McCoy: no beef with Smith, but Osi ...
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McCoy: no beef with Smith, but Osi ...
Jonathan Tamari
BETHLEHEM, PA -- LeSean McCoy tried to tamp down concern about any feud with new teammate Steve Smith today, but made it clear he's not ready to end his war of words with the Giants' Osi Umenyiora.
"He’s a teammate of mine, there’s no hard feelings, whatever happened is in the past," McCoy said of Smith, but added, "Now if it’s Osi it’s a different story."
When Smith signed with the Eagles and arrived in camp, the initial interaction between him and McCoy was chilly, according to both players. Today, McCoy tried to put that behind him.
"He's a new member of our team, we embraced him, happy to have him, he could help us out," McCoy said. He said he hadn't interacted much with Smith, though, because the receiver has been rehabilitating from knee surgery and not participating in practice. "I don’t really know him too well, I haven’t really seen him too much."
McCoy and Umenyiora feuded on Twitter over the summer after McCoy wrote that the Giant is "soft" and "overrated." Smith came to Umenyiora's defense, tweeting about "youngins running their mouth" and including a picture of an empty Eagles trophy case.
McCoy also talked about the lofty expectations for this season as the Eagles broke training camp.
"The sky’s the limit, as long as we don’t get too arrogant, too cocky. Be humble, take each game at a time, we should be fine. The talent and the coaching is definitely there," he said.
moose man, not sure if you speak from personal experience or not but I doubt it. No one should be commenting on how good or bad someone is if you don't know them personally. Just because you "know" them because they play for your favorite football (or other sport) team doesn't mean you actually know them. For all we "know" the other guys you mentioned could have been the scum of the earth off the field.— amg- Win a superbowl. Otherwise, keep quiet! Spend more time focusing on that goal, and less time yapping.— arrowamy
- Do you really think the Lady Gaga crack was a good one? That was the weakest attempt at a comeback I've ever heard. It was no doubt amusing, but amusing in the 'I'm laughing at you, not with you, Osi' kind of way. That being said, what was the point of Shady making that comment anyways? Shut up and play.
p.s. Osi made many comments to many new stations, magazines, newspapers in regards to Shady's comments. Who's Lady Gaga again?— mayspot20 - ..osi likes dudes
- ..."shady" dudes
- New York Post online today has this article below:
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"I'm just here to play football," he said.
(HTML deleted)— frank105 - ...sure he is. we'll stay what he says when the giants are 3-6.
- New York Post online has different version of this story, they say McCoy refused to talk to Steve Smith this week and is still mad...read story for yourself now at New York Post.— frank105
- why the man gotta "shut up"? let him say whatever he wants! he's out there just like everybody else. this ain't little league...— phillyboy88
- Trash talk.................soon to be an Olympic sport.— Craig321
- so let me get this right...the only time you can say anything in this league is if you've won a Super Bowl? and until then keep your mouth shut? otherwise you are immature and have a big mouth? wow...then I guess 90% of the league's players can't open their mouths. better get that memo out to all the guys! Don't say nothin' until you win a ring! idiotic...— phillyboy88
- I wonder if Giants management made the same comments to Osi when he asked for a new contract???— Philly Dom
- Really? Who cares! Just play football...tweet that!— Phillyfan666
- I agree with Cool1. When we get rings, we can talk!— phillynupe4
- The Giants haven't beaten the Eagles since before Plaxico Burress shot himself. Also, Coughlin sucks. I don't care if he has a SB ring, he still sucks.— p-diddy
