Trent Baalke called hiring Chip Kelly an easy decision for the San Francisco 49ers.

"At the end of the day, this was a fairly easy decision," Baalke said about hiring Kelly. "It was evident early on in our conversations with Chip that he shared a very similar vision to us with respect to the direction of this football team. He's a well-rounded, highly innovative coach with a proven track record of success at every level of competition, including the NFL.

"He's a strong leader of men and somebody I really consider a true football guy."

A reporter asked if Kelly had plans to make changes to his up-tempo offense, which seemed to lose efficiency as his Eagles tenure wore on:

"I think we're receptive to anything that's going to help us win football games and I know the difficult of what we do offensively does to defenses. We'll look at anything."