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rumply

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Oh man, some of the funniest shit ive ever seen. :D:D:D:D

Sorry for your loss, rumply. :rainbow:

I'm so stuck in my ways & almost always catch the Thursday night game on Friday arvos I didnt even look at kickoff times this week, & I did myself a huge favour by doing so it would appear, nice one guys:thumbsu: the loss is no surprise, the score, well Chip better batten down those hatches.
 

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I'm so stuck in my ways & almost always catch the Thursday night game on Friday arvos I didnt even look at kickoff times this week, & I did myself a huge favour by doing so it would appear, nice one guys:thumbsu: the loss is no surprise, the score, well Chip better batten down those hatches.
I feel for you bloke, but what about poor old Zealbee, representing the Eagle fans on his lonesome in the week 12 thread at 4:30am...

Brave committed soldier he is. :thumbsu:
 

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Pretty good article by Bill Barnwell:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...phia-eagles-coach-gm-talent-fair-question-nfl

"Granted, the Eagles have a matchup against the undefeated Patriots next week, but even if they lose, Kelly's team is far from buried. If they pull off a playoff run, well, Kelly the coach and Kelly the general manager will be joined by a third role: Kelly the magician."
Great article, makes some very valid points. Some of things people are saying about Kelly are completely false.
 

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I think Bradford is better than Foles but giving up a second as well hurts. Especially when we have some holes to fill.
Every team has holes to fill, even the elite teams. I get what you mean tho, Looks like we need 2 guards and 2 wrs better than coops and huff.
Look at this list:
http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft?type=position

When I look at that list I see alot of backup quarterbacks and failed quarterbacks, the only spot that seems to generate good quarterbacks is the first pick in the draft.

If you think that giving up an early 2nd is too much you probably either underrate the qb position or you think drafting one is easier than it actually is.
 

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From MMQB:
I think there is nothing more startling this season—so far anyway—than the Eagles playing two sub-.500 teams in the span of five days and surrendering 45 points to each. And getting routed in each game. But I wouldn’t take the easy way out and infer what so many are: that Chip Kelly’s going to parachute into some great college job and abandon the Eagles five weeks from now.

Now, it’s easy to be burned by predicting what wise coaches with options will do. Remember the Nick Saban saga nine years ago? In his second year as Dolphins savior, Saban said with three weeks left in the season: “I’m not going anywhere.” With a week left, Saban said: “I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.” Three days after the season, standing on the Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, Saban said: “What I realized in the last two years is that we love college coaching.” So do not ignore the Kelly-to-USC chatter, or the Kelly-to-anywhere chatter. Just as I didn’t think Saban was going anywhere (he told me so, twice, in the last month before he left), I don’t think Kelly is going anywhere either, because I don’t think he’s a quitter.

When he was at Oregon, it wasn’t as if he was necessarily in the place where he could see himself coaching forever. When he got the Eagles’ job I thought part of it was for the challenge of competing on a level playing field, not one where the corporate and alumni world can make such a difference in winning and losing. One more observation: Had Saban signed Drew Brees in 2006 instead of listening to team medics who told him Brees’ shoulder surgery would make that season iffy for the quarterback, there’s a good chance the Dolphins would have at least one Super Bowl in the last decade and Saban would still be in Miami. And if Sam Bradford had worked out and played great—there is still time, but Bradford hasn’t played well enough to erase the doubts people had on him before the March trade to Philadelphia—these questions about Kelly’s future would be moot. Gut feeling: Unless Jeffrey Lurie gets Tennessee’s first-round pick for Kelly, and Kelly’s serious about re-starting his NFL life in Tennessee next year (with his former Oregon QB, Marcus Mariota), Kelly stays. With Lurie’s full support.
 
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