"This team was on the verge of imploding as recently as 2023, when they went 1-5 down the stretch and bombed out of the Wild Card round in Tampa. Matt Patricia was somehow involved. Eagles fans demanded heads on spikes (whiz wit!), and were crushed when ownership refused to give them satisfaction. I too was disappointed, because I hate the lot of you."
"But a 2-2 start to the 2024 campaign raised my hopes-cruelly, in retrospect-that the dysfunction had carried over. The Eagles lost at home to a painfully mediocre Atlanta team. They barely beat New Orleans, and then got absolutely fucking torched by Tampa Bay the week after. A desultory home win over Cleveland after that did little to soothe Philly fans' angst (only rewatching Rocky III while yelling slurs at Clubber Lang can do that)."
The Philadelphia Eagles finished 14-3 and secured the Super Bowl championship after a dramatic late-season surge. The team nearly imploded in 2023, going 1-5 down the stretch and exiting the Wild Card round in Tampa. Early 2024 turbulence produced a 2-2 start with losses at home to Atlanta, a narrow win over New Orleans, and a blowout loss to Tampa Bay. Fans reacted furiously, including a televised confrontation with the head coach. The Eagles then won 12 of their final 13 regular-season games, featured a notorious running back incident against Jacksonville, and rolled through the playoffs to claim the title.
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