Chip Kelly stays with Eagles

Being Eagles head coach Chip Kelly's right-hand man and his eyes and ears during the season isn't a bad job at all. (Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports)

As the Eagles continue to look for a top personnel man to sit at the right hand of Chip Kelly and advise him on the draft, free agency and any other move the team might make, word getting out is this isn't a good job.

More than one report has called it nothing more than being a "yes man'', others have quoted some top personnel man as saying basically who would want a job like that.

Reality is, it's a pretty good job, depending on what your current job entails.

No, you would not have final say of the Eagles' draft picks, or any personnel move for that matter. But only 32 people in the league have final say. If you don't have final say where you are now, then it isn't any different.

And while you don't have "final'' say, you would have a say, a big say, to match a big salary. If the reports of Howie Roseman making $1.7 million are true, and there is no reason to think that are not, the Eagles pay better than a lot of teams.

The man hired, and the latest on the list is Green Bay's Eliot Wolf (more on him later), would have a huge impact on the organization. He would be Kelly's right-hand man, his eyes and ears through the course of the season.

Kelly has a team to coach. He's not going anywhere from July to January, although he did go on a few short scouting trips with Tom Gamble, the new personnel boss is going to be the guy on the road, gathering all the important data the head coach needs.

If Kelly says he wants a cornerback, the new guy will hand him a list with the top five available in the draft; and the top five available in free agency. Then, Kelly will look it over and decide who fits what he wants best.

Get the right guy and this could work out brilliantly.

What the new guy can't have is a big ego. What he could have is a bright future.

Which gets us back to Wolf.

When word broke Tuesday that he was next on the Eagles' list, I had one person tell me, "he'll never leave Green Bay.'' And another tell me "he just might.''

Wolf is the son of Ron Wolf, the man who resurrected the Packers from the depths of the league to a perennial playoff team and is now a borderline Hall of Famer.

Eliot, 32, has been around the game his whole life and despite his youth has been in the Packers' organization for 11 years. While those who feel he will never leave "Titletown'' think he is being groomed to eventually take over for current GM Ted Thompson and sit in the seat his father one did, others feel he may need to leave to prove he's more than just Ron Wolf's son.

The Eagles' job is a good one for him, and many other personnel people in the league who are second, or third, in the chain of command.

It's also kind of a win-win. If the Eagles do well, the personnel man will be able to write his ticket for any "final say'' job that opens. If it fails, he can just blame it all on Kelly and walk away unscathed.

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