Brandon Boykin, like DeSean Jackson and LeSean McCoy before him, believes Chip Kelly struggles to relate to black athletes, who have strong personalities and lack maturity.
In a text message to Comcast SportsNet’s Derrick Gunn, Boykin said Kelly is “uncomfortable around grown men of our culture.”
“He can’t relate and that makes him uncomfortable,” Boykin added in the text message. “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.”
It’s another attempt to crush Kelly and subtly and subliminally cast him as a racist, with Boykin seeming to suggest that Kelly is uncomfortable with mature African-American athletes. Does that mean Chip prefers immature ones?
And the evidence suggest otherwise when you examine the guys Kelly has parted ways with. I’ll wait for anyone to vouch for DeSean Jackson or LeSean McCoy as the most mature of players.
The black players drafted or signed by Kelly since he became head coach in 2013 — Malcolm Jenkins, Jordan Matthews, DeMarco Murray, Nelson Agholor and Eric Rowe are strong, mature men, of our culture.
Left tackle Jason Peters is of our culture, as is Darren Sproles, Fletcher Cox, Byron Maxwell and others.
