Past and present Eagles players are talking about what their head coach, Doug Pederson, did on Sunday night in place of quarterback Jalen Hurts for Nate Sudfeld, compromising his team’s chance of defeating Washington. The Giants are calling for what their head coach, Joe Judge, said in response to Pederson’s games, which helped cost the Giants a playoff shot.
“I think it was an extraordinary message from the head coach,” defender Blake Martinez said on Tuesday. “It’s something that has inspired us since Day 1. Always competing, always being ready to play, always putting us in the right position to win games. I think it was just a great way to do that. ”
The judge, without mentioning the Eagles or Pederson, said on Monday: “In order not to respect the effort made by everyone to make this season a success for the National Football League, not to respect the game, going out there and not competing for time. 60 minutes and doing everything you can to help those players win. We will never do that as long as I am the head coach of the New York Giants. ”
As he watched the Eagles fall to Washington 20-14 – eliminating the Giants in the postseason – defender James Bradberry said he stood out a little more than Pederson’s quarterback.
“The Eagles defense is playing very well,” Bradberry said. “I felt like an offensive from the Eagles that I didn’t really succeed. Of course they made that late change of quarterback in the fourth quarter. But watching the whole game, I didn’t question the coaches’ decisions and things, I was just impressed by how well the Eagles defense played. The game was very close, they weren’t playing for nothing and I’ve been in that situation before, so I know how things can be as a player. So I was glad he was playing hard. ”
The safety of rookie Xavier McKinney intercepted in the final seconds of the season’s final victory over the Cowboys and then immediately gave an old tweet from Fox Sports rabble-rouser and Cowboys fan Skip Bayless.
“Yeah, man, I didn’t even get to see her when she first said it and I saw her, someone mentioned it to me, probably a few days ago,” McKinney said. “So I had a little bit in my bag, trying to play with it a little bit.”
Bayless, on April 24, took to Twitter to post her thoughts on the Giants taking McKinney with the 36th general election in the project: “I’m glad the Giants have taken Bama’s safety, Xavier McKinney, I didn’t want to Cowboys to take.
McKinney not long after receiving his first NFL interception to eliminate Cowboys from playoff dispute replied on Twitter to Bayless: “Happy New Year’s Eve” with an eye-catching emoji.
The judge said once saw saw McKinney interception and jumping around his first reaction was “to stay in the fucking head.” McKinney admitted it wasn’t his first thought.
“In college, I remember I caught one and I was in the final zone, it was the end of the game and it was about the same scenario, and in college, I caught the interception and got on one knee,” McKinney said. said. “Everyone said, ‘Man, you have to exhaust her.’ So when I received it, as soon as I caught it, my first instinct was just to leave, because I was trying to take it away, to be honest, but I heard Logan [Ryan], I really heard Logan tell me to go down, and as soon as I heard that, I slipped and was pleased with the end result. “