News of it leaked out before the Eagles informed McCoy.
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You always want an opportunity to play and obviously run the ball, but we got the big victory so that’s all that matters.
“I think we are really happy with what Ed is doing right now”, Kelly said. There’s a lot of things we get blocked up and Shady hits. “Exactly how he did it, we don’t know all the details of that, but we just know that one way or another Jeffrey Lurie is aware of the concerns that DeMarco Murray has in the role that he’s playing in the Eagles” organization right now. This is not to suggest that Murray would not have helped, but the reality is that no running back is going to fare well against a bunch of eight man fronts because the passing game just isn’t scary.
Shurmur: We’re going to come out here and train and get ready to play Buffalo, and we’re going to put the guys on the field based on how they trained and how we match up against Buffalo that are going to give us the best chance to win that football game.
“I don’t have no issue with him”, McCoy told The Philadelphia Inquirer. McCoy has 792 yards on 143 carries, 4.6 yards per carry.
“He had 14 snaps in this game because again, we had (58) snaps overall”, Kelly said.
Unlike Murray, it would seem.
“We have a group of running backs we feel good about putting in the game all the time”, said Shurmur prior to the start of Tuesday’s practice. Asked if he didn’t want to clear the air sooner than that, Murray had no response.
Kelly rebutted rumors on Wednesday that Murray sought out Lurie, saying the NFL’s rushing leader from last season simply sat next to Lurie on the plane ride home from MA.
Do you think the DeMarco Murray transaction has created the mediocrity seen in the NFC East? Chip Kelly’s reluctancy to adapt to DeMarco Murray’s style which could also be flipped onto the other side as Murray refusing to adapt to the Eagles style of play.
Chip Kelly and LeSean McCoy haven’t spoken since the March evening when the Eagles’ head coach traded the star running back to the Buffalo Bills in exchange for linebacker Kiko Alonso. Pro Bowl wide receiver Dez Bryant has taken and continues to take his problems to Jones.
Kelly also claimed that the reason Murray has struggled here out of the gun as opposed to in Dallas is actually down to opposing Defenses. “Who is healthy has a lot to do with it. Where does Ryan (Mathews) fit in when Ryan gets back healthy?”
Either way, the biggest downside to cutting Murray comes not from the financial side but from the risk that Murray will show up on the roster of a division rival, like the Giants or the Cowboys. During the three-game losing streak, E.J. Biggers was the extra defensive back while Jenkins played deep safety. 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. They both, along with Ryan Mathews, run out of the shotgun much better than Murray does.
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As the Eagles look towards their unlikely playoff push, it’s hard not to think about how things could have been different.
