"But, and surely you knew a "but" was coming because why else do blogs exist, sometimes complicating things in the most drug-aided and byzantine ways is exactly what the moment requires. Especially in football, where the sport must make 17 games feel like 166 (the Phillies' final total) or 169 and counting (the Cubs). For that math to work, some complication is required. In rare cases this requires a near religious experience, but a Thursday night loss to the New York Giants will suffice in a pinch."
"With that as preamble: WTF, the Eagles? On an unusually Philly-centric sports night-yeah, yeah, you touchy bastards think every night is a Philly-centric night around here-the agonies of Orion Kerkering will eventually fade but the next 10 days will be about how the defending Super Bowl champions could have gone to irretrievably Jets-level dung so quickly. Yes, these are exaggerations of the actual situation here, which amounts to an extremely talented team playing confused and counterproductive football in general and getting whomped by the Giants in particular. But the easy part for Philadelphians is tarting up an apocalypse; the complexity lies in the explanations, justifications, and blame delegation."
Sports outcomes often stem from simple causes rather than elaborate explanations. Fans and media regularly magnify results, with football inviting particularly baroque narratives across a 17-game season. The Philadelphia Eagles, despite high talent, have produced confused and counterproductive football, eking out uninspiring wins by small margins and surrendering leads. A recent decisive loss to the New York Giants intensified perceptions of rapid decline for the defending champions. Fan reaction tends toward apocalyptic framing while the real challenge becomes sorting through explanations, justifications, and the assignment of blame.
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