Chip Kelly stood beside the projector and drew a black rectangle behind a jumble of Xs and O’s. It signified an ambulance, oddly intermingling with receivers and linebackers on the white screen at a coaching clinic.
Moments earlier, UCLA’s new football coach had shown several dozen high school coaches gathered inside the Wasserman Football Center some of the counter moves the Washington Redskins famously used with their offensive linemen. Kelly noted how a young coach with players not properly schooled in the scheme might have watched them smack directly into each other behind the line of scrimmage.
The coaches chuckled at the image, the lighthearted moment commencing a lively two hours in which Kelly held everyone’s attention with more than his football wisdom.