INDIANAPOLIS - Joe Douglas is a product of the highly respected Baltimore Ravens scouting department, where he spent the first 16 years of his career honing his craft under the watchful eye of general manager Ozzie Newsome.
That's the football equivalent of being a Harvard-educated lawyer.
The Eagles hired Douglas as their vice president of player personnel last May mostly because of his acumen as a talent evaluator, but also because of the best-player-available-regardless-of-need scouting approach he brought with him from the Ravens.
"One of the things I told Joe when we brought him here was 'Remind us all the time, let's take the best player,' " said Howie Roseman, the Eagles' executive vice president of football operations.