5 NFL teams that need to blow it up and rebuild

5. Philadelphia Eagles

We called him a genius. We said the Philadelphia Eagles would be a Super Bowl contender. We were wrong — all of us.

Yes, Chip Kelly took the Eagles to back-to-back seasons with 10 wins in his firs two years. Let me be the one to start the slow clap. And forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the point to actually win once you get to the playoffs? To be fair, though, Philly was robbed of a playoff spot last year.

Still, the Eagles seem to be regressing. The mantra of Kelly’s offense is that it’s so dynamic that anyone can be successful in it. Clearly, as DeMarco Murray has shown us, such is not the case.

When Murray was with the Dallas Cowboys, he was able to run downhill and get up field. In Kelly’s offense, he’s being asked to excel in a system that has him running horizontally most of the time. But the point of this isn’t to break down the Xs and Os of Philly’s offense and what’s gone wrong thus far.

The point is that the Eagles should consider blowing the whole thing up and starting from scratch. The Sam Bradford experiment was an interesting one, but he’s not a good fit for Kelly’s offense either. He is not even close to be a threat to run the ball, and that’s kind of a big part of the game plan for Kelly. Bradford is making just less than $13 million this year and will be a free agent after it.

Darren Sproles, Brent Celek and Miles Austin are all on the wrong side of 30, but only Celek and Sproles have legitimate trade value.

Murray is signed through 2019, but it’s never too early to fix a problem. There are plenty of other contracts the Eagles could unload to begin the transition, and they could get some good value back for guys like Connor Barwin and DeMeco Ryans.

Could Philly rebound from its awful start? Sure, it’s not impossible. But does anyone really expect this Eagles roster to compete with the New York Giants, who are one Victor Cruz away from being a potentially potent offense? How about against a Dallas Cowboys team when Dez Bryant and Tony Romo return? It just isn’t likely.

And there’s absolutely no one outside of Philadelphia who would take the Eagles in a game against the Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers or Arizona Cardinals. Rebuilding may be the best option. After all, doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results is the definition of insanity.

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