Nick Piccone
Chip Kelly recently sat down with D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for a little Q & A session. Les Bowen, eat your heart out.
Kelly was asked about his up-tempo offense, something Ledbetter should have known better than to ask. Kelly’s response? Nothing short of awesome.
Q: What is your theory behind the tempo attack and how best it should work?
A: We are just trying to get the game over quicker.
Q: But, anything football-wise? You know, other than getting the game over quicker.
A: That’s it. It’s all for the fans. We just want the game to get over quicker. People shouldn’t be paying a lot of money to watch guys stand around.
Q: No football reasons though?
A: Not really.
So, there you have it. The up-tempo offense is for us and contains no pure football reasoning. He then ended with this gem:
Q: Do you have to defend yourself for your moves more than any coach in the NFL?
A: I don’t feel like I have to defend myself. Everybody starts a new season, anew. What anybody did last year really doesn’t matter. Especially in this league. Teams that were outstanding, all of sudden, the next year they are not as good. We are a forward moving operation and forward thinking operation. So, we don’t spend much time on the past. We’re looking toward what’s ahead of us and what is ahead of us is Atlanta. That’s what our attention is on.
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