Philadelphia Eagles May Trade Chip Kelly For A First-Round Pick

“Together, we decided this approach was the best course of action for the Philadelphia Eagles”. Sanchez has completed 64.8 percent of his passes, which would represent a career high and an Eagles team record if projected over an entire season.

After being considered a Super-Bowl contender during the preseason, the Eagles season is now on life support, with a game against the New England Patriots on Sunday at Gillette Stadium.

Sam Bradford, if he’s healthy, will start at quarterback against the Patriots Sunday at Gillette Stadium.

Enough is enough. No more half measures. That allows him to spin it as a full denial to Eagles faithful while sending a subtle message to other would-be suitors that he is available for meetings. There are very little guarantees at all in football.

Kelly has had final say over personnel decisions and built a roster to his liking for 2015. If this trade went down the Eagles would have TWO first round draft picks next year, which they desperately will need to re-build the mess Kelly has made in Philly.

Losing out might also mean the Eagles will have to lose their coach.

That’s why many in the league expect Kelly to roll up his sleeves and get back to work on fixing an Eagles mess that is nearly entirely of his own creation. The Eagles are 4-7 and are coming off losses to three teams they should have easily beat The city of Philadelphia is calling for Chip Kelly’s head and there may be a way the Eagles can benefit. If we’re not executing, then we’re not going to play with a lot of confidence; that’s just human nature. Opportunities to lay a foundation with a franchise passer don’t come around very often, and the Eagles just might be able to put themselves in position to do that after this season. While it would be hard to imagine Kelly bringing back a first-round pick – a dicey proposition considering that a coach probably wouldn’t want to go to a place where he would be out of a first-round pick in his first year – he would seem to fall somewhere between Marty Schottenheimer and Bill Belichick. “The last two weeks we haven’t played as well as we can as a team on that side of the ball… but I’ve seen him coach, and I know Billy knows football, I know Billy’s a really good communicator, I know Billy’s a really good teacher, and he’s a really, really good football coach”.

Another embarrassing loss should have folks talking about 2016, but somehow the Eagles are still just one game behind in the NFC East. We talk about that, plus more discussion on – what else? They’re not truly contending. They close out the season with crucial games against Washington and at NY.

The Eagles need change.