Running back insists he wasn’t showing up old coach Chip Kelly

If showing up his old head coach was LeSean McCoy’s motivation for a dazzling display of running on Sunday, he wouldn’t say.

The running back helped his Buffalo Bills negate Sunday’s blustery conditions by carving the San Francisco 49ers defence for 140 yards on just 19 carries (a 7.4-yard average) and three running touchdowns.

McCoy’s production in Philadelphia had been exceptional since being drafted in 2009, but it took a downturn when Chip Kelly took over in 2013 as head coach. After the 2014 season, Kelly traded an unhappy McCoy to Buffalo.

Kelly is now head coach in San Francisco. Last year a bitter McCoy essentially accused Kelly of being racist.

“No, I’m past that,” McCoy said on Sunday.