Nick Piccone
In Peter King’s MMQB column this morning, he mentioned that Sam Bradford wouldn’t give the Eagles any type of special consideration to returning to the team next season. Of course, that’s predicated on the Eagles not placing the franchise tag on him, but I’d be willing to bet that they won’t be doing that. Honestly, it’d be ridiculous to pay Bradford anything above $10 million, and if they franchise tag him, they’d be paying almost double that.
Curiously in King’s column, though, was a mention of how Chip Kelly had no idea he would be fired and that Bradford isn’t crazy about the city. Why I oughta…
Three interesting things I can confirm. One: Kelly had no idea this was coming. He was shocked. He figured the organization would rally at the end of the season and make a plan for 2016 that he hoped would include signing quarterback Sam Bradford long-term. Two: Lurie never offered him a chance to stay if he ceded personnel control. Lurie wanted Kelly out. Now. Three: Bradford won’t be motivated to return to Philadelphia over any other team now that free agency looms. His agent, Tom Condon, is a get-the-most-you-can-regardless-of-team guy, and Bradford isn’t crazy about Philadelphia the city anyway. He probably wishes there was a team in his favorite place, Oklahoma City. And who’s to say the next coach—current offensive coordinators Adam Gase of Chicago and Doug Pederson of Kansas City are popular early names—will want Bradford at $18 million a year or more?
With Bradford playing in places like Oklahoma and St. Louis, it’s easy to see why he wouldn’t like our city too much. We actually takes sports seriously. Sure, high school and college football is like a religion in Oklahoma and Texas, but it’s a whole different situation in the northeast part of the country. Any athlete will tell you that. And it sounds like the city is way too intimidating for Bradford, especially without Chip Kelly here.
Who else sees Bradford and Manziel heading to Dallas?
Read the entire column here.
I can’t blame him who the fuck would wanna play for the Jeffy lurie troika with howie Roseman crawling up your ass stinking it up
# lurie is a backstabbing douche
#no superbowls
#Roseman is a carrot tosser
#eagles will never win anything
Eagles will make it further now that Kelly is gone. More options will be focused on and hopefully it won’t be a fast pace team. Yes it gets the,motivation going but no time to think.