Nick Piccone
You’re not hearing LeSean McCoy take back anything he’s said that has insinuated Chip Kelly was a racist. And you probably won’t hear Stephen A. Smith do that any time soon, because he’s basically become the mouthpiece for the whole “Chip Kelly’s a racist” narrative.
This morning on ESPN’s NFL Insiders, Smith was on and said he was stopped randomly in the streets of Philadelphia by Eagles players and they opened up to him to have a pow-wow session on how terrible a person Chip Kelly is.
Here’s the entire quote, courtesy of CSN Philly’s John Gonzalez.
I got stopped on the streets of Philadelphia by members of the Philadelphia Eagles who took the liberty of telling me how uncomfortable they were with [Chip Kelly] because of the manner in which he was treating them.
They felt he was somebody they couldn’t talk to. They felt he was somebody they couldn’t relate to and refused to relate to them. They felt that it was somebody that really, really made them uncomfortable.
And I’ll say that to say this, we’ve got Bill Belichick hardcore, Bill Parcells hardcore. You can go throughout history from the days of Lombardi to Hank Stram to Bud Grant to Jimmy Johnmson to Parcells.
Nothing, nobody, all white, I brought them all up for a reason, all white, nobody has ever said the things about them that they have said about Chip Kelly in Philadelphia.”
I’m going to end this post now before it melts due to this extreme hot take.
