CHIP KELLY TIME SHOWS A SILVER LINING

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Do you know what time it is? Chip Kelly time.

Football coaches and m0torcylce riders share this in common: They’ve either been fired or crashed, or they’re about to.

With Chip Kelly time finished in Philadelphia, you can expect to hear variations of the following:

• He should have played it safe and stayed in New Hampshire.

Or,

• He should have stayed an Oregon Duck football coach.

Or,

• He should have knuckled under to Eagles Owner Jeffrey Lurie’s need for more control.

Anyone with any Chip Kelly time experience knows how he does things.

He probably didn’t yell the same thing at Jeffrey Lurie when asked to give up his personnel control?

Jeffrey: “Chip, the talk this week is about asking you to step down as GM and just coach the Eagles.”

Chip: “HEY, WOULD YOU SHUT-UP!”

When Vince Lombardi coached the Green Bay Packers to glory, OL Henry Jordan said, “He’s fair. He treats us all the same. Like dogs.”

So far Chip Kelly is no Vince Lombardi.

He’s no Bill Belichick, either, though Bill Belichick wasn’t the Bill Belichick we know today when he was head coach in Cleveland.

Today’s Belichick sends players down the road the next day if they have a bad game. Straight to the pound.

From everything we know about coaches from Lombardi to Belichick, from Madden to Gruden, you need to win a Super Bowl BEFORE you get to treat everyone like your favorite pet.

Kelly’s not the first coach to push the boundaries.

On the college side, Notre Dame’s Lou Holtz took ‘my way or the highway’ home to his wife after football.

Who thinks former Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight was a treat around the office?

So the Chip Kelly time with Philadelphia Eagles ruffled a few feathers? Okay, all of them.

Does that make him a bad man?

DeMarco Murray thought he was bad enough to take his feelings straight to the owner instead of following the usual chain of command.

Kelly might not be the right fit in Philly, but he didn’t fumble the season away at the end of the game against Washington, either. Way to go, DeMarco.

If you can have it your way, why wouldn’t you run with it? That’s the end of the story for Chip Kelly time.

He used his special power to push the Eagles through two ten win seasons, and this year he had them in the playoff hunt until the second to last game of the season. Not good enough? Or is it something else?

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie isn’t the first money man to think he’s smarter than his smart coach.

From wiki:

“(Dallas Cowboy coach Jimmy) Johnson’s relationship with Jones began to fall apart in 1993. It started with Jones wanting more say in player personnel decisions. Johnson had sole control over all football decisions and refused to give it up. In March 1993, right after the Cowboys had won their first Super Bowl under Johnson, Jones told the media that any coach could have led the Cowboys to a Super Bowl. This infuriated Johnson. Another incident happened in December 1993, when the Cowboys were getting ready to play the Giants for the NFC East title. Johnson had said he would be interested in the Jacksonville Jaguars’ head coaching position. This led to Jones telling the media that he alone would decide Johnson’s coaching future.”

Jimmy heard Jerry’s request and said no; Kelly heard Lurie’s request and said no. Though Jimmy and Chip have lots in common, winning Super Bowls isn’t one of them. And that has to change.

Who will make it to Super Sunday first, Chip Kelly’s new team, or the Eagles?

To see the next twenty years for the Philadelphia Eagles, look at the last twenty of the Dallas Cowboys: made the post season eight times, won three wild card games before losing in the next round.

If there’s one thing about Chip Kelly time, it goes fast. He’ll be in a Super Bowl, and if the football gods have their way, it’ll be against the Eagles.

Shades of Super Bowl XXXVII, and who doesn’t love the sound of that?

Wouldn’t that silver lining be perfect?