McCoy declined to comment after the game.
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He never approached Kelly after saying last week he didn’t want to shake his hand or talk to him.
Bradford threw a quick out to Ertz to try to secure the first down. Bradford was 23-for-38 for 247 yards, a 53-yard TD pass to rookie Nelson Agholor and an interception that wasn’t his fault.
Defensive coordinator Billy Davis and his players said the Eagles didn’t make any halftime adjustments.
“We just got penalty after penalty”, Ryan said. It’s pretty ironic that shutting McCoy up is how the Eagles will win this game anyway, and that responsibility is going to come down to the Eagles’ linebackers. Instead, he was thrown for a 10-yard loss by Cox.
With a pack of reporters gathered around him following the Bills’ crushing defeat, the Eagles’ all-time leader in rushing yards shook his head over and over again as he unhurriedly dressed. The Eagle’s offense will run well but the defense will be torched by a much quicker Bill’s team.
“To start the year the way we did and kind of dig ourselves in a hole, it was unlikely that we would be in this position this late in the year”, Bradford said. (Of course, it’s always possible to franchise and then sign longterm, after you’ve made it clear that you aren’t going to let a player go into free agency.) Franchising Bradford, if it comes to that, seems likely to cost the team more than $20 million off its 2016 salary cap.
The Eagles stopped their opponent anyway and, just when the momentum had swung, had one of the quickest three-and-outs of the year despite Darren Sproles setting them up with a 28-yard punt return to the 46 of the Bills.
Bills coach Rex Ryan had plenty to say about his team sloppy play, which included 15 penalties for 101 yards, three times the number of flags thrown at the Eagles (five penalties for 55 yards).
The teams traded field goals before Mike Gillislee thundered 19 yards up the middle for a touchdown knotting the game at 20 with 46 seconds left in the third quarter.
Tyrod Taylor was the star of the show – his streak of 222 passes without a solitary pick ended when his deep pass floated right to Ed Reynolds with 1:16 left on the clock.
For Rowe it’s a step-up in competition as Sammy Watkins ranks sixth in the league with 18.7 yards-per-catch.
Jones had a 63-yard punt in the first quarter, followed by a 56-yarder. Jaylen Watkins distracted Bills return man Marcus Thigpen enough for Bryan Braman to recover the muff.
Sturgis sent the Eagles into the break with a 17-10 lead with a 45-yard field goal to cap an 11-play drive during the two-minute drill.
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Dan Carpenter: After a shaky performance in Week 13 against Houston, Carpenter responded by hitting a pair of field goals and both his extra points. He is the first Bills receiver with 40-yard catches in three straight games since Terrell Owens in 2009.
