It might look something like what the Eagles' Chip Kelly is running here

If Baz Luhrmann were directing a football practice, it might look something like what the Eagles' Chip Kelly is running here.

There's loud, pulsating music. There's movement -- lots and lots of movement -- with players seemingly outrunning airplanes in the distance. There's a computer-generated voice announcing the start of each practice period. And there's an energy that is frenzied, with drills run at a lightning pace.

It's strange. It's unconventional. It's a sensory overload.

"It's exciting," said quarterback Dennis Dixon.

I won't deny that. There's plenty at Kelly's mandatory minicamp you haven't witnessed elsewhere, including three young men dressed as human flyswatters. Honest. They rush the quarterback by walking at him, with screens that extend from their shoulders up and over their heads to encourage passers to throw high.

Everything is designed to maximize time spent on the field, and the Eagles clocked in at just under two hours Tuesday. So call it a success. But I don't care how fast or unusual workouts are, the only question that matters at this week's minicamp is this: Will it work in the pros?

"I'm curious," said Dixon, who played for Kelly at the University of Oregon. "Everybody is curious. But if everybody buys in to what Chip Kelly is selling, the expectations for this offense can go a long, long way. As you've seen in this league, [what Kelly is promoting] is sprinkling around various teams, but to have a clear-cut system where people say we can't do this ... everybody is curious. And we are, too."

They should be. What you see in Philadelphia is not what has been seen here before. Forget the Andy Reid years. What Kelly is selling -- movement, misdirection, and a pace that wide receiver DeSean Jackson characterized as operating at "100 miles per hour" -- is foreign to virtually anything we've seen since the Buffalo Bills rode the K-Gun offense to four straight Super Bowls.

But the Bills had a mother lode of talent, including a Hall of Fame quarterback, receiver, running back and pass rusher. The Eagles have a mistake-prone Michael Vick overseeing an offense that misfired last season and a defense that flat-out stunk. So why should Kelly's approach straighten them out?

"Because I've seen it work," Dixon said. "As I said, everybody has to buy in to what Chip Kelly is selling, and everybody is doing that at a high level right now. If everyone is on the same page to make this go, the sky's the limit."

Of course, everyone hasn't been on the same page the last two years in Philadelphia, with the club committing 75 turnovers the past two seasons -- including a league-high 37 last season, tying the Eagles with two others. Kelly tolerates mistakes as readily as he tolerates wasted time, and persons who attended previous practices said he'll pull a player -- or an entire unit, for that matter -- if that player commits a mistake.

"That's how Chip Kelly is," Dixon said. "He wants perfection, but at a fast pace, too. The No. 1 thing you have to do in this offense is to be under control. We want to be able to go fast, but at the same time we have to be going fast, be under control and do what we're supposed to be doing."

That message is clear. When the Eagles broke into team workouts, their offense ran at two-minute speed, with four snaps per minute. During one special-teams period, Kelly had wide receivers working on routes within 30 yards of the punter. Seven-on-sevens sped up. Five quarterbacks threw simultaneously in one drill. And all the time this was going on, rap, rock, R&B, you name it, blasted away over a pair of loudspeakers, stopping only when the Eagles broke into periods titled "Teach," which they did three times.

"This offense is so fast paced," said running back LeSean McCoy, "that you get so many people out of alignment and out of place that it creates big seams. There's so much misdirection you don't know where the ball is. And we're going at a high tempo."

In fact, they're going at a higher tempo than Dixon remembers at Oregon.

"It's a lot faster here in the pros," he said. "The reason I think it can work is that you have 11 guys on the same page who are going really, really fast -- laterally, everywhere -- but at the same time who are under control. Once everyone gets in rhythm it will be great."