Q: Are you looking forward to your first game action of the preseason? A: For sure. I think preseason games are important because you get your body in shape and you start to work that muscle memory. And going against players from a different team. So I’m excited I get to play this week. […]
Q.Barring an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, how much do you expect to play Eagles QB Sam Bradford? CHIP KELLY: We, like every week, we’ll have a meeting this afternoon and talk about everybody. Ones, twos and threes and what our rotation will be and then finalize it after tomorrow’s training session. So we have […]
Q. What does getting LB Mychal Kendricks’ new contract done mean for the defense this year and in the long term? BILL DAVIS: I think it’s a great move. We’re real excited about Mychal, and I think Mychal, like most of the young guys who get their second contract, it gives you peace of mind […]
The Arena Football League today announced the 2015 Offensive Lineman of the Year award to Soul C Shannon Breen. Breen (6’5, 310, West Virginia Wesleyan) was also awarded First Team All-Arena for his impressive season with the Soul.
The Philadelphia Eagles have signed LB Mychal Kendricks to a four-year contract extension, which will keep the linebacker in Philadelphia through the 2019 season. Originally a second-round draft selection of the Eagles in 2012, Kendricks, 24, was immediately inserted as a starter during his rookie campaign and has since developed into one of the […]
Eagles Head Coach Chip Kelly Press Conference 8.24.15 Q. On the play where Ravens LB Terrell Suggs hit QB Sam Bradford, was that a zone‑read play or was that — CHIP KELLY: No, it’s just a handoff. Not every shotgun run is a zone‑read play. We didn’t run any zone reads. We […]
In 2004, the season the Eagles finished 13-3, won the NFC Championship and came within a field goal of a Super Bowl title, the Birds were 1-3 in the preseason.
The objective is to play well.
The Eagles have not only played well top to bottom, they have completely dominated two contending AFC clubs from their studs to scrubs.
Their quarterbacks threw 49 passes and were sacked just once. The run defense was stout, allowing just 2.4 yards a carry and zero touchdowns. The kicking game accounted for five field goals, including three that traveled 43, 51 and 53 yards. And they won, defeating the Jacksonville Jaguars in MetLife Stadium, 22-12.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported last Monday’s edition of NFL Total Access that Eli Manning wants to be the highest paid player in the NFL.
Manning, who has led the Giants to two Super Bowl titles, signed a six-year, $97.5 million extension in 2009.
It expires at the end of the 2015 season.
EAGLES HEAD COACH CHIP KELLY PRESS CONFERENCE AUGUST 18, 2015 Eagles preparing for practice and play with the Baltimore Ravens Q. What did you see from the offensive line? COACH KELLY: Well, you played a lot of different groupings so I think a lot of guys got an opportunity to play. I […]
