Al Thompson
At Wednesday’s media session inside the Eagles locker room, there was a buzz of excitement throughout the room. The Birds are headed to the NFC Championship game Sunday for a chance to play in Super Bowl LII! All the top players had reporters swarming their lockers including Fletcher Cox, Lane Johnson, Stefen Wisniewski, Torrey Smith […]
18 Jan 18 - Eagles, Football, Football Training, High School Football, NFC East, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles - No CommentsRead More »
Al Thompson
If the Eagles want to move on this weekend, the offense will have to do more than it did last week against the Atlanta Falcons. More points will likely come in form or misdirection plays, counters and screen passes. If there is one area of the game Nick Foles does better than Carson Wentz it […]
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Al Thompson
Don’t look now but the Eagles are just four quarters away from competing in Super Bowl LII. If they pull it off, it will be the club’s third trip to the Big Game in franchise history. The top-seeded Birds pounded out a 15-10 win over the Atlanta Falcons Saturday at Lincoln Financial Field in the […]
15 Jan 18 - Eagles, Football, Football Training, NFC East, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles - No CommentsRead More »
Al Thompson
There are no shortages of scenarios, strategies, advise or predictions out there when it comes the Eagles and their quest to beat the odds and find a way to win two playoff games and get to Super Bowl 52 in Minneapolis three weeks from now. The Eagles started the season as an eight-cylinder engine, flying […]
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Al Thompson
On Thursday January 4, 2018, the Delaware Valley from west of Philadelphia to the South Jersey shore was hit with a severe winter storm. Weathermen nicknamed the tempest a “Cyclone Bomb.” The snow, high winds and near zero temperatures made any outdoor activity impossible. Schools and banks were closed, many businesses didn’t open or made […]
6 Jan 18 - Eagles, Football, Football Training, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles - No CommentsRead More »
Al Thompson
The high school football player turned orthopedic surgeon believes great doctor-patient-relationships are key to successful surgeries.
Talk to many orthopedic surgeons and in many cases you’ll find that at some point he or she was playing sports, got injured and became inspired to enter into orthopedics during their recovery.
That was not the case of Dr. Khoa Nguyen, an orthopedic surgeon with Burlington County Orthopaedic Specialists in Mt. Laurel, NJ although he was a pretty good high school football player back in his teenage days between 1998-2002 in North Carolina.
5 Jan 18 - Football, Football Training, High School Football, Philadelphia Eagles - No CommentsRead More »
Al Thompson
Doug Pederson will face the biggest challenge of his coaching career over the next eight days as he tries to squeeze two NFC victories out of a team that has been crippled by injuries from their future Hall of Fame left tackle, two special teams players and starting middle linebacker to their MVP candidate quarterback […]
5 Jan 18 - Eagles, Football, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles - No CommentsRead More »
Brian Baldinger
On the Sunday night after the Eagles victory in the LA Memorial Coliseum versus the LA Rams to go to 11-2 and clinch the NFC EAST Crown, I boarded a flight from LA back to Philadelphia on the dreaded red-eye. I was in LA to announce the other LA team’s game, the Chargers. The flight […]
3 Jan 18 - Eagles, Football, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles - No CommentsRead More »
Al Thompson
It may be time for Eagles fans to pump the breaks on what appears to be a down-trending attitude towards Eagles starting quarterback Nick Foles. Foles has played nine meaningful quarters of football since he took over for MVP candidate Carson Wentz, who tore the ACL of his left knee in the third quarter of […]
2 Jan 18 - Eagles, Football, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles - No CommentsRead More »
Al Thompson
Talk to any fan or observer and you’ll get the same response. The Eagles last regular season game against the Dallas Cowboys Sunday (1:00 PM, FOX) is “meaningless.” The Eagles have clinched the No. 1 overall seed in the upcoming NFC playoffs and the Cowboys were eliminated after their loss to the Seattle Seahawks last […]
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