Eagles Fired Tom Gamble

[MDS]

even im over MM.....at the 1

if he falls its ON. but the eagles are not going from 20 to 1 to get him. stop.

here's my best guess of what happened
chip at his ending presser: howie is a nerd and tommy is my man
howie: farg you chip. tom, youre fired. GET OUT
gamble: the fu-
chip: jeff! can you believe this geek
lurie: i know
chip: i want him gone
lurie: i cant do that, but i can do this....howie, youre back to being a bean counter, but im giving you an extension and a new title to make it look good even though nobody will buy it. chip, you are the de facto gm
chip: yes
howie: no
lurie: oh yea? go find a gm job
howie: ok i will (10 seconds later). ok im in.

[ice grillin you]

if that's what happened can gamble come back or that would be just to weird right?

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah that'd be weird. Maybe if they didn't have him escorted off the property like some kind of criminal.

[MDS]

yea thats not happening

does it really matter anyway? this is a dictatorCHIP and every single decision related to football will come through and by him. this position is like his OC, its an interchangeable spot that can filled by almost anyone.

for better or for worse, probably worse since philly is loserville, this is chip's organization. but howie gets to run the equipment staff.

[ice grillin you]

maybe im old school but don't you have to do something
like maybe win 1 playoff game
at a minimum
before you get the keys to the kingdom

[Rome]

Howie is out of the decision making process where players are concerned.  I don't care if Choo-Choo the sign language translating chimpanzee is in charge... IT AIN'T HOWIE NO MORE.

Boom.

[ice grillin you]

Howie is out of the decision making process where players are concerned.  I don't care if Choo-Choo the sign language translating chimpanzee is in charge... IT AIN'T HOWIE NO MORE.

Boom.

howies last draft was infinitely better than chip's two drafts combined....just sayin

[JackStraw]

maybe im old school but don't you have to do something
like maybe win 1 playoff game
at a minimum
before you get the keys to the kingdom

chip won the rose bowl yesterday...announcers said so. national chip fapping will be all time high if they beat buckeyes and jeff is genius to turn it all over to him

[AshishPatel81]

Any ideas for GM? It may not matter with Chip Kelly in charge of player personnel, but I would love to snatch a top exec from the Steelers. Drafting is the lifeblood of any NFL team, and if I had to pluck an exec from somewhere, I'd start with the best drafting organizations. The best drafting organizations are the most consistently successful. The Steelers never go out and sign free agents, and their drafts always replace their top talents that get old and move on.

One thing I worry about with Chip in charge of PP is that he didn't seem too keen on going out and spending any money in free agency. Hopefully that's just politically correct coach speak. Can't be afraid to give out a big contract to a free agent now and then.

[MDS]

maybe im old school but don't you have to do something
like maybe win 1 playoff game
at a minimum
before you get the keys to the kingdom

valid, but it seemed like with that went down chip drew a line in the sand. either he gets control and gets to hire his guy or he's gone and jeff can keep howie.

jeff chose chip.

[ice grillin you]

One thing I worry about Chip in charge of PP is that he didn't seem to keen on going out and spending any money in free agency.

this is huge right?....cause it goes to the idea of culture/system being more important than talent to chip

as for gm I would like there to not be one...I would like chip to bring in two or three intelligent sets of eyes...I cant imagine getting a name guy to come in at this point anyway...any veteran PP guy with cache knows chip holds the crown and wont wanna share it....so go out and get some young bright future gm's to form a sort of committee that chip chairs

there is also the question of the scouting dept....when gamble was hired he brought in three of his own guys...not sure if they walk with him or not....if they do there will be work to do in the scouting dept as well as filling the upper levels of the PP dept

[ice grillin you]

maybe im old school but don't you have to do something
like maybe win 1 playoff game
at a minimum
before you get the keys to the kingdom

valid, but it seemed like with that went down chip drew a line in the sand. either he gets control and gets to hire his guy or he's gone and jeff can keep howie.

jeff chose chip.

one thing we will find out with the hiring of the gm is if this was more about getting howie out of his face or more about chip having PP control...chip obviously loves his kind of guys but in the end maybe he doesn't really care that much about the PP stuff and is at heart an unmarried 50 year old football nerd who sleeps on his futon at novacare 365 days a year dreaming about the next formation he can trick a defense with

[AshishPatel81]

One thing I worry about Chip in charge of PP is that he didn't seem to keen on going out and spending any money in free agency.

this is huge right?....cause it goes to the idea of culture/system being more important than talent to chip

as for gm I would like there to not be one...I would like chip to bring in two or three intelligent sets of eyes...I cant imagine getting a name guy to come in at this point anyway...any veteran PP guy with cache knows chip holds the crown and wont wanna share it....so go out and get some young bright future gm's to form a sort of committee that chip chairs

there is also the question of the scouting dept....when gamble was hired he brought in three of his own guys...not sure if they walk with him or not....if they do there will be work to do in the scouting dept as well as filling the upper levels of the PP dept

Yes, that is my biggest criticism of Chip. Hopefully this season was a reality check, because clearly the talent was not good enough to overcome, and Chip's system fell apart down the stretch against the better teams. Actually, against the best defenses they faced this year, to put it bluntly the offense was complete and total shtein. But stubborn people tend to stay stubborn. It's in their blood.

If he thinks he can fix this secondary with a couple draft picks and some bargain bin free agent, he'll be sorely mistaken.

[ice grillin you]

by all accounts chip is not stubborn at all....in fact all he does is try and get other peoples ears on different ways to go on everything...whether its the sports science stuff...how to run a practice....or how to properly run a 6 yard dig

but when it comes to the culture thing I feel like that's the foundation of everything he does....its in his blood and not up for debate....at least thats my worry

[Rome]

Why do you keep saying culture is a bad thing?   Jesus Christ, dude... he wants smart, athletic guys who are bigger and nastier than the other team.  That's a problem for you because it's sure as farg not one for me.