The Eagles’ players in the past and present sound about what their head coach, Doug Pederson, did on Sunday night, and fullback Jalen Hurts compared to Nate Sudfeld, which hurt his team’s chances of beating Washington. Giant players sound about what their head coach, Joe Judge, said in response to Pederson’s antics, which helped cost the Giants a chance in the playoffs.
“I think it was a great message from coach Judge,” linebacker Blake Martinez said Tuesday. ‘This is something he has instilled in us since Day 1. Always competing, always ready to play, and always putting us in the right position to win matches. I think it was just a great way to tackle it. ‘
Judge, without naming the Eagles or Pederson, said on Monday: ‘To despise the effort everyone made to make the National Football League a success this season, to despise the game by going out there and not compete for 60 minutes and do everything to help the players win. We’ll never do that as long as I’m the head coach of the New York Giants. ”
Watching the Eagles drop to Washington 20-14 – and eliminating the Giants from the off-season – cornerback James Bradberry said something more striking to him than Pederson’s quarterback.
“The Eagles defense played really well,” Bradberry said. ‘I felt the Eagles offense was not really going on. Of course, they made that late quarter change in the fourth quarter. But when I watched the whole game, I did not really question the decisions and things of the coaches, I was just impressed with how well the Eagles defense played. The game was very close, they did not play anything, and I have been in the situation before, so I know how things can be as a player. So I was glad they played hard. ‘
Xavier McKinney, the safety of rookies, made the distinctive interception in the final seconds of the season that ended the season over the Cowboys, and then picked up an old tweet from Fox Sports’ robber and Cowboys fan Skip Bayless.
“Yeah, man, I did not even see it when he first said it, and I saw it, someone just mentioned it to me, probably a few days ago,” McKinney said. “I had a little in my suitcase and tried to play with it a little.”
Bayless took to Twitter on April 24 to post his thoughts on the giants taking McKinney with the 36th overall pick in the draft: ‘Glad the giants took Bama’s safety, Xavier McKinney, I did not want the Cowboys to do not take. ‘
McKinney not long after getting his first NFL interception to eliminate the Cowboys from the playoffs tweeted back at Bayless: “Happy Belated New Year’s Skip ” with a wink emoji.
Judge said as soon as he saw the interception and saw McKinney shoot at his first reaction, it was “to stay in the damn end zone.” McKinney admitted it was not his first thought.
“At university I remember catching one and being in the end zone, it was the end of the game, and it was just like in the same scenario, and at university I caught the interception and took a knee,” he said. said McKinney. said. “Everyone was like, ‘Man, you have to run out.’ ‘Once I got it, when I got it, my first instinct was just to go, because I was just trying to take it, to be honest, but I heard Logan [Ryan], really I heard Logan say I should get off, and as soon as I heard that, I just slipped and I was happy with the end result we got with it. ‘