LeSean McCoy talks about facing former team in Week 14
By Mike Batista
With bowl season just around the corner, the NFL has added its own December bowl game to the mix.
The Shady Bowl.
Bills running back LeSean McCoy faces his old team in Week 14 when the Bills visit Chip Kelly and the Eagles in Philadelphia.
“You all know who’s next,” was all McCoy would say to Syracuse.comwhen asked about the upcoming reunion.
Leave it to Rex Ryan, though, to feed the hype. The Bills coach hinted that the team won’t send him out for pre-game warm-ups and will let him make his grand entrance at game time.
Kelly traded McCoy to Buffalo for linebacker Kiko Alonso last March.
McCoy is ninth in the NFL with 813 rushing yards and is gaining 4.2 yards per carry. Eagles running back DeMarco Murray, meanwhile, has just 569 yards and is running at a 3.5 yard-per-carry clip. Kelly essentially signed Murray to replace McCoy.
As a team, the Bills are gaining 140.9 yards per game, which ranks fourth in the NFL. The Eagles are 11th with 115.7 yards per game.
So McCoy will be out to prove that Kelly would have been better off keeping him in Philadelphia.
This game had enough juice to begin with. Now both teams are fighting for their playoff lives. The Bills (6-6) are one game out of the final playoff spot in the AFC and the Eagles (5-7) are in a three-team race for the one playoff spot that the NFC East is likely to get.
Whichever team loses can pretty much forget about making the playoffs.
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