CALLED IT!!!! Not on here but elsewhere.
It's not so much that his system didn't work because it worked fine back when he wasn't the GM. What happened is he took over being GM and immediately started trading away, cutting, or just letting walk popular players from that team.
McCoy . . . Gone
Maclin . . . Gone
Mathis . . . Gone
When you do stuff like that you are on a really short leash.
If some GM came in and took over the Colts and traded away Andrew Luck, TY Hilton, and Robert Mathis and the Colts the season had a losing season, I wouldn't want to give him time I'd want that idoit fired.
Chip Kelly could coach in the NFL. . . Maybe not exceptionally well but well enough. He can't be a GM in the NFL. He outsmarted himself.