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The former Eagles’ safety plans to attend the Super Bowl ring ceremony despite his feelings about being traded to the Texans.
It’s been an emotional offseason for C.J. Gardner-Johnson after winning a Super Bowl with the Philadelphia Eagles only to be traded to the Houston Texans weeks later. He recently sat down for an interview with ‘The Pivot Podcast’ featuring Ryan Clark and Channing Crowder, and had a super honest discussion about his career, development on and off the field, and how things ended in Philly (twice).
Toward the end of their emotional conversation, CJGJ was asked if given how things have gone, whether he plans to attend the Super Bowl ring ceremony. The safety said that he’s definitely going to Philly — for the event on Friday, July 18 — because there’s no guarantee he gets to celebrate another Super Bowl win, and he’s going to enjoy every minute.
“Yeah, they traded me, but they didn’t do anything personally.
I can celebrate this moment with y’all.”
He pointed out that he went to the wedding of Eagles safeties coach Joe Kasper this offseason, and was dancing with other guys from the organization, so he’s embraced continuing to make memories with the 2024 team.
CJGJ later talked about his biggest pivot in life coming from the first time he was traded to Philadelphia and how he developed an approach to apologizing and forgiving others in order to move past differences. This led to Gardner-Johnson offering a heartfelt apology to his teammates for comments he made this offseason about the Eagles not winning another Super Bowl without him.
“I retract [those comments], and I won’t even say it because I played with those guys, and I know how they would feel, like, ‘Chauncey you trippin’.’
It’s a disrespect to Jalen Carter, A.J. Brown — I can name all those guys on that team. Lane Johnson. Respectfully, because Lane is my bid vet, and Lane would tell me, ‘Hey, Cauncey, I got your back, but when you do too much, I don’t got your back.’ And, that’s one of those moments that’s too much, because it’s taking away from his career. He done it before me.
So, I think apologizing to the guys in Philly, like, I got nothing against them. And if they win six more rings without me, they deserve it because that’s the type of players they are.
CJGJ reiterated that one of the reasons he wants to go to the ring ceremony is to clear the air with anyone who may have issue with his comments, saying he knows how to approach it and will offer up apologies and affirmation it wasn’t against any of his teammates.
The safety admitted the call with a heads up that the Eagles were either going to trade or cut him felt out of the blue. He tried to figure out what he had done, but by the next day,...
