This doesn't happen here. This doesn't happen to long-suffering Eagles fans. This is something that happens in other towns.
Other teams find "the one" in the draft.
Other teams mine the next coaching genius.
Other teams come out of nowhere to become the surprise team of the year.
Eagles fans have waited a long time to be that town. We haven't won a championship since 1960. We had some success with Dick Vermeil, Ron Jaworski, Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb.
But for most of those years, it's always been other teams, other players, other draft picks that have been the talk of the NFL.
Not this morning.
The NFL is talking about the Eagles, who now stand at 3-0 after dominating the Steelers yesterday on a sun-splashed late Sunday afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field.
This was not the Cleveland Browns.
Or the Chicago Bears.
The lament was, after the Eagles bolted out of the gate 2-0 with wins against two of the worst teams in the NFL, "they haven't played anybody."
They played somebody yesterday.
And took them apart.
Everyone pointed to yesterday's matchup with the Steelers as a statement game for the Eagles.
This is the statement the Birds made: This Eagles team is for real.
The Birds dismantled their cross-state rival, a team many included among the NFL's elite and one of the favorites to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl.
You can get all the details here.
It struck me while watching the game that Eagles fans very well may have hit the Trifecta.
Carson Wentz. Doug Pederson. Jim Schwartz.
Win, place and show.
Wentz continues to confound the experts. Yesterday he unfurled his first 300-yard passing day against a very good Steelers defense.
Pederson, who has yet to lose as Eagles head coach, continues to dazzle with his play-calling and his ability to get this team ready to play. In short, they look like a very well-coached team, something they have often not done in their long, frustrating history.
Schwartz's defense frustrated one of the best quarterbacks in the league, Ben Roethlisberger.
The three of them combined to deliver one of the worst beatings Mike Tomlin has every endured during his time at the helm of the Steelers.
"Next year" has finally arrived for Eagles fans.
They have the best young QB in the league.
They have a coach who has yet to lose in his first stint as an NFL boss.
And they have a defensive coordinator who is taking no prisoners in shutting down every offense they encounter.
Can we postpone the bye week?
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