Eagles Sign QB Dennis Dixon To Two-Year Deal
BREAKING NEWS, Eagles, News, Quarterbacks Thursday, February 14th, 2013
The Eagles have agreed to a two-year deal with one of Chip Kelly’s former quarterbacks Dennis Dixon. Dixon was on the Ravens practice team and became a free agent, therefore free to sign with any team of his choosing.
We are excited to bring in Dennis Dixon to compete at the quarterback position,” Eagles GM Howie Roseman said via released statement. “Dennis is a veteran in this league that has been a part of two Super Bowl-winning teams in his career. He’s also very familiar with Chip Kelly and how he operates.
This can’t be good news for second-year quarterback Nick Foles. Clearly Kelly is showing that he likes quarterbacks, who can run and Foles can do a lot of things, but running well isn’t one of them.
I think the starting quarterback job is Vick’s to lose. There’s no way they would have agreed to pay him $7.5 million dollars, if they didn’t think he was going to start. The signing of Vick has cost the team big money and it’s cost Kelly time on his honeymoon with Eagles fans. I don’t think he would have done it, if he didn’t believe Vick was going start.
The one-year deal protects the team in case Vick gets hurt, which is a probability. I could still see the Birds adding a quarterback to the team via the draft.
Dixon gives them somebody who is familiar with Kelly’s system and from what I’ve heard it’s a system, which is fairly easy to pick up. I was told that the genius of Kelly is the fact that he has made the system so simple that players are able to pick it up fairly easily.
I believe Dixon is regarded as security for Vick if he falls on his face in the offense, which they don’t expect to happen. Stay tuned.
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Can anyone think of any NFL team has ever had a gimmicky offense but a hard nosed ass kicking defense? And before you say Seattle or SF remember there is nothing gimmicky about getting punched in the mouth with Marshawn Lynch or Frank Gore.
well i’m on record as against RO but BL i do know its predicated on that dive MORE than a running qb…. in college it just so happens that the qb is the best player usually on those teams (actually in hs it is ALWAYS the qb)– but the idea behind RO is in fact a hard nosed running game….
we may all be wrong and its a competition of foles and vick and maybe somehow kelly knows a way to get foles outside… unlikely but he is smarter than me… and i guarantee he is not killing time at the office right now commenting on blogs! he’s actually working on this plan we are speculating about!
I dont get why people think Foles should be handed the job. Let Chip Kelly see what he has for flipping sake. Let him get these guys together and see what he can do with these qb’s.
Here’s the good news-for those that cant stop crying….
Kelly will not allow any qb to sit back there and turn the ball over again and again. He will not allow a guy to hold the ball for 3.9 secs. IF…. Mike Vick somehow wows him in camp…. if he somehow wows him in preseason game and then goes out opening day, throws 2 picks and gets hit 100 times… guess what….. he will put in Foles. Do you guys really not believe in your boy Foles? If Vick is so bad you think Foles cant beat him? I dont understand you girls.
Tell me what back up QB left philly and did something. Name 1 please. If Foles gets traded we will be getting back much needed draft picks. Good ones too. I would LOVE to see Foles win here. I would love it. But im not sold we have a QB on our roster RIGHT NOW that is lights out.
1 more thing…… My hope is that Foles plays lights out in camp and becomes the starter. My hope is that Vick plays well enough that a team wants to trade for him. My hope is that we pick a qb in round 4 that develops into exactly what Chip wants and we see Foles and rookie push eachother to be better. This can happen. All of it. Im also tottaly fine if Vick plays amazing in this system but im not going to hold my breath on that. So….. lets give Chip (whom most of us didnt want) a year to show us what he has. Lets rally behind him and stop flipping out with every roster move.
just think its a square peg and round hole situation!
Stevo you really think they gave Vick millions to sit on the bench? Get real man, there is no competition. Further, Vick would beat out Flacco and Eli and every other slow moving QB that has just one a SB in a Chip Kelly practice. Those guys are a millions times better of a QB than Vick but obviously chip kelly wants to run his offense a certain way. I rmbr Jaws saying months ago that if Chip is hired, he guarantees Foles would not run his offense.
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Phag, reread… I said…. if he beats him out in camp and then throws 2 picks in game 1… Kelly will remove him.
Point is…. Kelly didnt trade away Mcnabb….. Andy did.
Kelly didnt trade away Vinnies love….. Andy did.
Kelly didnt make Vick the face of the fran…. Andy did.
Andy is gone, Kelly is not married to Vick. If Vick struggles… hes gone. And about the money…. who cares? You didnt pay it. 8 million devoted to the QB depth chart in the NFL is a steal.
Stevo, don’t tell people to reread your post when it exposes you as a dumbass. If you honestly think that Chip will bench Vick after Lurie just gave him 7 mill, after 2 picks in game one you are one of the most clueless people on here. I’m sure Lurie cares about that money, and he didn’t give it out to watch Vick stand on the sideline.
And you say this based on what? Chip saying he doesn’t like a guy who turn the ball over?
Just like he said he didn’t like Qbs who took sacks?
Like he said he didn’t like QBs who hold on to the ball?
Like he said he doesn’t like QBs with small hands?
As others have point out, Chip has gone exactly against everything he said and the only people that believe anything he says these days are gullible retards like you. get a fucking clue.
I am sorry you disagree with me and feel the need to swear at me.
however, i think my post makes perfect sense.
Lurie has stated over and over that he will give Kelly everything he needs to win. He has stated that its Kellys call at QB and I have seen nothing over the years that shows this isnt true.
The eagles under banner were stingy in how they treated players (especially 30+ year olds that felt they were worth than what the eagles felt they were worth) but i wouldnt call them cheap. Not then and not now.
7 million (if he even got that much) is really not that crazy for a qb. Also… I dont think Lurie is going to let 8% of his cap money or like 1% of his years budget dictate what Kelly does.
Not all that he has said… he likes Mikes release, its quick. He believes his system MAY work with that. He’s giving him a chance. I see no where that the wagon is fully hitched to Vick. If Foles is traded and no rookie brought in…. then id say he might be stuck.
their not giving 10million dollars for nothing, and to all u dreamers who think it’s to make him tradable … stop dreamin.. vick ‘s the starter .. period… if he falters… next man up
mr1charlton, Per Jeff mclane (who knows a lot more about the Eagles then anyone of us) “The Eagles would deal any player given the right offer”
Issue is nobody wants Vick. Even his own agent knows this. When your client is going to be 33 NFL QB, you do not take a 1 year deal based off incentives (which are pretty impossible for him to reach) unless you have no other options. Or you don’t agree to restructure your contract and take your chances in FA with all your possible “suitors”.
Now I do agree with you in regard to the contracts being the deciding factor in regard to who starts. Anyone who thinks its “open competition” is a clueless moron.
Cap Numbers:
Vick: $7,066,667.00
Foles: $635,880
Money drives this league and its owners. No fucking way this is open competition.
right if i had a veteran stud qb going into FA no way do it… he has to know that as the number 1 FA on the market he’d get a 3 year deal with 2 gauranteed or something… no one wants him but us.
he will install the RO and become a hot BACKUP commodity to the young studs next year!
So your basically saying trade bait? And if so what will we get for him
How exactly would those practices/TC work?
In goes Vick…run RO plays. Draws, Sprints etc. Dixon comes in the same. Then Foles comes in and they what? Open the other playbook? Start tunning a completely different set of plays.
Is the team going to learn two offenses? Or are they just going to have one book with a divider down the middle.
One side reads: Plays for my soon to be oft-injured running QBs
The other reads: Plays for my traditional drop back passers who always win the SB, but which I do not like.
The starter is already predetermined… Now tell me if I am wrong. How could they spend training camp with an open competition? Mike and Nick would run two completely diffrent offenses. It would be counterproductive to wait to name the starter. You are already implementing a new system for all players, this would almost be two new offenses that would have to be learned. If Vick is the starter, which I believe he is, he’ll need all the time he can get to study the O. Im just thinking out loud here. I dont know this has me all messed up.
How can you say this? Foles has legs right? I mean… i know he isnt as fast but he can actually walk. I dont mean this meanly but…. I dont think Vick is going to be called upon to run on every play and I dont think Foles would be back there to never hand it off. I know they are very different but…. I believe FOles can run this system (or at least try).
Dude take 20 minutes and google Oregon read option.you will see the qb has to be a threat to run…everything starts with which d. Lineman they are reading… And that man HAS to respect the qb’s legs enough to freeze…
ok… i was reaching there. Ill admit. Im just not worried about a QB battle. Id rather have several qb’s there that make Chip think.
I get it Stevo the reason why people think FOLES should be handed the starting job…Its Because he’s white THAT’S WHY…… Kelly is clear on what he is trying to do offensively..AND FOLES CAN’T DO IT PERIOD. I don’t care if the QB is GREEN find someone to get the job done. I live in the D.C. AREA and I’m tired of these skins fans throwing up in my face how many superbowls they’ve won
no sum. thats wrong.
The reason people think Foles should be handed the job is because;
1)Vick has not gotten in done.
2) Vick is a me me me guy.
3) Vick is a thug.
Listen, I defend Vick when the crap gets thrown for crap throwing sake. I get labeled a Vick lover because i want our qb to win even if its a cowboy fan like Kolb. BUT….. to think that Vick is hated because of his skin is easy…. lazy….. and wrong. Are there some that hate black people…. sure. But i will defend those on this blog because most are smarter than that.
Excellent post vinnie, that’s why I say Kelly is a bull shitter, foles cannot run his offense, so for Kelly to say its an open competition, he’s lying, just like he lied at his first press conference when he said what he looks for in a quarterback and then resigns the antithesis of what he supposedly looks for, this guy is a squirrel or mole, don’t trust him, eagles are on the wrong path
It sure looks like Foles’s job is harder… for sure. But lets look at what Kelly himself has said he looks for…..
no sacks
reads D’s fast
smart
no turnovers
can run
if i am to believe most of you in this room, Vick can only do 1 of these right. If he fails at the others Kelly will change his system (as ive heard he has done before) to win.
Same to you frank, and sum up, it’s not the color of the qb, it’s the running qb we don’t want, they happen to be mostly black, but we don’t want any parts of the rarer white running qb either, tebow, this clown Johnny football, who looks like an accountant and will play like one in the nfl
Pocket qbs win super bowls as my Canadian friend points out repeatedly, running qbs haven’t won shit
Jake that Johnny football line is a classic, I haven’t laughed out loud like that in a minute. Classic just classic.
Warren moon pretty good black pocket qb
This is true.
Kelly says: I want a QB who gets ball out in 1.5 seconds
Kelly does: Signs QB with slowest release in NFL last year (3 seconds)
Kelly says: All sacks are the QBs fault
Kelly does: Signs QB with 6th highest sacked % in league last year
Kelly says: You can’t turn the ball over
Kelly does: Signs the NFL active leader in fumbles, and 4th all-time in fumble % and who has a scintillating 3% career int %
Kelly says: Open competition at QB
Kelly does: Sign Dixon indicating that his O requires someone who can run fast, one thing the best QB on the roster cannot do
There will be no open competition because the team will not be learning 2 different offenses.
Vinnie,
You forgot to mention that Kelly said he looks for a QB to have big hands, then signs the QB with the smallest hands in the league.
Vinnie…. i hear you. I do. I also understand that every coach thinks they can fix Vick. I understand that it very well may be a trap. But i will be curious if this plan works because…. what i was begging for last year (feel free to go back and look at our convos) what i was begging for was…
1. a run game.
2. Play calling that didnt feature the 35 yard bomb-plays take time.
3. a deeper Oline-kowing Peters was down early
4. a true DC.
5. Using RB’s and Wr’s on crossing routes and wheel routes
I didnt want Kelly or Vick this year… but….. as i look at it, i think it can work. I’m not betting my house on it but…. i think this system… and this qb CAN work..
What i would LOVE to see you do (or the other stat girl) is pull up ALL the numbers from the year the Falcons had Vick and the 2 rb’s. Id love to see the RB’s stats. and the TE’s stats. Id love to see how long Vick held the ball then. If i remember correctly… thats the year they went to the NFC champ game against us.
Guys I truly believe in the point I made earlier but the bottom line is we need I superbowl in this town PERIOD and I don’t care who is QBing I’M A TRUE EAGLES FAN and I hold no allegiance to anyone but our american EAGLE and MY BEAUTIFUL CITY where i was raised
Eagles QB Prediction- Vick Dixon EJ Manuel.
Foles will be traded for a High 2nd or 2 3rd round picks.
Eagles will end the season at 9-7 Either make the playoffs or miss it by a game, N. Foles has a solid season with his future team.
EJ Manuel plays some games this year and takes the reigns next year and brings us to an 11-5 Record for the Eagles.
Eagles Defense will rank top 10 in back to back years.
Eagles will have 2 blow out wins. 1 overtime win and one over time loss the rest is the rest
What year is this going to happen Pipolo with the Eagles Defense being ranked in the Top 10 in back to back years… ??
It would be awesome for this to occur, but Eagles Defense needs major overhauling and it will take a little time ..
i think Foles stays unless they land the QB they want in the draft (like round 2-4) but i would love to hear what a “solid” season for Foles looks like?
Steve Spurrier and Danny Wuerffel…
I think Chip Kelly is doing the right thing in collecting QB’s. None of these guys is a clear cut franchise QB. So Chip has three on the roster that might be able to be successful in his system. Reality is that his franchise QB is not on this roster and not in this draft and won’t be on the team in 2013. It sucks having a bad QB draft when you have the 4th pick. He will probably draft a QB in 2nd or 3rd round if the guy is there – EJ Manuel or someone like that. Though, with all the other needs he has, I would hate to see him pick a QB that doesn’t have the potential to be a franchise QB.