Its still a gimmick. The Deadskins lost by 3 points to them. Its the Cowboys. I have no excuses to be made why we couldn't stop it. They're better than us. But the Packers sure put up 53 on them and could've put up 70 if they wanted too. Its a gimmick offense.
Think about this. The Eagles have a statistically worse defense than ours, a -6 turnover differential and have played a very mediocre Nick Foles and awful Mark Sanchez at QB. And despite that they are the #3 offense in the league (did I mention with Nick Foles and Mark bleeping Sanchez?) are 9-3 and are in position to win their 2nd division title in 2 years.
I hate the Eagles as much if not more than anyone, but if you don't think Chip Kelly is doing a hell of a coaching job in Philly you are fooling yourself. And someday soon he may get a decent QB to run his system and find his own Rod Marinelli to fix his defense and then things really get ugly.
You can write that off as a gimmick all you want, but he is still winning a lot more with a lot less than Jason Garrett ever has or probably ever will. And he took Garrett to the woodshed on Thursday.
p.s. Getting sliced apart by Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay doesn't make your system a gimmick. If so there are a lot of gimmick teams out there.