Chip's embarrassed, but doesn't see personnel changing
Eagles coach Chip Kelly said Monday that he was embarrassed by his team's performance against Dallas, and that no one on offense graded out well, but Kelly indicated he will not make any changes on the troubled o-line.
Eagles coach Chip Kelly said Monday that he was embarrassed by his team's performance against Dallas, and that no one on offense graded out well, but Kelly indicated he will not make any changes on his troubled o-line.
"I was embarrassed," Kelly said after the 20-10 loss, which was not as close as the score. "That's not the way we're supposed to play football. That's not what we're all about ... I was embarrassed by how we played yesterday."
"Too much penetration between the defensive end and the defensive tackle," Kelly said, asked about a running game that accounted for minus-2 yards on 15 carries by DeMarco Murray, Ryan Mathews and Darren Sproles.
"We didn't stop penetration all night long," Kelly said, despite varied formations that he felt could not all have consistently tipped off what the Eagles were doing.
"Yeah, I feel like it can be fixed," Kelly said. "We've had a couple games since we've been here where we didn't run the ball well. We've rectified that."
Kelly cited last year's loss at San Francisco, in which the Eagles rushed 12 times for 22 yards.
"A lot of it comes down to fundamentals," he said. Kelly indicated sometimes blockers, such as veteran center Jason Kelce, are overthinking situations, anticipating things that don't happen, instead of "just going out and playing fundamental football."
Asked about possible offseason personnel blunders, Kelly said: "The guys we have are the guys we're playing with for the remainder of the season. … It's about putting in a game plan that will be effective against the Jets."
Kelly said he takes no offense at corner Byron Maxwell saying fatigue was a factor for the defense near the end of the game, given that Dallas ran 85 snaps.
Kelly said he had no feel for the seriousness of Kiko Alonso's knee injury or Mychal Kendricks' hamstring. Both were to undergo MRIs this afternoon.
"We're not putting together a plan that's good enough for us to execute offensively, because we're not executing it," Kelly said, when asked what measure of blame belongs to him. "That kind of falls on the coaching staff, on the offensive side of the ball."