Raiders Fire OC Chip Kelly

[GunnerBill]

9 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Would it shock anyone if Pete Carroll was 1 and done In Vegas, too?

 

Nope. Was horrible hire. And bringing Chip with him was clown show territory.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

9 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Would it shock anyone if Pete Carroll was 1 and done In Vegas, too?

Is that Chip Kelly?  Or just a generic RaiderFan?  Could be either. 😁

[GunnerBill]

8 hours ago, QB Bills said:

There was a time where I would have done anything for the Bills to hire him.

 

I believe his first game was that Monday night opener against Washington years back. That Eagles offense that night was nothing like I'd ever seen. It was like they were playing a different sport altogether.

 

He's just not on the cutting edge anymore.

 

Yep. It's the bolded. Where once he was the coming force he is now clearly yesterday's man.

8 hours ago, L Ron Burgundy said:

I dont agree about Carrol.  It's a really bad team.  He needs time.  

 

How much time can a guy in his 70s get? That is why it sucked as a hire. That was a multi year rebuild.... with a coach who is in his 70s. Nonsensical.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

3 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

How much time can a guy in his 70s get? That is why it sucked as a hire. That was a multi year rebuild.... with a coach who is in his 70s. Nonsensical.

Carroll got tired of wooing coeds, figured it was time to try a Vegas showgirl.

[Simon]

12 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

Carroll got tired of wooing coeds, figured it was time to try a Vegas showgirl.

 

McDermott went through a phase like that also.

It's how he got The Clap.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

3 minutes ago, Simon said:

 

McDermott went through a phase like that also.

It's how he got The Clap.

Watch it!  I'm just gullible enough to believe it! 🤪

[Mr. WEO]

10 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Would it shock anyone if Pete Carroll was 1 and done In Vegas, too?

 

 

Gino Smith should go first.

 

9 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

 

He was plenty successful in Philly.   The production he squeezed out of Nick Foles and March Sanchez at QB was insane in turning those Eagles into the best conditioned team the NFL has ever seen.  That training set their "players coach" Pederson up to steal a SB from NE soon after Chip's departure(with Foles, no less).

 

The team that should be interested are the Jets.  Not so much for his offensive design but because they have done a roster cleansing of sorts and Aaron Glenn could have Kelly come in and implement his Oregon training tactics to help give them a physical edge in a division with Allen and Maye otherwise blocking them.   They gotta' find their angle to make noise in the division because it's highly unlikely they find an Allen or Maye of their own.  The only star left to appease is Garrett Wilson and he's an Ohio State guy so Kelly is likely to have his blessing.

 

True.  The Chip Kelly takes here are pre-wrapped....

[SoonerBillsFan]

17 minutes ago, Simon said:

 

McDermott went through a phase like that also.

It's how he got The Clap.

[Captain Hindsight]

3 hours ago, AlCowlingsTaxiService said:

I don’t know how Carroll feels, but he’s a pretty vibrant 70. I think most of us would be pleased to be in Pete’s shape at that age 

Sure, but if the Bills brought back a 71 year old coach who was coming off a 4 win season, how would you feel about the next season?

 

Seattle moved on and they look like a SB contender 2 years later

[MJS]

5 hours ago, Buddy Hix said:

Even the Raiders act when necessary…

 

Our owner could give a ***** about winning football games.

You're putting the Bills with 7 wins and the Raiders with 2 wins in the same boat? The Bills literally have a winning record, so I think the owner clearly does care about winning.

[SoonerBillsFan]

Just now, MJS said:

You're putting the Bills with 7 wins and the Raiders with 2 wins in the same boat? The Bills literally have a winning record, so I think the owner clearly does care about winning.

We have a winning record because the GM lucked out  on picking the right QB

[TheBrownBear]

12 hours ago, Big Turk said:

Please don't anyone even say to bring him here...he has been terrible save for the first year with the Eagles as HC...every subsequent place he has been dreadful.

I'm a UCLA alum and I can attest to this.

[BuffaloBillsGospel2014]

12 hours ago, Big Turk said:

Please don't anyone even say to bring him here...he has been terrible save for the first year with the Eagles as HC...every subsequent place he has been dreadful.

 

get er’ do…. I just can’t do it that guy is so overrated it’s ridiculous.

[LewPort71]

No to Chip.

Good college coach......not so good in the NFL

[dave mcbride]

28 minutes ago, TheBrownBear said:

I'm a UCLA alum and I can attest to this.

I'm a UCLA alum too and think that Kelly was the best thing that happened to that program in the last decade. UCLA's absolute ceiling is never going to be higher than 10-3, with a more realistic ceiling being 9-4. 8-5 is a good season for that program. They don't have the money, they don't have the commitment, the athletic dept is a mess, they don't have fans who show up to games given the stadium location, and they have long struggled to recruit 4 and 5 star recruits. The academic expectations are another issue. They were competitive with Kelly and had a pretty impressive run game. Kelly focused on 3-star recruits who fit within his system, which in my view was a realistic approach. In his last three seasons, they went 8-4, 9-4, and 8-5, with the fifth loss in the final season a result of a crazy ending vs Pitt in a bowl game. They didn't lose that game because of Kelly.  I feel confident in saying that that three-year run is probably going to be the best such run they have in the dozen years that follow after his departure.  

 

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6642637/2025/09/19/ucla-football-deshaun-foster-martin-jarmond/

 

"The biggest issue with UCLA football, according to more than a half-dozen sources The Athletic spoke to for this story, some of whom were granted anonymity in exchange for their candor, has been a lack of financial resources. The Bruins had never been USC when it came to money or commitment to football, and UCLA has piled up more than $200 million in athletic department debt in recent years. But that disparity — fractures of which showed throughout much of this century — became much more of a problem in 2021, once name, image and likeness arrived."

...

“Looking at the Chip regime through clear eyes, it was a major rebuild that took too long, at first,” one of Kelly’s assistants told The Athletic. “Then, we really turned the corner and were a top-20 program over the last three years, which is all you really can ask for any non-blue blood.”

 

But, the assistant continued, UCLA wanted more. The fans weren’t engaged — “Chip’s not the biggest fan engagement guy.” It became apparent UCLA folks were tired of Kelly, who didn’t replicate the success he’d had at Oregon before leaving for the NFL, and Kelly, program sources said, was tired of the entire dynamic, especially of [athletic director] Jarmond, who was hired two years after the coach arrived.

 

“You’re trying to sell the players on getting a great education and we can develop you as a player, but we didn’t have any money to pay them, and we were losing out on players,” said one position coach from Kelly’s staff at UCLA.

Edited 12 minutes ago by dave mcbride