Chip Kelly - Head Coach, Philadelphia Eagles

[ice grillin you]

because he wanted to work with howie roseman and dom smolinski

doesnt everyone....why do you think their coaching staff is being filled out with respected long time nfl coaching genius'

[SD]

That's a lot lower than I thought he'd get...some speculated he'd get $8 million per

[BigEd76]

Peter King:

For the last three seasons, Dungy has been a long-distance commuter from Tampa to Oregon, while son Eric played as a reserve wideout (after redshirting in 2010) for Chip Kelly's Oregon Ducks. Dungy has seen practice, and he's been to many games. I asked him what kind of NFL coach Kelly would be, a topic of some difference of opinion because Kelly has never coached in the NFL.

"He'll be good,'' Dungy said. "One of the things everybody's getting wrong is that he has to coach one way. Not true. He'll adjust. I think he'll be able to win in a lot of ways. I think the offense he'll run will be very similar to what Buffalo ran with Jim Kelly, the K-gun. High-pace, fast tempo. His thing is tempo, and making a defense respond to what he's doing. Say it's 3rd-and-5, and you have all these tendencies from watching his offense -- what they'll do on 3rd-and-5. But your pre-snap stuff is out the window because their tempo isn't going to give you time to substitute or to think that much. The thing with Chip is it's not just the scheme or the plays he's running. His detail work is strong. He outhustles, outpaces, out-thinks people. His practices are so fast. His team gets used to doing everything at a faster pace.''

I asked Dungy how that would work in the NFL, with speed-practices and constant no-huddling. Wouldn't veteran players chafe at run-run-running?

"Ask Jim Kelly and Bruce Smith,'' he said. "That became their identity, and they loved it. With players, if you can prove you're helping them win, they're all for it.''

Talk about Kelly reminds me of the talk when Jimmy Johnson -- who also never had coached in the NFL -- took the Dallas job in 1989. The league frowned upon his mode of defense, small players playing fast, and said big offenses would sledgehammer his Cowboys. Well, in Dallas' first six years after the Johnson hire, the Cowboys won three Super Bowls. Not saying Kelly will have anywhere near that success. But I like teams hiring wunderkinds. It's fun for the game. And I think Kelly's smart enough to figure out how to win with different styles of quarterbacks and players.

I can't let the Kelly hire pass without a word of reservation.

Let me say it is a slight reservation. Very slight. Had I been an owner or GM seeking a coach this offseason, Kelly would have been my No. 1 choice, by far. He's the most imaginative offensive coach out there right now, and you see the way the game has changed this season. Four teams -- Carolina, Washington, Seattle, San Francisco -- running the quarterback and moving the pocket consistently, with three of the four (excluding Cam Newton) making the playoffs. The read-option. So much spread stuff. No-huddling everywhere, including the Patriots and Ravens, who just played in the AFC Championship Game. So an imaginative offensive guy who's been a resource person for Belichick and won from the jump as a college head coach ... easy call.

But Kelly had the Tampa Bay job last year, and backed out as final terms of the contract were being worked out, ostensibly because he couldn't be assured that his hand-picked replacement would succeed him at Oregon. This year, when Kelly talked to Cleveland, Buffalo and Philadelphia, every team sensed some ambivalence; he loved the Oregon job and life so much he wasn't sure he wanted to leave. Which is totally understandable. Great campus, great place, great school, great team. The Eagles felt him waffle -- on Monday, he was in Los Angeles, recruiting an offensive tackle prospect for Oregon -- and were certain he'd be their coach only after he told his team Wednesday.

I don't know if it's true he'd only have coached in Eugene or Philadelphia. Maybe he was turned off by Cleveland. But when the Browns felt him waffle, president Joe Banner told me, "We removed ourselves from the process. We really liked Chip. He's intriguing, a very different thinker, and very smart. But you could see he was uncertain what he wanted to do. He may be in Philadelphia 10 years or longer and have a terrific career. But the fact he committed to Tampa Bay last year, backed out, then seemed all year to be leaning toward going to the NFL, then being so uncertain with us, we just felt it was too big a gamble. If there was no ambivalence, we may have offered him the job.''

I'm not saying Kelly will be Bobby Petrino or Nick Saban. But I am saying no one knows how a man who has been with dominant teams in Oregon is going to a team that needs to be fixed in one of the toughest towns in the United States. I'm just saying it's going to be a challenge Chip Kelly's never faced. Not even close.

[Sgt PSN]

Joe demands your instant love, affection and obedience.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

In that case, Howie > Joe.

[SunMo]

http://www.phillymag.com/eagles/2013/01/29/what-weve-learned-about-chip-kelly/

This is an interesting article about Kelly and his philosophies.

He may be a colossal flop in the NFL, but I think there is some real substance to his coaching, not just offensive spread option flash.

[Tomahawk]

While he has core beliefs, Kelly has stressed that every aspect of coaching a football team is personnel-driven.

At the very least, it will be nice change of pace to see the coach adjust schemes to fit the personnel instead of pounding square pegs into round holes.

[Sgt PSN]

I really think Reid was on the verge of making that work.

[ice grillin you]

pretty cool.....chipper be at wing bowl

[MDS]

pandering chip

wing bowl contains one of the grossest cross sections of humanity and is run by an illiterate uneducated untalented new york wop.

[General_Failure]

So he's got a future in the GOP?

[ice grillin you]

crowd went bonkers and sung the eagle fight song when he came out....sounded incredible....hopefully some good video pops up

[Rome]

People trashed Reid for being a standoffish dick and are now doing the same to Chip for being outgoing and friendly to the locals.

Too funny.

[ice grillin you]

are people killing him on the emb or something?

because lil guy is literally the only person that hasnt praised him today that ive heard

[MDS]

http://www.crossingbroad.com/2013/02/video-chip-kelly-showed-up-at-wing-bowl.html#more

im not killing him...just a total pandering move. if they go 10-6 next year hes not showing up. in fact if they go 3-13 he isnt either (if hes still even here then).

plus wing bowl is an embarrassment to the city and to humanity as a whole. if he showed up at the barnes foundation or at some schools field trip to the franklin institute hed get a vote from me