Belichick: Kelly's Firing "Really Disappointing" (Mike Reiss Article)

[DropKickFlutie]

Tell'em how you feel, Bill! He only has 6 Super Bowl rings and 9 Super Bowl appearances, what does he know?

Belichick: Eagles' Kelly firing 'really disappointing'

["I'd say it's really disappointing. I mean, Chip Kelly, to me, is a really good football coach. He does a great job and he's done a great job with that team," Belichick said in an expansive news conference. "Pretty much everyone is on a one-year contract in this league. I don't know how you build a program in one year. ... Chip is a great coach. He'll end up somewhere and will do a great job there."

Also, as it relates to Kelly's personnel acumen, which had come under scrutiny, Belichick added, "I'd say a lot of the players that were on the Eagles, that are no longer on the Eagles, aren't really doing too much for anybody else either."]

 

[Zeus]

I have long believed that BB's most underrated season as a coach was his first with the Patriots. Pete Carroll's teams had gone 10-6 (97), 9-7 (98) and 8-8 (99). Belichick found a roster of undisciplined, untalented and uncommitted players. He had to clean house in 2000 in order to set the stage for what was to follow. There were a lot of naysayers in the press and among the fan base. Belichick was unaffected by the noise, did what he believed to be best for the long term interests of the franchise. The rest, as they say, is history.

Here's BB quoted from Reiss' article:

"So the coach that comes in usually has a different philosophy than the coach that left, so you have to try to implement that philosophy, and that means you're going to turn over a high percentage of the roster because the players the other coach had don't fit the new philosophy. So a lot of the players are going to have to change, in part of the philosophy and in part because of the scheme; those kind of role-type players, now that role is not needed in the new scheme. A different role is needed, so you have different players. Then just getting your team acclimated to doing things the way of the philosophy of the new program. You're going to have to go through a lot of tough situations -- tough games, tough losses, tough stretches in the season, whatever it happens to be. To build that up over time, it doesn't happen in training camp. ...​

 

[DropKickFlutie]

Been reading articles about Howie Roseman. Sounds like a combination of incompetent, power hungry, egotistical, and petty. Pretty bad when over a half dozen different people cite his guy as not a good guy

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Josh should cross this team off his list

 

[BTTA]

Also, as it relates to Kelly's personnel acumen, which had come under scrutiny, Belichick added, "I'd say a lot of the players that were on the Eagles, that are no longer on the Eagles, aren't really doing too much for anybody else either."]

This is a pretty strong statement for him to make; he's usual much more circumspect than this. He must truly be pissed for his friend.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

BB has less than zero respect for most NFL owners.

 

[BradyFTW!]

If McDaniels gets a HC job somewhere this offseason, I wouldn't be surprised to see Chip end up here.

 

[Triumph]

This is a pretty strong statement for him to make; he's usual much more circumspect than this. He must truly be pissed for his friend.

Maclin has 1000 + yds and 7 TDs this season. Mcoy has missed 3 games and has 900 rushing yards, 300 receiving and 5 combined TDs.

Kelly dumped the starting QB, RB and best WR to bring in his people.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Josh should cross this team off his list

There is a less than zero chance Josh goes to Philly.

 

[RobertWeathers]

If McDaniels gets a HC job somewhere this offseason, I wouldn't be surprised to see Chip end up here.

I would. Chip will be a HC somewhere (pro or college) next year. Plus I don't think BB would pass over Daboll twice.

 

[Ross12]

I can see the logic for the moves. With Maclin, he already had Jordan Matthews on the roster making a lot less so he felt he was fine at WR and didn't want to pay Maclin. I get it. With McCoy, he was making an enormous salary for his position. He traded that bloated contract for a young LB with upside on a rookie deal, then signed Ryan Mathews for way less. Smart.

I don't get the DeMarco Murray move as much, partly because he just didn't really fit the scheme, and also because he had to get paid which Chip had just exiled McCoy due to money. Granted, it wasn't as much money as McCoy was making, but still. Some have said he was "keeping Murray away from others in the division", but that seems a silly use of millions in cap space.

With the Bradford deal, I'm guessing he just thought Bradford had more upside. He looked good coming out of college... I also remember Chip really wanting to sign Bradford to an extension in the summer, but Bradford wouldn't. So things didn't exactly to as planned. Foles got benched in St Louis, so it's not like he lost a great player in exchange.

 

[RobertWeathers]

This is a pretty strong statement for him to make; he's usual much more circumspect than this. He must truly be pissed for his friend.

Not sure I totally agree with BB here. Jackson, Shady and Maclin are having fine seasons.

 

[Jim Colclough fan]

Been reading articles about Howie Roseman. Sounds like a combination of incompetent, power hungry, egotistical, and petty. Pretty bad when over a half dozen different people cite his guy as not a good guy

Agree.......Kelly's dismissal was mostly due to internal politics. Read many of the same things about Roseman.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Not sure I totally agree with BB here.

JETS Fan!!!

 

[Triumph]

Agree.......Kelly's dismissal was mostly due to internal politics. Read many of the same things about Roseman.

Roseman has had success in the draft.

Kellys drafts look like dumpster fires.

 

[Hammer of Thor]

Not sure I totally agree with BB here. Jackson, Shady and Maclin are having fine seasons.

It could possibly be some rare insight as to what Belichick *really* thinks about certain opposing players. Belichick hasn't said anything like that since the Pittsburgh CB in 2007 whose name is slipping from me....

 

[Triumph]

Roseman drafted Dion Lewis.

Why he was let go?

 

[RobertWeathers]

JETS Fan!!!

Oh thats right. According to Felger and the rest of those mediots I'm supposed to be a Patsfan yahoo and not have the capacity to disagree or criticize anything that emanates from Foxboro, MA and its their job to do it for me.

 

[Triumph]

Agree.......Kelly's dismissal was mostly due to internal politics. Read many of the same things about Roseman.

6 wins and no playoffs in year 3 of his overhaul.

Bradford sucks and so does Sanchez.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Roseman drafted Dion Lewis.

Why he was let go?

The story is that they traded him to CLE as he didn't fit into the Chip Kelly offense.

It is unknown if Chip or that strat-o-matic office wonk Roseman put the motion behind the trade.