For as long as we can remember, teams and fans have been warned about providing bulletin board material for other teams. Let’s all get something straight. The theory that doing so gives one team a psychological advantage over another is overhyped. Fans know it. The media knows it, and you can best believe the Philadelphia Eagles know it.
No one got mad when Alshon Jeffery guaranteed a Super Bowl victory, did they? That worked out just fine, didn’t it?
The act of guaranteeing a victory goes back as long as sports do. All Summer we’ve been told that the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles will compete for divisional superiority in the NFC East.