As he walked off the field, Riley Cooper stopped to talk to reporters Wednesday for the first time in this training camp. Several minutes into the session, asked if he thinks standing up for Cooper might have started Eagles coach Chip Kelly's image problem, Cooper said: "I hope not."
Cooper ignored a follow-up question and walked away; clearly this is not a topic he relishes discussing.
But every time the issue of Kelly's relationship with African-American players comes up, so does his handling of the Cooper incident two years ago, the first crisis of Kely's Eagles tenure.