csirl
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I agree. Unfortunately Chips college gameplan doesn't work against faster NFL defenders and he can't coach to a NFL level.
Report: Chip Kelly wanted Dak Prescott, Trent Baalke refused
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I agree. Unfortunately Chips college gameplan doesn't work against faster NFL defenders and he can't coach to a NFL level.
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Dream until your dreams come true.
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Isn't it just grand?
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Dak is so blessed.
Like graduating from high school and all your friends and older siblings got total, fixer upper, clunkers for cars, but you got a brand new Mercedes (or Ferrari).
Glad he's a Cowboy!
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Yep. 2015 was the same jesery collecting offseason as the Eagles had the last couple years of Reids tenure (Dream Team). Just add big names at exuberant prices despite the fact they dont fit what you do. Policy was there before Kelly, it will be there after Kelly. Kelly definitely had a hand in ruining that roster. He reached for system guys in the draft like Smith and Agolhor, but most of the damage done to that organization was done by Roseman.
The Eagles are the new Commanders, and that doesn't have a whole lot to do with Kelly
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chip could not say this earlier, when he still had a job, it could be true, but would dak have started game 1 or been a late season start?
I dont think dak would have played for most teams in year 1, it was just an accident he did here.
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I heard it was really cold in the war room that day.
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Irrelevant. Dak wouldn't have had anywhere near the success in San Francisco that he had here in Dallas. Dak would have been a JAG during his rookie year any place else. He ran into the perfect storm with this OL, RB, and receiving cast.
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Thank God!!!
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I'm guessing if Linehan left for a head coaching gig, few would want Chip as offensive coordinator. Although, Chip and Dak might just be a very good combination. I think Chip's future is in college. It would be nice to see him coach a SEC college team.
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And coaching staff.
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How did Chip Kelly win with Nick Foles? Oh, he had Shady McCoy, D-Jax, and Maclin...but they weren't good enough for him. Instead, he got player's like Kiko "I'll tackle anyone after they gain five yards if I'm healthy enough to suit up" Alonzo, Byron "I'll suck in Philly" Maxwell, Nelson "Hands of Stone" Agolor, and Ryan "The Walking Injury" Matthews. Chip Kelly's the best NFL coach the Cowboys never had!
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If true, this story highlights something I talked about in the NFL forum recently.
As you survey most of the 32 team's GM's, you will see that more than 2/3rds of them
1. Have never coached at any level, pee wee, HS, College or Pro.
2. Have never built a successful team at any level, pee wee, HS, College or Pro.
Most are simply long-time front office executive types that talked what I call 'football jargon' at stupid owners and talk themselves into a GM job because they SOUND like they know what they are talking about. Some, like Baalke, are former scouts who were likely pretty good scouts when they were lower on the totem pole and trying to COMPLEMENT what the their team's head coach was trying to do in building a team.
Too many of these GM's, when elevated above a head coach, get the idea they need a coach who will follow THEIR [the GM's] vision for building a successful championship football team.
Ever notice why it's the same dysfunctional franchises that keep running through head coach's but it's the same GM doing the hiring, looking for the guy who at last can build the team the way the general manager wants it built?
This is because dysfunctional franchises are going about this exactly BACKWARDS. You're supposed to hire a coach who KNOWS what kind of team he wants to build to play HIS style of football and the GM's job is to tailor to personnel to fit that coach's philosophy.
Instead what guys like Baalke end up doing is running through a succession of coaches who will build the team The Baalke Way. The entire time Harbaugh was there, he was fighting hard to build the team the Harbaugh Way vs a GM who was fighting him to do things The Baalke Way.
And it's just so freaking stupid. You have a head football coach who built successful winning teams at the HS & College level, he goes into the pros, and all of a sudden some executive GM starts dictating to him how to build a winning team when that GM has never built anything. And since coaches are viewed as temporary employees and GM's are part of the executive front office staff, guess who always wins these dumb power struggles?
As you survey most of the 32 team's GM's, you will see that more than 2/3rds of them
1. Have never coached at any level, pee wee, HS, College or Pro.
2. Have never built a successful team at any level, pee wee, HS, College or Pro.
Most are simply long-time front office executive types that talked what I call 'football jargon' at stupid owners and talk themselves into a GM job because they SOUND like they know what they are talking about. Some, like Baalke, are former scouts who were likely pretty good scouts when they were lower on the totem pole and trying to COMPLEMENT what the their team's head coach was trying to do in building a team.
Too many of these GM's, when elevated above a head coach, get the idea they need a coach who will follow THEIR [the GM's] vision for building a successful championship football team.
Ever notice why it's the same dysfunctional franchises that keep running through head coach's but it's the same GM doing the hiring, looking for the guy who at last can build the team the way the general manager wants it built?
This is because dysfunctional franchises are going about this exactly BACKWARDS. You're supposed to hire a coach who KNOWS what kind of team he wants to build to play HIS style of football and the GM's job is to tailor to personnel to fit that coach's philosophy.
Instead what guys like Baalke end up doing is running through a succession of coaches who will build the team The Baalke Way. The entire time Harbaugh was there, he was fighting hard to build the team the Harbaugh Way vs a GM who was fighting him to do things The Baalke Way.
And it's just so freaking stupid. You have a head football coach who built successful winning teams at the HS & College level, he goes into the pros, and all of a sudden some executive GM starts dictating to him how to build a winning team when that GM has never built anything. And since coaches are viewed as temporary employees and GM's are part of the executive front office staff, guess who always wins these dumb power struggles?
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Yeah, it's not out of the realm of possibility that Kelly wanted Prescott. Seems like a perfect fit. Who's to say he wouldn't have ruined him somehow though.