Mirage gone, Kelly needs to find his QB

The delusion waited there, only out of scope. Mark Sanchez was zipping the ball thusly and that,

heading the Eagles to one, two, three scoring drives. In the wake of falling behind to the 3-11 group from Washington, the Eagles tied the diversion and were making a fourth drive.

They were on the edge of field-objective extent when the hallucination vanished.

Sanchez's second turnover of the amusement, an interference to Washington new kid on the block Bashaud Breeland, finished the Eagles' possibilities of finishing the rebound. Washington headed to the amusement winning field objective, finishing more than the Eagles' now black out opportunities to get go into the playoff picture. 

The 27-24 misfortune likewise dashed the figment that Chip Kelly's project was on an unfaltering upward climb. When 9-3, the Eagles are all of a sudden 9-6. They can equivalent last season's record by beating the Giants next Sunday, however their opportunities to make an alternate stride forward vanished with Kai Forbath's 26-yard field objective.

Sanchez was making his seventh begin since beginning quarterback Nick Foles' cracked his collarbone. At the point when the Eagles were 9-3, falling off that enormous win in Dallas on Thanksgiving Day, anything appeared conceivable. Sanchez could be surrendered and brought again as the No. 1 QB. Foles could return and, adapting to present circumstances postured by Sanchez, reassert himself as the starter.

Presently? 

After three continuous misfortunes, Sanchez looks more like the turnover-inclined, restricted quarterback who roused the New York Jets to proceed onward a year ago. With Foles not cleared by specialists, there is minimal chance for him to show he should be the No. 1 quarterback when preparing camp opens in July.

"You need to win recreations," Sanchez said. "The head mentor and the quarterback, we are the main ones who they keep a record (on). So it runs with the region of this position. There have been three truly extreme amusements and this one came last possible minute and we came up a bit short."

Kelly will be going into his third NFL season without knowing whether he has a honest to goodness No. 1 quarterback. That was the danger he took when he got to Philadelphia a year ago. Kelly had Foles and Michael Vick on his list and chose to give them a chance to go after the occupation. He needed to attempt to win immediately – no building around an adolescent quarterback for Kelly – and, for some time, that is precisely what he did.

Foles' astounding 2013 season – 27 touchdowns, two capture attempts, 7-1 second-half record – made the impression Kelly had his quarterback. In any case Foles was no place close to that level of magnificence this season. His harm constrained Kelly to settle on a choice he may have verged on making soon in any case.

Foles and Sanchez have tossed 10 captures every this season. 

"I think we're at present less 9 in turnover edge," security Malcolm Jenkins. "So us having nine wins is noteworthy. We're existing on re-appropriated time playing that style of football. In the event that we had turned out and run the table in December with that sort of football, it would have been astounding."

The 26 turnovers from quarterbacks is the most in the NFL. There is awful time to turn the ball over, yet there are particularly terrible times. Sanchez bungled the ball away to end a drive that had begun off in guaranteeing manner. Be that as it may the interference, giving the ball to Washington with under two minutes left in a tie diversion, was an executioner.

Due to their Oregon association, there as of now has been hypothesis that Kelly will attempt to get in position to draft Heisman-winning quarterback Marcus Mariota in April. That would mean discovering a group eager to exchange down and surrendering different draft decisions, yet it would give Kelly a foundation player at the most vital position in games.

On the off chance that its not Mariota, the Eagles still need to discover somebody. Kelly attempted to get by with the quarterbacks nearby, and he got the Eagles to the playoffs a year ago. They lost in the first round. Not long from now, it appears to be likely they will miss the playoffs inside and out. That is not advance. It is insufficient to give a fig leaf over the absence of an establishment quarterback.

They demand to lose this amusement. They submitted an excess of punishments, committed an excess of errors, dropped an excess of passes.

"You aren't going to win a football game that way," Kelly said. "Thirteen punishments and two turnovers is not going to win football games in this class."

That is genuine. In any case an exceptional quarterback would have eradicated every one of those mix-ups by finishing that last drive. The ball was in Sanchez's grasp. He tossed it to the nex