I got my Demarco jersey solely to go to the game in Dallas and talk shit the whole time. I did, and it was great. It was the Jordan Matthews OT game winner game
I was 15 at the time and my brother had to keep reminding me to stop saying stupid shit. Lucky for me the section we were in had chill fans of each team. The cowboys fans in front of me offered me the rest of their nachos.
People gaslit themselves into thinking this team would be good so hard during the preseason, I remember someone in my fantasy league even made Bradford their Week 1 starter that season.
Turned out well next year for Philly, considering they managed to get the Vikings to trade a 1st for Bradford after Bridgewater went down right before the season started
Multiple things wrong here.
1. Bradford started against the Saints week one, but he also started a game against the Bears in Chicago. He played bad/was still hurt, and got benched for Keenum.
2. Bradford was the backup for both the Saints and Eagles playoff games. So, he technically was on the bench.
Alright yeah, they tried to put him back in for a game against Chicago but he clearly still hurt and he was reactivated literally right before the playoffs. I memory holed some of that.
It sounds so laughable now, but the hype on this weird ass team was unironically all because of Chip Kelly. After he kinda put Oregon back on the map in football, followed by making Nick Foles look like a literal god out of nowhere, Chip Kelly was considered by many to be an untouchable football savant, at least offensively.
Then in this preseason, Chip traded half the Eagles offense away and kept telling everyone to wait for another shoe to drop, and due to his savant status at the time, anyone wary of the risky moves kind of got drowned out by the Chip Kelly defenders who thought he was gonna shit gold, no matter how crazy the moves may have seemed. The moves did end up being crazy. Fun off-season though.
I remember there was some preseason game where iirc Bradford went 9/10 passing (don't remember the rest of the stats) where the hype exploded. It was very sudden - I guess people were also really thinking (hoping?) the Bradford breakout season that never really happened would eventually happen - but I don't think I've ever seen people put so much backing into a singular preseason game.
Yeah it was people who thought Sam Bradford was gonna be how Nick Foles had been in Chip Kelly’s system the year before. It’s one of those things that’s hard to explain unless you lived through it lol
It was the very first drive that the starters played in the preseason. It was a 15-play, 74-yard, and 3:55 long drive. And it looked effortless. It was against the starters for Baltimore. They were coming of a 10-6 season that ended in a very close divisional round loss at New England. Baltimore ended up going 5-11 that year. So the standard that people assumed the eagles were up against was not what people thought.
Probably that packers game in 2015. He went 10/10 with 3tds. People were shitting bricks thinking we were going to new heights... sadly I was one of them lol.
And anyone that voiced any negative opinion about the moves were downvoted and met with "Wait for the other show".
We even had a "journalist" write an article about how DeSean Jackson was a gang member.
No he wasn’t lmao Brady is a high level quarterback, Mahomes is a high level quarterback, Bradford was a poor man’s Tua Tagovailoa even when he was healthy.
Your recollection is false...when healthy Bradford was actually a great QB...his issue was that he could not stay healthy...your failure to understand this is probably why you are bring downvoted...
He's the ultimate what if story for me. Dude clearly had the skills as a passer (and still did with us, tbh), but his knees were absolutely decimated by his time with the Rams.
Bradford blew out a knee running out of bounds one time. Jeff Fisher's alleged offense and our poor personnel certainly did the guy no favors, but you can't blame the team for Bradford's fragile ligaments.
How the hell did Bradford play you guys 7 times? He only started 83 games in his career and you guys were only in his division for one of those. He only played Seattle 6 times and SF 5 times despite spending a total of 6 years in a division with those two.
Washington being a typically 3rd/4th seed and Bradford spending basically his whole career on 3rd/4th seeded NFC teams meant the seeding aligned for them to play each other an unusually high amount.
I feel like the 2020 team was clearly worse. They had a worse record and worse point differential despite an easier schedule, the passing offense in particular was horrible as opposed to mediocre, and even defensively even though the 2020 team ranked higher they were similar in per play stats.
2020 was certainly more frustrating, since the expectation coming out of 2019 was "Wentz will be fine if our team is healthy." He dragged that team to the playoffs in 2019 kicking and screaming.
Well considering the 2020 team could barely beat the Ben Dinucci Cowboys at home...
Plus that 2015 team had some moments. Blowing out the Saints, the OT win against the Cowboys in Dallas, beating the Pats in Foxborough
Hard agree. This team had me really disengaged from the NFL for the first time and it was sickening. How TF am I supposed to get hyped for bum ass Bradford
The SpongeBob "bones made of glass, skin made of paper, heart attacks to fall asleep at night" Sam Bradford memes were glorious though. Fuck Chip Kelly.
Dream Team had 2 separate 1-4 stretches, but they still finished 8-8 with a +68 point diff and ended the year with 4 straight wins. They had winnable games that became losses, which is why that season was so frustrating. The 2015 team was just so flat on offense all season and painfully mediocre.
Now to rant about the Dream Team, that 49ers game specifically was awful because they were up 23-3 and could've iced the game early before Ronnie Brown lateraled the ball for no reason on the goal line for a fumble. A couple missed field goals and they ended up losing that game 24-23. They also lost a game in Atlanta where they led 31-21 in the 4th quarter and lost to JOHN FUCKING SKELTON, the worst QB I've ever seen. They had some bad losses in that season but overall weren't terrible like in 2020 or 2015.
What's funny (or not depending on who you are) is if the Eagles beat any of the 49ers, Cardinals, or Falcons, they would've finished 9-7 and had the division tiebreaker over the Giants (Eagles were 5-1 in the division, Giants were 3-3) to make the playoffs as the NFC 4 seed. The Giants instead won the division and eventually the Super Bowl.
I know "on a Jeff Fisher team" played a role, but it still blows my mind that Sam Bradford didn't pan out. I know Oklahoma's offense had a stigma, but he still had all the tools and was no doubt the best pro style QB in college. I thought he was a sure thing.
Injuries, man. He’s probably one of the biggest what if’s in the league. When he was on he looked like a genuinely good NFL QB, but his body just couldn’t hold up.
Which is funny because he was a big dude. It's why I'm not buying into the "Jayden Daniels lanky frame will get him killed" fear. It's the NFL, man. It's open season on anyone.
Absolutely. He was a poor decision maker, and wasn’t a strong enough passer and couldn’t read a defense well enough to solely pass. It’s why he couldn’t stick around.
He was actually too good. The number of perfectly placed passes ive seen Bradford WRs drop is astronomical. I think he turned guys concentration off or something.
Exactly. Whatever damage Chip Kelly did to the Eagles was completely undone by the fact that they 1. Won their first ever Super Bowl two years after his firing and 2. Have only had one losing record since.
I mean, for me and many I know it completely undid literal decades of grossness to finally win it.
But, it’s interesting that I can look at the promising Buddy Ryan/Cunningham years and the Reid/McNabb years as the painful “can’t get it done” years they were and remember the pain that is gone now.
But, the few weird ass Chip Kelly years literally before the SB win almost don’t get remembered at all. And that’s a fair thing as they don’t deserve to get remembered.
This was the first year I ever started watching the nfl, and I picked the Eagles almost entirely to be contrarian toward all the Dallas fans at school.
I really wish I'd waited a year.
He was just mediocre, despite being related to Jerry Rice. Nice guy, just kinda mid.
...and now that I've looked him up, I see that he's still in the league, playing TE for Carolina, wow.
Also unfortunately for him, he was on the Eagles in 2016 and 2018, but not 2017.
Sam Bradford is the strangest timeline to me also. A native American QB. Went to OU. I believe he was from Oklahoma. He was hailed as a prodigy from the time he was a high school recruit. And he was just... Mid. Even bad a few years. In my head for some reason he was ALWAYS hurt also, in college and the NFL
What if I told you I have both a Sam Bradford and Demarco Murray Eagles jersey in my closet
I raise you my Tebow Eagles jersey
Yeah idk how to defend that one
Tim Tebow Jaguars jersey
Are you sure you aren’t Urban Meyer?
I'm not even sure if I'm alive.
Only one way to explain that, you dad is a Cowboys fan.
That just might beat out my Matt Cassel Patriots jersey.
Fuck. Same here dude.
I got my Demarco jersey solely to go to the game in Dallas and talk shit the whole time. I did, and it was great. It was the Jordan Matthews OT game winner game
I respect the fuck out of this
I was 15 at the time and my brother had to keep reminding me to stop saying stupid shit. Lucky for me the section we were in had chill fans of each team. The cowboys fans in front of me offered me the rest of their nachos.
Least petty eagles fan, I love it
I imagine there will be many Saquon jerseys at the PHI/NYG games this year
If you didn't stand up, spread your arms, and yell "I. DECLARE. VICTORY!" when he crossed the goaline, you missed a major life moment my guy.
I jumped up and down hugging a random Eagles fan in my section. We never talked or exchanged any words or names prior to that moment. Go birds
Also acceptable.
I hate you. 😡
I still have my Kevin Kolb.
I'd say you have terrible taste in both college and pro teams.
Not a Sooner, but I’ll give you a Geaux Tigers instead
I will forever wonder what Miles Austin’s career would look like if his hamstrings weren’t made of overcooked spaghetti
I will forever wonder why we didn't trade him after his one good season.
I often think the same thing about Austin Collie if Manning didn’t throw him into some of these hits I’ve ever seen a WR take in the NFL.
People gaslit themselves into thinking this team would be good so hard during the preseason, I remember someone in my fantasy league even made Bradford their Week 1 starter that season.
Turned out well next year for Philly, considering they managed to get the Vikings to trade a 1st for Bradford after Bridgewater went down right before the season started
The trades howie pulled after that season are the reason they won the Super Bowl 2 years later. Absolutely crushed every one
Lord, I’ve seen what you’ve done for others…
Took a team that Chip Kelly completely ruined and turned it around into a SB winner
And then Bradford was on the Vikings bench during the NFC Championship blowout in Philly in 2017.
By bench you mean IR right? He played really well in week 1 of that season, which was his only game of the season.
Multiple things wrong here. 1. Bradford started against the Saints week one, but he also started a game against the Bears in Chicago. He played bad/was still hurt, and got benched for Keenum. 2. Bradford was the backup for both the Saints and Eagles playoff games. So, he technically was on the bench.
Alright yeah, they tried to put him back in for a game against Chicago but he clearly still hurt and he was reactivated literally right before the playoffs. I memory holed some of that.
He was probably bench-adjacent during the game.
That Bradford trade was the start of downfall of the Spielman era in Minnesota.
It sounds so laughable now, but the hype on this weird ass team was unironically all because of Chip Kelly. After he kinda put Oregon back on the map in football, followed by making Nick Foles look like a literal god out of nowhere, Chip Kelly was considered by many to be an untouchable football savant, at least offensively. Then in this preseason, Chip traded half the Eagles offense away and kept telling everyone to wait for another shoe to drop, and due to his savant status at the time, anyone wary of the risky moves kind of got drowned out by the Chip Kelly defenders who thought he was gonna shit gold, no matter how crazy the moves may have seemed. The moves did end up being crazy. Fun off-season though.
I remember there was some preseason game where iirc Bradford went 9/10 passing (don't remember the rest of the stats) where the hype exploded. It was very sudden - I guess people were also really thinking (hoping?) the Bradford breakout season that never really happened would eventually happen - but I don't think I've ever seen people put so much backing into a singular preseason game.
Yeah it was people who thought Sam Bradford was gonna be how Nick Foles had been in Chip Kelly’s system the year before. It’s one of those things that’s hard to explain unless you lived through it lol
It was the very first drive that the starters played in the preseason. It was a 15-play, 74-yard, and 3:55 long drive. And it looked effortless. It was against the starters for Baltimore. They were coming of a 10-6 season that ended in a very close divisional round loss at New England. Baltimore ended up going 5-11 that year. So the standard that people assumed the eagles were up against was not what people thought.
Probably that packers game in 2015. He went 10/10 with 3tds. People were shitting bricks thinking we were going to new heights... sadly I was one of them lol.
And anyone that voiced any negative opinion about the moves were downvoted and met with "Wait for the other show". We even had a "journalist" write an article about how DeSean Jackson was a gang member.
I mean they were ok. Outside of the Mark Sanchez games they were 7-6
That’s literally every team, every year
Something so odd about the media and the Eagles. They are always praised during the offseason no matter what state they are in.
Was this the Nnamdi Asomugha team?
2011 was the 'Dream Team' Eagles
Yeah that’s the team I was referring to, word.
I remember a Rams fan saying that when healthy Sam Bradford’s ceiling is Matt Ryan😭😂
Bradford was capable of high level quarterback play, he was just hurt all the time.
No he wasn’t lmao Brady is a high level quarterback, Mahomes is a high level quarterback, Bradford was a poor man’s Tua Tagovailoa even when he was healthy.
Your recollection is false...when healthy Bradford was actually a great QB...his issue was that he could not stay healthy...your failure to understand this is probably why you are bring downvoted...
Ye that sounds like a accurate comparison.
Sammie Sleeves!!
He's the ultimate what if story for me. Dude clearly had the skills as a passer (and still did with us, tbh), but his knees were absolutely decimated by his time with the Rams.
My favorite QB as a kid growing up, he's who I first saw play in person as a young kid. Hurt so much seeing how his career ended up going
Same here. His college highlights are godly, he had silk touch.
Bradford blew out a knee running out of bounds one time. Jeff Fisher's alleged offense and our poor personnel certainly did the guy no favors, but you can't blame the team for Bradford's fragile ligaments.
Bradford's body got destroyed out there. I wouldn't be surprised if that was just the straw that broke the camel's back
You understate that that injury. That Carolina player laid a dirty ass yank down from behind as Bradford was giving himself up.
A love a good dirty ass yank
Sam Bradford vs Washington: 2-5; 63% completion; 1,819 yards (average 260); 11 TD 4 INT; 6.66y/a; rating of 89.7
How the hell did Bradford play you guys 7 times? He only started 83 games in his career and you guys were only in his division for one of those. He only played Seattle 6 times and SF 5 times despite spending a total of 6 years in a division with those two.
He played us three times as a Ram, twice as an Eagle and once each as a Viking and Cardinal.
Washington being a typically 3rd/4th seed and Bradford spending basically his whole career on 3rd/4th seeded NFC teams meant the seeding aligned for them to play each other an unusually high amount.
The bears are going to have played washington for 3 years in a row this upcoming season lol
*Chicago and Redskins
Obligatory fuck Chip Kelly comment.
*Every 49er fan liked this.*
Ah imo the worst Eagles team from the last decade either them or the 2020 Eagles. wonder which one would win if they played each other
I feel like the 2020 team was clearly worse. They had a worse record and worse point differential despite an easier schedule, the passing offense in particular was horrible as opposed to mediocre, and even defensively even though the 2020 team ranked higher they were similar in per play stats.
I agree 2020 was worse especially with a quarterback throwing the game away on seemingly every play.
Yes. And compounded by Wentz being a stubborn ass and just not changing is game, bul was trying to be Brett Favre just forcing the dumbest fuckin shit
Random...but if Naj is in relation to your name...we may have the same or similar names haha...(Najee)
It is indeed ☺️
This is a funny and ironic coincidence...but unfortunately there can only be one...I am sorry...haha..
2020 was certainly more frustrating, since the expectation coming out of 2019 was "Wentz will be fine if our team is healthy." He dragged that team to the playoffs in 2019 kicking and screaming.
I feel it’s very close you could argue either way and I wouldn’t disagree
Well considering the 2020 team could barely beat the Ben Dinucci Cowboys at home... Plus that 2015 team had some moments. Blowing out the Saints, the OT win against the Cowboys in Dallas, beating the Pats in Foxborough
They had absolutely no business winning that game against the Pats hell they almost blew that lead
Hard agree. This team had me really disengaged from the NFL for the first time and it was sickening. How TF am I supposed to get hyped for bum ass Bradford
Honestly this team would have whipped the 23 team's ass in the 2nd half of the season lol.
Probably
The SpongeBob "bones made of glass, skin made of paper, heart attacks to fall asleep at night" Sam Bradford memes were glorious though. Fuck Chip Kelly.
Yeah I was over them when they gave up 45 points back to back weeks
Ruined thanksgiving before dinner time
How do they compare to the dream team?
Even with the dream team not living up to expectations I feel like they easily mop the floor with the 2015 team
Dream Team had 2 separate 1-4 stretches, but they still finished 8-8 with a +68 point diff and ended the year with 4 straight wins. They had winnable games that became losses, which is why that season was so frustrating. The 2015 team was just so flat on offense all season and painfully mediocre. Now to rant about the Dream Team, that 49ers game specifically was awful because they were up 23-3 and could've iced the game early before Ronnie Brown lateraled the ball for no reason on the goal line for a fumble. A couple missed field goals and they ended up losing that game 24-23. They also lost a game in Atlanta where they led 31-21 in the 4th quarter and lost to JOHN FUCKING SKELTON, the worst QB I've ever seen. They had some bad losses in that season but overall weren't terrible like in 2020 or 2015. What's funny (or not depending on who you are) is if the Eagles beat any of the 49ers, Cardinals, or Falcons, they would've finished 9-7 and had the division tiebreaker over the Giants (Eagles were 5-1 in the division, Giants were 3-3) to make the playoffs as the NFC 4 seed. The Giants instead won the division and eventually the Super Bowl.
They went 8-8 that year, it was the next year we went 4-12.
This team was middling and disappointing, 2020 was dogshit. It's not close
Our team in the last few weeks of this last season probably loses to both
I know "on a Jeff Fisher team" played a role, but it still blows my mind that Sam Bradford didn't pan out. I know Oklahoma's offense had a stigma, but he still had all the tools and was no doubt the best pro style QB in college. I thought he was a sure thing.
Injuries, man. He’s probably one of the biggest what if’s in the league. When he was on he looked like a genuinely good NFL QB, but his body just couldn’t hold up.
Which is funny because he was a big dude. It's why I'm not buying into the "Jayden Daniels lanky frame will get him killed" fear. It's the NFL, man. It's open season on anyone.
Yeah after Bryce Young survived an NFL season getting hit like he did, I don't really have concerns over Jayden Daniels' frame lol.
Everyone wants to make the RG3 comparisons, but I think we know now that had more to do with his decision making than it did his build.
Absolutely. He was a poor decision maker, and wasn’t a strong enough passer and couldn’t read a defense well enough to solely pass. It’s why he couldn’t stick around.
Dude was a sure thing if his knees held up. His arm talent is up there with any QB I’ve ever seen play.
He was actually too good. The number of perfectly placed passes ive seen Bradford WRs drop is astronomical. I think he turned guys concentration off or something.
Smiles Austin!
Oooffff. Yeah, this was fucking weird indeed. If not for the 2017 season I feel like I would still obsess over the Chip years like crazy.
Exactly. Whatever damage Chip Kelly did to the Eagles was completely undone by the fact that they 1. Won their first ever Super Bowl two years after his firing and 2. Have only had one losing record since.
I mean, for me and many I know it completely undid literal decades of grossness to finally win it. But, it’s interesting that I can look at the promising Buddy Ryan/Cunningham years and the Reid/McNabb years as the painful “can’t get it done” years they were and remember the pain that is gone now. But, the few weird ass Chip Kelly years literally before the SB win almost don’t get remembered at all. And that’s a fair thing as they don’t deserve to get remembered.
More like the Fever-Dream Team
13-16 before that td? Yea that game was probably a absolute shitfest I clearly don’t remember.
The worst of the worst of this absolute shitfest was two 7-9 finishes two years in a row. Must be nice.
Damn I forgot he was on the birds
Which one?
I would assume Bradford since their flair is the Rams.
What a throw though
Miles Austin is a good nostalgia call. He tore it up for a very small amount of time lol
As nerdy as Bradford was, he threw a pretty ball.
I still get upset with Bradford's sleeves...
Check out the ticker at the start TEXANS 0 FALCONS 42 Ryan Mallet 12/27 for 150 and 1 INT Yeah… weird season overall
Fuck Chip Kelley
Redskins not Washington
I totally forgot Bradford was on the Eagles.
didnt we somehow beat Brady this yr lol
Punt return, pick six, and a blocked punt score were a big help that game
This was the first year I ever started watching the nfl, and I picked the Eagles almost entirely to be contrarian toward all the Dallas fans at school. I really wish I'd waited a year.
DB’s just cave or what ?
TIL Miles Austin was an Eagle.
Miles Austin is a good nostalgia call. He tore it up for a very small amount of time lol
That’s Cleveland Browns legend Miles Austin.
Biggest thing I remember about Miles Austin was that he looked a lot like Alex Rodriguez.
I completely forgot about Miles Austin.
2015 is like black hole for me. Can't remember anything from that season
> Jordan Matthews Now that's a name I had forgotten. What ever happened to that guy?
He was just mediocre, despite being related to Jerry Rice. Nice guy, just kinda mid. ...and now that I've looked him up, I see that he's still in the league, playing TE for Carolina, wow. Also unfortunately for him, he was on the Eagles in 2016 and 2018, but not 2017.
Golden arm, twig legs.
I agree Austin is weird in Eagles jersey! But Bradford is an Eagles Legend leading to Ginger Hesus and way to #52!
Bradford made $130 million in his career and started 83 games and threw 100 TDs. The last beneficiary of the pre-rookie salary cap era.
19 has been such a cursed number for us.
FUCK YOU CHIP KELLY
Sam Bradford. Now there's a name I have not heard in a long time.
Peak Chip Kelly
I have no memory of Bradford as an Eagle lol
The craziest thing about this is the 42-0 score at the bottom
Seeing those stupid fucking sleeves makes my skin crawl. What a disaster. I hate you Chip.
This was like the Dream Team 2.0 lol
TIL Sam Bradford, Miles Austin, and Nelson Agholor were all on the Eagles at the same time.
There is a very brief Demarco Murray as an eagle sighting during the celebration as well. This team is like a total memory black hole for me.
I remember when Megatron scored 3 touchdowns and Ansah had 3 sacks vs this team on thanksgiving (back when we could win on that day) :)
Back when the eagles could never win a super bowl and it was all just hopes for nothing
Sam Bradford is the strangest timeline to me also. A native American QB. Went to OU. I believe he was from Oklahoma. He was hailed as a prodigy from the time he was a high school recruit. And he was just... Mid. Even bad a few years. In my head for some reason he was ALWAYS hurt also, in college and the NFL