Chip Kelly finally gets canned by Philadelphia Eagles

Dec 26, 2015; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly during the fourth quarter against the Washington Redskins at Lincoln Financial Field. The Redskins defeated the Eagles, 38-24. Mandatory Credit: Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports

The Philadelphia Eagles may be able to start winning because head coach Chip Kelly has finally been fired. After what Eagles fans have gone through this year, they’re probably outside dancing in the streets. The only bad thing is that they can’t bring back all the players under his watch, which has to be the biggest reason why they fired him.

They didn’t even wait for Black Monday to make the first head coach firing of the season. His problem is that he was so arrogant, he thought his system was more valuable to a team than all his players. He somehow thought he started his NFL head coaching career with back-to-back 10-win seasons because of that system.

He believed the hype of people calling him a genius and got a little too gassed up on himself. Then suddenly he didn’t need star players like DeSean Jackson, Jeremy Maclin and LeSean McCoy. Then this past offseason, he gets DeMarco Murray, the 2014 leading rusher, and doesn’t use him right.

Last time I checked, you got the word genius attached to your name in the NFL for knowing how to use what you have. Some cute little system doesn’t make you a genius because the NFL has seen them all already. All Kelly did was put in one little wrinkle into an offensive system that already existed.

His Spread Offense is a cheap copy of the K-gun Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly ran when he was with the Buffalo Bills. Kelly ran the Run and Shoot Offense with the USFL’s Houston Gamblers so the Bills incorporated that out of the shotgun with no huddle. So all the Spread Offense is the Run and Shoot in the shotgun with some quarterback run-option in it.

And Kelly used that to get control over personnel without even winning a National Championship in college! But somehow, he forgot how to respect and treat men as if they even matter in what he tried to do. At least Marv Levy knew how important Jim Kelly, Andre Reed, Thurman Thomas and those guys were in the 4-year, Super Bowl runner-up run.

The Eagles also announced that they fired Ed Marynowitz, who Kelly hired as vice president of player personnel. While Kelly was ruining the Eagles, former general manager Howie Roseman, the guy who put the talent the Eagles had together, had a reduced role on the football side of the team.

Now, Roseman, still an executive with the team, will be part of the group that hires the next head coach. Meanwhile, Kelly learned a valuable lesson while he was the head coach of the Eagles. This game is not about his or any head coaches systems, it’s about the players running it!

We’ll see him back in college.