process. We reached an agreement pretty much in one day. They asked about some situations to see if we’d have an interest. We gave them a counterproposal and it was to their liking and then we just got approval from both ownership groups and worked out the paperwork and said when the league year begins we’ll make it official.”'