That brutal Eagles loss in Minnesota was a good thing?

You've got it all wrong, Eagles fans.

That brutal showing by the Birds in Minnesota was a good thing.

That comes from someone who was pretty close to the carnage. Eagles cornerback Cary Williams, part of an Eagles defense that got scorched for 382 yards by journeyman Matt Cassell, believes the loss was a wake-up call for the Birds, maybe the best thing that could have happened to them. You can read Bob Grotz's story here.

"It was great that we were able to knock us off and we learned from the experience," Williams said in a brutally honest depiction of the game nor usually mouthed by professional athletes."

"It definitely knocked us off our high horse," the cornerback who was benched after picking up an unsportsmanlike penalty late in the game. "We thought we were good. We thought we were going to just go into Minnesota and win. That those guys were going to lie down. It definitely showed us."

Funny, I could have sworn I heard just about every Eagle mouthing the exact opposite all last week, that they did not believe in the so-called trap game and certainly were not looking past the lowly Vikings, who limped into the game without All-Pro running back Adrian Peterson, and his backup.

If Williams' comments are on the money, the Eagles will come out on fire Sunday night vs. the Bears. But if they struggle again, especially on defense, those words will wrong just as hollow as all those denials the Birds offered all last week as to whether could get complacent after ripping off five wins in a row. We'll find out in the next two weeks if the Eagles can take Williams' blunt assessment to heart.