The Purge, Big Bernie
If you had any doubt about how the Eagles management outside of Chip Kelly felt about his personnel moves last year, things should be crystal clear now. The team is dumping most of the players that the Chipster brought in last year including Demarco Murray, Byron Maxwell, and Kiki Alonso. All three of these players were large disappointments last year and contributed very little to the team. Actually Maxwell was a big contributor albeit a negative one, helping the team lose with his nasty habit of getting burned for big plays time and time again. It seems to me like Chip is picking up where he left off in San Francisco with Kapernik publicly declaring he wants nothing to do with the 2016 Chip Kelly flavored 49ers.
Of course the Eagles won’t get much value for dumping these players other than some salary cap relief and some insignificant draft picks but I really don’t care. I fully support removing the Chip Kelly stains on the team wherever possible. I certainly wasn’t thrilled with the announcement that the team extended Sam Bradford with a contract that guaranteed around 25 million dollars.
There was not one moment last year where I actually felt impressed by anything Sam Bradford did. His statistics would back me up since he was around the 25th or 26th rated QB in the league. Rewarding Bradford for that ho-hum year combined with his glorious history of season ending injuries seems like a poor choice. I would have been much happier with the front office going for a full sweep of Kelly moves and letting Bradford move on as well. I already assume the team is going to struggle this year, having Bradford on the roster is going to do nothing to mitigate that situation.
Bernie had another huge win yesterday, winning the Michigan primary, a state he was not so long ago predicted to be losing by 20 points or more. The national media is doing everything it can to make the masses think that Hilary as the nominee is a foregone conclusion, perhaps to try to let some of the air out of the constantly growing Bernie balloon. If the democrats didn’t still utilize the moronic “super delegate” system where people whom are literally bought and paid for get to have a significant say in the outcome of the primary, this race would be even tighter.