It's no secret that there are ill feelings by several Eagles players over Chip Kelly and the tension that was created in the locker room this season.
There is no player, past or present, that seems to have a bigger chip on his shoulder over Chip than DeSean Jackson.
As the Redskins wide receiver prepares for a playoff game against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, Jackson took another shot at his former team and their now former coach.
"I'm a firm believer that bad karma comes back on you," Jackson said in Robert Klemko's MMQB column on Friday. "When you ruin a team like that, you do things to peoples' families, you release people, you trade people, you get rid of good players who build something with the community, with the fans, with the kids—to have a guy come in and change up the team like that, I just believe in karma.
"I don’t have any bad words to say about him as far as what he feels he needs on his roster. But the guys that were on that roster created something special, from Jeremy Maclin to LeSean McCoy to Trent Cole to Todd Herremans and myself and Brandon Boykin; it goes on and on and on. When we were there we were a brotherhood. So for everyone to go their separate ways and to see how it all ended up, it’s a very sad thing."
Jackson already got the last laugh this season. The Redskins defeated the Eagles twice to claim the NFC East and Jackson continued to take his shots at the now former Eagles coach then."
It’s disturbing to just come back and get the boos from the crowd and the fans because it’s not my decision to leave. Chip Kelly released me," Jackson told the Washington Post after the Redskins win in Philadelphia on Dec. 26. "Knowing what I did for the city, in the community and things like that, I put my heart into it. That part is frustrating, but it doesn’t get any better than coming in here and winning and putting them out. That guy over there, he was the coach. He made the decision."
Though both are now part of the Eagles past, the way the last two seasons have gone and the fact that Jackson has been on the opposing end of eliminating the Eagles from the playoffs in each of the last two seasons, it's a hard chapter to erase and Jackson is making sure the Eagles know about the mistakes that Kelly made and that the Eagles made.
Kevin Durso is managing editor for Eagledelphia. Follow him on Twitter @Kevin_Durso.
