I thought the Eagles had a disaster offseason.
Murray is almost guaranteed to be injured given his past history and 2014 workload. Bradford isn't a good bet to stay healthy especially with the Eagles protection issues.
Maxwell is good, no sour grapes. We shall see how he does without Carroll's system and Earl's help. The Eagles paid way too much for a guy that is almost guaranteed to have less value outside of Seattle.
Didn't love their draft. Agholor is super vanilla as a WR prospect, though I bet he produces in Philly anyway just because their system makes vanilla WRs into fantasy studs. There will be a dropoff from a veteran Maclin to a rookie Agholor. The Eagles only had six draft picks total, and it wasn't until their 7th rounder that they did anything to add talent in the trenches.
Their best move by far was trading McCoy for Alonso. But even Alonso, who is basically the new Lofa Tatupu, will probably have a peak-early career since he's already at his ceiling. Good addition, but it was a bit of a pricey 'win now move' during a rebuild offseason.
And not that it matters, but, Tebow!
Basically, they dissected a team that was a threat to win 12-13 regular season games if everything clicked just right, for a team that is kind of a jumbled mess of finesse and non-finesse players without any real plan. The whole offseason seemed to have a 'grab bag' mentality rather than 'big picture' mentality.
It was an awkward offseason that felt Ruskell-esque, in that it tried to blow up the team and push all the chips in at the same time. And even after all the moves they made, that defense is still soft and finesse. And they will get their asses kicked in the trenches worse than ever. On both sides of the ball.
I think Kelly is a very smart coach. However, I think last season, in particular the beatdown at home to Seattle, was a referendum that proved Kelly's system of exploiting speed in college just doesn't work in the NFL. In the NFL, everyone has pretty good speed, so trying to win with cutesy stuff just makes you a soft ass team.
I think Kelly realized this which explains the bizarre and desperate nature of the offseason he just engineered. He needs to get his team to be more physical to compete in the NFC, but physical play has never been Kelly's forte, so he's left grasping at straws.