Chip Kelly, Mad Genius

[Rastak]

While fans have been quick to rip on Chip Kelly's move, I've thought the moves were quite masterful. Finally, somebody agrees with me.

http://q.usatoday.com/2015/03/13/chip-kelly-philadelphia-eagles-leasean-mccoy-ingenious-offseason-plan-comes-together-with-demarco-murray-signing/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycomsports-topstories

The author does good job explaining why, but basically Kelly got better with younger and cheaper players. Of course, a lot of their success might fall on the frail shoulders of Sam Bradford, but I think I agree with Chip's ultimate decision that Nick Foles wasn't going to be able to get it done. Bradford is a one year experiment. If it works, he has a QB. If not, he can move on easily. I suspect Philadelphia may take a QB pretty early in the draft though.

Harv, I totally get it except that Bradford move....still can't seem to compute that.

[Guiness]

RBs are a dime a dozen. You can get a top 3-4 RB at any point in the 1st round these days...and often well into the 2nd. I don't understand letting McCoy go if you were going to bring in Murray...because guys who are heavily overworked like he was last year tend to disappear very quickly in the NFL. If you let McCoy go and decide to sign a cheaper vet and draft a rookie RB early...fine. I guess that was where they were trying to go with Gore and got burned.

Sam Bradford trade is a joke to me. Bradford is a china doll...and is going to be placed in an offense where he has to take more snaps and more hits? Won't work IMO...and you gave up a 2nd rounder for that? Why?

I don't think the moves made cripple the Eagles...a bunch of high priced vets isn't a smart strategy most of the time, but I scratch my head at Chip Kelly assembling 10 of his Oregon players on the Eagle roster. So the best players ONLY played for him at Oregon? Really? That smacks of arrogance to me.

I wonder how many of those Oregon guys aren't terribly happy - there was some complaining about how he drove his players at practice the last two years, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the guys who played for him at Oregon were secretly happy to get away from that.

I think the Demarco thing will backfire on him. Sure, there is a short term cap savings ($5M savings this year), but over the next two years Murray has a higher cap number than McCoy would've. And the Eagles obviously could've renegotiated with McCoy, he showed willing to do that once he got to Buffalo, the cap numbers for the two backs are almost identical going forward.

Like others have wondered, Murray was run into the ground last year, how will his body react coming off last season?

Lastly, imo McCoy was also a better back for Kelly's offense, but I'd guess he'd know more about that!

[Striker]

Could be genius by Chip. Could also be insanity as his #1/2 RBs are probably among the most injury prone in the NFL.

[MadtownPacker]

You know what, fuck Harvey!!! He should invent something that automatically pats himself on the back cuz by now his shoulder has got to hurt.

[woodbuck27]

You know what, fuck Harvey!!! He should invent something that automatically pats himself on the back cuz by now his shoulder has got to hurt.

Hi mad..how are you kickin' it?

Did Packerrats go down for a spell last week? About the time of the news of the Randall Cobb signing?

I couldn't get access and I do so via Google.

I got re-routed to some non descript Packer merchandise site. I tried it several times over a couple or three hours and zilch !

[mraynrand]

Hi mad..how are you kickin' it?

Did Packerrats go down for a spell last week? About the time of the news of the Randall Cobb signing?

I couldn't get access and I do so via Google.

I got re-routed to some non descript Packer merchandise site. I tried it several times over a couple or three hours and zilch !

It really was a wonderful moment of peaceful bliss at Packerrats.