Cary Williams - the man affectionately known around the Delaware Valley as "Sconces" - has never been shy about sharing his opinion.
Williams, now a member of the Seattle Seahawks, recently appeared on a Seattle radio program and took the opportunity to lay a pretty heavy smackdown on his former team, the Philadelphia Eagles, and former head coach, Chip Kelly.
"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 said while appearing on the Brock and Salk show on 710 ESPN, via MyNorthwest.com. "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. 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."
Williams did refer to Kelly as a "great coach," so there's that at least.
Now a member of the Seahawks after spending the previous two seasons with the Eagles, Williams said he much prefers the approach of the Seattle coaching staff and recounted the Philly team's mindset heading into a clash between the two sides last year - a game the Seahawks won handily, 24-14.
"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," he said. "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."
Williams, of course, openly questioned Kelly's methods after a 37-34 victory over the Washington Redskins in Week 3 last year.
"I'm going to be honest with you: It didn't matter if we had a short week or a long week, it's been the same. Something needs to change for us to be more productive. It's tough enough to go out there and play hard for 60 minutes, let alone having to fight through the week," Williams said at the time, via Matt Lombardo of NJ.com.
"When you don't have legs, period, it shows up in the game. Period. Throughout the game. Period."
Williams said that now that he's a member of the Seahawks, he sees a much bigger difference in the coaching staff's approach - he said the Seattle coaches "give you everything they've got" and create a fun work atmosphere - which was readily apparent in that game which the Seahawks so handily dominated last year. He also couldn't resist one final shot at the Eagles coaches and, presumably, Kelly.
"One, they were fresher," he said of the Seattle players. "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."
