Chip Kelly was a guest on Adam Schefter’s podcast today. He discussed a range of topics. Most notable may be his backing of Colin Kaepernick, but in Philly we care about Marcus Mariota, so here goes. From NJ.com:

“That question didn’t come up very often,” Kelly said, when asked by Schefter if he could have done anything more to facilitate a trade with the Tennessee Titans to acquire the No. 2 overall pick to draft Mariota. “With Tennessee, they weren’t moving off the pick. Rightly so. They were looking for the same thing we were, to get themselves a really top-quality quarterback.

“It really wasn’t like … We didn’t really get into a conversation of what we can offer or what we can’t offer, because they made it known that they really weren’t looking to trade the pick.

“That’s all speculation that’s out there, you hear stories that ‘we offered this, we offered that.’ We didn’t offer anything because they weren’t taking any offers for it.”

About what I expected, honestly. All reports since have all but confirmed that the Titans never seriously considered trading the pick.

Kelly also talked about the LeSean McCoy trade and took the blame for not notifying him before reports got out. You can here that part at around the 11:00 mark here.