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NFL: Chip Kelly responds to McCoy's race comments & Tebow signing is a 'shield'

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The secret reason Tim Tebow was signed by the Eagles

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When Chip Kelly plucked Tim Tebow away from his SEC Network desk and signed him to the Philadelphia Eagles, few understood the rationale. How could a guy who’d thrown eight passes in four years be a worthy roster member of a team with serious playoff aspirations. (But not serious championship aspirations because, come on, these are the Eagles.)

Then, when Chip Kelly said Tim Tebow would only play quarterback for him, even fewer understood the rationale. The assumption was that Kelly would play the mad-genius card and turn Tebow into some sort of hybrid H-Back/tight end/occasional runner via direct snap. But now he was buying into Tebow’s fantasy of the former Florida star still being a viable NFL quarterback? Something had to be up. And something is up, at least according to my grand theory about why Chip Kelly actually signed Tim Tebow.

You ready? Tim Tebow is Chip Kelly’s human shield.​

The coach spent the offseason making the personnel moves a drunk college kid would make while playing Madden at 2:30 a.m. on a Tuesday. He jettisoned his best player, traded for a quarterback for whom staying healthy is as impossible as levitation, got rid of a perfectly serviceable quarterback who once provided him a 8-2 record and 27 TD/2 INT season and then overpaid a running back that his division rival deemed unworthy, mainly due to the fact that DeMacro Murray’s legs might actually fall of this season after being used so much in 2014.

Enter Tim Tebow. Eagles OTAs on Thursday originally would have featured a hostile media, ready to have a feeding frenzy about Kelly’s offseason moves.

Instead, it turned into a circus about Tim Tebow.

Other than covering a quote of Kelly responding to LeSean McCoy’s allegations of racism, something that no one took seriously anyway because McCoy doesn’t seem to be the most thoughtful player who’s ever donned an NFL jersey, every national outlet focused on Tebow and Tebow only.

There were plenty of questions about other things, but no one cared. It was all Tebow, all the time. So instead of the public hearing statements of Kelly’s desire to start Sam Bradford, a quarterback whose missed 31 starts since 2011 and has an 18-30-1 overall record, or wondering why McCoy is up in Buffalo, Tim Tebow, the human shield and guy who will probably be cut by the start of September, earned a bulk of the attention at the Eagles’ first open practice of the year.

Maybe Chip Kelly is a mad genius after all.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/05/why...ow-make-philadelphia-eagles-chip-kelly-theory
 
Tebow's contract has ZERO guarantees, Sam Bradford is is recuperating, WHY do peeps need to read ANYTHING more in this than what there is?!?

Right now Tebow's third on the depth chart which ALREADY puts him on the practice squad, when Bradford can suit up it's BYE FELICIA for Tebow!

(UNLESS he plays H back, lol)
 
Since he was traded from the Philadelphia Eagles to the Buffalo Bills, LeSean McCoy has had plenty to say about Chip Kelly, his former head coach. Most notably, in an interview with ESPN.com, McCoy basically insinuated that Kelly is racist.

"The relationship was never really great," McCoy said about Kelly to ESPN’s Mike Rodak. "I feel like I always respected him as a coach. I think that's the way he runs his team. He wants the full control. You see how fast he got rid of all the good players. Especially all the good black players. He got rid of them the fastest. That's the truth. There's a reason. ... It's hard to explain with him. But there's a reason he got rid of all the black players – the good ones – like that."

Kelly met with the media Thursday for the first time since McCoy’s comments came out, and he addressed them head-on.

“I’ve got great respect for LeSean, however, in that situation, I think he’s wrong,” Kelly said. “We’ve put a lot of time into looking at the characters and factors that go into selection and retention of players, and color has never been one of them.”​

Kelly said he hasn’t felt the need to address McCoy’s thoughts in the Eagles’ locker room and he was not hurt by the comments.

“It doesn’t hurt me. I’m not governed by the fear of what people say,” Kelly said.​

Kelly said he twice reached out to McCoy, but did not get a response. He also said he attempted to get in touch with Drew Rosenhaus, McCoy’s agent. Still, he hasn’t heard from the All-Pro running back.

McCoy rushed for 1,319 yards in 2014, third-best in the league, but Kelly traded him in in March for linebacker Kiko Alonso. Kelly also infamously released wideout DeSean Jackson last offseason – but that doesn’t mean McCoy’s comments hold up.

Kelly has dramatically shaken up his roster throughout the offseason, but has brought in a significant number of black players including running back DeMarco Murray, defensive backs Byron Maxwell and Walter Thurmond. Additionally, Kelly signed running back Ryan Mathews and wide receiver Miles Austin, both of whom are biracial. Kelly also drafted five black players – so McCoy’s assertion doesn’t make sense.

Personnel decisions in the NFL are made for an array of reasons. In a league that is nearly 70 percent black, it would be far-fetched to intimate that race is one of them.
 
As some anonymous players are asking: "If this is about character and off the field behavior, why'd you re sign Cooper?"
 
“I’ve got great respect for LeSean, however, in that situation, I think he’s wrong,” Kelly said. “We’ve put a lot of time into looking at the characters and factors that go into selection and retention of players, and color has never been one of them.”

Ok. Sure, Chip. Explain your methodology for character selection and list the factors used in selection and retention. While you're at it, explain Riley Cooper's selection post racist rant. I hope they lose every fucking game, including preseason.
 
woodchuck said:
As some anonymous players are asking: "If this is about character and off the field behavior, why'd you re sign Cooper?"
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No, it's NOT that, he wants UNQUESTIONED loyalty and obedience, the people he got rid of were LEADERS and quite vocal in the locker room, he NEEDS people to be ALL IN to his system, NO COMPLAINING about practices, plays or otherwise, you do as I say or BE GONE!!!

Riley tows the company line, as long as the Head Coach is White, there's no reason for him not to!

:cool:
 
Djmarkxr7 said:
Tebow's contract has ZERO guarantees, Sam Bradford is is recuperating, WHY do peeps need to read ANYTHING more in this than what there is?!?

Right now Tebow's third on the depth chart which ALREADY puts him on the practice squad, when Bradford can suit up it's BYE FELICIA for Tebow!

(UNLESS he plays H back, lol)
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Bradford will get hurt
 
chip is getting rid of any player that questions his decisions. I can't believe this nigga got rid of djax, shady and foles, he's a jackass for that.
 
djmarkxr7 said:
no, it's not that, he wants unquestioned loyalty and obedience, the people he got rid of were leaders and quite vocal in the locker room, he needs people to be all in to his system, no complaining about practices, plays or otherwise, you do as i say or be gone!!!

Riley tows the company line, as long as the head coach is white, there's no reason for him not to!

:cool:
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c/s
 
NFL: Chip Kelly responds to McCoy's race comments & Tebow signing is a 'shield'

This is the true face of 21st century discrimination: "I'll accept the minority (females, blacks, Hispanics, whatever) but they have to act, dress, walk and talk, and wear the same haircut like me"

When actually equality should mean that you recognize your culture and mannerisms aren't superior.

They believe they aren't racist because they voted for Barack (even though they'd never vote for Jesse).
 
They are dead in the water. Tebow didn't deserve any roster spot but Maxwell and Murray will still be productive. McCoy is a lil bitch too, stop crying and show em on the field. Riley is white, get over it.
 

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