“He likes total control of everything, and he don’t like to be uncomfortable”. Players can excel when you naturally let them be who they are and in my experience that hasn’t been important to him.
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Everybody knows it’s the last year of my contract, and (Kelly) said, ‘I’m looking for you to compete for that outside spot.’ So that’s what he said. “He didn’t say anything”.
Chip Kelly might be a bit insane when it comes to personnel moves, but that doesn’t make the Philadelphia Eagles coach a racist, no matter how hard people pitch that controversy.
Considering the majority of players on his rosters were African-American, Kelly could not get that kind of response if he was “uncomfortable” around the culture of adult black men.
“The good news for Bradford did not help Mark Sanchez”s expectation that there will be an open competition for the starting quarterback job this summer.
“Guys were like, ‘Sanchez, ain’t you Mexican?” “We got black guys, white guys, Polynesian guys”. It’s not even worth talking about. “Stop asking the players about it, it’s getting old”. He didn’t say anything.
However, the addition of Boykin does nothing to address one aspect of the Steelers secondary, one the Ravens should be able to exploit: Lack of size.
Chip Kelly continues to build the team he wants, and it continues to baffle Philadelphia Eagles fan base. So the real surprise was the fact that the Pittsburgh Steelers, who weren’t expected to make any major moves in August after yet another quiet offseason that was mostly about locking up their franchise figure-heads, were the ones to acquire Boykin for a fifth-round pick that could become a fourth-round pick. Boykin was the Eagles’ best cornerback in 2014 and rated No. 21 overall by Pro Football Focus. Boykin was a consistent in the slot the past 2 years so his production may not easily be replaced. “So we thought it was too good a deal for us to turn down”. He had a hamstring. He has a record of 18-30-1 in his career, and has never completed more than 60.7 percent of his passes in a season. However, on Sunday, Boykin said he did not believe Kelly is racist and that his problems were more with communication.
Regardless, at the NovaCare Center, Kelly already had gone through a gantlet of questions about why another former Eagle was pointing at racial motivation before news of Boykin’s walk-back came out. Kelly shot that down right away.
“He”s full go, 100 percent,” Kelly said. “And so the doctors, I talked to them yesterday about it and they were cool with it, so we’re going to go without one”. Write that down in ink, not pencil.
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“Sometimes that means you can’t have as much swagger as you want to as far as the way you dress”, Jenkins said. “But it’s also the mentality that no player is bigger than anybody and no player is bigger than the team, and I can buy into that”.
