Chip Kelly recruited uber-talented players, and there's a ton of smoke that he cheated to do it.

You've honestly completely lost me. What you've said above makes zero sense. Sounds like grasping at straws.

It's not grasping at straws.

Again, I said the scheme is a risk. He's a boom/bust guy who could either be really successful or be an absolute nightmare. But I also think he's incredibly bright and knows he can't do things the same, nor will he try.

But as a head coach... he's known to be incredibly organized, runs a terrific practice, and is incredible at disciplining players to play within the system. His up tempo approach only works because it's practically run like a machine. Let's say he delegated the entire offense to his OC (We know he won't... just pretend here). If he did that, he could still potentially be a terrific head coach.

So again... I always liked Kelly because I like coaches who are going to get the most out of their players. And Kelly will do that. The risk is in the scheme, and we just don't know what he's going to do here. Hence, boom/bust.

Colt McCoy's been told he's in the new HCs plans ROFL

Getting the most out of your players at the college level is a much different process than in the NFL.

We talked about this last night. Kelly is in for a rude awakening. His biggest advantage was talent at the college level. In the NFL... he's ****ed.

Have fun with the salary cap and NFL parity c unt face.

I'm morbidly curious to see what the guy does in the NFL. I feel like he's the biggest boom or bust guy out there. He's either going to revolutionize the NFL or flame out horrifically.

As mentioned, my biggest concern with him though is while his teams will throw the ball, their strength has always been speed, speed and speed with the running game. I'm curious to see how Chip adjusts that to the NFL.

He will not have the speed/talent discrepancy he had in college. I think he's going to flame out.

We are going be two steps ahead of them. First with Coach then with GM. They still have to pick a GM to hire a coach. I like the way Clark got shit done this week. He came out said exactly what he wanted to do and did it.

Again, he gets his players to play disciplined, well executed football. And his players are extraordinarily well conditioned and play hard for him. That, more than anything, is something that will easily translate on the NFL level. It was once noted that he runs one of the most effective practices in the game.

This has fail written all over it imho.

Lots of coaches in the NFL can do that. That doesn't set him apart.

You know what is funniest about this....Wheeden. Nuff said.

Does anyone REALLY care at this point--especially, tonight??? :shrug:

LMAO

I really, really disagree with that.

You've seen I'm pretty consistent on this. This is my #1 criteria for a head coach. Norv and Romeo don't discipline their players because they're afraid to not be somebody's friend. Gunther Cunningham and Rex Ryan are all empty words. Lots of guys don't have the people skills to lead or motivate. A lot of them are like that really smart guy in class that can ace every exam, but could never sell anything on the road because nobody buys what you're selling.

So to me, Chip Kelly has that in spades. Something many good X's and O's guys don't have. So the Browns get that. Again, the question will become if his power gets to his head and/or if his scheme adapts. But at the very least, think Cleveland will be a very well coached team that won't make many mistakes and will play really hard for Kelly.

So he's got the goods to be an 8-8 NFL coach. What does he have that gets him to that NEXT level?

If his scheme is good and talent evaluation is solid, that leadership makes his team a playoff team. But Chip Kelly is an unusual case, where his scheme is probably going to be really inventive and very successful, or it's going to be really bad.

Again, it's boom/bust. But unlike a lot of other innovators, the team won't fail for lack of leadership.