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Santoliquito: Looks Like Eagles Are Stuck With Sam Bradford

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Sam Bradford's sentience apparently exists in a different world than the rest of us.

Somehow, the career 25-37-1 starter has lost his reality and sees himself juggling multiple Super Bowl trophies in his head, along with a few MVP awards. Somehow, he sees himself on that pantheon with "Tom" and "Peyton," a true visionary when he has the football in his hands, guiding the most impossible of teams deep into each January. Somehow, that's what he sees, since he gave his agent, Tom Condon, marching orders to tell the Eagles he wants to be traded—after it somehow came late to him that he wasn't the Eagles' quarterback of the future.

Somehow, no one else on the planet that follows the NFL saw what Bradford "The Bridge" saw.

Now the former first pick of the NFL Draft is stuck.

He reportedly isn't answering calls from Eagles' coach Doug Pederson, after Condon issued a few ultimatums to the Eagles. Condon says Bradford wanted to be "the man" on the team he played for, though in five NFL seasons he has exhibited little proof that he is capable of being "the man."

With Denver trading up with Seattle to draft Memphis' Paxton Lynch with the 26th overall pick, that ended any possibility of Bradford ending up there. The New York Jets, currently enmeshed in a contract squabble with Ryan Fitzpatrick, don't want Bradford. And when Bradford signed his two-year deal with the Eagles, worth a reported $22-million guaranteed, not too many teams were clamoring for his services.

The truth is, Bradford is angry he signed the deal and Condon -- the quarterback agent guru -- is ticked he got taken by Howie Roseman, who holds all of the important moving parts in this scenario. It's a reality that has somehow eluded Bradford and Condon.

He and Condon wanted to know the Eagles' plans. Roseman was under no obligation to do so, as he is under no duty to trade Bradford, whose options are limited, bordering close to nonexistent.

"We've been very open publicly and privately about the fact that we were going to draft a young quarterback," Roseman said Friday on SportsRadio 94WIP.

So what does Bradford do?

For one, he better get himself right with his teammates. Banging the drum through his agent publicly that he wants out is not a good look behind closed doors. Some Eagles may even grumble under their breath about entrusting a guy like that with anything, if he's so reluctant to compete for a starting job against career back-up Chase Daniel and prized first-round rookie Carson Wentz.

But that may not be the toughest hurdle.

How much of a chance will rabid Eagles' fans give rabbit-eared Bradford?

Try zero.

Right now, Bradford has no place to go. No team wanted him when he was free agent back in March—except the Eagles. No one, it seems, deems him a franchise quarterback now. Through mouthpiece Condon, Bradford is going to need to soothe the fanbase. It will be interesting how they spin it. As for his teammates, he'll need to explain his behavior himself, not by peaking around Condon as he's done the last two weeks.

The only real concern when Bradford returns is how he'll treat Wentz. Playing tutor and solid teammate to Wentz is about the only valuable card Bradford has left, before word spreads to other potential suitors that he's a locker room cancer. Because presently, if someone turned out the lights in whatever room Bradford is standing, he would glow he's so toxic.

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