Birds' Kelce: Would Love Reunion with Kelly
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Birds' Kelce: Would Love Reunion with Kelly
Les Bowen
Eagles center Jason Kelce played three years for Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly, when Kelly coached the Cincinnati Bearcats. Wednesday night, after a league source said the Eagles had interviewed Kelly on Tuesday for their head coaching vacancy, Kelce called Kelly “an outstanding coach who manages his college teams very similarly to NFL organizations.”
“I would be extremely excited to play for him again, and he is a proven winner,” Kelce said.
One pattern from the Eagles’ coaching search doesn’t require Sherlock Holmes to deduce – they really like the college guys. Coming into this week, their two longest interviews were withOregon's Chip Kelly and with Penn State coach Bill O’Brien, who ultimately decided to stay in college. The Birds scheduled an interview last weekend with Syracuse coach Doug Marrone, but he agreed to coach the Bills before they could meet.
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Kelce, I like you as a player but SHUT your trap. We need coaches that'll know what they're doing not an overwhelmed fool.— DeathPenalty94- Maybe we could send Kelce back to college? — Mortimer G Fingenfinderstein III
- Every year several college coaches use nfl teams to get a raise. I'm pissed off that the eagles are dumb enough to be used twice already by chip kelly and bill obrien and now they are going to allow another kelly to do the same thing. And this kelly doesn't even have the resume that should put him in the nfl. He spent most of his career at division 2 grand valley state! Give me a break. When this process started I had a lot of faith in Jeff Lurie after his presser in which he announced the reid firing but that faith is really wavering at this point. I dont see a "defined list of candidates" as Jeff promised. I see a team interviewing anyone that is willing to sit down and talk. And why have we not even kicked the tires on Jon Gruden? It's appalling.— kenny.328.usa
- I agree. Jon Gruden wants to coach and he wants to coach for the Eagles and we have the Three Blind Mice conducting the search. — essell
- Does anyone remember the last Eagles coach from Notre Dame? Can you say Joe Kuharich? This is the guy who traded Sonny Jurgensn and Tommy McDonald. The Eagles suffered for YEARS because of this guy.— tomficara
- Lou Holtz anyone?— TripleOption
- They haven't gone to Division II yet - that'll be next week.— NM Eagle fan
- K.C Keeler is next.— James40
- why does Urban Meyer get no NFL love ?— anthemra
- the stress of coaching in the SEC almost killed him so he took some time off and then decided to land at a lesser conference. I can't see him getting into the meat grinder of the NFL. He might have a heart-attack before the end of preseason. — coloradoeagle
- Sure, let's hire the LOSING coach of the biggest blowout in BCS history.— Bama
- These college coaches love going to Howie & Jeff for a raise from their schools— Jay Grace 69
- Jason Kelce is a proven loser in the NFL. He played a whole 1 year for a medciore 8-8 team, and then injured his ACL 2 games later. Wow. Proven track record right there. And now that Howard Mudd is retiring hes not going to fit the scheme anymore, and almost no other team is looking for "Mudders" either. He will be lucky to be a backup within 3 years if he is even still on a roster. Horribly over-rated player that can join Andy in Kansas City where I am sure the fans are "amazing". (Where they cheered thier Quarterback getting injured...our fans put up a sign peacefully and get confronted for it) Please sit on the bench Jason and get more then 1 year of NFL experience before talking like a 10 year vet and critisizing fans for something you have been around for a whole 1 year.— CharlieGarner25
- He had a very good rookie season then got hurt his second year. Yes he seems to talk alot to the media about his opinion on this but isn't that what fans want? You have guys like Reid and McNabb up there spouting slogans and meaningless drivel. Kelly was prob asked his opinion and gave it. — Sidewinder7
- How do you know he had a very good rookie season ? Because pro-football focus said so ? They rated the Eagles having the #1 line despite a mediocre 8-8 record. The reason why is because it was all propped up by Jason Peters 27. Take him out and the line becomes very medciore. And they are just looking at how many gys you got in front of and blocked, as in a smaller quicker 0-linemen will get good grades there but do TERRIBLE against a big physical defense such as top 5 Miami where he did HORRIBLE. Shady had an amazing 17 carries for 27 yards or something, 1 yard a carry. Kelce got MANHANDLED by 340 pound Paul Solai the ENTIRE GAME. IT WAS PATHETIC. He had an OK year for a 5th round rookie, thats it. Some good and some very bad. And the where was he year #2 ? NOT EVEN ABLE TO PLAY BECAUSE HE BLEW OUT HIS ACL. Not surprisingly again while he was going up against a huge 330 ound DT in Haloti Ngata. Most over-rated guy on the team right now probably. He will not be good NFL starter for more then 2 years, and may even be out of the league if he doesnt recover AMAZINGLY from his ACL.
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