OT: (Edit) Chip Kelly to the Browns? Cleveland media now reporting "expect an announcement tonight"

Im not a Browns hater.What personnel do The Browns have that fit the offense Chip Kelly ran in college?

Something I found interesting in the article was the fact that Kelly has succeeded at Oregon without "his own" staff-  most of the staff is made up of Belotti's guys.  Now it helps that Chip was a coordinator and knew them already, but still-  usually these super successful coaches bring in all their own people.

It just makes me think that Kelly is good at adapting to the situation, which I hope is the case.  I don't think anyone expects the Browns to run the exact same scheme as Oregon, but if he adapts his offense to the pro game and his personnel, there could be good things in store for Cleveland.

But probably not.

1. Regarding the QB issue, I wonder if McCoy would be given another shot at the starting job. I've been hearing internet chatter (prepare you large grain of salt) that the Browns wanted McCoy out of the organization to take pressure off of Weeden (i.e., McCoy was well liked by fans who might start calling his name if Weeden struggled). I wonder if Kelly would prefer a QB like McCoy over Weeden. Personally, I thought McCoy never got much of a fair shake, with no receiver help and no OLine protection.

2. Let the thread synergy begin! What about Denard under Kelly? Not as QB, obviously, but he's a versatile, super-fast, somewhat undersized player. I wonder if a Kelly-led Browns would look toward Denard in the draft. Now that Al Davis is gone, someone has to step up to draft via 40 times.

I can't wait to see Cleveland's jersey's this year.

Regardless of what offense he brings it will be interesting to see. I'm also interested to see how oregon's team is affected after he is gone

One of the toughest things about Cleveland is the division. Pittsburgh and Baltimore's defenses are older now, but still pretty good. Cincinnati had a top 10 defense as well this year. Running the Kelly spread against those teams will not be easy.

For Kelly, I think there are better jobs available--Philly, if they want him, maybe Arizona (two other Pac-12 coaches are doing pretty well in the NFC West), and if he waits a year, maybe Carolina (Cam Newton!) or Dallas (Jones will give him all the players he wants to run the spread).

Finally, and this isn't really a reason to turn down the job, but the Cleveland weather and stadium is not suited to the spread. It has natural grass, its cold and wet for half the year, and it will be that much harder for the speed guys to make their cuts when they need to,

Hopefully this will be the spark that the Browns need, but I don't know if I see the spread lasting long-term in the NFL. But its never been tried before, so who knows?

I know this is just completely a random thought, but with Kelly going to the NFL and the way the qb situations have unfolded in many places, what if he was able to snag Vick?  I know he has done a lot of passing lately, but I just think that combo would be exciting.  Not sure how much it would work, but I would certainly watch

Is Chip Kelly livin' the life or what?  Never married, perpetual bachelor, now being asked to name his price to coach NFL football.  What a guy.

If they draft Denard I'm gonna be pissed..

1. any chance he is pulling a Carroll -- he knows of impending doom from ncaa?



2. for those kids among us who dont think anyone has tried to run the full spread in the nfl, you are wrong. couple if decades ago, the oilers tried the run n shoot with warren moon.

One of the more interesting aspects of hiring Kelly and his offense will be the relatively small (cap wise) dollars it will take to assemble the roster he wants.  People in this thread calling for Philly over Cleveland cause of the roster make up forget that in the NFL you can revamp almost everything overnight.  Here today gone tomorrow is the NFL roster tagline I think.

What Cleveland is willing to give to Kelly (besides gobbs and gobbs of money) is roster control.  They are virtually letting him (if reports are true) choose the GM and Banner has gone on record as saying the coach will have the final say on the roster make-up.  From what I hear the Eagles organization is nothing like that so while the players (today) might fit Kelly's system better the player tomorrow might not.

He's coming here.  Ready or not NFL....Kelly's on his way.

Don't go to Cleveland. Nothing ever good happens there. Cleveland teams always suck and that's not gonna change anytime soon. Ask Lebron.

You're asking if it will work. I suppose if you're the Cleveland Browns it is worth a shot because nothing else they do works.

Would it be with it for the Browns to try and get Alex Smith?

Jay-Z says screw Chip Kelly for not coming to Michigan.

Out of curiosity, I looked at the records of the Browns and the Lions starting with 1964, the first year that Ford had full control of the franchise, through the 2012 season.

Browns overall record: 317-369-5

Playoff appearances in 16 seasons; 7-15 in playoff games; 1-1 in NFL championship games, made it to conference championship game 6 other seasons*

*Virtually of the Browns success was prior to 1996, when Modell moved the franchise to Baltimore.

Lions overall record: 294-417-13

Playoff appearances in 10 seasons; 1-10 in playoff games; one appearance in conference championship game

Since 1999, when the new Browns franchise was created, both the Browns and the Lions have been horrible, with 11 and 10 seasons of double-digit losses, respectively.

My concern with Kelly in the pros is that his system relies on everyone being largely interchangeable; he's lost so many QBs and RBs and just replaced them with someone of similar abilities that it is hard not to see them as by-products of a system.  But in the NFL, the talent is more dispersed, so you can't horde players who are competent replacements.  And while most college kids will run through walls for their coaches, a $6MM RB or OL isn't necessarily going to subsume his ego for the better of the team.  And when those guys go down, they hamstring the team's ability to replace them because of the contract's terms as well as team culture.  And that doesn't even address the fact that competent defenses have found ways to stymie him.  So while I think he'll have some success just playing with tempo, I'm not sure he'll be better than an average coach in the pros.

Well that didn't happen.