New Eagles defensive end Za\u2019Darius Smith says there was a lot to like about the Eagles when he was deciding where to sign after being a free agent into the start of the regular season.<\/p>\n
Smith said he likes the culture, everyone on the team, his former Browns teammate and fellow defensive end Ogbo Okoronkwo, and especially longtime team employee Big Dom DiSandro.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, man, I had a lot of teams calling, but I just felt comfortable coming to Philly,\u201d Smith said, via NBCSportsPhiladelphia.com. \u201cI know Ogbo Okoronkwo, we was together in Cleveland. I talked to him and he was just telling me about the organization, the locker room and the great people that are here. Dom, one of the head guys. Man, I love Dom<\/a>. Just this whole team and this culture, man. I love everything about it. Hey, they just got a Super Bowl and hopefully we can get it again. But we\u2019re just going to take it one week at a time and go 1-0 each and every week.\u201d<\/p>\n Smith said negotiations were far enough along that he nearly played in their Week One game against the Cowboys, and he thinks he can play this week.<\/p>\n \u201cThey actually wanted to get me here Tuesday before that game to where I could possibly play Thursday,\u201d Smith said. \u201cAnd at the end, they told me to stay at home, spend a couple more days with my family and they\u2019ll just get me here next week. Just happy to be here and can\u2019t wait to get going.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Eagles defensive end Za\u2019Darius Smith says there was a lot to like about the Eagles when he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-153779","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\/153779","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=153779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}