Two games in, the Philadelphia Eagles’ quarterback competition is everything it was cracked up to be. So is Chip Kelly’s offense. How he’ll make his decision for the season opener is anybody’s guess.
For better and worse, there is almost nothing separating Michael Vick and Nick Foles so far, not after Thursday night’s 14-9 victory over the Carolina Panthers at Philly’s Lincoln Financial Field. Foles got the start and the first two possessions, Vick the next three drives (including one squeezed in at the end of the first half).
As good as they looked a week earlier against the New England Patriots, when the roles were more or less reversed, they looked as good this week. Even the concerns that arose were similar. For their brilliance and mastery of the super-speed tempo, they still combined for just 14 points and committed more turnovers than Kelly could possibly be comfortable with.
Kelly had insisted that nothing be read into who started the exhibitions, when each quarterback played or in what sequence they played. Against the Patriots, he veered from his stated plan of alternating the two; on Thursday, he stuck to a pattern: both played with mostly starters, and they stayed on the field for consecutive possessions.
The results settled nothing. “You can put your pens down if you think we’re naming a starting quarterback right now,” Kelly told reporters after the game.
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