Eagles Fired Tom Gamble

[QB Eagles]

I wonder if this means Gamble was behind Marcus Smith. It seems like whoever was responsible for that pick would have pretty bad odds of winning the power struggle.

[Don Ho]

and Mr. Lurie, farg you.  So sick of this clown.  Go produce another documentary.

[Tomahawk]

That's exactly what it is - that weasely farg goes in and whispers in Lurie's ear and talks him into blasting Joe Banner outta there and now Gamble. Poor wittle Howie's feelings are hurt because he's not a "salt of the earth football guy" like Gamble.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I commend Howie on getting Banner ousted.

[ice grillin you]

yeah thats by far the best thing howie has done in his eagle tenure

[SD]

as much as i dont like howie id much rather have him choosing players than chip.....and chip deserves to lose power after the last year

this is also the beginning of the end of chip Kelly as eagle head coach

Howie will at least listen to his scouts...no way chip takes them serious.

Still if one had to go I'd keep chip. You can find an average gm anywhere...you can't find a top offensive mind. I doubt chips around after next season.

[ice grillin you]

I really like chip as a head coach....but players win....ideal situation would be chip staying and just being a head coach...Howie getting fired lurie hiring a new GM....hopefully youd end up with a mike holmgren ron wolf type scenario

if chip insists on only taking his type players then id rather have howie and a new coach

[MDS]

this is going to be interesting

howie is detestable, but his 2012 draft was far superior to what chip did in 2013. the question becomes will chip be OK with coaching the players howie picks for him?

the answer is no.

[ice grillin you]

thats why chip was really built for college....you can choose your own players and culture and "programs" really work there...not so much at the professional level

[MDS]

yup

we'll see if he can adapt.....sometimes he can be very liberal and welcome new ideas and philosophies, even mid-game. in other times he's stubborn and smug and acts like he's got all the answers even though he cut desean jackson for riley cooper.

so we'll see. im not expecting much. though part of me knows this -- chip is a football nerd of extreme proportions. there's no higher level and no better place to test your skills than the nfl. he knows that. he doesnt want to leave that. but could he be like harbaugh? does he need control over everything else.

[BigEd76]

mortreport
Chip Kelly has final say on personnel MT @hiesenbergBlue: we need to know truth about whos in charge of picking players?

[Rome]

It's nice to have all this wisdom in one place.

[smeags]

To me this more of a power trip then about bad player moves. Roseman got Lurie to level the playing field.

Whatever. Somebody just please produce a farging championship.

[AshishPatel81]

Mort has the same agent as Chip Kelly. It's why he was able to be the first to break the story on Chip Kelly's hiring.

This makes me wonder if the report that "Gamble was fired, not a mutual parting of ways" was passed through the grapevine from Chip as a way to throw Roseman under the bus.

Just when this organization was starting to look up, too. Why must everything about success be so farging difficult?

[Don Ho]

Birds, Bums, Sixers FO.  I believe that we will win!

[QB Eagles]

This team is the same shtein every year. Andy Reid or Chip Kelly, pimp or no pimp, Westbrook or Shady, Kevin Kolb or Mark Sanchez, Asomugha or Fletcher, Banner or Howie, whatever. We know what we're rooting for here. People can speculate all year long about this move but bottom line, a VP of player personnel was probably not the difference between winning a Super Bowl or not. For all we know he was shteincanned for grabbing a secretary's ass. More likely, Lurie knows what personnel moves Gamble was a part of, and those moves sucked. Maybe Howie is Lurie's boy, but I don't see Lurie intentionally making his team worse just to stroke off Roseman.