Philadelphia Eagles Week 12 Stock Report

The Philadelphia Eagles may or may not be in total free-fall mode, but their stock certainly is. With three losses in the last four games and a 4-6 record on the season, faith in this team is at an all-time low and, thanks to the direction, perhaps still plummeting.

It's not a good sign anytime the following three people are all listed as their stock being down: the quarterback, the defensive coordinator and the offensive-minded head coach who also happens to be the architect of the roster. That's the case this week, however, after a brutal 45-17 Eagles loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday.

The Eagles appear to be going nowhere fast, and there are no silver linings. You would be hard-pressed to get anybody to buy the stocks of any of the following men at this point in the season.

Stock Down: Mark Sanchez

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Mark Sanchez can hardly be blamed for the loss, but enough silliness about him being a better fit or option under center for the Eagles right now. The guy has thrown four interceptions in roughly five quarters of action this season. That's what he does.

Bradford was playing better than the numbers would indicate or anybody would give him credit for. It's hard for a quarterback to look good when the receivers can't catch and the offensive line can't protect him. Not only that, but the Eagles have just six games remaining to decide whether or not they want to re-sign him.

As soon as Bradford is healthy, which mercifully may be in time for Thursday's game, it's time for the Eagles to stick Sanchez back on the bench. People who wanted the switch got a chance to see what Sanchez could do, and once again he was not the solution for the offensive woes.

Stock Down: Interior Linebackers

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Coming into this season, all anybody could ask is how the Eagles were going to get three excellent interior linebackers on the field. We're into Week 12, and not only does it appear as if none of those three were their best option, it looks like there may not be a decent one among the bunch.

DeMeco Ryans, Mychal Kendricks and Kiko Alonso were high among the reasons why Tampa Bay was able to run for nearly 300 yards last week, why the Eagles run defense has been faltering for the better part of the month. They're hitting the wrong gaps, hesitating in the hole, trying to run around blocks, missing tackles and are just plain ineffective for much of the time.

Ryans and Alonso are only recently coming off of injuries and may not be 100 percent. Kendricks missed time this season as well. That being said, whatever the excuse, the Eagles interior linebackers made just eight total tackles during the loss to the Bucs and zero impact.

Stock Down: Nolan Carroll

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Not so long ago, it appeared as if Nolan Carroll had helped solidify the Eagles secondary and might be headed for a big free-agent payday. Now all of a sudden you have to wonder if Carroll continues to play like he did on Sunday if he might not lose his job.

Maybe that's a bit of an overreaction, but Carroll has been far from reliable the past few weeks, and his performance against the Bucs was his worst yet. Sure, two of the three touchdown passes the cornerback was on the other end of were against circus-freak receivers Mike Evans and Vincent Jackson. However, the fact that we're writing "three touchdown passes" at all is concerning.

Carroll is better than that, but is he good enough to ward off second-round draft pick Eric Rowe, who's chomping at the bit for more playing time? We shall see, but the starter needs to do a better job moving forward, because his potential replacement is on the bench.

Stock Down: Bill Davis

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By and large, Bill Davis has done a decent job as Eagles defensive coordinator. That being said, anytime there's a total collapse like what was experienced on Sunday, there are going to be questions.

The truth is, the Davis hire was met with skepticism when it was made three years ago. He had been a bust in a pair of two-year stints as a coordinator at previous spots, although one could easily point to the lack of talent he had in either situation. Regardless, there has never been a ton of confidence in Davis outside the organization.

Now that his defense faltered in a big way on Sunday, appearing unprepared and accused of giving less than full effort by the game's end, it will be interesting to see if there isn't an even bigger groundswell for Davis' removal. It's unfair, because defense has been the only thing keeping the Eagles in games most weeks, but somebody is going to play the scapegoat at the end of the season.

Stock Down: Chip Kelly

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It's easy to forget that Chip Kelly coached the Eagles to back-to-back 10-win seasons and one playoff berth. Then again, that's easy to forget because most of the players who were a part of that are gone now, and it was Kelly's decision to send them packing.

Now the embattled head coach is facing the hardest line of questioning of his career, in one of the fiercest media markets in sports. How does your team turn this around? Do the players still believe in your message? Is anybody in that locker room quitting? It's gotten so bad for Kelly, NFL insiders such as ESPN's Adam Schefter are openly wondering whether he'll be back with the Eagles next season.

It seems so unlikely that Kelly would flee from a challenge one year after getting full control of personnel, or Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie pulling the plug on the experiment in so little time. That's just the state of the team these days, though. Nobody is happy with what's happening, and the head coach has the most responsibility for the current state of the franchise.