Chip Kelly Got The Peter King Treatment Today

Time to move out.
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And by Peter King treatment, I don’t mean he was gassed out of close quarters by an SBD. I mean– glowing fluff piece with just enough exclusive nuggets to send Les Bowen into a Twitter frenzy about his lack of access and the poor press catering options.

Anyway, King spoke to Kelly about the soup du the entire offseason:

I asked Eagles coach Chip Kelly if he felt frustrated with the perception that he can’t get along with players, and isn’t a good communicator, even though those who’ve been around the Eagles for years will tell you the door to his office is mostly open, while Andy Reid’s office door was mostly closed. He gave me one of those wry smiles, which I took to mean: I wish I could tell you exactly what I think of this, but I’m going to filter it, because nothing good can come of me airing out people.

“Yeah,” Kelly said with that smile the other day, after a training-camp practice in south Philly. “But there’s nothing you can do about it. I think we do a really good job with communicating with our players. You can talk to guys on the team who say it’s the best communication they’ve had since they’ve been in the league. It’s just who do you want to believe? The players who are here understand that. At the end of the day you bring in 90 guys to camp and 53 are going to make it, so 37 people are going to hear something they don’t want to hear, and that’s the hard part.”

Then he quoted two people. He said Phil Jackson once said that if you want to be liked, don’t get into coaching. “Then there’s the Mike Schmidt quote,” Kelly said.

Which one?

“He said, ‘Philadelphia is the only town where you can experience the thrill of victory, then the agony of reading about it the next day,’” Kelly said. “It’s part of the territory, and rightly so. These people [media people] are awesome. It’s an unbelievably competitive market. New York has two teams so they gotta go to the Giants and the Jets. Here, there’s one team.”

In case you’re keeping score at home, Chip has now surpassed Roy Halladay in terms of using spontaneous and awesome quotes. Wonder how long he’s been keeping that Schmidt jawn in his pocket?

King has a lot more from Chip, including him admitting that the plan all along was to pair DeMarco Murray with a second back (Ryan Mathews), Bill Belichick comparisons, and Sam Bradford’s badminton rehab program. #CULTURE BUY A SHIRT: