Chip Kelly lasted just three years with the Philadelphia Eagles, and his former running back LeSean McCoy gave some insight as to why that was the case.
The promising Chip Kelly era in Philadelphia wound up being a major disappointment, but LeSean McCoy seemed to hint that the dynamic between players and the coach was a factor. Kelly joined the Eagles in 2013 and was set to bring in a new era of football with one of the most dynamic offenses the league had ever seen. However, he only lasted three years with the Birds, before spending one season with the 49ers and then going back to college.
The Eagles were Kelly's first NFL gig after he had been the head coach at the University of Oregon for four seasons. But McCoy, the team's star running back at the time, doesn't think it was necessarily the NFL pressure that got to Kelly. In a podcast episode titled 'The Truth About Chip Kelly,' McCoy and his cohost, and former teammate, DeSean Jackson, eviscerated their former coach and how he handled certain players.
’m thinking, ‘These aren’t even your words,’ so I would say , ‘Where’d you get that at? Why are you telling me this?’ because me and him had a great relationship. , ‘Well, Chip wants you to do this and that…' He would never say it.' McCoy also said White players felt similarly and also referenced a time when Kelly told a Black player to cut his hair to 'look more presentable.
had a good relationship with Coop,' McCoy said. ', ‘Ain’t no way he’s racist…’ but I wanted to talk to him. Chip made it so nobody could even speak to him, no one could even talk to him. And I’m thinking like, ‘How does that even happen? You say all this and that, and you just say ‘sorry’ and you leave and not ever talk about it?' hid that whole thing from us.
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