THERE WASN'T one particular thing that killed the 2015 Eagles.
They were a dead team walking from the Week 1 opening kickoff. They were a grossly overweight two-pack-a-day smoker with diabetes and a bad ticker and a side order of severe emphysema.
Ironically, one of last season's many low points could turn out to be very beneficial to the fortunes of the 2016 Eagles.
Early in the second quarter of the Eagles' 45-14 Thanksgiving Day loss to the Detroit Lions, starting cornerback Nolan Carroll suffered a broken right leg that ended his season.
Carroll, who had been the Eagles' best cornerback before the injury, was expected to draw some interest from other teams in free agency in March.