What does the future hold for Chip Kelly? One college with an opening is already showing interest. (via @RapSheet) https://t.co/uJxv9UT2IA
— NFL (@NFL) November 29, 2015
Don’t forget that Kelly was the coach for Philadelphia during consecutive 10-win seasons before this disastrous campaign. This is only Kelly’s first season with the roster that he wanted. Of course, that could cut both ways in terms of determining his fate.
Owner Jeffrey Lurie has been fairly patient with his head coaches. Since Lurie came to town in 1994, Kelly his just his third head coach. However, the other two were let go at the end of lost seasons much like this one. Ray Rhodes was fired after four seasons, at the end of a 3-13 campaign. Andy Reid was fired after 14 seasons – but the last one brought a 4-12 record. Of course, in Reid’s last few seasons in the City of Brotherly Love, fans were all over him because of his inability to manage the clock at the end of games. The Sports Guy (Bill Simmons) made fun of Reid, suggesting that the play card that he held in his hand at the end of games was really a pizza menu that he was perusing.
The Eagles have dropped three in a row, but the losses themselves aren’t the problem – it’s the fact that the Eagles have simply looked terrible in those games, not playing competitively. The question really becomes whether the team can function with Kelly’s scheme – and whether they buy in to what he’s saying. Based on the Eagles’ success in 2013 and 2014, it’s really a question of whether the players are still listening to him. If you look at the evidence on the field the past three weeks, that’s the question that could lead to Kelly being out the door.
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