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 .
September 14, 2020
Opinion
John McMullen: Pederson, Wentz helped put Washington in position to beat Eagles
If there’s one thing Doug Pederson has stressed in Philadelphia, it’s situational football and the Eagles pride themselves on consistent and sustained success in the most high-leverage aspects of the game, things like third-downs and red-zone success.September 10, 2020
Opinion
John McMullen: That awful Aaron Donald take actually highlights a bigger problem with analytics
The easiest way to get noticed is to fight upstream against groupthink, which is not necessarily a bad thing and can often be a brave one because it's not easy to stand up against an angry mob demanding conformity. It's always a fine line, though, and in the case of Aaron Donald, it became a look-at-me line.September 8, 2020
Opinion
John McMullen: Inside the chaos of creating the Eagles roster in 2020
No preseason games, expanded practice squads, more liberal injured-reserve rules, and a 41-year-old practice-squad quarterback who works virtually like so many of us. The cutdown to 2020 and its wake was like no other in NFL history, and it may never be repeated again.September 3, 2020
Opinion
John McMullen: Here's what the Eagles should do with Jason Peters
Because we're in a virtual world, let's run through a virtual-reality scenario.August 31, 2020
Opinion
John McMullen: Why an NFL civil rights strike isn't happening
The idea is gaining steam from at least some who cover the NFL but the end game is never defined and the repercussions of a so-called "civil-rights strike" never discussed.August 27, 2020
Opinion
John McMullen: Joe Judge isn't afraid to let his QB get 'popped' in practice — and I'm here for it
Joe Judge is making some noise up the New Jersey Turnpike with the New York Giants.August 24, 2020
Opinion
John McMullen: False positive tests are a real threat to the NFL this season
The NFL got a dry run it wasn’t counting on over the weekend when irregularities in COVID-19 testing popped up all over around the league. Buffalo general manager Brandon Beane told reporters nearly one-third of the league, “10 or 11” teams, were hit with potential false positives.August 20, 2020
Opinion
John McMullen: Former Eagle Nigel Bradham's only sin was telling the truth
You're with us or you're against us.August 17, 2020
Opinion
John McMullen: Believe all the Eagles hype you want — but we've been here before
In a normal NFL year far too many will get excited over a training camp tweet or a trumped-up moment in time during an August practice.August 13, 2020
Opinion
John McMullen: For NFL training camps, ‘bubble-like’ is a deception
You've likely heard a lot about bubbles recently when it comes to professional sports moving forward with many Twitter-trained M.D.'s settling the science and concluding it's the only way forward during the COVID-19 pandemic.Just In
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