Your Monday Morning Roundup
I find it funny how all the Chip haters blame him for smearing DeSean after he left. And yet the Eagles front office and players did Chip no favors, smearing him as a surly malcontent, who now can’t get a job. This move will prove to be a big mistake.
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The roundup:
Jeff McLane writes about how Adam Gase may have been the one who got away. This coaching search is making me more angry by the day.
Vikings fans shoot sad videos of their sadness. Though perhaps nothing will be as enjoyable as their forlorn mascot.
Meanwhile, in Cincinnati, Steelers fans punched women and a Bengals fan urinated on another fan. This on the same night that cheers and debris rained down on Ben Rothlisberger as he was being carted off the field. There was, however, that one time we threw loosely packed balls of snow toward a stand-in Santa long before most of us were even spermicidel specks.
You know, I really want to be on Kirk Cousins’ side. I even stacked my Draft Kings lineups with him, DeSean Jaccson (thanks a lot for tip-toe around the end zone, you scraggly goon), and Jordan Reed. But if it’s not interceptions, it’s the fumbles. And yesterday, he missed so many open receivers. Early-season Sam Bradford level. He feels a lot like Nick Foles to me– breakout year, good offense, bad division, but in a year or two, we may come to learn that he, too, blows.
So there’s speculation that the anonymous football player who wrote a tell-all book is Eagles backup center David Molk. We’ll have more on this later.
"Lol ok?" pic.twitter.com/fbTDClAOII
— NBAs The Slap (@NBCsTheSlap) January 11, 2016
Watched this look Leo shot Gaga 12 times thinking it was maybe a mistake. Nope– Leo is the cool kid at the party and that weird girl just tried to hit on him thinking her ostensible sexiness would work. Meanwhile, Leo gives great speech.
Les Bowen retweeted a fake Adam Schefter account reporting the biggest Eagles news Les will likely ever cover… and he didn’t even check to see if it was a fake account. He sucks.
Malcolm Jenkins talks about how it was “different” playing for Chip Kelly.
So @BuckyBrooks called the Bengals meltdown in nearly exact detail… Three days ago. pic.twitter.com/W4i26eKEav
— Tanya Ray Fox (@TanyaRayFox) January 10, 2016
Talk about nailing it.
El Chapo speaks to Sean Penn. I still can’t believe I just wrote that. Side note: There’s a weird narrative that Rolling Stone crossed a line in speaking to El Chapo. Yet major networks score interviews with world dictators, evildoers, and even Osama bin Laden all the time. How is this any better or worse?
By interviewing Coughlin, Eagles will be in compliance with the league's Wilford Brimley Rule.
— Paul Domowitch (@pdomo) January 9, 2016
Tweet of the century by Paul Domowitch, who reported on CBS Sports Zone last night that Jon Gruden still has interest in the Eagles head coaching job and that the Birds are “lukewarm” on the idea.
Good thing Joe Paterno got his halo back. I was beginning to think people in Happy Valley lack self-awareness.
I don’t know who threw this pass, but if it was a plan to get LeBron to miss the Sixers game, it didn’t work:
Basketball 1-0 LeBron James https://t.co/GdUAkn0DBS
— B/R Football (@brfootball) January 11, 2016
Ryan Mathews, first listed as injuring his groin in Week 6, has had surgery on it.
r/Eagles’ top used words of 2015 is mostly Eagles, Bradford, Kelly, and a ton of profanity.
The Phillies surprised a Afghanistan veteran by giving him an all-expenses paid trip to Phantasy Camp.
Former Phillie Ben Revere was traded to the Nationals over the weekend for Drew Storen.
Donald Trump says NFL referees throw flags to impress their wives watching at home. "It has become soft, and our country has become soft."
— Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) January 10, 2016
No.
Trump also loved that Burfict hit.
Can we just let the “Jim Kenney never liked Chip Kelly” story go? We don’t even know if we like Jim Kenney yet.
