Philadelphia Eagles

Chip Kelly’s Offseason Gambles Finally Paying Off for Philadelphia Eagles

November 10, 2015
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  View image | gettyimages.com   Flash back to the second week of the 2015 season and think about how you felt as a fan after that game. Personally, that was as low as I’ve felt following a regular season game. The Eagles were horrible in that game, almost beyond words. Sam Bradford looked completely inept, scared, uncomfortable and skittish in the pocket. DeMarco Murray was stuffed on six consecutive…

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Recapping 5 Key Takeaways From Philadelphia Eagles’ Win Over Dallas Cowboys

November 9, 2015
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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…

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5 Predictions for Philadelphia Eagles vs. Dallas Cowboys Week 9 Matchup

November 7, 2015
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View image | gettyimages.com It’s safe to say the first half of the season hasn’t exactly gone the way the Philadelphia Eagles hoped. The team hasn’t had a winning record once, dropping their first two games and sitting at 3-4 coming out of their bye week. Quarterback Sam Bradford is a shell of the promise he showed as a preseason passer, and big-name offseason acquisitions like DeMarco Murray, Nelson Agholor…

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Eagles Head Into Bye Week at 3-4 | SwartzSports Podcast 11

October 27, 2015
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  It’s just Bryn for the 11th edition of the SwartzSports podcast, two days after the Philadelphia Eagles dropped a Sunday Night contest to the Carolina Panthers to fall to 3-4 for the season.  Speaking of drops, that’s all the Eagles have been doing this season, and they’re actually shattering records for offensive futility at the wide receiver position.  On the defensive side of the ball, the Eagles continue to…

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Power Ranking NFL’s 12 Best Front Sevens on Defense

October 24, 2015
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  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…

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Examining Philadelphia Eagles’ Free-Agent Players After 2015 Season

October 24, 2015
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  View image | gettyimages.com   Six games into the season, it’s safe to say the Eagles’ season hasn’t gone as expected in Chip Kelly’s first season as general manager. Although the Eagles are in first place in the NFC East, their 3-3 record points to the team being the best of the bunch in a very mediocre division. It’s quarterback Sam Bradford who has been the biggest disappointment, as…

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Offensive Mastermind or Not, Chip Kelly Has Built Himself a Stout Defensive Team

October 20, 2015
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  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…

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Eagles Giants Monday Night Football Preview | SwartzSports Podcast 10

October 18, 2015
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  View image | gettyimages.com   In the 10th SwartzSports podcast, Cody and Bryn give their Eagles Giants Monday Night Football preview, a game that could vault the Eagles into first place in the NFC East.  The Eagles, fresh off a dominant victory over the New Orleans Saints, could be hitting their groove after a slow start to the 2015 season. Monday’s battle with Eli Manning and the Giants will…

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Against All Odds, Jordan Hicks is Philadelphia Eagles’ Best Rookie

October 13, 2015
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  View image | gettyimages.com   If you had polled the fan base four months ago and asked which Eagles’ rookie would be the most impressive through the first five games of the season, you would have gotten one of two answers: wide receiver Nelson Agholor or defensive back Eric Rowe. Maybe you’d have heard cornerback JaCorey Shepherd, and just maybe, an overconfident fan would have nominated one of the…

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Chip Kelly’s Gamble of Walter Thurmond Paying Off for Philadelphia Eagles

October 12, 2015
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  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…

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