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RB McCoy 'feels good,' aims to play 2 more years

LeSean McCoy said he isn’t ready to retire despite his decline in production the past two seasons. In fact, he believes he has multiple seasons left in the NFL.

“I really just want to play two more years,” McCoy said Friday in an interview with SiriusXM NFL Radio. “I talk to Frank [Gore] about this. He always tells me, ‘Never put a ceiling on your career. Hey, if you feel good and you do well, do another one year and vice versa. If it doesn’t go well, just let your body talk to you.’ My body feels fine.”

The 31-year-old free-agent running back, who completed his 11th NFL season in 2019, added: “My body feels good. So I will let my body speak for when I want to be done.”

McCoy, a six-time Pro Bowl selection, said he has “a couple teams that I’m looking at.”

LeSean McCoy is ranked third among active players with 11,071 career rushing yards, behind only Frank Gore and Adrian Peterson. Jamie Squire/Getty Images

“I’m just waiting for the right moment,” he said. “This stuff is tricky now, because there’s no visits. There’s no real activities with the teams as much as it used to be. The thing I can control is just making the right choice, going to an offense that fits. I want to go to a team that’s a winning franchise that have all the right pieces that’s waiting for me. That veteran running back to help the room out. To add a spark. The teams I’m looking at right now are those teams. I won’t discuss who they are. I look forward to probably after the draft or right before the draft, signing on with a team.”

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McCoy said he embraces his role as a veteran mentor, just like Brian Westbrook did for him when he was a rookie with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2009.

“If I could be that guy to help that young superstar to emerge into that superstar superstar, I would love to do that,” he said.

After rushing for 465 yards last season, McCoy is ranked third among active players with 11,071 in his career, behind only Gore and Adrian Peterson. Gore also is a free agent, and his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, told NFL Network last month that his client plans to play in 2020.

Soccer

PSG's Marquinhos says it was Neymar's plan to mock Haaland

Paris Saint-Germain star Marquinhos has lifted the lid on the club’s Erling Haaland-inspired celebration during the Champions League round-of-16 clash, saying it was Neymar’s idea to mock the young Borussia Dortmund striker.

PSG advanced to the quarterfinal stage courtesy of the 2-0 victory over the German side at the Parc des Princes on March 11. Neymar scored the opener, then mocked Haaland’s “Zen” celebration.

According to Marquinhos, Neymar’s club teammate and fellow Brazilian international, the derisive celebration aimed at the 19-year-old Norwegian goal machine was premeditated.

“He likes that,” Marquinhos told YouTube channel Desimpedidos, per ESPN UK. “Neymar is not just a football player, he is not afraid and always responds to provocations.

“After his goal, I asked him if he had taken everything out. He warned me, I told him to wait until the end of the match, but he told me to leave it and not to stop it,” Marquinhos added.

Following the victory, several PSG players replicated Haaland’s trademark celebration on the pitch before doing so again in the locker room.

It is understood that mocking the celebration of the teenage star stemmed from a social media post featuring Haaland that tagged the French capital and read “My city, not yours.” It was later determined that Haaland was not responsible for the Snapchat post and that the caption was fake.

Haaland recorded both goals in the first leg at the Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, celebrating the second marker with his meditative pose. Post-match, the former Red Bull Salzburg standout attributed the exhibition to his love of meditation.

UEFA warned PSG after the victory for “unsportsmanlike conduct,” though it’s not clear if that was a result of the on-pitch melee following Emre Can’s sending off or the Haaland-inspired celebrations.