Chip Kelly: 'Shame on us' if we miss playoffs with 11 wins
Dec
18
12/18/2014 8:53:14 AM
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If the Philadelphia Eagles win out this season and finish 11-5, there is no guarantee they will make the playoffs. That will be one victory better than last season's 10-6 team.
Is that progress or a step back? Kelly didn’t really answer the question, but he made something of a case for the view that missing the playoffs is all that really counts, Phil Sheridan of ESPN.com reports.
“Right now, we’ve only got nine wins,” Kelly said Wednesday. “I mean, for us to think of questions like that, that doesn't help us beat Washington. So I don't really think about it. If we win 11 games and it's not good enough to get in, shame on us because we didn't win the right games. That’s the bottom line. That's what this whole deal is all about and we know it going in.”
“What we can do is control how we prepare for Washington and that's what we're going to do,” Kelly said. “They [the players] were great yesterday; they came in here ready to play. That's what I know about this group. They love playing football, they love training for it and they were fantastic yesterday and they’re going to be the same today.”
Dec
18
12/18/2014 8:53:14 AM
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If the Philadelphia Eagles win out this season and finish 11-5, there is no guarantee they will make the playoffs. That will be one victory better than last season's 10-6 team.
Is that progress or a step back? Kelly didn’t really answer the question, but he made something of a case for the view that missing the playoffs is all that really counts, Phil Sheridan of ESPN.com reports.
“Right now, we’ve only got nine wins,” Kelly said Wednesday. “I mean, for us to think of questions like that, that doesn't help us beat Washington. So I don't really think about it. If we win 11 games and it's not good enough to get in, shame on us because we didn't win the right games. That’s the bottom line. That's what this whole deal is all about and we know it going in.”
“What we can do is control how we prepare for Washington and that's what we're going to do,” Kelly said. “They [the players] were great yesterday; they came in here ready to play. That's what I know about this group. They love playing football, they love training for it and they were fantastic yesterday and they’re going to be the same today.”