Eagles dumped Foles for Bradford

There are times when the tone of Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly Letroy GuionJerseysounds like a purposefully tuned piano – with the center key settling in a hum somewhere between arrogance and annoyance. It felt a little like that Monday night, with Kelly's Eagles hiccupping their way to a 27-7 win over the division rival New York Giants. In a conventional sense, it was an imperfect, inconsistent, all-important win. Not great, but hey…the Eagles made it. In context, it was more like driving to the end of the street and declaring victory after sideswiping only half the parked cars. You made it, but left plenty to talk about in your wake. Maybe that annoyed Kelly on http://www.packersshopnfl.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_MASON_CROSBY_JERSEY.htmlMonday – the consistent focus on the micro mistakes, when he deems the macro victory to be the most important part of the night. That's fair. Sometimes it's best to take a breath and remind yourself that things are never as good or bad as they seem in the NFL. But after you're done taking that breath, pop in all the tapes of Eagles quarterback Sam Bradford this season. And then ask yourself: at 3-3 and creeping toward midseason, is Bradford proving he's the long-term answer at quarterback? Or as Kelly was asked Monday night, how far has he gone on the developmental continuum? "I don't have an answer, a continuum answer," Kelly said. "I just know he needs to improve. We all need to improve on the offensive side of the ball." We'll get to some of those improvements in a moment. But first, let's absorb Ronald PowellJerseyMonday night in the terms that most head coaches prefer. It was a win, despite the Eagles not playing their best offensive game. We get it. That's a fair and important point. It evened Philadelphia to 3-3 with the Giants in the lackluster NFC East – just ahead of the 2-3 Dallas Cowboys and 2-4 Washington Redskins. Staying in that vein, Kelly can accentuate that the defense was a steel trap, shutting out Eli Manning and New York after allowing a game-opening 80-yard drive for a 7-0 Giants lead. And the offense, well, DeMarco Murray had his best game yet … 22 carries for 109 yards and a touchdown. That's two sizable additions to the plus-side of the ledger. As Kelly said himself: "We're starting to run the ball better as a group. We hit them with some good play-action passes that really got some good chunk plays for us. Obviously the first touchdown to [Riley Cooper]. We hit Miles [Austin] on a nice seam route." "Every single game we play is http://www.saintsonlineofficialshop.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_SAM_MILLS_JERSEY.htmlimportant," Kelly said. "At the end of the year, what's your final record? … I don't go in and say, hey, it's an AFC opponent, let's just take it easy this week because it doesn't count. They all count." All of this is true. But it's hard to dive into the victory lap without hitting cement at the bottom of the pool. The most fundamental building block of this Chip Kelly-controlled regime – and most NFL regimes, for that matter – is the quarterback. And through six games, it's a very shaky argument that Philadelphia has found its man. Indeed, looking at the eight games of Nick Foles last season (81.4 passer rating, 13 touchdowns, 10 interceptions, 2,163 passing yards and a 59.8 completion percentage), Bradford has some work to do just to ensure his first eight-game sample isn't a wash when compared to 2014 Foles. Even in victory, Bradford certainly didn't do himself any favors against the Giants. He badly missed tight end Zach Ertz high and behind on one interception, and overthrew Cooper by nearly 20 yards on another deep-ball turnover. Another pick thrown in Ertz's direction was well short at the goal line, eliminating any opportunity for it to even be a 50-50 ball. And his lone touchdown to Cooper, while conceived on a good-enough throw, did require Bradford's wideout to make a good adjustment on the catch. When the dust settled, Bradford's rough Game 6 left his touchdown-to-interception totals at nine to nine. Add in two fumbles (one lost) and he looks like a guy with some ball security issues. Which is a worst-case kind of thing at quarterback.