Chip Kelly supposedly working on a deal to become next head coach of Tampa Bay Bucs...wtf?

I live in Oregon and listen to the local sports talk radio shows whenever I can.  There is never ever any talk of Oregon sanctions and it is not as if the talk show jocks get along with coach Kelly - they think he is kind of an ass- so I do not believe there to be any cover up on their part.  All we ever hear is how wonderful life is if you are a Duck or duck fan.

Chip Kelly is obviously successful and he is single with zero life outside of football.  That kind of work-aholic is exactly what you have to be anymore.  If it is true that he goes to the NFL then the whole state of Oregon might be on suicide watch.....

One who have to wonder if Darron Thomas leaving for the NFL has anything to do with this. Your star QB and coach (supposedly) both unexpectedly leave for the NFL? Something is going down in Eugene.

Should have waited. He would have been perfect at Oregon.

I'd be curious to see if he could adapt and run a pro style offense. Or does he only know his version of the spread? Would he seriously try to use that offense in the NFL?

If this turns out to be true, it'll be interesting to watch.

Well, now he can spend more time with LeGarrette

If a pro team is willing to throw money at him why not leave?  He's a hot name and his entire backfield is moving on.  Take the $ and see what happens.  He can always go back to coaching college.  Better to leave too early than stay during a rebuilding phase that may or may not be successful.

I bet the coach at Arizona welcomes this news since they would also be recruiting the same type of athlete out west.

Ohio is helped with Meyer becoming the best spread coach left (and the spread getting implemented in the NFL).

and staying just a little bit ahead of the sheriff.

I always have to think "which Kelly" for a second or so.

As a Bucs fan, I'd actually be pretty upset if this happened. But then again, the Glazers are in the business of pissing the Tampa community off, so its really nothing new. But to me, it doesn't make sense. I mean Kelly's a good coach, with 2 Rose Bowls and a BCS title appearance, but:

1) He's a spread coach. How does this translate to the NFL, where the spread is more or less nonexistent?

2) This is more just a personal issue, but when I think of the Bucs, I think defense. I think of names like John Lynch, Warren Sapp, Derrick Brooks, Hardy Nickerson, Ronde Barber, and the list goes on and on. These guys were the foundation of one of the NFL's top defenses year in and year out. I know Kelly's offenses are explosive, but defense is what wins Super Bowls, as evidenced by our only Super Bowl win in 2002. We had an anemic offense at best, but the #1 defense in the NFL across the board.

I hope, for the sake of my team, that Kelly turns out to be the right guy, but he'd better invest a lot of time in our defense. We didn't spend the last 2 drafts using our top picks on D-lineman for nothing.

Wow if this is true, Darren Thomas will look like a genius

if i were a bucaneers fan i would be pretty excited about the possibility of chip kelly being their head coach... i mean what do they have to lose? they lost their last 10 games last year they were terrible. why not take a risk?

In some cases, jumping from college to the NFL works...but I don't see that working in Chip's case. He may be making a big mistake here. 

Before Tony Dungy got to Tampa, one could always rest assured that there was one team in the NFL that was run as badly as the Lions were.  For years, Detroit and Tampa Bay were the two worst-run franchises in the NFL.  Tampa Bay had apparently righted its ship, but then the Glazer family bought Manchester United.  Ever since, they have spent as little money as they can, and dumped the TV profits into their true passion, soccer.

Now, the Lions are showing signs of becoming the model franchise of how to rebuild from scratch, and Tampa Bay is back at the bottom again.  They are either stalling to get an assistant from one of the final four playoff teams, or they are taking the phrase "fuck up" to an unprecedented level.  This "coaching search" makes Bill Martin and Dave Brandon look like Albert Einstein and Werner Von Braun.  

Either way, if you were to poll people in the Tampa Bay area, the only people who would say the Glazers are doing a good job would be their relatives. 

This hire, if it happens, might even make their relatives turn on them.

Kelly could be coach for life at Oregon; NFL coaches are hired to be fired.

I think he could be successful as an NFL HC as long as he doesn't try to do too much. I wish they didn't already have Josh Freeman in the fold there so they could draft RGIII. I'm drooling over that thought and I don't give a shit about Tampa.

Schefter just tweeted that Kelly interviewed last week, so this could actually have some legs to it.  Bad move on Kelly's part of this does come to pass.

If he tries to run any semblance of his current system he will fail horribly. NFL defenses are too sound to get the results he did at Oregon.

I'm a Bucs fan and have been closely watching their situation. They have interviewed 8 people and none of them being Kelly.

Of course right after I post this ESPN reports that Kelly is in talks with the Bucs. I am not pleased!

Wonder who would replace Kelly if this rumor were to become factual. Lot of hearsay Oregon could hire Petersen. That'd be ridiculous to watch 

Welp it looks like Denard might get drafted at QB after all.

If (when) Denard has a stellar season next year and shows he can be a capable passer at the next level, what are the chances that a Kelly led Bucs team drafts him as their dual threat QB. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'. That could be his best bet if he wants to play QB rather than receiver in the pros.