[Elvis]

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Unnamed exec “still confused about” Eagles trading for Sam Bradford

Posted by Darin Gantt on July 6, 2015, 10:11 AM EDT

When training camps open in a little under a month, one of the most-watched storylines will be the progress of Eagles quarterback Sam Bradford, coming off a pair of torn ACLs.

But some are wondering whether too much has been made of his arrival by trade already.

Via Mark Eckel of NJ.com, “one of the league’s top executives in personnel” was skeptical of the impact Bradford will actually have.

“I understand they gave up on Foles,” he said. “But I don’t know why they’re building up Bradford so much. I’m still confused about that whole deal. You can only talk about him being the first pick of the draft for so long. What has he done since then?

“If Bradford had gone anywhere else you wouldn’t even be talking about him. He’s been hurt the past two years and even when he was healthy, he was just average. But he’s with Chip Kelly, so there’s hope I guess. Chip Kelly is the one guy who can make Bradford a success.”

That might be because of Kelly’s magic milkshakes, which may have helped make his team the healthiest in the league over the last two years. But Bradford has played in just 49 of 80 possible games in his five seasons, so unless there’s something in the smoothies to keep him ACLs intact, it will be hard for Kelly to transform him.

Bradford has been a good quarterback at times, but he was stuck on some bad teams as well. If Kelly can polish him up, his reputation will only grow.

[Hacksaw]

We shall see what we shall see.

If Sam doesn't go down with an ACL or something else, I think he'll do better there than he ever had a chance to do it here. That's a big if though. I wish him well.

Of course I wish Foles far more successful though !

[OldSchool]

He does make some good points. We wouldn't be talking about Sam nearly as much in the national media if he went to say the Titans or the Browns, well maybe the Browns because of Johnny competition. If he wasn't with a self styled offensive guru there would be little or no Sam discussion.