View image | gettyimages.com A roller coaster of a Philadelphia Eagles season took a major plummet with a disheartening 45-17 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a squad fresh off a 2-14 record that earned them the No. 1 overall pick in this past year’s draft. Chip Kelly’s no-huddle offense that set franchise records in scoring in both 2013 and 2014 has now been held to under 20 points…
View image | gettyimages.com Any observant fan knows the importance of a first-round pick to an NFL team. It’s no coincidence that the Oakland Raiders have turned it around following back-to-back phenomenal top-five draft picks by GM Reggie McKenzie. And it’s also no coincidence that the Cleveland Browns – a team that essentially whiffed on all four first-round picks so far – is 2-8 and looking like the favorite…
View image | gettyimages.com Hopefully, Sunday night’s overtime win over the Dallas Cowboys was a step in the right direction for Chip Kelly and the Philadelphia Eagles. Highly-priced offseason acquisitions like Sam Bradford, DeMarco Murray, and Byron Maxwell have started to play much better as of late, and the Eagles sit just a half-game back of the New York Giants at the midpoint of the 2015 season. There hasn’t been…
In the 12th edition of the SwartzSports podcast, Cody and Bryn Swartz discuss the Philadelphia Eagles’ overtime victory over the Dallas Cowboys last week while preparing for Sunday’s matchup with the 3-5 Miami Dolphins. Can the Eagles slow down Lamar Miller? Will Sam Bradford play another turnover-free game? Are the Eagles the frontrunners to win the NFC East? Cody and Bryn discuss the latest surrounding the Eagles, along with…
View image | gettyimages.com A walkoff touchdown pass from Sam Bradford to Jordan Matthews – and against the Dallas Cowboys on primetime football, no less – was a glorious way for the Philadelphia Eagles to kickstart the second half of the season. For Chip Kelly’s team to have any hope of duplicating the postseason success many envisioned from this squad back in the preseason meant marching into Texas and beating…
View image | gettyimages.com Chip Kelly may have set out to build an offensive powerhouse, but the Philadelphia Eagles are winning games recently more because of their top-notch defense. After stifling Drew Brees and Eli Manning in consecutive weeks, the Eagles are back in first place in the NFC East. Defensive end Fletcher Cox is terrorizing opposing quarterbacks, and he’s on his way to his first Pro Bowl. Nose…
View image | gettyimages.com The Philadelphia Eagles are in first place in the NFC East, but it hasn’t been the way many people expected it to happen. Fresh off a 27-7 win over the New York Giants on Monday Night Football, Chip Kelly’s team is winning football games with a defense that looks like one of the best in the whole National Football League. The Eagles allowed just seven…
View image | gettyimages.com Through five weeks, Walter Thurmond continues to be a godsend for the Philadelphia Eagles defense. The former fourth-round pick of the Seattle Seahawks wasn’t even supposed to be a safety for his new team in Philly; in five previous years in the NFL, Thurmond had never played a single snap at safety. After tearing his pectoral muscle early in 2014 and missing 14 games, Chip…
View image | gettyimages.com Despite an underwhelming start to 2015, the Philadelphia Eagles can remarkably stay in the thick of the NFC East hunt with a win over the visiting New Orleans Saints on Sunday. The Dallas Cowboys, last year’s division champion, have been plagued by injuries this season and get a tough matchup against the 3-0 New England Patriots, who are fresh off a bye week. Likewise, the…
View image | gettyimages.com To say the season hasn’t gone as planned for the Philadelphia Eagles is probably an understatement. Preseason Super Bowl aspirations have dissolved, and in its place is an Eagles team that is boring, predictable, mediocre, and – at a 1-3 record – last in the NFC East. It’s all on Chip Kelly, who asked for full power, got it, and so far, has driven the…