Fletcher Cox stepped out of the tunnel within the southwest nook of the Philadelphia Eagles’ house stadium, pounded his chest with the captain’s “C” sewed over his coronary heart, soaked within the cheers from the adoring crowd, leaned again and sprayed a mist of water into the air.
He was the ultimate participant launched earlier than the Eagles’ divisional-round victory over the New York Giants — maybe for the final time in his storied Eagles profession, if the protection doesn’t obtain introductions this weekend.
Days earlier, sitting by the locker he’s occupied for a lot of the previous decade, Cox pointed to his cellphone. He awaited a message from former teammate Zach Ertz.
It’s the postseason in Philadelphia, and that is the time of yr when teammates preserve a nickname for Cox: “Playoff Fletch.”
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