Even though he has a new address all the way across the country, Cary Williams hasn’t stopped yapping about the Eagles and Chip Kelly.
Williams, released by the Eagles March 3, blasted Kelly in a radio interview Tuesday, saying the Eagles were poorly coached and unprepared late last year and adding that Kelly’s method "isn't necessarily the right way of doing things.”
Williams, who signed with the Seahawks in March, made the comments on radio station 710 AM, an ESPN affiliate in Seattle.
"I enjoyed my teammates, I enjoyed some of the coaches but ultimately we didn't get the job done, and there was reasoning for that," Williams told the radio station.
“Whatever that is they're creating, I didn’t believe it. We went to one playoff game, we had a home playoff game and we lost that (to the Saints in 2013). And it was his first year, I understand that.
“I think he's a great coach, a tremendous coach. I just think that what’s going on there isn’t necessarily the right way of doing things, of winning games.
“He’s won games, but when you're going against elite talent, elite players, elite teams, elite schemes, we weren’t able to get the job done.”
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Williams signed a three-year, $17 million deal with the Eagles in the spring of 2013 and started every game over the last two years with uneven results.
He was due to earn $6.5 million this year and currently counts $1.67 million against the Eagles’ cap.
The Seahawks, who lost starting corner Byron Maxwell to the Eagles, signed Williams to a three-year, $18 million deal including $7 million guaranteed.
Williams criticized Kelly at times during his two years here, mainly for his up-tempo practices, which Williams claimed left the players exhausted on gameday.
“It's hard to go out there and fight for 60 minutes when you’re fighting throughout the week to make it through one practice,” Williams said last September. “When you don't have legs, period, it shows up in games.”
Later in the year, Williams said Kelly had responded to his concerns and those of his teammates by changing the team’s practice schedule.
But on Tuesday, he said the team’s 1-3 finish after a 9-3 start was at least partially the result of Kelly’s high-octane practice routine.
Williams singled out the Eagles’ 24-14 loss to his current team, the Seahawks, in early December.
The Seahawks won by only 10 points, but they manhandled the Eagles, outgaining them by 301 yards. It was the Eagles’ largest yardage differential at home in more than half a century, and the loss started the Eagles on a three-game December losing streak that left them out of the playoff hunt.
“We was talking about the fact that our conditioning and things like was going to kick in because we worked harder than everybody in the National Football League with the Chip Kelly thing,” Williams told the radio station.
“We got out there, we got our teeth kicked in. So all that conditioning didn't necessarily work. Preparation wasn't necessarily the greatest neither that week.
“When you're going up against teams that prepare well, practice well, coach well, it's difficult in games like that. I think towards the end of the year we were exhausted and we got outcoached the majority of the games.”
The Seahawks outgained the Eagles 440-139, with Russell Wilson racking up 263 passing yards and two TD passes against Williams and the Eagles’ secondary.
“One, they were fresher," he said of his new team. "Two, they were more physical. And I think in the National Football League, physicality is huge and you need that physicality in order to win games.
“Coaching is a part of it, too.”