Good thing because you've gotten to stay here your whole career. That's pretty unique.

"Somebody told me I'm a rarity the other day. Even people in my draft class, there's a lot of people, I mean high-profile, very good players, there's very few of us that are on the same team. Even though a lot them have had successful careers, they've had it here, they've had it there. It's great to have been here this long."

Do you have any funny fan interaction stories?

"The stories are endless but I think the craziest one is when a lady had me sign her baby. Not the baby's onesie. The actual skin of the baby. I've signed an apple. I've signed fresh tennis shoes where I ask them first, 'Hey, is your mom going to be upset if I sign this?' and they say they don't care. But signing an actual baby. It was at training camp. The funniest things that happen to me though is where you'll be at the grocery store or at a restaurant and you'll see people staring at you and then you check your phone and you have a tweet from that person saying, [starts whispering] I'm whispering because I feel like that's how they're tweeting but, 'I think I'm next to Gerald McCoy' or 'Gerald McCoy is in the grocery store right now, I'm not sure if it's him but I think it's him.' You want to go find them like, 'It is! Just say something.' I'll see people following me in the grocery store all the time."

That's something to have to get adjusted to. Normal people don't just have other people following them around…

"Yeah, it's funny. My wife, we'll be sitting there eating and I'll hear her say, 'uh oh' and I know what that 'uh oh' is. I'll look up. Sometimes it's one person, sometimes it's two. I remember one time, I was a basketball coach. I wasn't very good, but I know sports so… anyway. I was helping coach my son's AAU team and some of the kids play football. It was a Friday night, me not thinking, I didn't prepare myself. I just like to show up. I never like to feel like I'm above the system or have to have security with me. It pushes people away and I'm just a normal dude. So I show up to the game with my dad and my son and my son is going to interact with his friends and my dad and I are just sitting there. This little league team is there. Two kids say hello to me and then they take off running. I didn't know this was all a plot to get the whole stadium to follow me around. They get their whole team and my dad is like, 'Oh, here we go.' We get down to the bottom of the railing and the whole team is at the bottom, like a stampede at the front of the steps, running to the bleachers, yelling, 'Mr. McCoy! Mr. Gerald McCoy can we please take a picture with you?' I'm like yeah, no problem, let's go over here so we're not in anybody's way. And then somebody else wanted a picture. Then you would have thought, I'm not exaggerating at all, that Justin Bieber showed up. The bleachers cleared out. They had to get security to get people from around me and I had to go stand on the grass of the field because the whole section of the bleachers had cleared out and followed me. Then when I was ready to leave, they had to get two or three police officers to walk me to my car.

I had never seen it like that. It was insane and I tried to tell my wife about it and she was like, 'No way it happened like that.' So I go to another one and my wife goes with me to see another kid that played with my son and it wasn't to the magnitude of the first time, but it was pretty close. She was like, 'I guess you were telling the truth.' You get used to it.