Dr. Joel Fish analyzed the patient, stretched out before him.
“It’s been a confusing time” for the psyche, Fish empathized. “Are we the favorites or are we the underdogs? Are we optimistic or are we pessimistic?”
As the Eagles make NFL history as the first team to be both a No. 1. seed and the underdog heading into Saturday’s playoff game against the Atlanta Falcons, we on the collective Quaker City couch are feeling the whiplash.
We were making such progress, lamented Fish, a lifelong Philadelphian who heads the Center for Sport Psychology. “We became comfortable, as time went on, allowing ourselves to dream.