Chip Kelly confirms what we all knew was true about him leaving Ohio State for the NFL following the National Championship
Everything worked the way it needed to in the end for the Ohio State Buckeyes to end a decade-long title drought. Ohio State initially thought Bill O’Brien was going to call the offensive plays at one point last offseason, but he ended up leaving for the head coaching job at Boston College. Ryan Day called […]
Everything worked the way it needed to in the end for the Ohio State Buckeyes to end a decade-long title drought.
Ohio State initially thought Bill O’Brien was going to call the offensive plays at one point last offseason, but he ended up leaving for the head coaching job at Boston College.
Ryan Day called his longtime friend Chip Kelly and Kelly was the perfect fit for the year that he was in Columbus. Ohio State had to replace Kelly just this week after he left for the NFL, which figured to be his next jump after Ohio State.
Kelly recently appeared in an interview with The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman and his comments regarding the NFL prove that is where he wanted to be.
“The one thing about the NFL that I love is it's the ultimate level of competition. It's football at the highest level. You have to go against the best and the brightest from a coaching standpoint and a playing standpoint, and that challenge of trying to be the best team and be the world champ is a pretty cool deal,” Kelly explained.
So when I got the chance to talk with (Raiders head coach Pete Carroll) last Saturday about this, and then Tom Brady on the ownership side, because Tom's involved and he kind of represented the ownership during the interview process, it was just pretty cool to listen to their vision and their thoughts on what Raider football is and the Raider way is.”
Being the offensive coordinator of the Las Vegas Raiders is Kelly’s first stop in the NFL since he was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. The former Ohio State OC spent three seasons before that as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. Kelly, 61, now gets to team up with veteran head coach Pete Carroll and try to rebuild the Raiders.
Ohio State’s offense was very talented in 2024 led by freshman star wideout Jeremiah Smith. The offense will again be scary good in 2025 with Smith back and several other playmakers. Brian Hartline will have a good group in his first season as a playcaller.
Kelly and Day’s one season together in Columbus worked perfectly by winning it all, and it made the leap to the NFL made all that much more sense for Kelly in the end.
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