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Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Rookie Diary With Eagles Mac McWilliams: "If Football Wasn't My Go-To, Lacrosse Would Definitely Be It"

Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Inside The Birds

Sports, Football

4.6910 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Andrew DiCecco's first "Rookie Diary" of the 2025 season with Eagles CB Mac McWilliams, who talks about another lightning delay in his football career, watching the Super Bowl, video games, what attracted him to lacrosse, and why someday he'd like to be a GM.












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0:00.0

We spoke last week about the experience of the link.

0:18.0

So you finally got to experience the regular season atmosphere. What were your takeaways?

0:21.9

Man, it was crazy. But I loved everything about it, though.

0:25.3

Philly got some great fans. You know, they came out, supported the team, and it was big for you.

0:30.5

You know, I came home with the dub, so that's the main thing about it.

0:34.7

But I say the fans, they was really into it, and I loved the thing about it. What is your pregame routine personally? Do you have anything that you go through? Well, when I first get there, I just go on the field and just sit there for like 10, 15 minutes, you know, just get my mind right, listen to my music and things like that. And once I get back in the locker room, you know, it's go time.

0:54.9

I get my little stretches and things like that.

0:56.7

I get them in.

0:57.6

And then once I go out on the field, I give me a little dynamic warm-up and things like that, you know, just to get ready for the game. How many hours before the game do you get out there? I'll say about two or three. Now, do you, have you ever experienced anything like the lightning delay?

1:11.4

Yes, I didn't, I didn't have plenty while I was at my old school UCF.

1:14.5

No, we were. Now, do you, have you ever experienced anything like the lightning delay?

1:14.1

Yes, I didn't, I didn't have plenty while I was at my old school UCF.

1:17.5

You know, we were in Florida, so, you know, we were right there by the water and things.

1:20.6

So it was a lot of lightning delays and things like that.

1:24.6

But, you know, just making sure that I'm staying healthy and making sure I still keep my body right.

1:25.2

That's the main part. What's the biggest delay that you've had time-wise.

1:28.0

I'll say when I was at UCF who played, that was, I think it was,

1:35.4

BYU.

1:36.4

We had like a two hour and 30.

1:39.8

Wow.

1:40.2

Yeah.

1:40.9

So for this one, what did you do to stay loose and stay engaged during the, I think it was like an hour and three minutes? Like I was saying, once you get that moment, it's really unexpected. So once you get into that moment, when you really put it in your head, like you're going to be sitting here for a long time, it just makes you do something, you know, just to keep your body warm, get your friends in, get Therogne, things like that.

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