Kelce On Last Year: 'Tipping Our Hand, Bad Job Upfront, RB Not As Good'
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- In Chip Kelly's third and final season with the Eagles, the offense struggled mightily.
Eagles center Jason Kelce, coming off of his first Pro Bowl season, had one of the worst year's of his career and always took responsibility for his sub-par play. On Monday, Kelce opened up about the Eagles' offensive struggles last year, which included -- according to Kelce -- a dip in talent at running back from LeSean McCoy to DeMarco Murray.
"I think that there's no question when you're in the shotgun there is something tipped off about what's going to happen...there's thing you can do to offset that," Kelce told the 94WIP Mike & Ike Show. "I mean, there were games and there's times where guys are calling out the plays and that's kind of the position you're put in when you're shrinking the playbook down so you can go as fast as possible. That's one of the sacrifices you make.
Listen: Jason Kelce on the 94WIP Mike & Ike Show
"That was really successful with us for about two years and then teams started catching onto that and teams starting doing some things to screw with that," Kelce continued. "There were a lot of things that went wrong last year. I think it was a combination of yeah schematically at times we were tipping our hand. I think also at the same time, quite frankly, we weren't doing as good of a job upfront and I don't think we necessarily had the best back that we had a few years ago either."
Under Kelly, the Eagles' offense was always going fast, ranking among the top teams in the league in plays ran and total offense. Contrarily, on defense, the Eagles finished 29th, 28th, and 30th in the NFL during that three-year span.
Kelce says he likes going fast, just not all of the time.
"I'm a big fan of going in and out of it [tempo]," Kelce said. "There's time to push it and times to go fast to put the defense into a bind, but there's times to make it look like you're going fast so that they have to get lined up and then you get into a great play call. And I think when you're going in and out of tempo, in and out of no huddle it puts the defense in a different position and they don't know what you're going to do."
