LeSean McCoy: I'm the same player as last year

LeSean McCoy is having a tough time replicating his form from last season, when he won the NFL rushing title. 

McCoy ran for 1,607 yards last year, leading the Philadelphia Eagles to a playoff appearance. 

It would be a stretch to say McCoy is struggling this season; the Eagles running back ranks sixth in rushing yards with 729. However, McCoy is on pace for 1,116 yards this year, a far cry from his total last season.

The Eagles' star denied that he's any different from last season.

"Are you crazy?” McCoy asked rhetorically, according to The News Journal's Martin Frank. “I am the same player. I’m not going to sit here and play that game, like, ‘Am I the same player?’”

Philadelphia has been without Evan Mathis for the majority of the season, widely considered to be the best guard in the NFL, and it may account for McCoy's declining totals. 

"This year, everything that’s happening as far as yardage, I’ve got to earn it," McCoy said. "I’m earning everything I get this year. I don’t feel anything has changed. Knowing myself, everything is the same – confidence, the same type of swagger. I don’t think there’s anything that changed. It’ll never change.”

The Eagles are tied for the NFC East lead with the Dallas Cowboys, sporting a 7-3 record. If the Eagles make the playoffs for a second consecutive year, McCoy's performance relative to last season will be an afterthought.