Eagles DeMarco Murray sits in crunch time

In March, Chip Kelly, Philadelphia Eagles Andrew WhitworthJerseypersonnel man, gave DeMarco Murray a five-year contract worth up to $42 million to come run for the Eagles. On Monday, Chip Kelly, Philadelphia Eagles coach, gave DeMarco Murray the ball just eight times – and most notably didn't give it to him on a critical third-and-1 late in the fourth quarter. Instead Ryan Mathews was handed the rock and wound up stuffed at the line. In part because http://www.nflbengalsofficial.com/Authentic-Andy-Dalton-Jerseythe play showed so little promise, Kelly decide to kick on fourth-and-1 and take the lead. Cody Parkey, though, promptly missed the ensuing 44-yarder and a furious Eagles comeback from to a fruitless first half fell short. Atlanta won the opener 26-24. Kelly may have lured Dallas' bell cow http://www.nflbengalsofficial.com/Authentic-Anthony-Munoz-Jerseyrunning back away to Philly but he isn't running Dallas' offense, which perhaps means an entirely new role for the league's 2014 rushing champ. Murray gained 1,845 yards on a whopping 392 carries a year ago, averaging 115.3 yards on 24.5 attempts per game. This was entirely different, just eight carries for nine yards, plus four catches for 11 more. There were two touchdowns on Monday, an 8-yard run and a 5-yard reception that show Murray's unique value. But where was he play in, play out? He last touched the ball with 10:49 remaining in the fourth. Specifically, where was he on the most critical offense play of the game, that third-and-1? "Whoever is in the game [gets the call]," Kelly said, and that meant Mathews,Brett HundleyJersey a sixth-year vet out of Fresno State. Kelly is running a speed system that doesn't have time for such substitutions – or more important, allowing the defense to run fresh guys in. Sometimes that means the high-priced free agent has to watch. On Monday he watched a lot. "Obviously you want to get more opportunities," Murray said. "Not only myself, everyone wants to get the ball as many times as they can to help this team." As with everything in the NFL, http://www.packersshopnfl.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_BRYAN_BULAGA_JERSEY.htmlthis game needs to be viewed through the prism of it being the season-opener. "It's Week 1," quarterback Sam Bradford said. "There are 15 more to go." Moreover, Philadelphia didn't drop to 0-1 Monday because Murray didn't get the ball late in the game. It wasn't even that Parkey blew that final field goal or the Falcons dominated the push on the line or that the Eagles committed 10 penalties. It was all of those things, although it was mostly lost in the first half, when Philly couldn't move the ball, seven of its eight drives yielded just 56 yards, and Atlanta led 20-3. The Falcons putting an extra man in the defensive box seemed to be a challenge to overcome. "We were horrible," Kelly put it, bluntly and honestly. Kelly is such an oversized personality unafraid of making bold personnel and strategy moves that every Eagles game quickly becomes a referendum on whether or not he knows what he is doing. When the offense stalled, he had traded away too many of his playmakers. When linebacker Kiko Alonso made a brilliant one-handed, touchdown-saving interception of Atlanta's Matt Ryan, he was smart for trading one of those playmakers, LeSean McCoy for such a big-play defender.