Saquon Barkley takes swipe at former New York Giants teammates ahead of playing first Super Bowl with Eagles

Just earlier helium plays successful his archetypal ever Super Bowl, Philadelphia Eagles moving backmost served up thing of a jab astatine his erstwhile squad during Super Bowl Opening Night.

Barkley made an quality during property availability astatine the Caesars Superdome connected Monday - conscionable a time aft helium and the remainder of the squad made their mode down to New Orleans.

It's his archetypal quality successful the Super Bowl and he's doing truthful with a caller squad aft leaving the New York Giants implicit the summertime successful escaped agency.

One of the radical asking him a question was Jameis Winston, who spent past play connected the Cleveland Browns but is acceptable to beryllium a escaped cause this summer.

When Winston asked Barkley who would beryllium the squad to motion him, Barkley smoothly replied, 'I deliberation New York request a backmost close now.'

When asked to clarify, Barkley did corroborate that helium was talking astir his erstwhile team.

The prime to permission the Giants for 1 of their biggest part rivals was wide panned and criticized by New York fans astatine the time.

It made it worse that the Giants were 1 of the bottommost feeders successful the NFL this season, portion the Eagles' discourtesy was supercharged with Barkley's arrival.

However, helium did admit that joining an NFC East rival came with immoderate hesitation considering the years of vitriol directed his way.

When asked astir the pros and cons of joining the Eagles, Barkley joked, 'The lone con astir Philly was I mightiness get immoderate slack due to the fact that I played successful New York.' 

But the prime has intelligibly paid off. Now, Barkley has the accidental to fulfill a imagination and triumph a championship.

Speaking to reporters, helium praised his teammates and shared 1 of the motivational quotes that manager Nick Sirianni gives to the team.

'One of my favourite quotes that Nick says each the time, "You can't beryllium large without the greatness of others." That's however it works. We person a large team, but we each privation to bash it together. 

'That's the crushed wherefore we've been successful, and it's going to instrumentality everyone again this Sunday. Yeah, you conscionable got to instrumentality it each in. This is portion of it. You got to bask it. 

'I'm blessed to beryllium here, blessed to person conversations with you guys. At the aforesaid time, it's a concern locked in. But today, you enjoy. You bask the infinitesimal and person amusive with it.'

Barkley lone reached the playoffs erstwhile with the Giants - losing successful the NFC Divisional circular to, incidentally, the Eagles.

But aft ne'er getting past the Divisionals, Barkley is present playing successful the Super Bowl for the archetypal time.

He'll beryllium facing disconnected against the Kansas City Chiefs successful a re-match of Super Bowl LVII - erstwhile the Chiefs bushed Philadelphia 38-35.