Jenkins: Trump’s a troll
FThe Eagles pounded the ball for 193 rushing yards, had an 18yard, 90-play scoring drive, drove twice to erase Giants fourth-quarter leads and once more to win it.
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Brad Wing’s measly 28-yard punt let the Eagles reach fieldgoal range for the game -winner. Second straight week a special-teams mistake sealed a Giants loss. PHILADELPHIA — Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, who has been raising a fist in protest of the national anthem for more than a year, compared President Donald Trump to an internet troll Sunday.
“It was no different than the trolls on social media I’ve been dealing with for a whole year,” Jenkins said of Trump’s divisive comments about protesting NFL players last week. “That same rhetoric is what I hear on a daily basis. It hits other people close to home when you see a teammate or a player across the league that you know is a great person, who is out there trying to do their part, rebuilding our communities and making our communities safer and is then attacked. I think that’s why you saw the response that you did.”
On Friday, Trump said during a rally, “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’”
In defiance of Trump’s rhetoric, several members of the Giants took a knee during the national anthem for the first time. On the opposite sideline, Eagles owner Jeff Lurie locked arms with players like Jenkins in solidarity for the movement Colin Kaepernick started a year ago.
Trump’s comments breathed life into a social movement that appeared to be losing traction on NFL fields in recent weeks. On Sunday, more than 100 NFL players reportedly took a knee or held up a fist in defiance of Trump. The protests were born last season as a way to raise awareness about polic brutality and racial injustice.
“Let him buy an NFL team and then he can decide who gets fired,” said Eagles defensive lineman Chris Long, who is donating his game checks from the first six weeks of the season to send two Charlottesville students to private school. “He can’t fire anybody and that’s the funny thing about it. He just doesn’t have control over us and that’s what bothers him the most, I think.”