Bye Bye Chip !

Eagles Part Ways With Chip Kelly

After a 3 short years with the Eagles, Chip Kelly has been fired. 

After the Eagles were eliminated from the playoff contentions, many knew this could be the last year for Chip. The Eagles at 6-9, have had a bunch of blowout games this season. Some of their multiple losses over 35 points.

Chip Kelly, previously at Oregon University and before that at New Hampshire University, developed a face paced, quick scoring, high- powered offense. After leaving Oregon, many knew he would try to bring that offense to the Eagles. The Kelly offense was quickly success in the first year because no one had seen this type of fast paced offense since the Buffalo Bills in the early 90's. At first, many defenders could be seen with their hands on their hips exhausted from the Eagles offense, but after the other teams around the league got used to the quick tempo, no huddle offense, it became much easier to stop. To add fuel to the fire, Chip got rid of a few key players, which ultimately didn't help towards the Eagles success. 

He then brought in some that were supposed to spice things up. (DeMarco Murray, Sam Bradford,

ESPN's sources say that, Kelly told Fox Sports on Tuesday night that he didn't fight owner Jeffrey Lurie's decision to fire him. He also told Fox Sports that he wants to stay in the NFL rather than return to college coaching."-ESPN The Eagles Owner, Jefferey Lurie went on to say that he had been thinking about getting rid of Kelly weeks into the season because he just simply wasn't getting the job done.

Chip Kelly has made dramatic changes over the three years as the Eagles head coach. From the way the Eagles practice , to the way they eat and sleep. Kelly has made it known to the players, coaches, fans and organization that at the end of the day, culture beats scheme, anyway.

The Eagles started off the regular season at 1-3. 

Sam Bradford, started out hot in the preseason, transitioned to looking so bad behind a shaky offensive line. And DeMarco Murray never seemed comfortable in Kelly's offense because it was so different from the previous Dallas Cowboy's running attack. It became apparent that the Eagles would continue down a dark road and soon butcher what had begun so memorably in Kelly's debut in the NFL vs Washington two years ago.

LS

Odell Eat A Snickers!

Odell Beckham Jr. Goes Wild

There was a lot of hype going into the NY Giants vs the undefeated Carolina Panthers. 

The main discussion was the standout NY Giants wide receiver vs shutdown cornerback Josh Norman. Norman has held the leagues top wide receivers to extremely limited games. To be exact, Josh Norman held DeAndre Hopkins, Mike Evans, TY Hilton, Dez Bryant, Julio Jones to 9 rec/89 yards…all combined.

So when the match up came this last weekend, the media and the league knew it would be one to remember. 

The game would feature a top tier wide receiver that has been shredding defenses game after game, vs the corner who has been locking up every wide receiver that he lined up against.

Norman playing at the top of his game, knew he'd have his hands full with the league's most explosive wideout next to Antonio Brown. From the beginning of the game, the two competitors went after each other. But Odell Beckham Jr. found him self angry and frustrated after being held to zero catches in the first half of the ball game. Many are now saying said that the beef between the two had preexisted and then trickled into the game, before spiraling out of control. It didn't take very long for Beckham Jr. and Norman to get acquainted and interact. Coach Coflin stated that, "Beckham certainly was wrong, and we've said he was wrong from day one. But there were factors involved, starting in pregame, which are well documented, which indicate that there was an attempt to provoke him. He was provoked. He was out of control, he was wrong, there's no doubt about that. You'd like that it didn't happen. But the fact of the matter is, the situation in the pre game with a bat and if you know what occurred at the very beginning of the game, you can understand that there were two sides to this and not just one" (ESPN). 

Norman ran toward Beckham after the first play despite covering Giants wide receiver Dwayne Harris on the outside and seemed to have some words for Beckham. After the fact, Beckham claimed that he swore at him and used a number of homophobic slurs. 

It was not till after Beckham dropped a pass and the Panthers knew they were in his head. A few drives later, Beckham has his second drop of the game. He was clearly off his game. Norman, of course, was doing a lot of chirping in his ear afterwards. 

After the small scuffle, things really spiraled out of control. Odell was flagged for four penalties, including three for unnecessary roughness. The foul that really stuck out was when Beckham went after Josh Norman going head to head which is banned by the league. As a result, he was fined  $52,529.94 and suspended for the following game vs the (9-5) Minnesota Vikings. 

But Norman wasn't left out of the party, he was fined by the NFL a combined $26,044 for two offenses, which he also plans to appeal. His first $8,681 for a face mask incident and $17,363 for striking Giants' Odell Beckham Jr. in the head and neck area.  It was pretty sad to see the two going back and forth acting immaturely. But one must realize these are two competitors battling. Although similar match ups like Dez Bryant vs Richard Sherman didn't end in the way this one did this last weekend.  The two although wild in the on the field antics at times, played the game with much more sportsmanship and just played competitive football. 

Odell Beckham Jr and Josh Norman should definitely be fined for their actions but if the league suspended one, they should have suspended the other as well. And a note for Odell would to be to work on his temper and have a better in game focus like the great wide receivers who let their game do the talking.  

LS