Chip: no Bradford update, lots of teams are inconsistent like us

Chip Kelly's day-after presser contained no new information about quarterback Sam Bradford's injury, and little insight into his team's puzzling foldup Sunday against Miami.

Kelly said he knew only that Bradford "hurt his shoulder" -- the Daily News has reported he has a Grade II AC sprain to his left shoulder -- and has a concussion. 94WIP's Howard Eskin reported that Bradford had trouble remembering the first half of the game after the third-quarter hit that took him out.

A medical source indicated the injury to Bradford's nonthrowing shoulder might not sideline him this week against Tampa Bay, but the concussion, obviously, very well could keep him out. The Eagles have a four-day week after Tampa, playing at Detroit on Thanksgiving.

"He's in the concussion protocol," Kelly said. He said he had not spoken with Bradford since the game. Asked what Bradford would have to do to be cleared this week, Kelly said: "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."

Kelly said he hasn't started to gameplan for Tampa, but nothing would change if the quarterback this week is Mark Sanchez, who relieved Bradford in Sunday's loss.

"I'm very confident in Mark Sanchez," Kelly said, though he again pointed out Sanchez's culpability in the interception that sealed the Eagles' fate.

Asked whether (apparently somnambulant) wide receiver Miles Austin could have done more than watch on the end-zone interception, Kelly said: "He was reading the coverage as he went across. We probably shouldn't have thrown the ball, is what we shouldn't have done."

Overall, on the glaring lack of production from his outside receivers, Kelly said: "We had a couple drops in there. I don't think (Riley Cooper) was targeted. So, sometimes it's not the receiver's fault, in terms of where his production is. He can't do anything except run his routes and run his plays."

Austin was targeted four times, and had no receptions, while playing 45 snaps.

Other highlights:

*Asked if practicing at a frantic pace, not stopping to correct mistakes until film-study meetings, encourages the attention to detail several Eagles have said is lacking, Kelly said: "It does. Very much so, it does." He did not elaborate.

*Kelly said although bad snaps contributed to a missed field goal and a blocked punt, Jon Dorenbos will remain the team's long snapper. "We obviously need to clean some things up," Kelly said. "We need to clean that whole operation up."

*Asked why his offensive line could play so well against Dallas and so poorly Sunday, Kelly said: "I think that's the question for everybody in this league. Every week is a different week. Every opponent is a different opponent. With the exception of about four or five teams right now, I think everybody's kind of doing the same thing. You look one week and they kind of look like gangbusters, and then the next week, it's not so much. Green Bay was out and won six straight; now they've lost three straight."

Kelly said most games are really close and can swing on a play. "If you're one play better than your opponent, you're going to win."

*Asked if, when the season began, he had expected to be one of those four or five teams that are the exception, and not back in the struggling horde, Kelly said: "I don't anticipate going in what we're going to be, on a longterm basis. Again, we approach it, `What do we gotta do this week to beat this team?' "