Articles by Michael Coggin (46)
View image | gettyimages.com Chip Kelly orchestrated some Eagle-on-Eagle crime this evening: poaching Ryan Day from Boston College University. Day has been offensive coordinator in Chestnut Hill the last two seasons. Prior to that, Day bounced back-and-forth between Boston College & Temple, with a brief stop in Gainesville, before being plucked from Atlantic Coast Conference […]
View image | gettyimages.com The Eagles have roster holes to fill. This isn’t breaking news. It isn’t a surprise. Not to the fans, not to the media, not to the front office. Chip Kelly has spent his offseason on vacation. Well…as close to vacation as you will find him: jet-setting from bowl game to bowl […]
Between now and March 10th, Chip Kelly—alongside his hand-selected general manager—will filter through an imposing list of impending free agents: hoping to identify cures for Eagle ails & convince Howie Roseman, Kelly’s recently “promoted” colleague, to foot the medical bill. We can only hope that the, as of yet unidentified, GM will lead Kelly toward […]
View image | gettyimages.com According to multiple sources, Eagles Offensive Coordinator Pat Shurmur—who started as a dark horse head coaching candidate—may be a serious candidate to lead the Oakland Raiders in 2015. Having interviewed already, it is now apparent that the Raiders have more than a passing interest in the man who has run Chip […]
View image | gettyimages.com Despite the apparent turmoil penetrating the front office at the moment, the Eagles are approaching a fulcrum in the development of the on-field product. This was the opening sentence for this post as written on Friday, January 2nd at 2:00 pm. Things change fast in the NFL. Which, as it […]
View image | gettyimages.com The Philadelphia Eagles season ended Sunday with an unfulfilling and unimportant win against the Giants in New Jersey. Unfortunately, without the annual budding hope of Spring Training & given the lackluster play of the local winter-sport franchises, many fans will be left in the cold for four months until wide-eyed, […]