I thought Demarco Murray was supposed to be....

[Two Gap Penetrator]

....."perfect for Chip Kelly's offense." At least that's what they were saying when the Birds signed him. So what happened to THAT?

[slag]

Maybe those guards that suck to whom you earlier referred?

And, as I noted before, the lack of an outside threat, according to one sports pundit.

[Susquehanna Birder]

What you heard: "Perfect for Kelly's offense."

What they meant: "Just what is missing from Kelly's offense."

What Kelly thought: "My system isn't missing anything. I just need another guy to mold into it."

[Riccardo]

And how about 90+% of handoffs from the shotgun

nm

[Two Gap Penetrator]

Hmmmm. It makes me wonder..................

Do you think that Kelly initially didn't want to use Demarco Murray the way he's using him? When you look at these diagonal runs, they always seem to head toward what was the strength of our offensive line or toward Peters or Lane Johnson. I think Kelly maybe saw that these interior linemen are dogsh*t and has changed it up to try to do something. That something just doesn't work because Murray is a "north-south runner."

[Susquehanna Birder]

I think he never intended to use Murray in a pure north-south scheme. He assumed that Murray could adapt and use his running talent as Chip saw fit. Unfortunately Murray seems to be too inflexible, and a bit of a head case on top of it all. We can fault Murray, Chip, or both. They probably share the blame.

[Big Little]

Winner winner chicken choke dinner

[Susquehanna Birder]

Yeah, that doesn't help his cause at all. I'm about sick of the read option.

[Two Gap Penetrator]

So WTH was I reading here back in September?

(snip) "They talked about Murray's north-south running style (which in Kelly's scheme should work better than McCoy's improvisations and penchant for looking for the home run seams rather than simply hitting the hole)."

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/13...-balance-power

[Susquehanna Birder]

Ah, the old hearsay thing. With a nice parenthetical guess-opinion thrown in.

[Two Gap Penetrator]

That's not the only thing I heard or read......

...that said that. That's all we were hearing back then. Don't you remember this sh*t? Ehhh I don't want to get into it with you. I like you too much.

[art vandelay]

What makes no sense to me is that Chip thinks players are interchangeable, yet he breaks the bank on an RB, the most interchangeable position in football. If system were what really mattered, we would have been fine with Mathews, Polk, and Sproles getting more carries. According to Herremans Chip thought OL and QB were what mattered, and that he could find guys at other positions. If he had stuck to that school of thought he could have paid some OL. You can't really find a QB in free agency, but he could have given Bradford someone to throw to with Maclin.