According to Derrick Gunn of CSNPhilly.com, former Eagles cornerback Brandon Boykin started out his comments about his former head coach Chip Kelly by saying the former Oregon coach was “uncomfortable around grown men of our culture.” Gunn of Comcast Sportsnet is an African-American.
From what I understand, by making that statement Boykin is insinuating that Kelly treats the black players one way and the white ones another. Does he? If he does I haven’t heard anything about it and I’ve talked to quite a few of the Eagles players and none of them have ever said that.
I think Boykin is an outstanding young man. He’s very bright, intelligent and very well aware of how to communicate. I have talked to him quite a few times and found him to be very impressive, but he must have misspoke when he was communicating with Derrick Gunn.
There’s a huge difference between somebody, who doesn’t talk about their personal life and somebody who is a racist. Does Chip Kelly talk to the white guys about his personal life but he doesn’t open up to the black guys? Did he tell Connor Barwin, Sam Bradford and Jason Kelce that he was previously married but he didn’t tell Boykin, Malcolm Jenkins, DeMeco Ryans and Fletcher Cox?
From what I understand, Kelly hasn’t been having any type of deep personal talks with anybody on the team.
Boykin clearly misspoke. Maybe that’s why Boykin made it very clear to the NFL Network. He tried clean up what came out initially.
“I’m not saying he’s a racist at all,” Boykin told Judy Battista of NFL.com. “When you are a player you want to be able to relate to your coach outside of football. There were times he just wouldn’t talk to people.”
Now we should all clean this up. We don’t need accusations of racism swirling around and there’s nothing to substantiate it. Boykin must have misspoke when he was communicating with Gunn.
“The truth is Chip is uncomfortable around grown men of our culture,” Boykin said to CSNPhilly.com. “He can’t relate, and that makes him uncomfortable. He likes total control of everything, and he don’t like to be uncomfortable. Players excel when you let them naturally be who they are, and in my experience that hasn’t been important to him, but you guys have heard this before me.”
“When you’re a player, you want to be able to relate to your coach off the field,” Boykin told reporters at the Steelers training camp. “There were times he just didn’t talk to people. You would walk down the hallway, he wouldn’t say anything to you. I’m not saying he’s a racist in any way.”
“I felt a lot of guys in that locker room feel the same way,” Boykin said. “Of course, when you’re in the organization, you’re not going to voice your opinion. For me, I’ve always been a guy of honesty. Not trying to put anybody out in any way, but if you’re honest with me, I’ll be honest with you, and I felt like that honesty wasn’t there all the time.”
Other coaches, who coached with Chip at Oregon have said this about him. He talks about football 24/7, but once you get outside that subject, Chip doesn’t talk about his personal life or many things outside of football. This isn’t a big deal to me. I’ve known quite a few quality coaches who didn’t have much to say to their players about other things outside of football.
I thought quarterback Mark Sanchez got it right.
“That’s nuts. (During stretching today), guys were like, ‘Sanchez, ain’t you Mexican? And Bradford, aren’t you Native-American? And Kiko (Alonso) is Colombian,” Sanchez said via NFL.com. “We’ve got black guys, white guys, Polynesian guys. C’mon, that’s crazy. It’s not even worth talking about. Stop asking the players about it. It’s getting old.”
Ya the racist theme in Boykins comments seem to be media hyped, rather than what is really is….just another butt-hurt player on the out looking in. I can’t imagine that he was shocked by being traded. When your team drafts 3 DBs you gotta be looking over your shoulder. No race descrimination here, just hatin’ on those vertically challenged…..lol
Man he is going the the Steelers, he should be happy. CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!!
This is exactly what it is…a desperate, lazy ass media looking for a story where there is no story. He never called Kelly a racist…pure media bull!
sounds to me like boykin is looking for a friend and/or a father figure from a coach. guy needs to grow up and play football. coaches coach and players play. cmon this idiot whining about his coach talking to him on a personal level, what a baby
The issue is people of his culture have no respect for anyone outside of thier culture. If you do not pay him the respect he feels he desires you are a racist if you are not of his culture. If you are of his culture and you do not pay him is respect you must be an Uncle Tom. That is the whole problem. Does he feel that all people should bend to his culture? If so why leave your culture? Why try to be mainstream and get paid lots of money by people that are not from his culture.
I loved both McCoy and Boykin, but so glad to see them gone now. If I would have known the type of people they are, I would have never given them a second of my time. We are all one race, the HUMAN race.
LIKE THIS. TELL EM CHIP
PHILADELPHIA — There’s a line of demarcation at the Philadelphia Eagles’ facility during training camp on Sunday, and on the east side of it now sit four empty practice fields. Just over it, there are three mountains of humanity, cameras and boom mics — with quarterbacks in there … somewhere.
Chip Kelly looks over. It’s all a little much.
But this is the spotlight he chose to work under, the stage that the game’s highest level is played on. And his reluctance to seek it out is why, over the last three years, the chase to learn anything about the very private Eagles coach has been relentless.
“I just think it’s bizarre,” Kelly said, a Sam Bradford bomb away from the crowd. “I just coach football. That’s what it’s all about. Why people want to know about that other part, I don’t know. I’m not a social media guy, I don’t tweet, I don’t Facebook, whatever all that stuff is. It’s no different than Darren Sproles (not liking to) talk to the media. It bothers me when people don’t respect that. Because you play a professional sport or you coach a professional sport, why does it have to be like that?”
On Sunday, Kelly kicked off his third camp as Eagles coach, and he’s no less intriguing a figure to the general public than he was when he left Oregon in January 2013.
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But we’ve learned some more since then. We now know that he can coach in the NFL, as his 20 wins over two seasons would attest. The increased control over personnel he’s gathered — Bill Belichick is the only coach in the NFL who has more power written into his contract — has provided a window into what he wants in players. We’re also well-aware that, for better or worse, he’s not afraid to challenge long-held pro-football convention, something that might be most clear in how he’s turned over quarterbacks the last 30 months.
And now, thanks to a Washington Post story published in July, we know that Kelly was once married, dispelling the long-held assumption that he’s been a lifelong bachelor.
“She’s awesome,” Kelly said of ex-wife Jennifer Jenkins. “She’s a good person. And I was married for a while. And I never tried to hide that — it was in the University of New Hampshire media guide, just like it always was. And I was never asked the question before. No one ever said that, so I don’t know why it’s a revelation. Not a revelation to me. Everybody in my life — my family, my parents, her family, my girlfriend now — they all know what my life is all about. I’m not a People Magazine or an US Magazine guy.”
To a large degree, though, the NFL has embraced that idea of football-as-soap-opera.
Kelly can’t stop it. But he can choose not to participate.
“I have a very bland, quiet life,” he said. “There’s not a lot there. And I’m not hiding anything, either. There’s no revelations. You wanna talk football? I’ll talk football. That’s my job.”
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I still see the same crap on this site, I guess it never changes.
White folks trying to tell black folks how to conduct themselves and what is proper behavior it just never changes.
dunno what ur talking about lion but all i know is if youre a damn fool youre a damn fool. desean a damn fool, lesean a damn fool, cooper a damn fool.
Henski which one of those damn fools are still employed by the Eagles? Irish I know exactly what Boykin was implying here’s a hint it wasn’t that Chip is racist but you guys won’t understand that because you don’t get it.
That’s bullshit Big…..
I said the same thing yesterday as CCobb said today….
To suggest that Chip treats black players in any way different than he treats white players is to suggest that Chip is racist… There’s no other way to interpret what McCoy, Thomas, and Boykin said.
Every one of those guys tried to insinuate that Chip Kelly treats black players differently…. Like it or not, that’s racism…
It’s not like calling someone a jerk-off…. You can’t define exactly what a jerk-off is because there’s no definition for jerk-off.
There’s a definition for racial prejudice…. It’s what McCoy, Thomas, and Boykin described Kelly as being…. They don’t have to use the word racist… they described the condition…
Boykin came back to change what he said – not to clarify what he said. What he said yesterday was very clear. He told another black guy that Chip is “uncomfortable around grown men of OUR culture.” — Is there a culture shared between Boykin and Gunn besides their race? Maybe they are both short… Do you think that’s what he meant?
He wasn’t mis-quoted… The media didn’t mis-quote him or put a different spin on what he said. They reported his words.
It’s the “IN” thing to do now for black guys that get traded or cut by Kelly – Give the media some vague comment that paints a picture of Kelly as a racist. Then come back with a different story after the perception is planted in people’s minds.
And you are trying to make Boykin a victim… what a joke.
boykin just wanted kelly to pat his ass everyday and talk to him about the weather. and when baby boykin didnt get his way he pouted because chip wouldnt be his friend or daddy. guys soft as fuck , i now know why chip cut his pussy ass.
guy wanted chip to be his friend, relate to him, talk to him about stuff other than football. what a damn idiot. its football and he is the coach, dumb blockhead.
Irish have you actually been around black folks for real…..I mean actually apart of the conversation…..we talk real aggressive, say how we feel regardless whose present, I have made white folks feel real uncomfortable around me just for talking about a old lauryn hill soundtrack but when white folk are conversing I can adapt very easily. Its not racists to suggest maybe chip did not “get the lingo” and felt uncomfortable around black people, trust me we know when yawl aint feeling what we talking about, but I think chip just getting value for a guy who wasnt gonna sign back next year
zilents44,
we talk real aggressive, say how we feel regardless whose present, I have made white folks feel real uncomfortable around me just for talking about a old lauryn hill soundtrack but when white folk are conversing I can adapt very easily.
That’s wonderful… You would be hard pressed to make me uncomfortable with any conversation, and I sure doubt that’s what Boykin is considering “grown man culture”.
Boykin loved philly and is feeling hurt right now
I’m still laughing at the “grown men” bit.
Boykin wanted a legitmate opportunity to win an Outside CB Spot Position with the Eagles and he didn’t get that Chance for the Coach’s and the previous Staff feel his Best Position is a Slot CB and not on the Outside.. That’s what Boykin is pissed about
Both Coach Kelly and Davis said Boykin would have a chance to compete at the Outside CB Position and it never happened…
Lets see where he ends up with the Steelers who have needs at both outside and slot CB so Boykin will have his chance to play outside
Its all about winning! Chip has put himself in the position that if he loses all of this stuff comes into play from Boykin, Shady, Mathis, and every player he has gotten rid of…
The Coach should have the players he wants and if he wins he gets the credit. But if he fails and it falls apart…no excuses
Its all on Chip!
What has he won
its ridiculous…we all know what Boykin wanted…a fair shot at starting and to be frank he deserved a shot last year when Bradley Fletcher was getting toasted. Boykin said nothing about Chip being ‘racist’. What does ‘comfortable’ mean? If I’m with a group of Eskimos will I be ‘culturally’ ‘comfortable with them…no and it has nothing to do with race.
The race inference is due to one reason and one reason only-
Riley Cooper.
As long as he is on the team, bitter former Eagles may take a shot at Chip…the players are basically saying: “why am I-a talented contributor to the team- let go and racist Riley is still on this team..
Chip should cut Cooper and all of this racist stuff will go away!
Its Inuit you twit.
Koolbreeze, I don’t agree with you much, but you are 100% spot on with this post!!!
Dumb ass… the Inuit are from Canada but it is the Yupik in Alaska…but since most people are not familiar with this I’ll stick to Eskimos…one thing we know we can always call you Vinniedaloser-Fool ass!
This covers it all!