{"id":13764,"date":"2025-07-16T08:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13764\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:41:03","slug":"c-j-gardner-johnson-eagles-traded-me-because-theyre-scared-of-a-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13764\/","title":{"rendered":"C.J. Gardner-Johnson: Eagles traded me because they&#8217;re scared of a competitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C.J. Gardner-Johnson helped the Eagles win the Super Bowl in February, but he was traded to the Texans in March. And Gardner-Johnson thinks the Eagles got rid of him because they don\u2019t like his competitive approach.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner Johnson was asked on <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wRClkZ-nOdk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Pivot podcast<\/a> why he thinks he\u2019s not an Eagle anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScared of a competitor,\u201d Gardner-Johnson answered. \u201cSimple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gardner-Johnson felt that he wasn\u2019t supported by his coaches when he was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/c-j-gardner-johnson-ejected-for-two-unsportsmanlike-conduct-penalties-flips-off-crowd-as-he-leaves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ejected from a late-season game<\/a> against the Commanders, and that he was blamed for a postseason practice scrum. In both cases, Gardner-Johnson said he was just letting the competitive juices flow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a little scrum at practice,\u201d Gardner-Johnson said. \u201cNothing, just offense vs. defense, but who\u2019s the culprit of it? Me, I guess, because we\u2019re competing. Well, you tell me the period is live. You\u2019re telling us not to compete during a live period, but it\u2019s a live period and we\u2019re getting ready for a playoff game?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gardner-Johnson indicated that teammates have never has a problem with his competitive approach, but coaches and front office executives have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want me to be a leader and outspoken but then you want me to sit back,\u201d Gardner-Johnson said. \u201cThere\u2019s nowhere been a locker room where I had a single issue with a teammate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now Gardner-Johnson will bring his competitiveness to Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"C.J. Gardner-Johnson helped the Eagles win the Super Bowl in February, but he was traded to the Texans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-13764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}