LeSean McCoy was one of many Philadelphia Eagles players who ripped the playing surface at NRG Stadium in Houston following the Eagles-Texans game on Sunday.
McCoy called the field “terrible.”
“Yeah, that field is terrible, bad, bad,” McCoy told “PFT Live.”
“There’s so many holes, potholes in it, rocky,” McCoy said. “It’s like they measured the squares out and put them in piece by piece. There’s so many holes, it’s like this can’t be a real NFL field. The stadium’s actually nice, but the field is so bad.”
He wasn’t the only Eagles player to denounce the field surface.
“I think it’s actually a pretty dangerous playing surface,” center Jason Kelce said, via CBS Houston. Kelce added that the surface is very uneven.
Linebacker Mychal Kendricks echoed Kelce’s thoughts.
“Something needs to be done about it. Absolutely,” said Kendricks.
Kelce speculated that the field may have had something to do with the injuries to Arian Foster and DeMeco Ryans on Sunday.
In September, defensive back DJ Swearinger blamed the field surface for Jadeveon Clowney’s knee injury. In 2010, Bill Belichick blasted the field for being the cause of Wes Welker’s torn ACL. And former Texans punter Brett Hartmann sued the county that operates the stadium, saying that the turf caused his career-ending torn ACL injury.
If this many players are complaining about it, you have to wonder why they haven’t addressed it and made a change yet. Are they worried about culpability?
