Here we go again.
Another Eagle has taken aim at the Patriots and it's not Lane Johnson, it's offensive lineman Brandon Brooks.
After Eagles OTAs on Tuesday, Brooks sounded off on the Patriots to BleedingGreenNation.com, but used some pretty strange examples including Reggie Wayne retiring after spending a few weeks in training camp with the team a few years back, and then playing for Bill O'Brien in Houston.
“It’s crazy that people haven’t known this,” Brooks said. “It’s been this way for like a decade -- Reggie Wayne did it. He retired. He went there [to the Patriots] for a training camp and retired. [Expletive] is not fun there. I was under the same regime in Houston [with O’Brien]. I almost retired. [Expletive] was miserable, every day. Every day.
“I came in [as a rookie] under [Gary] Kubiak, who was just an older version of Doug [Pederson], then I went to O’Brien, who was Belichick, and then I came back to Doug, who’s like Kubes, so for me, man, [expletive] was great. Like, I cannot tell you how much better this is than it was down there. Like, it’s just night and day. What does [Eagles offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland] say? Happy workers make more productive workers. When you’re not having fun, man, those grinding, those hard-ass nosed days."
Apparently Johnson then stepped in and said his piece.
“All the media wants to talk about is rings,” Johnson said. “Rings. I’m going to get this ring and never wear it one day. I’m going to put it away in a box. The only thing you’re going to remember from your playing days, you’re not going to remember the scores. You’re going to remember the people you played with and how you felt. And that’s the truth. All these guys talking about ‘I’ll take the rings.’ OK. You can have your rings. You can also have [expletive] 15 miserable years.”
The Patriots will play the Eagles in Week 2 of the preseason.