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On brink of new season, Chip Kelly in the crosshairs

He looks like the Pillsbury Dough Boy and he talks in machine-gun bursts and it’s up to you to keep up because he’s got things to do and people to see, he’s busy-busy-busy, an inveterate tinkerer who is forever obsessed with trying to fit square pegs into round holes so which is he anyway, genius or …

… charlatan?

Chip Kelly begins his third season as Supreme Commander, coach, and Grand Pooh-Bah in all things Eagles on Monday night in Atlanta and it is not an exaggeration to suggest that in the whole history of the Iggles there has never been a season awaited with such hyperventilation anticipation, and trepidation, due largely to the machinations of Kelly and his fondness for the unorthodox, the unpredictable, and the head-scratching he-did-what?