Best-Case Scenario: Eagles win Super Bowl. Chip Kelly (photo above) is named Secretary of State and solves the Middle East crisis by trading Yemen to South America.
By Lewis Gould
The 2015 NFL season is still four months away, so get ready for 120 days of sound and fury about how the Eagles’ offseason played out and what it will mean to their prospects in the fall.
Everybody has an opinion — this is truly a great country!
And here is Mike Tanier’s from Bleacher Report:
Biggest Departure: Jeremy Maclin provided the Eagles with 21 receptions longer than 20 yards and added 13 third-down conversions, making him a combination possession receiver and deep threat for a feast-or-famine passing game. But Maclin didn’t fit Kelly’s plan to get more cap friendly. Or was that more expensive? Younger. Older? Whatever. Maclin has again cleaved to Andy Reid’s bosom.
Little Move That Mattered: Kiko Alonso either gets lost in the shuffle of Kelly’s big-time moves or written off as just another vanity Duck. Alsonso was a rising star before getting injured and represents a real net gain at linebacker, as opposed to all of the noisy-but-lateral moves at other positions.
Draft in a Nutshell: The Eagles were so conventional in the draft that it was spooky. Nelson Agholor is Maclin-like. Three defensive backs add depth and competition to a secondary that let the team down in 2013 and was already overhauled (like everything else) in free agency.
Best-Case Scenario: Eagles win Super Bowl. Kelly is named Secretary of State and solves the Middle East crisis by trading Yemen to South America.
Worst-Case Scenario: All the sturm und drang of the Kelly offseason amounts to neither a Super Bowl nor some cosmic comeuppance. The Eagles simply don’t gain any real ground on the Packers and Seahawks, and Kelly really gets revved up for an offseason encore.
