After three years coaching the Eagles and one year coaching the 49ers

Earl Mitchell jersey , Chip Kelly returned to his college roots this year as the head coach at UCLA. It is not going well.Kelly’s Bruins dropped to 0-4 on Friday night with a 38-16 loss to Colorado. It wasn’t just the fourth loss of the season but the fourth time the Bruins just didn’t look very competitive. UCLA’s remaining schedule doesn’t have any easy games on it, and an 0-12 finish is a real possibility.Although Kelly entered the NFL with a reputation he had earned at Oregon as an innovator, he now looks more like the inventor of the BlackBerry: He was once ahead of the curve, but as competitors adapted he stagnated, and he has now fallen behind.In San Francisco Kelly went 2-14, and he lost his last two games with the Eagles. Add those records to his four losses at UCLA and Kelly is 2-20 in his last 22 games as a head coach. For a coach who went 46-7 in four seasons at Oregon, that has to be hard to stomach.The key to beating the Chargers: don’t blitz The ancient Chinese philosophy of Taoism (or Daoism) has a key concept called wu-wei. It’s usually translated as “non-action,” which people then interpret to mean “sit on a couch and watch TV.”That’s not it at all.The exact meaning of wu-wei is subtle Authentic K'Waun Williams jersey , but it’s much closer to, “acting without trying so damn hard.” Or, “relax and do your thing.” Or, as football coaches say, “let the game come to you.”That’s what George Lucas was getting at when Yoda said, “Do. Or do not. There is no try.”Defensive coordinator Robert Saleh needs a little wu-wei to handle the Chargers today. Phillip Rivers is a master at beating blitzes by finding the holes they just opened up, and you can’t give him those opportunities.Now, you might say Youth Joe Staley jersey , “Hey Mark, I don’t know about all your weird taoish Chinese philosophy stuff, but I know that most of the Niners secondary is out injured. Their replacements are going to need some help to control this explosive offense.”And that’s an excellent point! I couldn’t have said it better myself.But that’s exactly why we can’t throw them up against Phillip Rivers’ strength, undermanned. Those DBs, the Jimmie Wards and Antone Exum Jrs, are going to have to step up, and they need their help to come from a four-man rush.It sould be doable, because the Chargers have a terrible offensive line. And SF has three top ten picks available to rotate into their defensive front.PFF ranked the Chargers OL 29th in the league last week 49ers Arik Armstead Jersey , and that was up from 30th the week before. (The Niners were 12th.) Analyst Michael Renner wrote:So if you can deny him targets for a little longer, good things will happen. Especially if you look at San Diego’s weakest link: left guard Dan Feeney, who earned a 29.2 grade. That puts him in the same tier of pass blockers as Zane Beadles and Queen Elizabeth II. The strength of San Francisco’s pass rush, on the other hand, is inside. DeForest Buckner, Solomon Thomas and Arik Armstead still haven’t reached their potential, but even so they have 32 pressures in 3 games. This would be an excellent time for them to justify the high picks spent on them. Heck, if anything Cheap DeForest Buckner Jersey , the Niners should try rushing three and dropping another pass defender from time to time. Sometimes double-teaming a pass rusher helps. But other times, it makes it easier to split the blockers, or confuse them with stunts, or beat them with a delayed rusher. Two blockers need to communicate with each other and can even be tricked into setting picks on each other.This will be a very tough game, facing an elite offense with half the secondary and the Niners’ own QB out. But Saleh has to resist to temptation to “just do something!” The defensive line will either do, or do not. And if they don’t, blitzing will only make it worse.