If Nolan Smith Jr. gets past the injury bug and becomes more consistent, high-level production will follow.
He’s one of those players who can flip a drive with an explosive rush. We all saw the disruptive role he can play during the Philadelphia 2024 Super Bowl-winning postseason when he had 4 sacks, setting an Eagles postseason franchise record.
Most of the talk at Edge has been about the new arrival, Jonathan Greenard, but Nolan could steal some headlines once the season starts.
If Nolan Smith Jr. gets past the injury bug and becomes more consistent, high-level production will follow.
He’s one of those players who can flip a drive with an explosive rush. We all saw the disruptive role he can play during the Philadelphia 2024 Super Bowl-winning postseason when he had 4 sacks, setting an Eagles postseason franchise record.
Most of the talk at Edge has been about the new arrival, Jonathan Greenard, but Nolan could steal some headlines once the season starts.
Tank Bigsby is a physical, downhill runner who exudes a finisher mentality and fits the personality that the 2026 Eagles offense is expected to have.
Bigsby finishes runs and punishes defenses with every carry. He has also historically gotten stronger as the game wears on.
He adds a tone-setting run style to the Eagles offense that travels in all conditions, while also being a reliable weapon Philadelphia can use as a change of pace and someone they trust and lean on when Saquon needs a rest.
Having both backs fresh for the long haul and into the postseason could be a major advantage in the Eagles' quest to hoist a third Lombardi.
I would expect a tick-up in snaps and carries for Tank.
WTF kind of otherworldly shit was Kakashi doing as an Anbu for him to receive this level of glaze? Bro had ninja Jesus acting like paparazzi, im dead bruh💀😭
Your next Spider-Man movie exists because of a $7 million deal that accidentally created the most lopsided ownership split in entertainment.
In 1999, Marvel was broke. Fresh out of bankruptcy, they sold Sony the film rights to Spider-Man for $7 million. Sony passed on every other Marvel character. For $25 million, they could have had Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and the entire roster that later became a $33 billion cinematic universe.
They just wanted the spider.
That $7 million has returned over $11 billion at the box office across 10 films. No Way Home alone made $1.92 billion. Brand New Day is expected to be one of the biggest films of 2026.
But the real money story happened off-screen. Disney bought all of Marvel for $4 billion in 2009. They owned the comics, the characters, the merchandise. Everything except Spider-Man's film rights, which Sony still held. Then in 2011, Sony's electronics business was bleeding cash. They needed money fast. So Sony sold the Spider-Man merchandising rights back to Disney.
That's the decision that flipped who actually profits from Spider-Man.
Spider-Man merchandise generated $1.3 billion in global retail sales as of 2013, according to the Hollywood Reporter. More than Batman and Superman combined. That was before Tom Holland's trilogy, before the PlayStation Spider-Man games sold 70 million copies, before Into the Spider-Verse. Disney collects on all of it. Every Halloween costume, every backpack, every action figure.
So here's how Brand New Day actually works financially. Sony pays to make the film. Sony keeps about 95% of the box office. Disney keeps 100% of the merchandise revenue generated by the film. Sony makes the movie that sells the toys that make Disney money.
The full Spider-Man franchise has pulled in an estimated $26.8 billion in revenue across all streams. $14.5 billion of that is merchandise. $11.3 billion is the box office. The merch is worth more than the movies.
Sony paid $7 million to acquire the rights to make Spider-Man films. The Spider-Man merchandise alone, not the rest of Marvel, has returned more than 3x Disney's entire $4 billion purchase price for the whole company.
Every Spider-Man trailer is a toy commercial, with Sony paying for production.
Worked in Center City Philly for years. After a loss, guys would literally ditch their girlfriends just to sulk alone on the train so this doesn’t surprise me at all.