In the long-ago offseason of 2015, then-Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy spent his spring making one fact perfectly clear: he really, really, really didn't like Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly.
The Eagles traded McCoy—the franchise's all-time leading rusher, to this day—to the Bills on March 10 of that year. On April 6, the running back that Kelly didn't like or respect "stars" like himself or wide receiver DeSean Jackson. In May, "Shady"On Wednesday, McCoy and Jackson revisited the trade nine years later in a retrospective.
" Drew Rosenhaus, he called me. He said 'Shady, it's not a joke'—that's the first thing he says to me. He doesn't even say, 'Hello,'" McCoy remembered. "He says, 'Shady, the Eagles are trading you to the Buffalo Bills.'""I say, 'Hey, man. Stop playing, man. What you want, man?'" McCoy said. "He said, 'I'm not playing, Shady. They're trading you.
McCoy remembered assuming Philadelphia would get a haul in return, but was surprised to learn he was being traded for linebacker Kiko Alonso straight up.