The nearest prop Jerry Azzinaro could find was a plastic bottle of Heinz relish.
Speaking to reporters at the Novacare Complex Monday afternoon, the new Eagles’ defensive line coach was asked to explain Chip Kelly’s “outside-the-box” thinking when it comes to football.
“In every situation that you go into, you’re trying to figure out ways that you can optimize your talent,” Azzinaro, who spent the past four seasons at Oregon, said. “Is that thinking out of the box? I don’t know about that. I just know that you try not to fit round pegs into a square hole. You try to investigate everything that you can from a sports science standpoint.
“Is that really good relish to be feeding our guys?” he asked, pointing to the bottle on the table. “Is that filled with sodium? Is that filled with sugar? Well, that’s the way we think. Is that out of the box? I don’t know that. Is that being detail-oriented? I don’t know that. But I know that it’s important that if my guys are going to come in here and eat here that I need to understand what’s going on in that relish bottle.”
If you haven’t noticed, Kelly has a specific way he plans on tending to every aspect of the Eagles’ football operation.
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Billy Davis sat at the head of one of the cafeteria tables inside the NovaCare Complex Monday, surrounded by a swarm of reporters trying to get a feel for one of Chip Kelly’s most curious hires. Certainly his most important.
Eventually, the subject of Davis’ less-than-sizzling resume as defensive coordinator came up. His units ranked 32nd and 26th in his two seasons as DC in San Francisco. In Arizona, his defense finished 20th and 29th in yards. Those are not the most comforting statistics for fans who have little else to go off of.
“In my past I’ve got good stats and I’ve got bad stats, like most people,” said Davis. “There are a lot of reasons for all of it, I’ve got no excuses for any of them. Everywhere I’ve been I have had good people, I’ve learned lessons from those experiences and I think I have gotten better because of it. It’s something I’m bringing to the Eagles now, I’ve got some experience in calling games and working schemes and game-planning and adjusting. At the end of the day we’re problem solvers. You learn from your experience and you move forward.”
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