"I wasn't raised to run."
In May, Jim Schwartz made a PowerPoint presentation to the Eagles defense on civil rights activist Fred Shuttlesworth.
"He told us the day before and I was like, 'OK, this is a joke.' I thought he was just joking," cornerback Eric Rowe said. "But the next day he came with it and he was giving facts, details and pictures."
Most, if not all, of the players had never heard of Shuttlesworth, which was sort of Schwartz's point. Martin Luther King Jr.? Yeah, they all had heard of him. But Shuttlesworth had done as much, if not more, than King during the early stages of the civil rights movement.