Peter King, writing in his MMQB this morning, mentions Bradford’s agent, and then says that, yeah, Bradford kind of hates the City of Brotherly Love:

Three interesting things I can confirm. One: Kelly had no idea this was coming. He was shocked. He figured the organization would rally at the end of the season and make a plan for 2016 that he hoped would include signing quarterback Sam Bradford long-term. Two: Lurie never offered him a chance to stay if he ceded personnel control. Lurie wanted Kelly out. Now. Three: Bradford won’t be motivated to return to Philadelphia over any other team now that free agency looms. His agent, Tom Condon, is a get-the-most-you-can-regardless-of-team guy, and Bradford isn’t crazy about Philadelphia the city anyway. He probably wishes there was a team in his favorite place, Oklahoma City. And who’s to say the next coach—current offensive coordinators Adam Gase of Chicago and Doug Pederson of Kansas City are popular early names—will want Bradford at $18 million a year or more?

Two options:

  1. Sam Bradford hates Philly
  2. Sam Bradford’s agent told Peter King that so King would write it and then the Eagles would be like OMGZ we should pony up and sign him to a ridiculous contract right away! [Or, you know, they could just franchise him.]

Meanwhile, Jordan Matthews, the recipient of Cris Carter’s unnecessary PR aid, who was supposedly flummoxed as to why Chip Kelly put him in his place against the Cardinals a few weeks ago, despite the fact that he was preening like The Mask in a house of mirrors, casually told reporters that he thinks he can be one of the great ones. From the Philly Voice:

“I think coming in as a rookie, there’s a lot of things you go through,” Matthews said. “There’s a lot of great players around you, so you feel like, ‘OK, if I just do this, I can just be in this kind of role right here and then I’ll be fine.’ But then, when you’re in that role and you’re just doing it over and over again, that’s average. So you’re like, ‘If I just do better at this; if I cut out these mistakes and these missed opportunities; if I take advantage of this opportunity that my quarterback may give me or this thing or that — I can be one of the greatest in the league.

“I think that’s easily an attainable goal. People come to me with stats that I’ve had over my first two years, and I’m like, ‘Dude, I haven’t even touched what I can be as far as a receiver. I’m not even close to it.’ So I guess those things [are what I’ve learned so far about myself]. This game’s not too big for me. I know what type of player I can be.”

I actually admire that sort of drive.

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Meanwhile, Les Bowen is upset he couldn’t glean this sort of insight with the 600 other assembled reporters because Sam Bradford didn’t speak to the media today: