“Are you not gonna say anything today?” an annoyed television reporter asks Malcolm Jenkins.



“Hey, move your phone,” an angry cameraman demands to someone else in the scrum.



A different cameraperson yells at Jenkins: “Could you move it higher? We can’t see.”



“Come on, lower that phone!”



Mostly stoic, Jenkins can’t help but flash a nearly imperceptible half-smile. He’s a meticulous planner, but this is going even better than he expected. They really aren’t listening.



It’s June 6, the day after the Super Bowl champions were scheduled to visit the White House before they were disinvited because of the meager number of people in the traveling party. The Eagles are in the middle of OTAs and Jenkins knows that his status as team leader and unofficial spokesman, as well as his outspoken criticism of the president and history of raising his fist during the national anthem...