LeSean McCoy: Bills Have 'More Of An NFL Type Of Feel' Than Eagles
By Ray Boyd
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- There has not appeared to be any love lost between LeSean McCoy and the Eagles since the team shipped McCoy north in exchange for linebacker Kiko Alonso. McCoy was in Buffalo on Monday and made some statements to the media that may come across as jabs at his former coach, Chip Kelly.
"[Buffalo] is more of an NFL type of feel," McCoy said to NFL Network as he tried to explain the differences between Buffalo and Philadelphia.
"Being with Coach Reid for so long you get used to something like that. Your coach is a player's coach. The NFL type of personality and atmosphere in the locker room and around the facility and for two years in Philly, it wasn't like that."
In case you were wondering, those two years that McCoy was referencing were the last two under Kelly.
"Not in a negative way, but it was just different," McCoy said as he qualified upcoming remarks about Kelly's way of running things. "It's more like the college feel," McCoy said of the recent Eagles. "It kind of was cool because I only did two years at Pitt," he added jokingly.
"Being back to just an NFL type of scenery, I like it. It lets the players become players, be players, have your full personality and letting it show without it being an issue so I like it."
It seems like McCoy was not all too pleased with what he characterizes as a restrictive Eagles locker room. Kelly obviously came to Philadelphia after running a successful Oregon program so it is not hard to understand why he would run the Eagles similarly to the way he ran Oregon.
Perhaps that explains the influx of former Ducks that Kelly is pointed out for bringing to Philadelphia. They should be used to the way Kelly runs things as it looks like McCoy was not.
McCoy had his most productive NFL seasons under Kelly, but it appears that there was some sort of personality clash between the two.
Have the Eagles separated with key talents like McCoy and DeSean Jackson because of the reasons we have been told or is there something about the way Kelly does things that doesn't sit well with NFL players?
