Shots Fired

Gotta love Evan Mathis coming out of nowhere and punching Chip Kelly right in the nuts. Guy sends an unprovoked email to the media ripping his coach to shreds and I have to say, it makes a ton of sense. He basically said that Chip is an egomaniacal moron who cant handle the big personalities. When you think about his track record for dumping blue chip players, you have to wonder. Desean Jackson, Jeremy Maclin, Lesean MCcoy and of course Evan Mathis. All great players with large personalities. More often then not you are going to get flamboyant guys in football, its just a fact. We see it time and again with college coaches who come to the NFL (Schiano, Saban and Harbaugh), the mentality is different. In college you have kids who need guidance and structure, they are unpaid and doing it for the love of the game. This is still true at the NFL level but guys make a shit ton of money and many have pull within the organization. The switch from drill sergeant to player manager is a tough one but its even harder when you are stubborn as a fuckin mule. Couple this with an inability to change the system to accommodate talent and you have a full fledge disaster. Lucky for Chip, he is a hell of a coach. If he can tone it down a bit and tweak his system slightly he will be fine. Until he proves this though, Mathis is totally right.


P.S. Gotta love the comment about how the Broncos personalities would destroy Chip. More salt in the wound from a guy who let one of the best guards in the game go.

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