Deebo Samuel has done a lot of talking ahead of Sunday’s game — never mind that it was many months ahead of the game.
There was Samuel before the Super Bowl in February calling Philadelphia Eagles cornerback James Bradberry “trash.”
There he was during the Super Bowl essentially saying “I told ya so” after Bradberry was flagged for a critical holding call late in the game.
And he still was griping in May, saying the only reason the San Francisco 49ers lost to the Eagles in the NFC Championship Game was, because they had no healthy quarterbacks, they were playing with 10 men.
All of it amounts to a lot of built-up and resurrected chatter that has made Samuel a marked man in Philadelphia this week. In fact, Eagles receiver — and, notably, a friend of Samuel — A.J. Brown recently took to X, formerly known as Twitter, and urged Eagles fans to troll his 49ers counterpart, which is something Philadelphians generally don’t need to be encouraged to do. Insults are the city’s main export. They’re to Philadelphia what steel is to Pittsburgh, what salmon is to Seattle.
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