Chip Kelly - Head Coach, Philadelphia Eagles

[hbionic]

This is true.

[shorebird]

Italians, Mexicans, whatever.

I'm just happy to finally have a coach not named Andy Reid.

[Diomedes]

here here

[Rome]

Kelly has never held a practice in the NFL yet from the beautiful minds here at   already know he can't succeed.

[ice grillin you]

prove us wrong is all i ask....i will gladly eat crow.....fact is zero evidence has yet to show he has any chance to succeed

you homers are the ones making the tough call here by thinking he will win...if he ends up being the man you are in turn the man....trust me im rooting for you big guy

[Rome]

There's zero evidence either way, Forrest.

Settle your twitchy hyperbolic ass down already.   Christ.

[ice grillin you]

not sure if you are being serious or not but theres actually quite a bit of evidence that a college coach with zero nfl experience will fail in the nfl

[Rome]

Reductio ad absurdum.

[Sgt PSN]

not sure if you are being serious or not but theres actually quite a bit of evidence that a college coach with zero nfl experience will fail in the nfl

Is Jimmy Johnson the last coach to leap from college to the NFL head coaching ranks (with no prior NFL coaching exp) and be successful?  I guess you could say Switzer, but everyone knows it was Jimmy's team and Switzer quickly washed out of the NFL after that.  Seriously though....are there any coaches in the last 20 years besides those 2 who did anything substantial in the NFL without prior NFL exp?   

[ice grillin you]

johnson is the only one ever...not just the last one.....that i know of

if chip kelly is the head coach of the taterskins chiefs or browns then to 95% of eagle fans hes just another college guy who is gonna be a bust....but when hes your coach the glass is anywhere btwn half full and overflowing....its a natural sports attitude to see your team and coach as different

[Sgt PSN]

What about moderately successful?  Maybe someone who had a few winning seasons and a playoff appearance or two?

[SD]

Pete Carrol comes to mind.

Chip reminds me of Spurrier. He gets a two year pass from me but after that there better be a playoff appearance or farg him.

[ice grillin you]

What about moderately successful?  Maybe someone who had a few winning seasons and a playoff appearance or two?

yeah thats what im saying....i dont know of any even remotely successful ones....to be fair there isnt a huge sample to pull from...a few dozen maybe....theres a couple that i can think of like haarbaugh and bobby ross who were in the nfl for a cup of coffee and ha success....but no nfl experience whatsoever i think jj is it....altho ill admit im going on memory....there could be a few from the 80's 70's maybe that im not aware of

be interesting to see a list

Pete Carrol comes to mind.

Chip reminds me of Spurrier. He gets a two year pass from me but after that there better be a playoff appearance or farg him.

carroll coached in the nfl before seattle....we are talking about guys with no nfl experience at all before hitting there league....theres def been coaches to go from college to the nfl and have success but they coached in the nfl in some capacity prior to their nfl success

chip does remind me of spurrier a lot....just the deer in headlights sound and look of how they talk about football and how it just doesnt seem to mesh at all with the nfl

i mean i cant get over chip thinking the oregon jerseys were special like supermans cape or some shtein and made them play better

[QB Eagles]

There really aren't a lot of first time NFL head coaches with absolutely zero NFL experience, good or bad. It's not like there have been 100 guys and Johnson is the only successful one.

Besides, most first time NFL head coaches with NFL experience are terrible too. There really wouldn't have been a great reason to feel any better about the other candidates.

So the history of college coaches doesn't bother me so much. I think the bigger concern with Chip comes when NFL defenses find a way to clamp down on the read option. Does he have any other bright ideas? Is he a football mind or a read option mind? Lurie and Howie are ultimately guessing about that.

Team's gonna suck this year anyway because the players are terrible. Unless he's just ridiculous one way or the other it's gonna be a couple years before we know what we have. If the guy is gonna suck we'll have plenty of time to bitch about him later. Right now I'm kind of excited not knowing what's gonna happen with this team. Not ready to piss all over him already.

[ice grillin you]

There really aren't a lot of first time NFL head coaches with absolutely zero NFL experience, good or bad. It's not like there have been 100 guys and Johnson is the only successful one.

except you have to factor in the guys who dont get hired and ask why?....theres a good reason you dont go from college to the pro with zero experience....same reason great high school coaches dont go straight to college....or any other field in any other profession where you arent ready...you can make an argument that the sample is as disconcerting as the ones who have tried and filed....either way i dont see how you can dismiss it....its very real