Sam Bradford is a free agent looking for a home. Chip Kelly is a coach looking for a quarterback. It could be the kind of out-of-the-box match that gets the Eagles quarterback back to the NFC West.
Bradford was one of the few players in Philadelphia to express dismay when Kelly was canned before the Eagles' 2015 season concluded and had a better second half of the season than the first half, allowing for ESPN's Joe Banner to make the possible connection with San Francisco.
No one talking about possibility that Chip cuts Colin Kaepernick & signs Bradford. Save money & get a guy he likes. Interesting possibility
— Joe Banner (@JoeBanner13) January 14, 2016
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Kaepernick, whose play has regressed each of the last two seasons, is set to make $14 million if he still in on the 49ers roster after April 1. He gets zilch if Kelly decides to release him before then.
Bradford was one of the few bright spots for Kelly in the second half of the 2015 season. During his first seven games, the former No. 1 overall draft pick completed 62 percent of his passes for 1,766 yards with nine touchdowns and 10 interceptions for a passing efficiency rating of 76.4, according to phillyvoice.com.
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His last seven games (Bradford missed two games because of concussion), Bradford's completion percentage went up to 68 percent, he threw for 1,959 yards, had 10 TDs and four interceptions with a 97.0 rating.
The improvement over the course of the season, coupled with the potential savings of signing Bradford, make the 49ers an intriguing destination for the former Oklahoma Sooner.
Phillyvoice.com, in arguing against the Eagles resigning him, unfairly compare his second-half performance against those of Carolina's Cam Newton and Seattle's Russell Wilson. Both those teams are just better than the Eagles overall, so their defenses were better, and there was less pressure on each of them. Also, both those quarterbacks have been in their respective systems for four years.
Bradford may like the athletic ability to bring an added dimension to Kelly's offense, but he still could become a feared pocket passer, like a Carson Palmer, with a couple more years under Kelly's system.
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