LeSean McCoy: Not enemies, but Chip Kelly 'can't say s--- to me'

ByMIKE RODAK AND PHIL SHERIDAN
December 9, 2015, 3:16 PM

— -- ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy on Wednesday angrily dismissed the idea of Chip Kelly shaking his hand when he the star running back makes his return Sunday to Lincoln Financial Field against the Philadelphia Eagles.

"Listen, man, Chip can't shake s--- at all. Nothing. He knows this," McCoy told a large group of reporters at his locker. "That's why [he] said it. I know him. He's very intelligent. I can read between the lines. Like I said, I have nothing against him, no hatred. We're not enemies. I won't say anything wrong to him. But there's nothing for us to talk about, at all. Simple as that."

Kelly traded McCoy to the Bills months after he became the Eagles' all-time leading rusher after his sixth season with the team. McCoy hasn't spoken to Kelly since the trade and said he has never gotten an explanation.

When asked on a conference call with Buffalo-based reporters earlier Wednesday if he would shake McCoy's hand after the game, Kelly responded, "Yeah, I would want to shake LeSean's hand."

"I tried to call him after, and I talked to his agent after we traded him," Kelly continued. "I always wanted to talk to LeSean. Again, I have no issues with LeSean at all. He did everything we asked him to do when he was here. You guys know him, he's a great personality. He's got an infectious personality. I've got tremendous respect for this man."

McCoy said he will shake hands with Eagles owner Jeff Lurie and with running backs coach Duce Staley and other coaches, but he wants nothing to do with talking to Kelly.

"Man, listen. I'm not talking to Chip. We got nothing to talk about," McCoy said Wednesday. "He can't call me. He can't shake my hand. There's nothing he can do with me. He can't say s--- to me. It's as simple as that. I don't dislike him. I don't have nothing against him. But there's nothing for us to talk about. And he knows that, he knows me, he know how I act. There's nothing he can tell me. There's nothing he can talk about."

McCoy was quoted as saying that Kelly "got rid of all the good players, especially the good black players." Lurie said at the owners meetings that he thought McCoy said that because he was hurt about being traded.

"I said what I said because it's how I felt," McCoy said.