Chip Kelly's influence

[dead_poet]

Why is it starting to feel like it's Chip Kelly and then everyone else in terms of coaching talent/innovation/effectiveness? At any rate, a good article.

The NFL has gone from doubting Chip Kelly to trying to mimic his innovations. Can the question-everything coach and his Eagles stay ahead?
http://grantland.com/features/chip-kell ... influence/

[S197]

Really good article, thanks for sharing. It will be interesting to watch Kelly's career and if his innovations can continue to keep him at the forefront.

[Cliff]

I'm interested to see if he can win a championship or two off of his style before the rest of the NFL catches up. It won't take teams long to mimic the stuff that works. Really wish the Vikings would have been able to pick him up. I'm excited about Zimmer, but it would be nice to have a coach trying some new things like Kelly is doing.

[dead_poet]

I'm interested to see if he can win a championship or two off of his style before the rest of the NFL catches up. It won't take teams long to mimic the stuff that works. Really wish the Vikings would have been able to pick him up. I'm excited about Zimmer, but it would be nice to have a coach trying some new things like Kelly is doing.

Agree completely. It's almost a 180. Old School (Zimmer) vs. New School (Kelly). I really wanted Kelly too. I think he's going to be one of the top coaches in the NFL for a long time.

[Mothman]

Thanks for the link.

It's worth noting that in 2012, the Vikings incorporated concepts into their running game very similar to those the article describes Kelly's Eagles using, and to great effect.

The degree to which the Eagles are incorporating sports science into their program is very intriguing, as is the the info about the way they practice. It will be interesting to see if Kelly can stay "one step ahead' and if his initial success last year is sustainable.

Of course, a lot of the talk about Kelly focuses on the Eagles 10 wins and #2 offense, not their #29 defense. I'm not sure to what degree the latter is a consequence of their approach to offense but it will be interesting to see if that kind of disparity continues.

[Mothman]

I'm interested to see if he can win a championship or two off of his style before the rest of the NFL catches up. It won't take teams long to mimic the stuff that works. Really wish the Vikings would have been able to pick him up. I'm excited about Zimmer, but it would be nice to have a coach trying some new things like Kelly is doing.

I'm still seeing Jim Harbaugh as "the coach that got away". Hopefully, Zimmer will have us all forgetting about who other teams hired to coach and celebrating that he's our coach.

[frosted]

I'm still seeing Jim Harbaugh as "the coach that got away". Hopefully, Zimmer will have us all forgetting about who other teams hired to coach and celebrating that he's our coach.

Harbaugh is the great white buffalo for me as well.

[dead_poet]

Chip Kelly and the culture of success

Along the Eagles' sideline Sunday night, an NFL Films camera and microphone caught Chip Kelly at a moment of candor and insight. The Eagles were about to commence their 27-0 thrashing of the Giants, and Kelly tossed two sentences to a practice-squad player that were anything but throwaway lines. They cut to the core of his approach as a head coach.

"Culture wins football," he said. "Culture will beat scheme every day."

If Kelly's still-brief time in the NFL has done nothing else, it has shown how closely he follows that precept and how important the distinction between culture and scheme is. Kelly put it in football-specific terms, but what he said could as easily apply to the head of a corporation, or the principal of a school, or an editor overseeing a newsroom.


Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/eag ... ELfKuze.99

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/eag ... ccess.html

[fiestavike]

Chip Kelly and the culture of success
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/eag ... ccess.html

That's good. I agree with him on that, and it explains dumping DJax too.