Cody Parkey, center, missed a potential winning field goal for the Bears with seconds left in their loss to the Eagles. Mike Dinovo/USA Today Sports, via Reuters
CHICAGO — Eleven months have elapsed since Philadelphia’s improbable Super Bowl title, and on Sunday it was ever more necessary to re-establish this interval as fact. The playoffs, again, have arrived, and there, again, was Nick Foles, reprising his role as the Eagles’ backup-turned-starter-turned-savior.
To anyone squinting at their televisions and wondering how Foles managed to bend time and space, he did not actually depart one stadium in the Midwest after bewitching his opponent and go right to another to do the same — though such confusion would be understandable.