Daily News | ‘I don’t know how to be anybody else’: Darius Slay’s infectious personality brings the Eagles together
Darius Slay likes to add sound effects whenever his tackles are shown on film. He sits in the back left corner of the Eagles’ defensive backs meeting room, and, like a class clown, sends his teammates into laughter.“It could be pitch quiet in there, 7 o’clock in the morning, and you can hear a pin drop, and he’s giving sound effects on every hit,” cornerback Zech McPhearson said. “It could be even a conventional tackle, but he can also put a guy on the ground.”. He’s joking. Sort of.
“I’m from a rough area. I’m one of the few that made it out,” Slay said. “It makes me appreciate life more. You only get one. The other day I was just thinking that I’m still starstruck being in the NFL. I’ve always been like that.Military veterans impacted Nakobe Dean, and the Eagles rookie is giving back through community service
It’s his 10 years of high-level play, ultimately, that allow for his voice to carry weight. But it took until his third season with the Eagles for Slay to be voted a captain. He has become such an integral part of the team’s leadership — up there with mainstays like Kelce, Graham, Fletcher Cox, and“There’s a reason he’s a captain because at his core he’s a guy who cares about his teammates,” coach Nick Sirianni said. “It’s like a day-after-day thing where he’s always coaching up the young guys.
In Detroit, he started sending out invites on Twitter to youth football players looking for instruction, a practice he’s continued here in Philadelphia. He remembers what it was like meeting his childhood hero, Kobe Bryant, for the first time. He still wears cleats with “Black Mamba,” Bryant’s nickname, written on the side.
Slay may try to relate to everyone at NovaCare Complex, but as the only captain from his position, he organized a defensive backs-only weekly dinner on Mondays at The Capital Grille in South Jersey. They eat, watch football, and laugh — mostly at Slay’s jokes. Defensive backs coach Dennard Wilson allows Slay to be the comedian to help break up the monotony, but it doesn’t take much for him to turn on his serious side.
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