Chris Long did some media this week and spoke about the Philly Voice report describing Carson Wentz as a domineering and selfish locker room personality.

He was on Barstool’s “Pardon My Take” podcast and Bob transcribed some of the quotes and dumped them into the Crossing Broad Slack channel. There’s a clump of 4-5 relevant lines that I’ll break out individually, since it was kind of a free-flowing conversation.

Long:

“Literally I limit my time around Carson Wentz because he makes me feel bad about myself.”

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“You know what was funny that day, was there were six sources supposedly, which I think is chickenshit, but everybody on Twitter was like ‘this guy hasn’t tweeted yet, this guy hasn’t tweeted yet, can we cross you off the list?’”

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“I don’t want to call that writer a liar, because I don’t any issue with that writer.”

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“You know what was funny about that shit was, like, Carson Wentz is like the greatest person like character wise to walk the earth.”

When Big Cat suggested that one of the anonymous sources could be Alshon Jeffery, perhaps trying to change the narrative after his game-losing drop against the Saints, Long said, “Alshon wouldn’t do it. I’m a huge Alshon fan.”

Long said this later:

“When I say Alshon is the best receiver, I’m talking about number one go up and get it. You throw him the ball, he just picks on people. He really, like when he came on at the end of the year we got better. And so like we wouldn’t even be there without him. And he’s a great teammate and everybody just felt bad because there was like 100 plays in that (Saints) game, you know that whole thing, it’s like we literally could’ve won that game 15 different ways, from fake punt, to get a stop on 4th and 3 down there, that long drive, you know, Alshon had two drops on the year. One just happened to be that one.”

Long also appeared on 94 WIP today, speaking to Jon Marks and Ike Reese. He elaborated on some of the Carson Wentz stuff he mentioned on the PMT pod:

“It pissed me off. It did piss me off. There are a lot of issues that people don’t see in the locker room, and that’s because a locker room is a pretty sacred place. But for a small handful of people, whether it was players or people in the organization, they decided instead of maybe communicating with teammates and communicating whatever problem they had, they went that route, which is really not my deal. So it kind of bothered me. And it bothered me because Carson is an exemplary teammate and a really solid guy. You have a complaint you want to bring to the franchise QB? Bring it to him directly.

At the end of the day you saw a lot of guys coming out in support of Carson, which is not a player’s prerogative to have to come out and tweet to show that they weren’t a source or that they support Carson. The assumption is that everybody (supports Carson). It’s obvious that Carson is our franchise QB. It’s not a question in our locker room. Whatever that was is unfortunate, but at the end of the day our locker room has done nothing but support Carson and Carson has supported us through this process, which had to have been tough for him, having to watch the playoffs last year and playing hurt this year and seeing Nick have to take over again this year. But Carson has a long, long career ahead of him and is going to make a lot of great memories in this city.”

Long said he didn’t want to play “Matthew McConaughey in True Detective” in an effort to determine who spoke to Joe Santoliquito. He says he doesn’t know who the sources are and doesn’t want to waste his time with it.

He also said he’s not ruling out playing a 12th NFL season:

“I would like to play football in 2019. I thought I had a really strong year and felt good physically. I know I’m an older guy but I don’t think I’ve missed a practice over the past two years. I feel like I’ve been durable and been ready when called on. I thought I had a good year rushing the passer… At the end of the day itch is still there. I still love playing on Sunday. But as far as what happens I’m sitting back to see what the Eagles do.”

The full audio from WIP is worth a listen: