IT WAS Chip Kelly who trudged into the media tent Monday on a brisk, gray afternoon, and not, say, Jeffrey Lurie stepping to the microphone to announce a coaching change. So the assembled reporters, still reeling from what sure felt like a pair of era-defining Eagles losses last week, could latch onto that as a starting point.
Write down in notebook: Chip still here.
The next 20 minutes veered back and forth between two parallel tracks: questions about Kelly's future - whether he might want to or have to leave this 4-7 mess he has created - and questions about the mess itself, why it exists and what Kelly can do about it, with an unpromising visit to the New England Patriots looming this weekend.