“I won’t forget the first time I saw Jason Peters do a one-on-one pass set with Trent Cole and being amazed at the speed, balance, and power I just witnessed. It looked like a grizzly bear wrestling a panther. It was so impressive it made me question if I was good enough to play in this league. I watched the next couple guys go and thought, ‘OK, I can do this.’ I won’t forget Thirsty Thursdays at 879, a bar owned by Brent Celek and Todd Herremans that stayed open a whole six months because nobody paid for a drink. Poor business practices indeed, that bar may have closed quickly, but the friendships had forged remain open to this day
“I won’t forget my second Training Camp, walking downstairs of my Lehigh dorm to paramedics rushing in and Coach Dave Culley’s look on his face and made the expression ‘like he had seen a ghost’ a whole lot clearer. I asked if I can help. He said no, just go to practice. We’d find out later at practice that Garrett Reid had passed away. Only a few hours after that, Andy addressed the team. The most intense moment I’ve ever shared with a group of men. The outpouring of support and love for my friend and the Reid family at the funeral soon after, it was truly remarkable.
“I won’t forget Chip Kelly’s first game as Eagles head coach against the Washington Redskins. We ran close to 50 plays in the first half. We were so tired, but it didn’t matter, because they couldn’t stop us. The NFL had never seen something like this before. I remember all of us thinking after that game, this is going to change the NFL. I won’t forget walking out onto a snowless field before warmups against the Detroit Lions and then walking out of the tunnel to a blizzard. The Lions and white jerseys blended into the snow so well, I could not see the secondary of the defense. And the second half was all LeSean McCoy. He somehow figured out a way to cut on a dime that day and man, it was incredible to watch. It was probably the most fun game of football I’ve ever been in. It felt like we were all kids again that day, just playing in the backyard. I won’t forget finding out in the 2017 Rams game that Carson Wentz had tore his ACL. The whole team had an uneasy feeling in the locker room. All of us questioning what this would mean. Until Malcolm Jenkins addressed the team. He gave a very typical Malcolm speech, invoking confidence in who we were and breaking it down with this patented, ‘We all we got, we all we need.’
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