Chip Kelly hasn't received assurance from Jed York that he'll be back with the 49ers in 2017, but that doesn't mean he isn't receiving support. Today, Kelly, who is 1-11 in his first season with the team, said the York family was "unbelievable" in the way they responded after his father, Paul, died Friday night. Kelly said the York family arranged for a plane to take him from Chicago to New Hampshire that night. [...] they arranged for Kelly's girlfriend, Jill Cohen, to travel from the Bay Area to Chicago to meet Kelly.
Chip Kelly on support from Yorks: ‘They were godsends’
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