Spadaro: When you go to a new team, what’s the key to fitting in and being yourself and being productive?<\/p>\n
Greenard: “I think that’s the last part is not necessarily fitting in, just being yourself. How I’ve been carrying myself since I’ve been in the league has literally been the same person from day one, even in high school. I can see bull really early and I know the guys can see that as well. I’ve seen guys try to play, you know, one way to in the building, one way out the building, and that’s tiresome. I’ve always been a person that just treated everybody with respect, the same way I want to be treated. I grew up in the South, where Southern hospitality was a real thing. I was raised by good, good parents, so I had a really good Christian upbringing. That’s just kind of helped me be able to be the person I am today.”<\/p>\n
Spadaro: Your takeaways from playing against the Eagles in 2025, the kind of football this team plays, the mindset that this group brought to the field?<\/p>\n
Greenard: “I had that game circled, I’m not gonna lie. These are Super Bowl Champions, these are some All-Pros, and arguably one of the greatest tackles ever in Lane Johnson, and obviously Jordan Mailata is going to be in that conversation really soon. Saquon (Barkley) is a great running back, Jalen Hurts is that quarterback … all around this team has these guys that you just obviously knew. It was a great experience, and now to be teaming up with these guys, going against these greats in practice, it’s only iron sharpens iron. I want to do dirty work, I want to go against the best of the best.”<\/p>\n
Spadaro: Sports culture, I’m sure it was great in Houston, great in Minnesota, for sure, you’ve gotten a taste of what it’s like here, how would you describe it?<\/p>\n
Greenard: “It’s insane in a good way. They want the same things we want, and they’re almost, I feel like the energy is like, ‘Bro, we wish you could be in your shoes to actually go do the things that we want to do,’ and I think that’s a good part too to have, knowing that, because it makes you stay on your P’s and Q’s, it makes sure that you’re not taking this game for granted. This can be taken away from us in a split second. The supporters, they literally are, listen, we want what’s best for you, but we also want a championship, and if that’s not what you’re already thinking already as an NFL player, I mean, in this league, you’re already behind the eight ball.”<\/p>\n
Spadaro: You see the Lombardi Trophies at the Jefferson Health Training Complex, did that move you at all?<\/p>\n
Greenard: “It moved me so much. I was in Minnesota, I didn’t see any hardware there. I was in Houston, didn’t see any hardware. So I actually see it and hear guys talk about it, you know, Jalen (Hurts, quarterback) texted me and was like, ‘We’re gonna get one,’ and it’s not just talk. This is how everybody carries themselves around the building. It’s the standard, the standard is the standard. This team already had everything they need to get to that point, so bringing me here, I just feel like I can just add to that what’s already being built here and I can just be myself truly, and just play ball and everything else will work itself out.”<\/p>\n
Spadaro: You won the Good Guy Award in Houston with the media there. Did that mean something to you?<\/p>\n
Greenard: “Heck yeah, I mean, because I understand, like, y’all have a job to do, and ultimately, you have to respect these things, when they’re asking these questions. Some people have their own motives, I get that, I’m not going to negate that, however, they want to know the truth, they want to understand what is, what are you thinking, what do you guys think when you’re in this privileged position of being in the NFL. I’m just going to give you respect the same way you give me. Nobody’s said anything disrespectful to me, so I’m going to give you all the love and respect that you do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spadaro: When you go to a new team, what’s the key to fitting in and being yourself and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2068],"tags":[4955,909,25,7,6,910,4206,242,109,2476,912],"class_list":{"0":"post-875082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-all-news-archived","10":"tag-eagles","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-com-feature","14":"tag-on-the-inside","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","17":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","18":"tag-team-roster-content"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116470512632195901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875082","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=875082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}