The Philadelphia Eagles are aiming for the Super Bowl in 2015, their third season under head coach Chip Kelly. With various changes this offseason, the team will need several things to go right in order to achieve their goal, which is lofty as they haven’t yet made the playoffs under this regime. From the quarterback position on down, here are two things that must go right this season for the Eagles:
1. The Eagles traded away quarterback Nick Foles, who performed exceedingly well at times but was never a strong fit with Kelly’s system. In return they received Sam Bradford, a former number one overall pick with a history of injury. Behind him is Mark Sanchez, a former bust who performed adequately but unspectacularly last season during backup duty. Philadelphia was expected to make a run at Marcus Mariota in the draft, but that failed to materialize. So now it’s up to Bradford and Sanchez, along with new signing Tim Tebow if he makes the team, to collectively get the job done at the quarterback position.
2. Philadelphia discarded star running back LeSean McCoy and replaced with him another star back, DeMarco Murray. This feels like a sideways move on paper, and now it’s up to Chip Kelly to show how his system will be better able to make use of the latter than with the former.
Jake Robison
You fail to mention that Chip wants a running game and there is ONLY one runner and that is Tebow. Where have you guys been.