Eagles Fired Chip Kelly

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Is there a case to be made that Chip's biggest problem was his ego – in particular that he chased a lot of talent out of town that wouldn't, in GoT parlance, "bend the knee"?

How much better would the 2015 Eagles have been with McCoy? Would his numbers have suffered the same fate as Murray absent Mathis?
Kelly had his GM mis-steps, but the cap played a factor here, too. There's just no way they could have kept McCoy / Mathis / Maclin / Jackson for what those guys were making / ended up signing for. Check out Philly's recent draft history - from 2010-12 the only offensive players drafted in the first three rounds were Danny Watkins and Nick Foles. Guys like Agholor and Huff weren't ready for bigger roles yet. Peters got old this year; Herremans and Mathis were already old. This was an offense in flux from a personnel standpoint, but people basically assumed it would work anyway because of Chip.