Story out of Philly today that Kelly may opt out of his contract. If this happens, there will be a mad scramble of NFL teams trying to hire him. Would love to see him in Chicago.
If the Bears hire someone other than an Accorsi recomendation, do they still have to pay him?

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

They can pay him double in that case.

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Of course. He still performed the work.

Cutler wouldn't have time to stretch his neck between plays running a Chip Kelly offense.

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You know me like that.

The Bears offense would look great thru training camp only because they would be playing against the Bears defense.

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Kelly would need to be traded or fired.

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why would chip kelly come here tho? the only thing i can think of is with the GM position also open you'd have a chance to be coach+personnel-guy at a heritage franchise in a top-3 market. of course the history of megalomaniacial once/good coaches going to some sad sack franchise and getting personnel powers along with the head coaching gig isn't exactly a glorious history to behold (if anything, it goes to show how desperate those franchises were alongside how egotistical those coaches are) but hey if that's the only way you can get some sort of a high-level-head-coach in here then i think you'd have to at least consider it, right?

i swear this morning i heard that the bears are looking to interview the head coach who walked away from the bills a few days ago. and of course the obvious choices like seattle's defensive coordinator and denver's offensive coordinator (ha!) are out there, but who knows how they turn out? i'm pretty sure the bears have never hired a head coach with previous NFL head coaching experience before (and if they have it was before ditka, which is pretty much the point where i differentiate ancient-bears from modern-bears. maybe papa bear halas dying is the definitive point where it changed?) and i really dont know if they'd do that now, but with the recent humiliation of the trestman/emery experience in 2014 maybe they break precedent and try something that typically they wouldn't do? *shrug*

but most likely you figure they're going to get somebody either coming up from a coordinator position ("hot candidate") or somebody from the scrapheap of the NFL coaching carousel (your bills guy fits in here) because they still have to pay trestman+staff for 2 more years and as such they're going to want to end up with someone who doesn't cost too much so when you factor in the cost of both the outgoing staff and the incoming staff you're going to end up paying a total amount that's somewhere around what a quality/proven NFL HC makes. i sincerely doubt they're going to bring in someone at that $$$ level and THEN pay trestman + the clown car brigade and end up paying like *gasp* $10mil+/yr for coaching past and present! that's $$$ right out of ginny's pocket dammit and hey the bears are a NFL heritage franchise and one of the biggest markets in sports and as such it's an honor and a privilege that you get to coach the bears and as such you should be more than willing to come in for cheap and prove that you're worth more $$$. that's just the way business is done around here cuz go figure your team president is a financial guy.

so yeah, unless the debacle of 2014 convinces the bears that they gotta take a hit in the pocketbook for 1-2 years to eat their pride and turn over the franchise to some coach like kelly who thinks he's got teh NFL so figured out that he should be deciding the roster too, i just don't see it. barring those few years of post-SB-extension lovie where he was making pretty good scratch, the bears never pay their coaches... and in the end you see that they truly get what they pay for.

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The Scorehead kiss of death proclamation has now officially eliminated this as a possibility.

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Lurie just gave Kelly control over personell so he's probably staying, but the Bears would be smart to call the Eagles anyway.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Yep. Chip Kelly won the power struggle. He wang-whipped his GM. The GM gets bumped to a better title but less control. So he'll probably leave once his contract expires.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/02/eagles-say-chip-kelly-will-oversee-player-personnel-department/

Jeffrey Lurie is one of the shrewdest owners in the NFL. I think it's only a matter of time before Lurie and the Eagles win a Super Bowl.

Are you a real person? The Eagles have been whacking the piñata for fifteen years. What kind of matter of time are we talking here?

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If Lurie were the owner of the Bears, I would have a whole lot more confidence in the Bears winning the Super Bowl in the near future than I currently do.

His track record with the Eagles, which includes a Super Bowl appearance, speaks for itself. His organization has been largely successful over a sustained period of time. He's also made some shrewd decisions such as hiring Andy Reid, who was not even a Coordinator, and hiring Chip Kelly out of college.

The Eagles are the east coast version of the Bears. Eagles have more playoff appearances but both have been largely disappointing over the past decade or so.

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hmmm.... this post definitely had SPORTS.... and i would conjecture to say that it also had both ATTITUDE and BITE... soooooo

Curious Hair + SHARK = match ????

/me is just KEEPING SCORE, calling it like i see it... you know, if there was a David Kaplan award for it-seeing/calling methinks i'd be the shoo-in for that one.

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It's adorable that you think that.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

It seems like these kind of moves almost always end up as a bad idea.

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