{"id":166554,"date":"2025-06-29T00:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/166554\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:56:11","slug":"jared-verse-praises-eagles-fans-after-saying-i-hate-them-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/166554\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Verse praises Eagles fans after saying &#8216;I hate them&#8217; in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/84359222007-julius-screen-shot-1.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-play-alt-white.svg.svg+xml\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Julius Thomas on finding career in clinical psychology after football<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY Sports spoke with Julius Thomas about finding a unique second career after playing seven seasons in the NFL<\/p>\n<p>Sports Seriously<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" data-autotag=\"f489e821-d3f9-4cff-bec5-7eaa0f4b51cb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> edge rusher <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/players\/jared-verse\/1184566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jared Verse<\/a> was asked in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GeD7D2F6e7o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a recent interview with Whistle Sports<\/a> which opposing NFL team has the best fan base.<\/p>\n<p>His answer was a surprise to many who closely observed the 2024 first-round pick during his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Probably the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\" data-autotag=\"c1b3a094-e294-4a77-b1b2-dbdbd5bfa2c5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eagles<\/a>,&#8221; Verse replied. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got to give them that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Verse&#8217;s assertion comes just months after the 24-year-old expressed his disdain for the Philadelphia faithful ahead of a playoff clash between the two teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hate Eagles fans,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/rams\/story\/2025-01-16\/rams-eagles-nfc-divisional-playoffs-philadelphia-fans-snow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Verse told the Los Angeles Times<\/a> in January. &#8220;They\u2019re so annoying. I hate Eagles fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I see that green and white I hate it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I actually get upset. Like I actually, genuinely get hot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles acknowledged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/rams\/2025\/01\/19\/jared-verse-los-angeles-rams-philadelphia-eagles-fans\/77833407007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">they used Verse&#8217;s jab as fuel<\/a> in their 28-22 win over the Rams in the divisional round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>But that didn&#8217;t appear to be the main reason behind Verse&#8217;s change of tune. While the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/florida-state-seminoles\/3409\/\" data-autotag=\"06ee9050-e06d-4638-a179-a4d7f17000df\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida State<\/a> product may not like Philadelphia fans, he appears to have a healthy respect for their fervent support of the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like when you kind of like get into it, you&#8217;re aggressive, you&#8217;re loud and all that stuff,&#8221; Verse said. &#8220;They stand by that with no doubt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">HOWIE ROSEMAN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/columnist\/bell\/2025\/06\/26\/philadelphia-eagles-howie-roseman-super-bowl\/84362113007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flying beer cans. The NFC East. Super Bowl opponents. Nothing is stopping Eagles GM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Verse likened the atmosphere at Eagles games to a college rivalry matchup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You never know what they&#8217;re going to say and they&#8217;re gonna try to say disrespectful stuff,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t get me wrong, they&#8217;re not gonna say anything where it&#8217;s like, &#8216;Bro, you crossed the line,&#8217; but they&#8217;re gonna say some stuff where you&#8217;re like, &#8216;Who you talkin&#8217; to?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Verse figures to face plenty of those jeers and taunts every time he suits up against the Eagles as a response to his initial comments. Philadelphia fans will next get a chance to heckle the reigning Defensive Rookie of the Year when the Eagles host the Rams in Week 3 of the 2025 NFL season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julius Thomas on finding career in clinical psychology after football USA TODAY Sports spoke with Julius Thomas about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[247,265,240,25,380,5542,7,20842,1433,3417,239,1014,58,2444,2611,248,267,330,88,6,35196,245,338,242,109,424,5541,9,266,376,3685],"class_list":{"0":"post-166554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-angeles","11":"tag-eagles","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-state-seminoles-football","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-hub","16":"tag-jared","17":"tag-jared-verse","18":"tag-los","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-rams","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-losangelesrams","23":"tag-national","24":"tag-national-sports","25":"tag-negative","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-nfl","28":"tag-nfl-hub","29":"tag-overall","30":"tag-overall-negative","31":"tag-philadelphia","32":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","33":"tag-rams","34":"tag-seminoles","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-sports-news","37":"tag-state","38":"tag-verse"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114763935609030143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}