OT: Eagles Fire Chip Kelly

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And so it begins...  Who is next?

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JamieH

December 29th, 2015 at 9:28 PM ^

he did mostly OK when he was just the coach.  Then he forced his way into full control over personnel decisions this last off-season and the results, albeit over an extremely small one-year sample size, were pretty damn bad.

While I agree that you probably should give a person more than one year to prove themselves, if you are going to force a major power play to be given control, and then you are going to make wholesale changes, shipping your starting QB, WR and RB out of town (I know, he ran Jackson out of town last year, but still), you better be showing SOMETHING for it.  Kelly blew things up and made big promises and delivered nothing this year. 

Sure, maybe he had some grand 4-year plan.  He didn't have 4-years and he should have known that.  If you are going to blow stuff up in the NFL for the sake of blowing it up, you better be able to show some forward momentum fast or you are going to be a goner. 

 

 

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micheal honcho

December 29th, 2015 at 8:10 PM ^

If I'm a HS player looking at the next level(NFL) there's no WAY I'd want to play in Chip's system over someone like Harbaugh, Saban, Miles, even Dantonio.

Chip is great at making the most of 265lb O-lineman & 5'10", 178lb slot ninjas but if you have the metrics to play on Sunday you'd be a fool to waste your time mastering his system. Besides, everyone worships the guy and he's won exactly 0 championships. I just don't see it. Bierema is every bit his equal by the #'s



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micheal honcho

December 29th, 2015 at 8:50 PM ^

True, although an NFC championship & superbowl appearance put him above anything Chip has accomplished. Harbaugh is not worshipped like some kind of football idiot savant either. He's certianly recognized as a good/great coach but it feels to me like on a national level people think Chip Kelly is somehow better. I think he's RichRod light. Given same talent(Rich Rod never had the level of talent Chip had for 4 yrs at Oregon) I'd actually take RR. He seems to have a more engaging personality and genuine love for his players that I've never seen in Chip and he was doing most of the tempo/read option stuff before Chip was.

IMHO Chip is overrated and his stint in Philly verified that for me. The NFC least has been a dumpster and he was still never able to get past an early exit. Those who think he's going to arrive in a place like Texas or USC and just dominate beyond what Mack Brown or Pete Carroll did are delusional IMO. His defenses are consistently sub par and everyone has caught on to the offensive gimmicks that gave him a short lived advantage at one point. Hopefully he lands back in FBS and I get a chance to see if my gut is right. If he stays NFL I think we've seen the story already and it will repeat.

I do wish that, like somebody else mentioned, he would have fully committed to his style in the NFL. Sign Denard, Tebow, Terrell Pryor and pay them each a couple million and just use his Oregon playbook to the letter. If one or more of them goes down, sign another. Lord knows theres dozens of zone read/spread QB's out there selling insurance that would love a shot at the league. Hell you could burn through 5 of them a season and not run out for a decade. Probably be cheaper than signing Bradford too!

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micheal honcho

December 29th, 2015 at 10:27 PM ^

Let's see Chip take a dumpster like Arizona and do what RR was able to. Chip inherited a pretty loaded & ready team at Oregon along with perhaps the best donor network( Phil Nike) in all of FBS. Give RR those advantages and IMO evidence suggests he'd be as good or better than Chip. In his best season at WVU he didn't even approach the talent on his roster that Chip had in his worst. I think the guy is a dick very similar to the other Kelly we know. I think that Kelly is a better coach also.



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snarling wolverine

December 30th, 2015 at 12:39 AM ^

I'm sorry but this is crazy.  RichRod has lost four or more games in 11 of his 14 years as a head coach.  He had one great three-year run (2005-07) when the Big East was down, and that's really it.  

To compare him to Chip Kelly, who went 46-7 at Oregon and won three Pac-12 titles in four years, is nuts.  Pre-Kelly, Oregon was an OK program, which typically won 8-9 games.  Kelly made it elite.

 

 

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M-Dog

December 29th, 2015 at 10:04 PM ^

I would love to see that grand experiment.  True zone read spread in the NFL, full time, all the time.  Dig up all the old spread masters - Dennis Dixon, Armanti Edwards, Juice Williams, etc. - and let them go wild in a 5 QB rotation.

It may crash and burn, but it would be a glorious flame-out when it does.  The NFL is too boring.

 

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titanfan11

December 29th, 2015 at 8:22 PM ^

might be best suited for the likes of the PAC 12 or the BIG 12.  I wonder if he would have any issue taking another job in the PAC 12, given his Oregon history.  I would lean no, but you never know.  Him going to Texas would definitely transition them into the high-octane offenses of the BIG 12.  Kansas just went 0-12...they looking?

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smwilliams

December 29th, 2015 at 8:41 PM ^

I don't think the Pac-12 thing will be an issue. He wasn't an Oregon lifer. Came from New Hampshire.

I'd bet he either takes another NFL job (Tennessee the favorite) or waits a year, does some TV, and waits for a prime NCAA job like Texas to open up. Could also go some place like Cal where there is a solid recruiting base, but not the prestige of a Texas or Penn State.

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cozy200

December 29th, 2015 at 8:49 PM ^

His half cocked scheme does NOT work. Kids love these systems because they win a lot in college. They rarely transfer to the pro's though and I love yet another indictment of this bullshit theory.

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allintime23

December 29th, 2015 at 9:34 PM ^

I Bet he goes to the Titans for two or three years next and doesn't have success. He's not a good pro coach. Making the playoffs in that division isn't that impressive.

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