Speaking on 94WIP the morning after his team’s loss to the Miami Dolphins, Eagles head coach Chip Kelly said that when healthy, Sam Braford will keep his job as the starting quarterback.
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For the second year in a row, it looks like it’s up to Mark Sanchez to save the Eagles season, which probably isn’t an ideal situation for Eagles fans.
Eagles coach Chip Kelly seemed to indicate Monday that he was more concerned about Bradford’s concussion than the shoulder injury to his non-throwing shoulder.
“I am confident in Mark”, Kelly said.
Sanchez drove the Eagles to the Dolphins 8 late in the fourth quarter, but Jones intercepted his pass in the end zone.
Veteran Mark Sanchez replaced Bradford, who had been playing better in his last two games after a disappointing start to the season, in the middle of the third quarter.
This play kind of flew under-the-radar-and reasonably so, due to all the other egregious ones-but it proved very costly when reviewing the tape.
-Defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh had his best game as a Dolphins player Sunday against Philadelphia. He finished with 14 of 23 for 156 yards. He is continuing to impress after a slow start made people question if last years successes were only a fluke. In 25 games since then, with Foles, Sanchez and Bradford at quarterback, Cooper has caught 66 passes for 782 yards and five touchdowns.
Amusing, because it was Sanchez who was at the helm when the Eagles dropped three of their last four in 2014 and wound up missing the playoffs.
“I was expecting to go out there and play right at game time”, Johnson said. The Dolphins final two road games are against the Jets (5-4) and Chargers (2-7). Jelani Jenkins, Brice McCain, Brent Grimes, and Cameron Wake (who has been out for weeks) were all absent in this 20-19 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
Sanchez set a franchise record with a 64.1 completion rate, but also committed too many turnovers.
Starter Lamar Miller still got the bulk of the carries but did much less with them.
The injuries seem to be a little more serious than first anticipated after Bleeding Green Nation reported that Bradford actually struggled to remember the first half of the Dolphins game. “I thought that really changed the momentum and kept guys in it and we just kept fighting”.
Bradford separated the shoulder, per an NFL Network report, and along with the concussion, is out this week when the Birds oppose the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Thanksgiving week, when the team treks to Detroit to take on the Lions. The Dolphins owned one of the worst run defenses in the league. Now he’ll have the task of keeping this 4-5 Eagles team alive. The only way the Eagles are going to move forward at this point is if Kelly’s sniper-like mind can whip up a simple game plan, with simple routes and concepts, and makes it so it’s almost foolproof.
After Bradford was injured, the Dolphins went ahead 20-16 early in the fourth quarter.
Ajayi surging: Rookie running back Jay Ajayi picked up where he left off, having another big performance in limited action.
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Hall of Fame coach Joe Gibbs once told me that one key to his success was knowing his players’ limitations as well as their strengths.
