Legend or Complete Idiot?

Chip Kelly has lost his mind. This guy is a cautionary tale. He was a flashy college coach who ran a gimmicky offensive system and brought a lot of attention to the Pacific Northwest. He parlayed that gig into the HC position of the Philadelphia Eagles. He inherited a team with enough talent to make the playoffs his rookie year. He had a QB emerge in Foles who had 27TD's and 3 INT's. A guy he didn't draft BTW.

In year two, with a team made up mostly of guys he didn't bring in they win 10 games with Sanchez filling in for an injured Foles. He follows that up by having a show down with The Eagles front office, his friend Tom Gamble gets fired (literally thrown out of the building) and Kelly emerges as not only the HC but is given complete control of personnel decisions. He has accomplished NOTHING in his first 2 years in the NFL, and essentially got a promotion.

So a guy with zero pro personnel experience is running your team. What does he do in his first few weeks with the power?

First he lets Jeremy Maclin walk without even trying to resign him, he trades debatably the best RB in the game (a guy who fits his offense perfectly) McCoy for a LB with one year of experience and who missed the entire year with an injury, then he trades Foles for a QB who missed the entire season with an injury (Bradford), then he signs Ryan Mathews who missed most of the season with an injury, and finally Demarco Murray, who has had major injury issues.

Remember he already has Darren Sproules on the roster. So they have more money tied up in the RB position than before he dumped McCoy. You just paid more for the same, or possibly less production. And every player he is bringing in has major durability concerns.

Now I remember a hyped up college coach who came into the league and traded away the best RB in football, and took a lot of heat for it. Jimmy Johnson had a vision just like Kelly does. But Johnson inherited a 1-15 team, and he traded for draft picks. Then he drafted the right guys.

Trading proven homegrown players for other teams injury prone cast offs is just dumb. I don't claim to know more about football than Kelly, but he is alienating a very finicky fan base and setting himself up for failure. He has zero experience and a ridiculous ego.  That rarely end well. In 18 moths or less, and I stress OR LESS we will know if he will be seen as a legend or a complete idiot.