Can't You Feel 'Em Circling, Baby?
His Eagles now stand at 0-2, largely because their offense stinks, their defense is pedestrian and they appear to be regressing with each passing week. More importantly, they are winless because this is the roster Kelly thought gave him his best chance at winning. He didn’t want most of the stars he inherited from his predecessor, Andy Reid, so this junk is what Kelly is presenting to the world today.
The latest evidence of this flawed plan was a 20-10 home loss to Dallas. That miserable effort — along with a season-opening Monday night loss in Atlanta — has left Kelly defending his offseason moves to a rapidly growing group of skeptics.
The plan is flawed… after two regular season games, one of which would’ve been a victory if the kicker wasn’t an A-hole. Got it.
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Kelly should be most humiliated that he went to extraordinary lengths to acquire some of his most high-profile players. Even though quarterback Sam Bradford suffered two ACL tears in each of the previous two seasons, Kelly shipped Foles to St. Louis to get him. Even though McCoy is an elite running back, Kelly sent him to Buffalo — for a linebacker, Kiko Alonso, who just tore up his knee for the second year in a row — and signed DeMarco Murray and Ryan Mathews as replacements. The release of Jackson and the eventual loss of Maclin in this past spring’s free agency are also especially troubling when you see who’s now starting at wide receiver. That would be Riley Cooper, the same player who nearly tore the locker room apart by uttering a racial slur at a concert in 2013.
MOST HUMILIATED! RILEY COOPER!
Any even remotely interested observer would tell you that Cooper is hardly the replacement for DeSean or Maclin– that would be Jordan Matthews. And Cooper isn’t even top-five on the team in receptions:
Nelson Agholor and, to a lesser extent, Josh Huff – BOTH BLACK – are, perhaps, ahead of Cooper on the depth chart. Yeah Kyle, maybe Cooper doesn’t have as many catches, but snaps! What about snaps?!
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What we are discovering very quickly about Kelly is that he’s finally paying a heavy price for all his hubris. He’s acted as if players are easily replaceable, likely because college football is filled with coaches who bank on a new crop of promising recruits arriving every fall. But the NFL is a different world, one where the most honest coaches will tell you that players win you games and personnel mistakes cost you jobs. Unfortunately for Chip Kelly, that is a lesson that he appears destined to learn the hard way.
DESTINED!
Oh my, the national media is so desirous to see a college coach fail. There is chum in water right now, and they’re circling, baby! CAN’T YOU FEEL ‘EM SCHOOLIN’ AROUND?!
