Many including yours truly have been puzzled as to what Kelly is trying to do. He lets LeSean McCoy go and then signs DeMarco Murray and trades Sam Bradford for Nick Foles after letting Desean Jackson go after last season.
I myself argued that he's either a super genius-as he seems to believe-or the village idiot.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/03/chip-kelly-either-super-genius-or.html
Many others weighed in with the very same meme.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/roundtable-chip-kelly-is-a-madman-and-must-be-stopped-or-hes-a-mad-genius/
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/mehta-chip-kelly-evil-genius-clueless-buffoon-article-1.2162119
I myself was leaning towards village idiot. It seemed to me that to get rid of McCoy and then take Murray made little sense-was he just wining it? Was he reacting to all the criticism for letting McCoy go by getting Murray? Though as a Giants fan it does have the benefit of weakening Dallas-which also helps the Eagles.
In my view the Foles for Bradford trade also made little sense-after all Bradford after a promising 2010 had been mostly on the bench and Foles had a year for the ages in 2014 with 27 TDs and 2 INTs. Ok, he'll never be that great again but still, how do you give up on this guy?
Then there was the Stephen A. Smith argument that Kelly just wants 'certain types of players' where this is read as racism or at least Kelly's discomfiture with assertive black players.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/08/03/stephen-a-smith-hints-racial-narrative-driving-eagles-coach-chip-kelly/
Smith admits there's no proof or smoking gun exactly but says that he has spoken to lots of 'brothers with this perception'-and that the optics of keeping Riley Cooper-a white player who made some wild racial slurs in 2014 while inebriated-while getting rid of McCoy and Jackson speaks volumes.
I'm not sure about that argument. My perception is that 'Kelly's tye of players' may mean cultural-and not a dog whistle for racial-where he likes players who don't rock the boat and do what they're told.
It seems that he likes it to be his show and maybe there is some desire to show that no superstar is bigger than the team.
Maybe it's not that he's racist but that he is kind of insensitive and doesn't really care if it looks racist to Smith or others.
At the end of the day though it's just preseason but right now Kelly sure doesn't look like the village idiot. To the contrary the village idiot in every game so far has been the Eagle's opponents.
They have been totally dominant through three games. They just gave up a garbage TD to the Packers but are still up 39-20 early in the 4th. Put this in context with a 36-10 win over the Colts in week one and 40-17 over the Ravens in week two with today's third successive blowout of one of the leagues consistently top teams and the Eagles have been a total juggernaut.
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/phi/
Of course, this is preseason and you can't read too much in it-just like you can't read too much in Trump's 52-24 blowout of Ted Cruz in the Senator's home state of Texas today.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/why-nobody-likes-political-scientists.html
Rogers didn't play tonight. But just like Trump's domination of the GOP polls has nevertheless been shocking, so has the Eagle's early dominance.
Tonight Mark Sanchez again hit close to 70% of his passes for 2 TDs and a 127.1 QB rating while Bradford was a perect 10 for 10 with 3 TDs and a 156.7 QB rating.
So it's hard to say anything about Kelly now. It will be fascinating to see if this carries into the regular season or if this is just a chimera.
UPDATE Green Bay just had another TD, so in the course of me writing this post, the Packers have come back from 25 down to within 13-they have scored 2 TDS but missed both attempts at a two point conversion.
I myself argued that he's either a super genius-as he seems to believe-or the village idiot.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/03/chip-kelly-either-super-genius-or.html
Many others weighed in with the very same meme.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/roundtable-chip-kelly-is-a-madman-and-must-be-stopped-or-hes-a-mad-genius/
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/mehta-chip-kelly-evil-genius-clueless-buffoon-article-1.2162119
I myself was leaning towards village idiot. It seemed to me that to get rid of McCoy and then take Murray made little sense-was he just wining it? Was he reacting to all the criticism for letting McCoy go by getting Murray? Though as a Giants fan it does have the benefit of weakening Dallas-which also helps the Eagles.
In my view the Foles for Bradford trade also made little sense-after all Bradford after a promising 2010 had been mostly on the bench and Foles had a year for the ages in 2014 with 27 TDs and 2 INTs. Ok, he'll never be that great again but still, how do you give up on this guy?
Then there was the Stephen A. Smith argument that Kelly just wants 'certain types of players' where this is read as racism or at least Kelly's discomfiture with assertive black players.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/08/03/stephen-a-smith-hints-racial-narrative-driving-eagles-coach-chip-kelly/
Smith admits there's no proof or smoking gun exactly but says that he has spoken to lots of 'brothers with this perception'-and that the optics of keeping Riley Cooper-a white player who made some wild racial slurs in 2014 while inebriated-while getting rid of McCoy and Jackson speaks volumes.
I'm not sure about that argument. My perception is that 'Kelly's tye of players' may mean cultural-and not a dog whistle for racial-where he likes players who don't rock the boat and do what they're told.
It seems that he likes it to be his show and maybe there is some desire to show that no superstar is bigger than the team.
Maybe it's not that he's racist but that he is kind of insensitive and doesn't really care if it looks racist to Smith or others.
At the end of the day though it's just preseason but right now Kelly sure doesn't look like the village idiot. To the contrary the village idiot in every game so far has been the Eagle's opponents.
They have been totally dominant through three games. They just gave up a garbage TD to the Packers but are still up 39-20 early in the 4th. Put this in context with a 36-10 win over the Colts in week one and 40-17 over the Ravens in week two with today's third successive blowout of one of the leagues consistently top teams and the Eagles have been a total juggernaut.
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/teams/phi/
Of course, this is preseason and you can't read too much in it-just like you can't read too much in Trump's 52-24 blowout of Ted Cruz in the Senator's home state of Texas today.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/why-nobody-likes-political-scientists.html
Rogers didn't play tonight. But just like Trump's domination of the GOP polls has nevertheless been shocking, so has the Eagle's early dominance.
Tonight Mark Sanchez again hit close to 70% of his passes for 2 TDs and a 127.1 QB rating while Bradford was a perect 10 for 10 with 3 TDs and a 156.7 QB rating.
So it's hard to say anything about Kelly now. It will be fascinating to see if this carries into the regular season or if this is just a chimera.
UPDATE Green Bay just had another TD, so in the course of me writing this post, the Packers have come back from 25 down to within 13-they have scored 2 TDS but missed both attempts at a two point conversion.
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