Monday Morning Quarterback: This one is on Chip Kelly

Don't blame this one on Michael Vick.

Or Matt Barkley.

Nick Foles is out - because he was literally out - not even dressed as he deals with concussion problems. This one is on Chip Kelly. And it didn't start yesterday, although he didn't help his case much.

Kelly somehow managed to convince himself - or maybe he was talked into - thinking that Michael Vick was ready to go yesterday.

In doing so he did not give his team a chance to win.

I'm not a "told you so" kind of scribe. But I had been saying all week I did not think Vick was going to be effective. Practice is one thing; games are another animal altogether. That goes even more so for a guy like Vick, whose entire game is predicated on his instincts.

From the first snap of the game, it was clear Vick had absolutely no mobility. He was a sitting duck in the pocket.

On the first series, he tried to dump the ball near an Eagles receiver (tight end Brent Celek) and instead got it picked off.

I knew then what was coming. What I had been saying all week, what I expected would happen the first time Vick reacted naturally and fled the pocket under a rush.

That's when Vick says he felt another pop in that balky hamstring.

And a pop when into the balloon that is the Eagles season.

Exit Vick, enter Barkley.

The problem with that is that Vick was getting most of the reps with the starting unit all week. For the second week in a row, Barkley was thrown to the wolves. And it showed.

Kelly's problems did not end when Vick left. To his credit, Barkley marched the Eagles down the field and had them in position for a huge touchdown before the half was over.

With a first down at the 2-yard line and the best running back in the NFL standing behind Barkley, Kelly went all Andy Reid on us, dialing up another pass instead of feeding McCoy.

Barkley could not find a receiver open, but instead of throwing the ball away and lining up again, he tried to improvise. He drifted toward the sideline, when of course he was hit from behind and coughed up the ball. The Giants pounced on it.

That made Barkley four for four. He had been the Eagles quarterback for four drives and turned the ball over on all four.

There were other problems yesterday - DeSean Jackson failing to get a first down when it was clearly in his reach, instead cutting back and losing ground instead of sticking his head in there and moving the sticks. He also looked less than interested in catching a punt that went off his hands and out of bounds at the 3-yard line, putting Barkley in another huge hole.

The Eagles have now lost 10 straight games at their antiseptic new home, Lincoln Financial Field. I know it sounds weird, but there is something about that place. It's too nice. Football is not supposed to be comfortable. There was nothing cushy about Veterans Stadium. The place was a dump. But it was our dump, and more importantly, NFL teams hated to come in and play there. Many of them were beaten long before they ever stepped out on that concrete surface that was jokingly referred to as 'artificial.' For opponents, it was all too real.

For Eagles fans today, the only thing that is all too real is another nightmare season, a rookie coach and a rookie quarterback. That's never a good combination.

Michael Vick now will be back on the shelf for the foreseeable future. I'm not surprised. Before the season I set the over/under on games played by Vick at nine. And I took the under. Looks like a pretty good bet. Chip Kelly made the wrong bet this week. He bet on Vick's hamstring, and he lost big time.

Now he has Nick Foles nursing concussion symptoms, and Matt Barkley.

But don't blame the QBs for this mess.

Blame the coach.

He went into a game banking on Vick's hamstring.

That 'pop' you just heard was Kelly's grace period disappearing.