The Eagles Dodged A HUGE Bullet With Bryce Huff After This...

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The Philadelphia Eagles made the decision to trade Bryce Huff earlier this offseason to the San Francisco 49ers. Huff signed a 3-year deal with the Eagles last offseason, but ultimately ended up getting benched as a healthy scratch in the Super Bowl. Huff discussed his thoughts on the Eagles departure and much more on a recent episode of TheSFNiners podcast, which certainly opened a lot of eyes. Today, RB discusses all of this and more!

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00:00The Philadelphia Eagles are coming off one of the best seasons in NFL history and not only did they

00:06stop a three-peat but they put on a dominant display in front of the entire world without

00:11their highest paid defensive player on the field and today we react to some quotes from that player

00:17who essentially admits that he quit on the team early in the season we'll talk about that and

00:23what he said about the dynamic with Vic Fangio's defense all that and more coming up welcome into

00:28A to Z Philly I'm RB and I want to start this off by saying I have nothing personal against Bryce

00:34Huff today we are only going off what he said in this interview and what he had to say about really

00:41the way things played out in Philadelphia so look nothing against Bryce Huff but I do not appreciate

00:47what he said about the Eagles because simply thinking about this right Bryce Huff went from

00:52undrafted to getting the highest contract ever for a non-quarterback undrafted player right he's done

00:59some great things in his career and I'm sure he's made his family very proud but the mentality that

01:05he is displaying is very quitter ish it's very whence ish in a way and I just I'm kind of shocked

01:14you know this was not on the agenda today but once I heard these quotes I knew I had to hop on here and

01:18talk about it so we'll get into it all the Eagles put on one of the best seasons I've ever seen like

01:25just not only as an Eagles fan as a football fan the sheer dominance week to week was incredible so

01:31I think his comments are off base here but let's talk about what Bryce Huff had to say shout out to

01:38the SF Niners YouTube page they had an interview with Bryce Huff obviously he was traded to the San

01:44Francisco 49ers and I'm sure he's probably doing better now health wise mentality wise earlier in

01:50the offseason he put out that cryptic Instagram post where he essentially you know was saying

01:55goodbye without saying goodbye and I think that's another thing that kind of bothers me too you didn't

01:59have to like the way things played out here in Philly but you could at least appreciate the fact that

02:04they made you the highest paid undrafted non-quarterback player ever you could at least appreciate the

02:10dominance that this team had in winning a Super Bowl but let's hear the first quote from Bryce Huff

02:14I know San Francisco like what's kind of like the what's kind of like the behind the scenes

02:21feel that goes into a trade yeah I mean honestly if I'm being 100% honest with you I wanted to trade

02:28like fairly early on and just because of how things went uh in Philly like I knew pretty like pretty

02:36early on that it wasn't a fit but like being a signing of that magnitude like being undrafted and

02:42going and getting that contract and being in Philly like the expectations are at an all-time high so

02:48I want to stop it right there first off he says I wanted to trade very early on was that week five

02:55when the Eagles were trying to rebound they were two and two was that after that right we started to hear

03:01rumblings about how you know Bryce Huff's snap count was going down and he wasn't really a Fangio guy

03:07and look I get it you're not everybody's cup of tea big Fangio is old-fashioned he's a very like

03:13a and b type of coach you know like business in order I don't care who you are where you come from

03:19how much you're making the best players are going to be on the field and that's something I really

03:22appreciate about big Fangio but one of the concerns about Bryce coming into the Eagles was you know

03:27he's a pass rush specialist he had a breakout season if we look at his stats right he had the

03:3310 sacks with the Jets he barely played half the snaps and they thought they could unlock more and

03:38sure maybe he wasn't a fit in the Fangio scheme which we all kind of alluded to when he was signed

03:43but he says that he wanted to trade very early on does that mean you weren't even willing to try

03:48to improve or get better and then he says signing here the magnitude the expectations were high

03:54well did you not expect that were you not willing to live up to that in Philly I knew a trade wasn't

04:00going to happen during the season um but I I just kind of like talking to my agent about I was like

04:05yeah when it's all said and done like I might need a step you know just to just to be able to put

04:11myself in the best position to to ball out and and have a fruitful career uh so this guy early on

04:18looked at Vic Fangio's defense and said yep I'm not a fit even though you probably had conversations

04:23with what your role was going to look like when you signed here or maybe Bryce Huff just saw all

04:28those zeros on the paper and he said you know what I don't care just pay me and we'll do what we have

04:33to do uh and there's a plethora of things that went down I don't want to get into specifics but

04:37of course I like being in the league for five five years last year I'm going into my six right now but

04:44being in the league for five years I kind of knew what it felt like for me to be uh what's the word

04:52to be in a good situation you know and that's just what I was like yeah I gotta I gotta look

04:58out for myself and there it is right there I gotta look out for myself he wasn't worried about the

05:03team winning he wasn't worried about the success the fact that they're breaking all these franchise

05:07records and they're going on wins he seems like he was just out mentally and he quit and he said you

05:14know what I just want to be in the best spot for me I want to make my money and do my thing and

05:18I'm not really worried about the team success and that's not the type of player that will thrive

05:22in a Vic Fangio system I want to listen to another quote that he had to say here because I think it's

05:28very telling again of his mindset and again I have nothing against him personally but when you make

05:33these types of quotes I'm just so glad that Harry Roseman traded this guy away and even got value

05:38back I didn't even think that would be the case based on his contract but the Eagles dodged a huge

05:44bullet let's take a listen to this one question I think this we can end it on this one so I can get

05:48you out of here um what's your biggest motivation this year honestly uh

05:55be playing uh somewhere where I was highly paid and I thought that was gonna bring me fulfillment and

06:06not and being somewhere where I was highly paid I thought that would bring me fulfillment aka cha-ching

06:13he wanted the dollars he didn't care about winning and ending up not being fulfilled in that

06:18environment kind of highlighted what made football special for me and I was playing with the group of

06:25guys that not the guys on the team but I think like the coaches so that genuinely felt like wanted to

06:32see me exceed succeed in this league you know what this reminds me of it's very Miami Dolphins-esque

06:41you know the Dolphins all those young immature players blamed Vic Fangio essentially here he's

06:47taking a shot at Vic Fangio saying he didn't want to see me succeed he didn't want to put me in the

06:50best situation it's always him him him never me never my fault well guess what Vic Fangio left the

06:57Dolphins they stunk he comes here and puts on one of the best displays by a defensive coordinator ever

07:03Bryce Huff probably went into the season thinking he was going to be the man

07:06had a rough start and guess what he quit it's Vic Fangio's fault he doesn't want to see me be better

07:11and you know it's just not the right situation for me and exceed everybody's expectations and that's

07:17what gave me a lot of uh value and and want to to kind of um ball out like that kind of put me over

07:27the edge and then also like being able to grow with the group of uh guys on the d-line like that that

07:34that that's what means everything to me and I was I'm not saying I didn't vibe with the guys in

07:39in Philly because I 100% did but like I know what this team brings out of people like in Philly like

07:44it was like interior was in one room outside was in another and it kind of put a little divide

07:50put a little divide you have to be kidding me Bryce Bryce come on man a divide this Eagles team not

07:58only were they dominant on the field they were some of the closest players the the close-knit group

08:05that I've ever seen in my life I mean everybody knew where everybody needed to be they knew when

08:11one piece moved on the chessboard the other one moved this way like they were so in sync it was

08:17unbelievable so he's he's mad that the interior defensive line were in one room and the edge rushers

08:23were in another room come on you know what this really states man he was the odd man out because

08:27he doesn't have that hungry mentality and when I think about this as a whole it kind of goes to

08:33speak about the strategy that how he's using the team building because we always talk about the fact

08:38that it's a financial decision right that Eagles are building with young players because they want

08:43to win on rookie contracts but what we don't talk about is that when those guys are on rookie contracts

08:48they're fighting 10 times harder because they want to earn that money they want to earn that contract and

08:55there is kind of this widespread demon sports nowadays where once guys get that big paycheck

09:01some of them take their foot off the gas pedal because they made everything for their families right

09:07they made it for the next 10 20 30 40 50 years their families can relax they have the money now and they

09:13kind of lose that motivation because not every player is super focused on winning so that's another thing

09:21in terms of not only being younger and athletic and less injury prone but when you have guys who

09:26are fighting on rookie contracts and that's how you're building your team now they're also 10 times

09:31hungrier because they want to go make that money and it just sounds like a guy in Bryce Huff's type of

09:36situation is just like yeah well you know I didn't fit and Vic Fangio didn't really want to see me get

09:42better and I made my money and the expectations were too high and honestly it's just giving off a weak

09:48mentality man that's just my take on it in there so I'm back in the group with like my entire D line

09:55like we got the interior and outside we got the coaches all on the court like I know what's about

10:02to go down so my biggest motivation is just like being back with the group of people that that got me

10:09playing at the highest level and being able to like put on for those guys you know being back with the

10:15group that has me playing at the highest level well I think we know where your motivations are

10:19and at the end of the day I think what really just ticks me off is that Bryce Huff wasn't even excited

10:24about the Super Bowl I understand it's a hard hit to your ego but not even like posting anything about

10:30the Super Bowl or at least thanking Philadelphia when you left you could have at least thanked the

10:34coaches and Howie Roseman for giving you that money and the fans for being passionate but not you know

10:42he just he exited he's ready to be in San Francisco he acts like this year never happened and it's

10:47unfortunate give me your thoughts down below how do you feel about Bryce Huff what do you make of these

10:52comments do you agree with them at all let me know your thoughts appreciate everybody for tapping in be

10:57sure to like comment and subscribe and as always I will catch you on the next one

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