Well, it wasn't what we had hoped: the Eagles' attempt to be just the fourth team in the salary cap era to repeat as champions went up in smoke. Back in January, I didn't want to waste time talking about that 49ers game (you all saw what I saw), but no one who watched that team could have been too shocked by what happened: the offense again went ice cold for too long, aided by untimely dropped passes and foolish penalties. It's the same script from September, October, Novemb

Three years ago, in anticipation of a Philly Super Bowl run, I wrote a piece  that attempted to use statistical history to determine the mold that champions typically come from. I ended up finding seven statistical traits that seemed to predict success with some frequency. Last year I came back to that project and updated it a bit with a couple new and different insights (that article came to the conclusion that Philly was a serious threat to win the big game, and well, tha

Another year, another insane Eagles-Bills game ! This one was defensive in nature, helped by the miserable Buffalo weather, and like that matchup from two years ago went down to the final play. Much has been made about Philly's offense going completely stagnant for the second half (which it did, frustratingly), but to that I'll offer a nominal defense: the weather was terrible, the Bills offense had been totally strangled by the Eagles' D (until late in the third quarter the