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Jackson walked into Chip Kelly’s office, wanting to know why he had been demoted. It was early and it was all very new and veterans like Jackson were trying to figure out what their head coach was all about. Curiosity turned to frustration when Jackson found himself in an unsettling position. “There were times when I was going with the threes, times when I was going with the twos, things like that,” said Jackson in a one-on-one conversation with Birds 24/7. “There was a point where I went into Chip Kelly’s office and talked to him face-to-face to see what was going on with that.”
Reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
Kelly told Jackson what he has stated publicly: that there is no depth chart, everyone on the roster will get a shot and nothing will be handed to you based purely on past performance. “He just expects everyone to do things a certain way,” said Jackson. "He was asking everybody to do the same thing. For myself, I just had to really hear it from his mouth to get that rapport with him and be on the same page with him. ... The best thing I did was go talk to him instead of just sitting back and being mad. ..." As Philly.com's Tim McManus notes, Kelly requires all of his skill players to be familiar with everyone else’s position. It’s essential in what TEs coach Ted Williams calls a “musical chairs” offense, where anyone can line up anywhere at any time. Jackson wasn’t as well-versed as Kelly wanted him to be. The 26-year-old admits that it’s been an adjustment going from Reid to Kelly. Jackson, a six-year veteran, said he is being asked to do certain things that he hasn’t done since college. From all the sports science to the radical tempo change, there is a new-wave approach that can take some getting used to -- and that includes the occasional, temporary demotion.
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