Bradford exited Week 10’s loss to the Miami Dolphins due to both a shoulder injury and a concussion. That summoned backup Mark Sanchez off the bench.
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Sanchez replaced Nick Foles in Philadelphia’s eighth game last season, led them to a win at Houston and went 4-4 as a starter the rest of the way.
Asked if the Eagles would game-plan differently with Sanchez at quarterback, Kelly quickly responded, “We don’t, no”. To make matters worse, players like Ryan Mathews and Nelson Agholor are also dealing with injuries which is going to test the depth of the Eagles team.
“We have confidence in Mark Sanchez”, said coach Chip Kelly, whose team somehow remains a half-game out of first place in the NFC East with a 4-5 record, but still has a tough three-game stretch against the New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills and Arizona Cardinals coming up, as well as division games against the NY Giants and Washington. He was sacked four times with the last one injuring him.
“The ball comes out fast”. We know that as receivers. “It’s just that we threw an interception, which we don’t want to do”.
Notes: Mathews also sustained a concussion in the third quarter…. After sustaining an AC Joint injury and a concussion yesterday, a few reporters were claiming Bradford could be back as early as this week whilst others predicted he could be out for longer.
Five of Miami’s final seven games are at home, starting Sunday against Dallas.
Roethlisberger was limited in practice all week after getting hurt in last week’s win over Oakland.
But the Eagles could only muster 83 rushing yards in Sunday’s 20-19 loss. But his offensive line gave up four sacks and let the Dolphins knock him out of the game in the third quarter. Of course, a late interception ended the game, and any hopes of winning for the Eagles. Candy from a baby, right? If Bradford is out for an extended period of time, the Eagles might be finished.
RB DeMarco Murray was held to 2.8 yards per carry by the Dolphins.
Caleb Sturgis made a 37-yard field goal to get Philadelphia to 20-19. Josh Huff is the Eagles’ emergency quarterback. Fletcher Cox was in his face all afternoon.
As Philadelphia began to pull away, the Dolphins picked up the pace in the second quarter after a blocked punt by rookie linebacker Zach Vigil set up running back Lamar Miller for a touchdown catch.
It’s always easy to put the blame on the kicking team when a team come up short, but whether the snap was low or not, it is absolutely, positively 100% unacceptable for the Eagles’ kicker (remember, out of respect for Steve O, we don’t mention the names of ANY Eagles’ kickers on TMA) to boot a 32-yard field goal attempt.
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“We didn’t do a good job putting ourselves in situations where we can be successful”, Eagles coach Chip Kelly said. But penalties, uncharacteristic poor special teams play and a killer red-zone interception late in the game doomed them.
