Chip Kelly's uptempo offense....

[Sharkinva]

Might have just hit a speed bump known as.. the Zebras.

Found this interesting.....

Chip Kelly's plan with the Phialdelphia Eagles is to continue the philosophy he perfected as the coach at Oregon: to run every play as quickly as possible with no huddles and no stoppages in play, all aimed at leaving the defense doubled over in exhaustion. This "up-tempo" strategy, already popular at the college level, looks like it could change the pro game forever. There's just one small problem standing in Kelly's way: referees, accoridng to Kevin Clark of the Wall Street Journal.
The NFL, they say, has a long-standing pace at which they do things between plays and the referees "aren't going to change just to accommodate someone's offense," said Mike Pereira, a former NFL vice president of officiating who is now an analyst for Fox Sports.
"We have to make sure teams understand that they don't control the tempo, our officials do," said NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino. "We're going through our normal ball mechanics, we aren't going to rush [unless] it's in the two minute drill."
Blandino said he has talked to every NFL team coaching staff during the off-season to emphasize that there's no forcing the issue—the offense will not be able to snap the ball until the referees signals they're ready.
Kelly declined to comment. An Eagles spokesman also declined to comment.

Officials could slow up Kelly's plans for speedy Eagles offense

Probably NOT what Chip wanted to hear.

 

[fordman84]

Yup, there was a story about that a week or so ago as well. Not sure it was going to work in the NFL anyways. The up tempo stuff only works if you are constantly moving the ball forward. Doesn't work when you have an incompleted pass...or are going up against a defense every single week that is just as fast/skilled at 99% of positions. In college there can be massive disparities in talent levels from team to team. In the NFL, it's not quite that bad and it is harder to simply outrun the other team. We see it every year on the player level, now we will see it on the coaching philosophy level once again.

 

[Sharkinva]

I figured it would work for a bit, right until teams got a little film on it and figured out the patterns. I think a few ILB in the NFL are smart enough to figure out a finger in the nose, followed by a flipped bird and a cough means go route to Jackson in the shotgun formation. Hand signals stop working shortly after pop warner in most cases.

 

[Warpath]

Peyton Manning complained about the officials when he goes no huddle. If the league isn't going to bend over backwards for him, they aren't going to do it for anyone.

 

[skinsdad62]

Peyton Manning complained about the officials when he goes no huddle. If the league isn't going to bend over backwards for him, they aren't going to do it for anyone.

 

[martinez]

chips fucked.

 

[106_7THEFAN]

They say Tom Brady has been trying to do the fast pace thing for years ,so if its not going to work for him , really not going to work for a new head coach fresh off the college program

 

[skins]

eagles got slapped.