Chip Kelly understands why LeSean McCoy has no interest in shaking his hand on Sunday. He admitted Thursday in the strongest terms yet that he did McCoy dirty last March when he neglected to personally inform the three-time Pro Bowl running back that he had shuffled him off to Buffalo.
"That's his choice and I understand it," Kelly said during a nine-minute news conference. "How he was traded wasn't handled right. I've said that before. I did not get an opportunity to talk to him, and it's a lesson that we shouldn't ever do."
Kelly said what he has said before -- that, because the trade was made the day before the official start of the league year, he couldn't tell McCoy or his agent until the trade was official.