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Eagles players and coaches have been together now for four months; five months if you weren’t a draft pick. Over that time this group became a team, many players call it a brotherhood. Ninety young men put together to make the 53-man roster, plus eight more who land on the practice squad. Coaches will tell […]
When you are a high school freshman running back and you go for about 1,377 yards and score 11 touchdowns, and in the process help lead you team to the second round of the New Jersey state playoffs, You are going to attract attention. Highland Regional High School’s Johnny Martin III did just that in […]
No card carrying member of Giants Nation gave a hoot about whether Big Blue knocked off Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns at MetLife Stadium Thursday night. Yes it was the battle of the No. 1 and No. 2 picks in this year’s draft, but all Giants fans and players wanted to see was the […]
During the 2017 season South Jersey native Eli Apple looked lost. The talented cornerback out of Eastern High School (NJ) and Ohio State seemed to lose his confidence as well as the confidence of his teammates. Apple began the 2017 season as the starting outside cornerback, along with Janoris Jenkins, with Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie as the […]
Rookies and younger players find ways to impress Eagles coaches even when playing real football isn’t allowed. Those are the kinds of challenges rookies, plus second- and third-year players face trying to get the attention of coaches and improve their chances of making the team.
One moment, he was running away or running over high school defenders. The next, it seemed to John Lovett, he was getting pounded every time he looked up. That is how it was for Lovett, the former Cherokee High School standout running back—and the Baylor football program—in 2017. One of 15 true freshmen who were […]
Kyle Detweiler knows the situation he’s walking into as the new head football coach at Archbishop Carroll. It’s not good. It has been a little while since the Patriots have had a consistently winning team. Detweiler feels he can make a difference, taking over for Dan Connor, who took a position at Widener University. This […]
Aaron Young has options. Out of the corners of his eyes, he sees two defenders converging on him, but they don’t know what Young knows. The 5-foot-10, 190-pound Coatesville tailback can either blow by them, or plow through them. It’s what happens when you possess that fine blend of speed and power, like Young. You […]
A Canadian based group looks to come up with intelligence quiz that will replace the fabled Wonderlic Test – Offensive linemen from the Soul and Eagles chime in on the test that rates their positions the smartest in football.
