Cary Williams probably won't be missed much in Philadelphia.
But he will be missed most by one Eagle.
"Cary Williams," Eagles defensive end Fletcher Cox said on Thursday's edition of Comcast SportsNet's Quick Slants when asked which former teammate he'd miss most. "Cary is my boy, man. I talk to Cary all the time. I still talk to Cary. We had a great relationship, on the field and off the field. I think Cary is a great guy and a great player."
Williams' two-year stay in Philadelphia was mercurial to say the least.
You probably know the narrative.
First, he missed OTAs for those sconces. He was kicked out of practice with the Patriots for fighting. He then questioned whether anyone feared the Eagles' defense, and then questioned Chip Kelly's practice methods.
“It's hard to go out there and fight for 60 minutes when you’re fighting throughout the week to make it through one practice,” Williams said last September. “When you don't have legs, period, it shows up in games.”
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And, finally, now as a Seattle Seahawk after his release from the Eagles this offseason, he most recently said Kelly was outcoached last season.
“Whatever that is they're creating, I didn’t believe it," Williams said Tuesday in an interview with 710 AM, an ESPN affiliate radio station in Seattle.
He pointed out the Eagles' Week 14 loss to the Seahawks, which kick-started a season-killing three-game skid, as a moment when Kelly cost his former team.
“We was talking about the fact that our conditioning and things like was going to kick in because we worked harder than everybody in the National Football League with the Chip Kelly thing,” Williams said.
“We got out there, we got our teeth kicked in. So all that conditioning didn't necessarily work. Preparation wasn't necessarily the greatest neither that week.
“When you're going up against teams that prepare well, practice well, coach well, it's difficult in games like that. I think towards the end of the year we were exhausted and we got outcoached the majority of the games.”
Safe to say, Williams is outspoken.
But is he misunderstood because of it?
"I mean, he could be," Cox said. "But that's some people's opinion to think what they want to think about a player. I think Cary was a great player [for] this team. He's not here, and you've got to understand that's the business part of this game."