(08-29-2021, 09:45 PM)JAGFAN88 Wrote: I think Urban fell for the Minshew magic and sat him down said cut your hair and take this serious and ill give ya a shot at being the starter, and when its said and done and i name Tlaw the starter i will get you a chance to be the starter at another team. Eagles would be a place he could become the starter cause i really dont think hurts is that good.

I think that something along these lines happened. Urban said yesterday he actually "choked up" a bit when he saw Gardner in his office the other day and they talked about him being traded. Urban said he wasn't originally sure if Gardner still wanted to be Jag because they had the #1 pick and were trading for Lawrence. But he grew to care for him. I think that Urban is used to having close relationships with his player, especially with his background being a college coach and really getting to recruit and know players. I do believe he genuinely liked Gardner. 

And I think he treated Gardner very fairly and definitely much better than Doug Marrone did.  Who knows what type of situation Gardner could have ended up in if Doug were still the coach of this team. It may have been a bad one. Urban at least traded him to some place where he might get the chance to start eventually. 

Demetrius Harvey on Twitter: "(2/2) "...I'm not sure how much he wanted to be here. And I get it, first overall pick, and he's a competitive maniac that guy, and I get it. And I told him for the rest of his life, 'count me as a big fan,' because he's what you want. He's a warrior, he's a competitor."" / Twitter

Also, I saw that Gardner was at Eagles practice today. He changed his number to #10 and seems to be getting to know his new teammates already. I hope things work out for him in Philly.

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