Adam Caplan and Geoff Mosher do a great podcast on 97.3 ESPN called “Inside the Birds.”
Caplan is down at the Senior Bowl right now, and therefore is sniffing around a bit. On the latest edition of the podcast, posted Thursday, he reports that the Eagles have decided on who their new defensive line coach and assistant d-line coach will be.
Caplan:
The Flyers enter the All-Star Break with a renewed sense of confidence after knocking off some of the best teams in the league over the past two weeks, including Washington, Boston, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. Sure, they’ve had a clunker or two (see: Montreal), but for the most part, this team is ahead of where many expected them to be at this point in the season. Prior to the season on Snow The Goalie, Anthony and I laid out a list of “ifs” that needed to go right for the Flyers to contend for a playoff spot in a highly-competitive Metropolitan Division with a ridiculous playoff seeding system. I would argue that the biggest breakout star this season has come from fourth-year forward Travis Konecny, who’s just six points away from tying his career high in points at the NHL level, despite being just over half of the way through the season.
Earlier this week, we had the opportunity to sit down with Konecny to discuss his breakout season and how having his contract situation resolved has been allowed him to play freely. He also shared some stories about interacting with fans, calling Malkin a “****ing nerd”, which of his teammates is a low-key chirper on the ice, and what he watches while away from the ice.
Next week, we’ll release our interviews with defenseman Matt Niskanen and rising star Joel Farabee. If you haven’t subscribed to Snow The Goalie already, please make sure you do. It’s available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, and wherever else you get your podcasts!
Full transcript of the interview, video, and link to the podcast after the jump.
The NBA trade deadline is February 6th, two weeks from today.
Cue the numerous reports linking team X to player Y, with language like “interested in” or “inquired about” or whatever else Woj and the other news breakers can come up with.
Let’s bite on this one, via Kevin O’Connor at The Ringer:
Per Shams:
MRI on 76ers guard Josh Richardson showed slight strain of left hamstring and he’s expected to be re-evaluated in two-to-three weeks, league sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) January 23, 2020
That timing here is iffy because the Sixers have a lot of important games coming up. Three weeks would take Richardson to February 13th, which would cause him to miss games against the Lakers, Warriors, Hawks, Celtics, Heat, Bucks, Grizzlies, Bulls, and Clippers. The Sixers then get nine days off after that game before hosting the Nets at home.
That’s the good news, the fact that this bumps into the All-Star break. Of course, Joel Embiid is still out, so it’s gonna be rough sledding minus two starters until he can rejoin the lineup.
Woof.
Big hubbub yesterday after the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Christian Hetrick reported that police were investigating after Gritty was accused of punching a 13 year old during a photo op for Flyers season ticket holders.
The incident stems from November, when Chris Greenwell says his son Brandon was hit in the back after he touched the mascot on the head. Comcast Spectacor says they took the allegations “seriously” and conducted an investigation that was not able to support Greenwell’s claim.
Understandably, the story was all over the local news, with the TV stations getting in touch with the father and seeing what he had to say. Here’s the NBC Philadelphia story, reported by Drew Smith, via Johnny “Airport” Clark:
Which image will you remember Eli Manning by?
Will it be ‘Eli face,’ on the left? Or will it be the two-time Super Bowl champion pictured on the right?
Eagles fans would probably go with the former, since Eli was a division rival who didn’t play very well against the Birds for whatever reason, despite ripping off two postseason runs that resulted in Super Bowl triumphs over the Patriots. He’ll finish his career with a 10-23 record against Philadelphia but went 8-4 in the playoffs, which included a pair of 4-0 title runs where he threw 15 touchdowns and just two interceptions.
Eli will make his retirement official at a press conference tomorrow, and here’s what owner John Mara had to say:
Sniff sniff.
Somebody is sniffing around at NovaCare. I don’t know who it is, though. We’ve got a mystery source who contacts Crossing Broad and offers up tidbits about the Philadelphia Eagles, tidbits that have turned out to be 100% accurate.
I don’t know who this person is, or how to contact them, but occasionally we’ll get messages telling us that a player was released or signed, or that somebody ended up on another team. To date, the CB mystery source is four for four with their tips, correctly telling us about the Jordan Matthews signing and then release, the Mack Hollins departure, and Jalen Ramsey’s trade to Los Angeles.
Recently, the source contacted us again with this:
In this story, I will tell you how to feel about Andy Reid.
Just kidding.
You can feel however you’d like to feel about Big Red. We only wrote one story about Andy this week, which was my Monday column explaining why he’s our ex-girlfriend, and we should want the best for him, but when you do sports radio you need to fill quite a bit of time, and as such, 94 WIP is doing an “Andy Reid Appreciation Day” next Thursday, January 30th.
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