Chip Kelly Gets Fired
Well that was a surprise. Maybe not that he was let go, seems like tensions had arisen, but not 1 week before the season ends. I figured he’d get 1 more year. Things must have been much worse than any of us on the outside could see, and that will likely be the most interesting part about all this: seeing what sort of stories leak out now that it’s over.
I don’t know if I’m happy about it. I actually kind of like Chip. I like how he screws with the media. I like his goofy face. I like that he was different. I was terrified when the Eagles hired him because it seemed like the perfect fit, and I was dreading getting ruined by him for a decade to come. But then Chip jettisoned all the stars (or let them walk like Maclin) and started to seem completely inflexible. Now it looks like he’s another Josh McDaniels. A guy who so believes in his system and his ways that if things don’t go perfectly it quickly unravels. No ability to adapt. It’s astounding how badly DeMarco Murray was improperly used. It’s crazy that they let the best WR on the team just up and walk away to KC. He traded one of the best RB’s in the league away because they disagreed and he wanted a linebacker he knew. He jettisoned a WR for weak gang ties but kept Riley Cooper.
He burned the team down. So many people were unwilling to see it, too. We’ve been fed so many articles about how revolutionary Chip was. How much he’d change the game. So many of us (including me) couldn’t be sure if he was really as stupid as he seemed or if he was actually a complete genius operating on a level higher than everyone else. Turns out he was probably just a stubborn college coach set in his ways getting a harsh wake up call. Maybe Chip was a fraud after all. And if he is a fraud, now I’m unhappy the Eagles fired him because that would be smart and I hate it when the Eagles are smart, stupid Eagles. I hate you.
It’ll be interesting to see where he goes. Oregon had a down year, and he’s still beloved out here. I’d be shocked if he ended up anywhere that isn’t Nashville. The Titans need a coach. The Titans have a young QB to build off of, and that QB happens to be the perfect Chip Kelly system QB, because he literally was that QB at Oregon. It makes so much sense. No other team is going to give him personnel control or much power, but the Titans are rock bottom and might just go for it. I don’t see him in Cleveland. Maybe San Francisco if puppet Tomsula gets canned. Certainly not New Orleans or NYG if either of those coaches are gone. The Colts? Maybe. The Dolphins? I don’t know the Dolphins seem really dumb.
I’m also now really interested to see what happens to Philly. We drank the kool aid and now that we ran out of kool aid the mystery and mystique of Chip that gave us faith is gone and it just looks like a mediocre to bad team with a couple working parts. I hope it’s miserable for them, because there are 3 universal truths
We think, therefore we are
we will one day die
Dave hates Philly sports
There will be no comic Saturday (I know, I’m sorry, the holidays are the worst) because I’ll be flying across country that day and won’t have time.
Discussion (26) ¬
They didn’t let Maclin just walk away. They gave him a good offer as a Free Agent, but he took more money to go play at KC. He also went to Mizzou, so it makes sense that it might be closer to his heart than Philly is.
Don’t forget that Andy Reid, the dude that drafted him, was in KC.
A haiku for the ages. おめでとう！(^_^)_v
And don’t get so down on Miami, we gave NYC three wins this season. Going for Chip is EXACTLY the derpy-arse kind of thing that Stephen Ross would do. He’s got a track record of derp: Bill Parcells, Cam Cameron, Tony Sparano, Jeff Ireland (which led to the Dez Bryant question), Chad Henne, Richie ncognito and all the fun of 2013 (also Ireland-fuelled), constantly getting shot of our best players who then return to bite us squarely on the dorsal, Signing players who get crocked and wind up on a season’s worth of rehab before going elsewhere (Keller, Moreno)…
Ross didn’t hire Cameron or Parcells, and he actually was a major player in running Parcells off the organisation. He also had nothing to do with the hiring of Ireland and Sparano, or the drafting of Henne or signing Incognito. They’re all Parcells guys. You wanna talk about Ross blunders, that’s Philbin and Tannenbaum.
And letting Dan carpenter and Charles clay prance to south Toronto
From Sparano onwards it’s all happened on his watch though. He’s had one half-decent season and that’s it.
(My bad, got the year he bought out Huizenga mixed up.)
Have the uproxx predictions and cartoons been posted?
http://uproxx.com/sports/nfl-cartoons-for-week-16/
>The Dolphins? I don’t know the Dolphins seem really dumb.
Hey! Fight me, bro.
To be honest, Chip Kelly and the Dolphins are an amazing match together. His system depends on a big O-line (by which he has three big guys in Albert, Pouncey and James) that can open big lanes that a speedy RB (Miller) can penetrate, a QB with a fast snap release (Tannehill), and WRs that get separation from the O-line (Landry is amazing at this, and Parker is great at making plays). Also a deep threat (Stills) to open up the running game. Biggest gap here is Gs, although Douglas has showed promise (when not playing as a C).
Defensively, much needs to be addressed by the FO, but the Dolphins have a pretty decent roster to switch to 3-4. Vernon, Mitchell and Suh can go up front, while Misi gets support from SS Jones in the backfield. CBs need to be addressed, as well as some OLBs.
Also, Tannenbaum came in primarily to implement a sports science department in the Dolphins, which Kelly kickstarted in Philly. They are in the same page as far as this goes.
Expect Ross to make a push for him. Kelly fits him perfectly.
If we don’t get him then yeah we’re really fucking dumb.
As a Niners fan, he’s probably better than Tomsula. At least Kap could fit in his system.
Niners fan here. Wouldn’t mind Kelly coaching us because 1) almost all our good players are already gone, and 2) our current HC is Tomsula. #INGABBERTWETRUST
And Kap would do extremely well in his system.
Kap would definitely thrive in that Wildcat/Shotgun circlejerk
That might be a bit of a stretch. I think Kap has started his last game, or at least his last game for a non-tire fire team.
I wouldn’t count on him doing well in his system honestly. Kaep doesn’t like to read defenses. Not that I don’t think he can’t…
I love your artwork and respect what you do, but pardon my hostility.
So the Cardinals are at a 13-2 season with 33% Vegas odds for winning the Super Bowl, and you haven’t drawn shit about them on this site. Get these teams in order, man, I’m not even a Cards fan and I’m noticing this. You also had to be obligated into making a Vikings comic.
It can’t just be the Patriots and the NFC EEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSTTTT.
Trainwrecks and controversy is better comic fodder than a team that’s essentially just getting the job done efficiently and effectively. Now that the playoffs are here it’ll be easier to do a Cards comic
There is no way you’re not a Cards fan, because absolutely no one else gives a shit about the Cardinals.
no the universal truths are
Death, Taxes, and The Browns Sucking.
“who wouldn’t want to live forever. If you lived forever you might get to see the browns win the superbowl” -Warehouse 13
As the old saying goes, god hates Cleveland.
The giddiness on Kelly’s face on a few of those panels are gold. I think you’re getting better at making expressive faces.
Surprised you didn’t do a comic on the whole OBJ debacle. Was it too painful?
I actually really wanted to but it was Christmas week, I was away from home and incredibly busy doing other things.
My idea was OBJ opening a christmas present and it was a suspension. I just never had the time to do it.
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