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Highlighting Each of the Remaining Free Agents for the Philadelphia Eagles

January 30, 2016
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The Philadelphia Eagles have been active in contract negotiations within the last week, locking up tight ends Zach Ertz and Brent Celek to multi-year deals totalling more than $55 million. They also extended offensive tackle Lane Johnson on a $63 million deal that will pay him more guaranteed money than any right tackle in the NFL. With $12.696 million in remaining cap space, per Spotrac, the Eagles have some very tough…

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Philadelphia Eagles 2015 Midseason Awards

November 13, 2015
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  View image | gettyimages.com   It’s safe to say that the 2015 Philadelphia Eagles’ season really hasn’t gone as anyone has expected. After all, preseason expectations for the team reached the point where national media members were predicting the Eagles to win the franchise’s first Super Bowl. And then the Eagles went out and fell flat on their face in the first month of the season. Although the Eagles…

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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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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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