Pat Shurmur

Eagles OTAs yesterday were an experience, for sure. It was almost like a rock concert, set to football. There were times where I kind of felt like getting up and dancing. Seriously. Here are my random notes from the day:......

On Thursday last week, the Eagles traded Dion Lewis to the Browns for ILB Emmanuel Acho. Lewis was a player I liked, and I felt that the Eagles needed to use their backup RBs more often than they had in......

Getting rid of Lovie Smith does not make the Bears a better team. Only replacing him with a better coach would. Jon Gruden? Hearing he's not coming down from the press box. Bill Cowher has gotten too comfortable wearing makeup. Mike Holmgren? He...

The largest number of carries the "#3 RB" ever got during Marty Mornhinweg's 7 year tenure as the Eagles offenive coordinator was 23, in 2011 with Dion Lewis. (Note: Apologies to Leonard Weaver, who was occasionally used as a tailback......

Last Monday, the Eagles made their assistant coaches available to the media. Apologies for the delay in posting my notes, but here were the most interesting nuggets that I was able to catch: • Offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur thought it......

Nobody can say for sure. Except Wikipedia, which has definitively listed Pat Shurmur as the offensive coordinator of the Philadelphia Eagles, along with fellow assistants Bill Lazor (quarterbacks), Duce Staley (running backs), Bob Bicknell (wide...

— Could Chip Kelly's Read Option have more of a Reid Option flavor to it next season? Based on Monday's rather surprising turn of events at Philadelphia Eagles headquarters, it's possible. The new coach's decision to bring back Michael Vick, the...

— Whether this strange, new, puzzling mix of assistant coaches under Chip Kelly winds up being the staff that takes the Philadelphia Eagles where they've never been is still obviously open to serious debate. What cannot be argued is how well...

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The Cleveland Browns named Rob Chudzinski their new head coach on Thursday, replacing Pat Shurmur, who was fired Dec. 31 after the Browns finished 5-11 this season. Chudzinski spent the last two seasons as Carolina's offensive coordinator. He has had...

The Kansas City Chiefs were in shambles after the worst season in franchise history, and chairman Clark Hunt promised their devoted followers that better ways were ahead. That was on Monday. By Friday, he had delivered Andy Reid. While only the future...

Two thousand steps forward. Two big steps back. On a Sunday when Minnesota's Adrian Peterson became the seventh NFL player to run for 2,000 yards — coming within nine of breaking Eric Dickerson's season rushing record — two teams backpedaled...