IS TAKING DOC TO SEE THE DOC
Among the most significant changes during the Eagles' late-season surge was the decision to start Akeem Jordan over Omar Gaither at weakside linebacker for the final six games of the season.
Jordan had a team-high 13 tackles in the wild-card win over Minnesota and had 13 against Dallas in the regular-season finale.
Now, he has returned to his offseason home in Harrisonburg, Va., and is already working toward being ready for next season, the last under his current contract. Jordan was an undrafted free agent out of James Madison, where he was the Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year as a senior.
He also realizes that staying in the NFL might be harder than getting there in the first place.
"It will always be the same until I stop," Jordan told the Daily Record. "You've got to stay hungry all the time. You have to work hard and keep at it. Every year, there's a new crop of people coming in, so you have to keep working hard. I've got one more year left on this contract and then, God willing, I get another one."
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Les
Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News
since 2002.
Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les
only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no
penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite
what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News
from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much
lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their
two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com
and follow
him on Twitter.
Paul
Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982.
He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with the paper covering the
Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a
selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre
and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo started his career in Texas,
working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas
Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was
boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to
blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley,
a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over
that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific
daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy,
25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team.
E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow
him on Twitter.
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