Michael Vick

When Chip Kelly coached at Oregon, the Ducks went to the Rose Bowl one year with a 5-foot-11, good-running quarterback. Another season, they made it to the BCS championship game with a 6-3 passer who ran only sparingly. During Kelly's career in Eugene, which included two seasons as offensive coordinator and four as head coach, the Ducks also started a 6-6 guy without much mobility, another 6-3 quarterback who ran pretty decently, and finally a 6-4 solid combination of passing and running skills.

It may be time to envision the possibility that Nick Foles will win the Eagles starting quarterback job. Certainly, there are some who have already contemplated the likelihood, considering the competition. Chip Kelly has never wavered from his stance - given the day after he became the Eagles head coach - that he likes Foles and would tailor his offense to the second-year quarterback's skill-set should he prevail. And yet there has been this perception that Foles has little chance since Kelly came aboard and decided a few weeks later to bring Michael Vick back.

Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has suspended a scheduled book tour because he has received threats through social media, his spokesman said Monday night. Vick has been promoting his autobiography, Finally Free . The book tour included stops at Barnes & Noble stores in Exton and in Northvale, N.J. His next appearance was scheduled to be on Saturday in Atlanta. Vick appeared without incident at a bookstore in Charlotte, N.C., on March 2. "Michael Vick is committed to helping make his community a better place," Chris Shigas, a spokesman for Vick, said in an e-mail.

MICHAEL VICK and his family have been threatened lately through social media, as have bookstores where Vick planned to promote his book, "Finally Free. " Vick has canceled appearances at three Barnes & Noble locations because of the threats, which have been reported to law enforcement, Vick spokesman Chris Shigas said Monday. Shigas called the threats, first reported by Tim McManus on Phillymag.com, "very disturbing. " Vick has been a lightning rod since he returned to the NFL with the Eagles in 2009 after serving 19 months in federal prison for running a dogfighting operation, but the public furor seemed to abate over the past few years.

EVERYBODY KNOWS what Chip Kelly plans to do. He will install a version of the read-option offense that closely mirrors the attack that vaulted his Oregon teams into the national-championship conversation. He will convert the Eagles' 4-3 defense, for which they have signed and drafted players for decades, into a 3-4 scheme. Except, nobody knows either of these things. Kelly has made a few moves that indicate his leanings toward a typical read option, if there is a typical read option.

Jason Kelce walked across a stage at a local elementary school on Friday, showing no ill signs of a knee injury that halted his 2012 season in the second game. The Eagles center started running and doing field drills three weeks ago, roughly six months after the medial collateral ligament in Kelce's right knee was completely torn and the ACL was partially torn. He'll start plyometrics and cutting when a custom brace soon arrives. Kelce made an appearance on Friday at the W.D. Kelley Elementary School in Brewerytown to read to students as part of Read Across America Day. Students received a book of their choice and an Eagles bookmark and met Kelce, who read a poem.

MIKE PATTERSON. Cullen Jenkins. And there will be more. Roster carnage is the only certainty when an NFL team fires an underperforming coach. Andy Reid goes, Chip Kelly arrives, the vision of the entire Eagles organization changes and the world is again reminded that those 8-year contracts signed by NFL players are really a series of eight, 1-year contracts. And don't forget to write. With that, a word here about cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha: He needs to go - for his sake, and Kelly's sake, and everyone's.

The decision to keep Michael Vick on the Eagles roster, at least for now, could be interpreted two ways. It could be viewed as an endorsement of Vick, whose injuries and inconsistencies already eradicated the excitement from his brilliant 2010 campaign. It could also be understood as an indictment of this offseason's quarterback class, and an acknowledgment that the free-agent market is relatively bare and the trade market has more demand than supply, thus inflating prices. The second interpretation is probably closer to reality.

AS EXPECTED, the Eagles signed former Oregon quarterback Dennis Dixon to a 2-year contract Thursday. Dixon, 28, was on the Baltimore Ravens' practice squad this past season. He was a fifth-round draft pick of the Steelers in 2008, after starring for the Ducks under then-offensive coordinator Chip Kelly. Dixon's Kelly ties probably will make him useful in helping the other quarterbacks understand Kelly and his system. He is not expected to start ahead of Michael Vick or Nick Foles.

Eagles coach Chip Kelly decided to bring back Michael Vick for another season with a restructured contract, but buried beneath his praise for Vick was his admission that the "landscape for other quarterbacks" wasn't very promising. And that essentially summed up Kelly's decision to keep Vick, even though a majority of Eagles fans seem ready to move on to the next phase the new coach represented. "I agree there is a change of scenery going on here," Kelly said Monday at the NovaCare Complex. "For Michael Vick, there is a change of scenery, but not a change of address.