Owner: ‘Mediocrity’ got Chip Kelly fired in Philly

Lurie said he made the decision to terminate Kelly on Tuesday because he wanted to get started on the process of finding a new coach. Philadelphia finished with the third-ranked offense and a 10-6 record but sputtered down the stretch to miss the playoffs in 2014, which lead to a power struggle in the front office.

Belichick w/ support for Chip Kelly GM: “A lot of the players no longer on the Eagles aren’t really doing too much for anybody else either”.

Lurie says he fired Kelly based one an assessment of the last three years, not a string of recent losses. “He just called me and was like ‘do you know what just happened?'”. Others said they think speculation that Kelly had lost his locker room was blown out of proportion.

An outspoken Bill Belichick voiced his displeasure at the Eagles’ decision to fire Chip Kelly this week, saying that coaches need time to install and build their programs. He does a great job and he’s done a great job with that team.

Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins said that wasn’t necessarily the case, that Kelly had an open-door policy, but relied more on team leaders.

Offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur will take over as interim head coach for the Eagles’ regular-season finale against the New York Giants this Sunday. “It’s disappointing to see”, Belichick said.

Kelly, who had been given control of the personnel decisions before this season, told Fox Sports that he would rather stay in the National Football League than return to coaching in college. I’m not part of those programs.

“It didn’t go our way, but I don’t think we’re a bad football team”, Kelly said Monday. As the owner of the team, I’ve got to look at the progress and the trajectory of where it’s headed, and it’s disappointing to me. “I have a lot of respect for them”. “I just think he didn’t have a good way to go about it. Sometimes he came off a little bit standoffish toward y’all”. Woody Hayes ordered one of his own players to remove his helmet so he could hit him, physically attacked numerous journalists, and infamously punched a Clemson player who dared to intercept an Art Schlichter pass. Hayes, not an EQ genius, won five national titles. Very rarely do you have those scenarios in the NFL. Lurie said Roseman will be responsible for “making sure our player personnel department is as good as it gets in the National Football League and be accountable for that”.

Rumors regarding the new head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles are in full swing, and while numerous potential candidates make flawless sense, some of them are unrealistic.

The Philadelphia Eagles fired Chip Kelly, despite the fact that he had a winning season. A different role is needed, so you have different players.