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Do we have an OC yet?!?

Sam Bradford won't get it done.

He'll end up on the West Coast. He would have been perfect at Miami or USC.

Not surprised by the move

(12-29-2015 08:28 PM)blazerwkr Wrote:  Not surprised by the move

Agreed. It was over way before the front office put out those tepid statements.

I don't really follow the NFL that much, but I thought Kelly was a good hire at the time. I thought he was going to assemble something interesting offensively, but it wasn't really anything that impressive. It was doubly disappointing, too, because he was tasked with enough responsibility to get the kind of personnel he sought. After all that, to end up with another square offense with Bradford of all QBs doesn't really make sense to me.

The elephant in the room probably got too big, too. You can't just throw away all your talent, get that kind of record, and think it's all good. This is an organization that got rid of a good coach for less.

I think he'll get picked up by another NFL team.

Now, if sitting on my butt in Alabama I could have told you in 2013 that bringing his circus show to the league was gonna end up like this, how was it that actual professionals didn't realize it?

Not saying it is the case here, but a lot of times the GM F-s things up & the coach gets the blame.

No idea how the Falcons GM still has a job.

(12-29-2015 11:29 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  Not saying it is the case here, but a lot of times the GM F-s things up & the coach gets the blame.

No idea how the Falcons GM still has a job.

Well, in this case that is true....Chip Kelly was the GM as well as Head Coach.

Watch out for U Texas

If you are Oregon's AD, how do you not throw the check book at him ?

The siren song of those huge pro pay checks can make a coach forget some of the factors between college and pro. Things like an Oregon FBHC (like the one at Bama, USC, UOK, Ohio State and such) has what amounts to almost 25 first round draft choices of high school stars EVERY YEAR while a pro team has only one. Of course the college coach has to coach them up, but he has an army of assistant coaches on offense as well as defense, along with GAs to do the job.

He certainly doesn't have to worry about players making more money than him. He can have up to 85 regular scholarship players plus dozens of "walk ons" every year instead of only 53 trying to please him and his staff.

Especially if he is at one of those top P5 schools, he can work the schedule every year so that between 1/4 and 1/3 of his opponents are outmanned cupcakes -- the so called "directional teams" he can play as PPV games -- so if he can win a couple conference games, he will be "bowl eligible" every year. As has been illustrated at USC and Bama, if you fail in the NFL you STILL have a lot of money and can return to the college ranks to top collegiate jobs.

Texas, Auburn, West Virgina, Texas A&M, and the Tennessee Titans are all possibilities

I believe staying in the NFL is far more likely, but he's more than likely not getting anywhere near the same autonomy he did with the Eagles if he does. The writing was on the wall but the major programs with openings did the right thing by not waiting, too.

Now that I think about it, it'd probably just take a break.

He'll go to the Dolphins. They'll look to make yet another "splash".

Heard he's already said he'd leave the GM up to someone else & just focus on being a coach.

(12-31-2015 11:50 PM)blazerwkr Wrote:  Heard he's already said he'd leave the GM up to someone else & just focus on being a coach.

Sources out of Philly initially said that the reason Kelly was canned this year instead of being given another season was because of contention regarding taking the responsibilities of the GM away from him (primarily the drafting and trading of players).

I'm sure he says that now that he got canned.

http://mobile.philly.com/beta?wss=/phill...=363875391

(01-01-2016 02:41 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  http://mobile.philly.com/beta?wss=/phill...=363875391

That description of Kelly in Philly sure sounds like a coach who didn't understand (and underestimated) the differences he would encounter moving to the NFL from NCAA.

Today's ESPN banner indicated that Kelly might be the next coach for the 49ers as he has said he has no desire to return to collegiate football.