Sam Bradford Asking Eagles For $25 Million Prior to Season Made Sense

Embed from Getty Images   Yesterday evening, ESPN's Jim Trotter reported that the reason that Chip Kelly and the Philadelphia Eagles weren't able to reach an extension prior to the 2015 season was that Tom Condon, Bradford's agent, asked the Eagles to give Bradford an average annual salary of $25 million per season.  Here is […]

Tim Kelly  •  20 Jan 2016
Pederson on Bradford: ‘Sam is a top-notch quarterback’

Embed from Getty Images   One of the big offseason questions facing the Eagles, now that Doug Pederson is in place as head coach, is the quarterback position. The Eagles had very modest success with Sam Bradford last season, but given Bradford's health, the Eagles overall struggles on offense last season and a large payday […]

Kevin Durso  •  19 Jan 2016
Eagles Coaching Update: Pederson’s staff starting to take shape

Embed from Getty Images   With Kansas City's loss to the Patriots on Saturday, the Eagles can make the hiring of Doug Pederson official. That will likely come in another day or so. In the meantime, since revealing that Pederson was going to be the next head coach, work has already begun on constructing the […]

Kevin Durso  •  17 Jan 2016
Lurie, Roseman turned Eagles coaching search into a farce

Embed from Getty Images   A wave of activity swept the NFL with coaches being hired left and right on Thursday. In all, four teams made new hires on Thursday, but no team had a more interesting day or week than the Eagles. The past 16 days of a coaching search that concluded on Thursday […]

Kevin Durso  •  15 Jan 2016
Report: Dolphins may hire Adam Gase by close of weekend

Embed from Getty Images   Earlier in the week, the Eagles seemed to have Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Adam Gase at the top of their list for taking the head coaching job. He interviewed for the position on Tuesday and had impressed enough that the Eagles had reportedly offered a second interview over the weekend. […]

Kevin Durso  •  08 Jan 2016
Postgame Perspective: Questions at QB as season ends

Embed from Getty Images   Last offseason, the Eagles and Chip Kelly made the decision to trade Nick Foles to St. Louis for Sam Bradford. The move was a huge risk, given Bradford's injury history. The 2015 season for Bradford was going to be about proving whether he was a capable starting quarterback that could […]

Kevin Durso  •  04 Jan 2016
Eagles hold off Giants to finish 2015 season at 7-9

Embed from Getty Images   The Eagles season finale featured glimpses of what could have been. A meaningless game will do that. But with Pat Shurmur calling the shots, the Eagles did look like a different team.  The end result was a 35-30 victory over the Giants to close out the 2015 season at 7-9.

Kevin Durso  •  03 Jan 2016
Sunday Six Pack: Eagles at Giants

Embed from Getty Images   When the schedule came out and an NFC East matchup like this was set up for Week 17, there were a lot of different scenarios that ran through the heads of Eagles fans. Being 6-9 and out of the playoffs was not one of them. But that's where we sit, […]

Kevin Durso  •  03 Jan 2016
Lurie: Firing Chip was ‘clear and important decision that had to be made’

Embed from Getty Images   A whirlwind 24 hours of speculation for the Philadelphia Eagles came full circle as Jeffrey Lurie stepped to the podium at NovaCare Complex on Wednesday about 17 hours after the press release heard all around Philadelphia and the NFL was released. Chip Kelly had been fired by the Eagles on Tuesday […]

Kevin Durso  •  30 Dec 2015