With Christmas on the horizon, it seems appropriate to borrow a page from a classic Christmas novel. Increasingly so, as we must look at the past, present, and future to accurately diagnose the ongoing problems with the Philadelphia Eagles. Not only will we take a trip down memory lane en route to hopping in a time machine, but we’ll also come to understand how the roster came to be and what it could be.
Today’s Eagles are a by-product of the ripples displaced by historical events, even those we have repressed far into our minds. They have been shaped by great successes and failures of equal magnitude.