DeMarco Murray complains about role to Eagles owner

It took two special teams touchdowns and a defensive touchdown to pull it off.

Kelly insisted that the reason he used Sproles and Barner more and Murray less was because of matchups. You have a receiver outside who might get doubled all the time because he might be the best receiver in the game in Dez Bryant. That isn the way Lurie runs his football team. And Ryan Mathews was here on his visit when DeMarco came.

The Eagles, a completely dysfunctional, Sybil-like outfit, somehow beat the normally steadfast Patriots 35-28. In probably the toughest road atmosphere in the NFL. Pretty coat but should tell the coach has been let down a few times this year by tiptoed Jia.

But the mindset of Murray appears to have swayed left of where the Eagles apparently stood with him.

It’s understandable from his perspective. But there’s no denying Murray’s struggles.

“Every week is you get an opportunity to show us what you can do”, Kelly said Sunday, via Philly.com‎. “Jason Peters has been out for part of three games”. The offensive line is so poor, ranked 30th in run-blocking DVOA, that the team can’t get any production on the ground. Osweiler started taking snaps from centre, and the reliance on the running game increased to take pressure off the young quarterback. We’re not where we’ve been offensively. “He knew that going into the game”. They got consistent pressure on him, intercepted him twice, including one by Malcolm Jenkins that he returned 99 yards for a touchdown and held him in check on third down. Some guys may stand a little taller in the pocket, or look a little less afraid when hanging onto the ball at the very last moment, but the reality is that none of them are very good when under the kind of duress that Bridgewater was Sunday against Seattle. “He’s actually had more snaps than the other three guys combined over the course of the season”, Shurmur said. As Peters put it after the game, they see the hole and hit it decisively.

It would be easy, perhaps, to build a narrative around Chip Kelly’s “positive reinforcement” in contrast to Malcolm Jenkins’ “holding players accountable”, and come to the conclusion that one or the other had more to do with the Eagles’ upset win against the Patriots. “We are not trying to win a rushing championship or a passing championship or a receiving championship or anything from that stretch of the imagination”. So he had success running out of the gun, he had success running from under center. They did much better in the second half, holding them to 23 yards and just two rushing first downs on eight carries. Again, it’s always, as you figure out the week, who you’re playing and what you’ve got available to you. Asked if he focused more on positive reinforcement in light of Philadelphia’s penchant for negativity, the Eagles coach joked, “You’re talking about this town being negative?”

“It’s a different dynamic in terms of how people defended Dallas and how they defend us”.