I'm making a temporary comeback to the NFL board to comment on this.
Me? I'm glad it happened. Even before this disastrous season, and going back to the offseason about 22 months ago, I felt myself losing my team. Kelly, for reasons that I always believed were to do with power rather than personnel, blew up everything that was "our" team.
People will talk about the big names ad nauseum - Maclin, McCoy, Jackson. But they were only a small part of the problem. The bigger problem was giving up "heart and soul" players like Herremans, Matthis, Cole, and perhaps to a lesser extent Foles.
And for what? Nearly every single move he made in player personnel failed to pay off - on the FA side, Murray, Mathews, Maxwell; on the trading side Alonso and Bradford; on the drafting side Smith, Huff, Agholar, Matthews to an extent - none of them worked. (I know he was only formally given oversight last season, but you can't tell me he didn't have a hell of a lot of oversight the season before.) I'm sure I'm missing one or two players, but the only personnel move of the last 2 seasons that I would suggest has worked was Sproles.
Which brought me to this season, when even dating back to the first couple of weeks, I felt myself falling out of love with my team. It wasn't the typical being angry and frustrated - it was deeper than that, it was a complete antipathy towards my team. I've still watched them every week, but I found myself rolling my eyes moreso than swearing at the tv. I'd just lost the will to care, because having given up our heart and soul players, who was I really cheering for (or not)? I couldn't even really enjoy the Pats win a couple of weeks ago because, unlike people here who thought it was a great win, it was the worst of wins - it was the kind of win where the scoreboard might mask some issues, but your eyes told you were still absolutely prevalent.
This was all down to Chip Kelly - it was no longer "our team", it had become Chip Kelly's little experimental play thing, to see whether he as "the genius" could single-handedly revolutionise the modern NFL.
Perhaps Kelly could've had a successful career as a Head Coach only - but if he wasn't prepared to separate personnel control from the head coaching position, he had to go, and I'm glad he's gone.
With Kelly gone, I will get that love for my team back. And I will do it knowing that there is more pain to come. This will likely be a 2 year+ rebuild because, apart from the probability of finding a coach who puts the QB under centre, there is no real quick fix here. Aside from Fletcher Cox, there are no stars on this team. Our defence is probably adequate, but has holes at corner, and Alonso is an outrageous bust when you look at him in pass protection.
And on our offence? Apart from an aging Peters, Kelce, Johnson who is ok, but not the star you hope for with a 4th overall pick (albeit one from what has become a rubbish draft), and maaaaybe Ertz who has never really been used properly, there's nothing there. I don't automatically say a new coach will fix the RB situation, because Murray had one great season behind a great offensive line - what is there to really fix there?
We need to find a QB, stat. We need 2 new guards. We need wide receivers who are of different moulds, not all this same mediocre "cut" of player who had speed but couldn't catch (oh, sorry, Riley Cooper is a different "cut"

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SNIP