LeSean McCoy looked the Eagles in the face and decided he wasn’t going to blink on a contract restructure. In the end Chip Kelly simply traded the veteran to the Buffalo Bills.
Josina Anderson of ESPN is reporting that McCoy is shocked and confused by the trade.
[Full one tweet version] A source close to LeSean McCoy to me on how the #Eagles RB feels about news of an (cont) http://t.co/qQ2JHGopTC
— Josina Anderson (@JosinaAnderson) March 4, 2015
A source close to McCoy to me on whether the trade news was a surprise: “Honestly we were under the impression the whole time, that eventually at some point, Chip [Kelly] was going to ask LeSean to restructure his contract–not a pay cut, but convert some of his signing bonus.”
A source close to McCoy on whether they believe McCoy will make a trade to Buffalo difficult, in light of McCoy’s initial reaction to the news: “It’ll be interesting to see how this process plays itself out because he’s an interesting individual. In your mind, when you think of Buffalo you think of cold and losing games. It’s not like it’s the Philadelphia market where you’re always on t.v. and you’re playing for the division title…It was unexpected. I’ll tell you that much.”
A source close to LeSean McCoy on how the #Eagles RB feels about news of an agreement to trade him to Buffalo: “He’s a Pennsylvania kid. He’s never played football outside of Pennsylvania—high school, college, pro. So of course he’s not happy. Sounds like it’s pretty final to me unless LeSean is refusing to go to Buffalo.”
Guys in the NFL have to understand the business and the contracts. The idea that McCoy really thought he’d play for the Eagles making almost $11 million a season is laughable. So either he’s delusional about the system or his agent Drew Rosenhaus did a horrible job preparing him.