John McMullen

John McMullen is the NFL Insider for JAKIB Media and contributes Eagles and NFL coverage for SI.com. You can listen to John every Monday and Friday on SIRIUSXM’s Tony Bruno Show with Harry Mayes, every Tuesday and Thursday with Eytan Shander on SBNation Radio, and daily on your favorite podcast platform for “Extending the Play.” A South Jersey native, John has covered the NFL and NBA for over two decades. He lives with his wife and best friend, Isabella, the Beagle Bulldog who often chimes in with her own opinions on-air.

You can reach him at jmcmullen44@gmail.com or on Twitter @JFMcMullen .

February 1, 2021

Opinion

John McMullen: Shift toward NBA-like thinking could make Carson Wentz trade easier

by John McMullen

If you want the Eagles to move on and trade Carson Wentz this offseason the potential for that increased at least slightly in the aftermath of the reported blockbuster deal that will send Matthew Stafford from Detroit to the Los Angeles Rams at the start of the new league year in March in exchange for Jared Goff, his bloated contract, and three draft picks.

January 28, 2021

Opinion

John McMullen: QB coach Brian Johnson is the Eagles’ most intriguing hiring

by John McMullen

The most intriguing member of the brand new Eagles’ staff is not the guy in the big chair, it's 33-year-old quarterbacks coach Brian Johnson for a number of reasons, some more obvious than others.

January 25, 2021

Opinion

John McMullen: Ordinary Eagles follow the leader with Nick Sirianni hiring

by John McMullen

The Eagles rest comfortably, understanding that a wide-ranging search spawned by irreconcilable differences between Jeffrey Lurie and Doug Pederson over the children (in this case Press Taylor) led them to the best option under difficult circumstances, the 39-year-old Nick Sirianni.

January 21, 2021

Opinion

John McMullen: Slow burn of Eagles coaching search has them under even more scrutiny

by John McMullen

There were seven coaching vacancies in the NFL during the 2021 hiring cycle and just two are left to be filled with a pair of four-win teams: the Philadelphia Eagles and the Houston Texans, organizations that, whether they know it or not, are under a higher-powered microscope in a league that too often pays lip service and little else to its minority-hiring practices.

January 18, 2021

Opinion

John McMullen: The Eagles next head coach? Just call Andy again

by John McMullen

If the Eagles' coaching search feels a bit schizophrenic to you, you're hardly on an island and certainly not Palm Beach Island where Jeffrey Lurie and his search committee have migrated in an effort to find the successor to Doug Pederson.

January 14, 2021

Eagles

John McMullen: The targeted contradiction of Jeffrey Lurie's Eagles

by John McMullen

For over 40 minutes Monday, Jeffrey Lurie hemmed and hawed trying to explain the inexplicable from South Florida, a breathtaking account of why the Eagles owner decided to fire the only Super Bowl-winning coach his franchise has ever known less than three calendar years off that very Lombardi Trophy.

January 11, 2021

Opinion

John McMullen: Eagles' dysfunction can be traced back to Jeffrey Lurie

by John McMullen

For most of the Eagles' fan base, blame for a 4-11-1 disaster of a season should be doled out in a circular firing squad between Howie Roseman, Doug Pederson, and Carson Wentz.

January 7, 2021

Opinion

John McMullen: Enough tanking talk — the Eagles have real problems to fix

by John McMullen

Like a Band-Aid on a broken leg, focusing on something dozens of other teams have done over the years because a 6-10 major market team is morally outraged is obscuring the real issues in Philadelphia, which are both significant and many.

January 4, 2021

Opinion

John McMullen: Foreshadowing the price of the Eagles' tanking

by John McMullen

Perhaps no city is better equipped to talk tanking than Philadelphia which has a Ph.D. on a strategy turned dogma, at least for some.

December 31, 2020

Opinion

John McMullen: Coaching isn't the Eagles' problem

by John McMullen

The Eagles coaching staff started playing the “what if?” game this week, outlining all the attrition that turned Philadelphia from division favorite into a last-place team heading into a meaningless (for the Eagles) Week 17 finale against the Washington Football Team, a club that ironically is perhaps a competent quarterback away from a win and worst-to-first scenario.