The Arena Football League ran its version of roster filling over the last two weeks, allocating players to the four teams that will make up this year’s AFL. The two-time defending Arena Bowl champion Philadelphia Soul went through several days of the process and on the first day announced that the following returning players including […]
We’ve had analytics in business for many years. It has done wonderS with efficiency in all areas of business including warehousing, manufacturing and services. Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane changed sports forever by using sabermetrics aka analytics to field a low budget but winning team using statistics as the main barometer to forge his […]
Stoneman Douglas football coach Willis May faces the tough task of bringing his team back together after the horrible events of February 14 in Parkland Florida when 17 students and teachers were gunned down including assistant football coach Aaron Feis who gave his life to save students. Coaches and players vow to “Feis up” in 2018.
The New York Football Giants decision to release veterans cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and punter Brad Wing this weekend no doubt jarred the memory for both Eagles and Giants fans in interesting ways depending on your rooting interest for two seasons that could not have been more different. For Eagles fans, watching Rodgers-Cromartie and much of […]
After playing 14 seasons in the NFL and capturing a Super Bowl championship in 2017, Eagles punter Donnie Jones announced that he will retire from the NFL. Originally a seventh-round draft pick of the Seattle Seahawks in 2004, Jones went on to play in 214 regular-season games, including the final 80 with the Philadelphia Eagles, […]
Stefen Wisniewski walked towards his locker the Tuesday after the Eagles defeated the New England Patriots 41-33 in Super Bowl LII, easily one of the most exciting championship games in NFL history. Looking at the 6-foot-3, 315 offensive lineman’s face as he made his way past the tables of autographed shiny blue helmets and white […]
BLOOMINGTON: The Eagles (15-3) will take on the five-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots (15-3) today at 6:30 PM (ET, NBC). These teams are tied or nearly for the season in points scored, points allowed and interceptions. The Patriots have allowed 60 more yards per game but have not allowed a lot of points. […]
MINNEAPOLIS: This comment is as obvious as any story lead you will read this week…The Eagles secondary will face its toughest task of the season when they face Tom Brady and his receivers in Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis (6:30 PM ET NBC). That New England Patriots veteran corps includes All […]
Media Day is the day for dumb questions like “Who has the worst hair on the team?” or “If you could be a dog, what kind of dog would you want to be?” My dumb question? Who was the worst dancer this year? Choices were defensive tackle Fletcher Cox who tried and failed to do […]
The Eagles are going to the Super Bowl. Against all odds this group has already done what many creditable observers said was impossible. But the Eagles have accomplished the impossible. And to a man, no one in the Eagles locker room believes their job is finished, not by a long shot. The Birds won the […]
