Jason Kelce Discusses State Of The Eagles On Morning Show
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia Eagles Jason Kelce spoke with Howard Eskin Friday on the Morning Show on Sportsradio 94 WIP.
Eskin asked him about what's happened this week, Chip Kelly not being the head coach anymore and where he thought it went wrong.
"The biggest thing to me is I've been through two seasons where you've seen a collapse or a downfall on some teams. In both off seasons there was tremendous change. And by change I mean through free agency."
"I think I've realized through these two instances that trust and chemistry are more important than I think I ever really understood. And it's hard to develop that within in one off season and I think that when you have guys who have retained on teams and guys who stay with teams for years and years and years and you bring in one or two guys through free agency every year. Um I think that tends to keep everyone together and welcome those new people even better. And if I'm being quite honest I don't think I'd welcome the new pieces as well enough as one of the guys being retained."
"I've seen this twice now and I think it's really hard to build championship caliber teams and winning teams through free agency."
"When you're with somebody for years or a locker room has been together and you have the core group of guys who have been through only the Philadelphia Eagles all they know is this city all they played for is this city I think that that tends to build a locker room and to build a culture which is what one of Chip's favorite words were that lends itself to chemistry and lends itself to people giving of each other and only knowing the Philadelphia Eagles. And that is really hard to build within one off season and that's very, you can't just do that at practice."
"I think I'm going to do my best job this off season of trying to get guys together, trying to make this team a team again. Because right now this is you know the Dream Team II."
"This is the Dream Team II. A collection of guys all of a sudden you sign the NFL's leading rusher, Sam Bradford, one of the best quarterbacks that you can get through a trade, we got two new starting guards, another new running back, a brand new receiver through the draft, there's so much change and I think that I didn't do a good enough job of getting us together and creating those bonds and making everybody feel like a team."
"Sam and I had a great relationship all season long but I think that when you're not as connected with everybody when all you've haven't been through is the Philadelphia Eagles when you've been elsewhere yada, yada, yada it's not just Sam it's the moment anything starts going wrong in a game, it's not as tight."
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