Philadelphia Eagles head coach candidates include former Broncos head coach McDaniels

“I’d say it’s really disappointing”. With Johnson being Kelly’s very first draft pick as a head coach, one would think that Johnson would miss Kelly, after Kelly was sacked by the Philadelphia Eagles on Tuesday. He does a great job. I mean, if Nick Saban can’t do it you know it’s not an easy transition.

A 26-21 record over three years is respectable and many coaches would be retained, but Kelly was a polarizing figure in Philadelphia for multiple reasons.

“I think that Chip had everyone believing in his system”, defensive end Brandon Graham said.

The Brian Kelly who handles contracts, who approved of the season-long Showtime series to invade his team’s personal space all season, who recruits and has veto power on most decisions.

“Chip’s a great coach”, Belichick said.

An anonymous Eagles player also cited Kelly’s inflexibility and refusal to listen to others as a huge issue, a sentiment which Johnson echoed. But, look, I’m not there. I was blessed to work with a gifted and hard-working coaching staff every day, and they will succeed wherever they go. They’re just not a good team period and the Washington Redskins deserved to win the NFC East division, they were truly the better team on both sides of the ball.

Offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur will take over as interim head coach for the Eagles’ regular-season finale against the New York Giants this Sunday.

“You have to change the culture”, he said. It’s disappointing to see, you know, Josh [McDaniels] in Denver… Very rarely do you have those scenarios in the NFL. The coach ignored complaints about being overworked in practice, according to Johnson, and an unwillingness to accept input from players created a bad environment in which fear and paranoia reigned supreme. A lot of the players are going to have to change, in part because of the philosophy, in part because of the scheme. Roseman, Donahoe and the new head coach will manage the roster with a “collaborative” effort, he said. To build that up over time, it doesn’t happen in training camp…. I just think that he didn’t have a good way to go about it, and sometimes it came off a little bit standoffish toward y’all. “I don’t buy into that”.

Count Bill Belichick as one of those who thought the Eagles got rid of Chip Kelly too soon.

But his second team, in 2001, won the Super Bowl. “[In] ’03, that was a good football team”. Let the record show that when he was given control over personnel he started making moves that many say were confusing and not in the team’s best interest. “I just think schematically, there were things we could have done different, obviously. But that is the danger when you take a risk”.