Written by Brad Gagnon at Bloguin
I understand that it’s easy to overreact when teams lose four out of five games, with the last of those losses coming in blowout fashion on national television. And those who still choose to defend Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly will rightly point out that he won 10 games in each of his first two NFL seasons.
The problem is that the 2015 season was the one Kelly bet the farm on.
He went all in by pushing for full autonomy and then using that in order to completely overhaul a roster that was already working. Some might argue he tried to fix what wasn’t broken, and now the Eagles are 4-7 with no DeSean Jacksons or LeSean McCoys to save the day.
The reality is Kelly may be too stubborn for this league. Time and again he has discarded high-quality players that it appears didn’t perfectly fit his system and he continues to push that system down everyone’s throat despite the fact its element of surprise has disappeared.
What Kelly does is no longer mysterious, novel or effective, and that’s a big problem. He hasn’t adjusted schematically and has inexplicably gutted a talented roster.
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