CHIP KELLY would never say so, but the Eagles probably envisioned giving Sam Bradford a little easier re-entry to the NFL.
They had to think, based on their acquisitions at running back, and on how the preseason looked, that the ground game would carry the load early on, while Bradford found his legs and his timing.
Nobody really thought four preseason series made Bradford ready to perform at an elite level, as he returned from back-to-back ACL tears and nearly two years of watching football instead of playing it. (Of course, that's assuming Bradford is capable of performing at an elite level, which circumstance and injury, at least, kept him from ever quite doing in St.