Philly Front Office

The 2024 Eagles are the best Eagles team of all time. No notes on that one. By every metric they are one of the best football teams ever assembled. Seeing this year’s team, I think we appreciate that run a little more. I’m not ragging on the 2025 Birds, but last year? Damn that was fun. So, what have this year’s team given us for Christmas? Hope.

Flyers Christmas Gift: Sweet Baby Zegras

Phillies Christmas Gift: Cash

Sixers Christmas Gift: The Star on the Tree

Hope? Go on…

The reason we are all going absolutely crazy about the Eagles this season is because we know what’s at stake. If last year’s team was one of the best ever and this year’s team has the same cast of characters, that means a repeat is right there. Repeat Super Bowl champions? That’s dynasty stuff. That’s NFL immortality stuff. It’s the kind of team that everyone remembers and is proud of forever. We don’t want that to slip through our fingers.

The best multi year reign of most of our lifetimes is the 2007-2011 Phillies. Some of the greatest Phillies ever were on that team: Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels. “World Fucking Champions” was and still is a badge of honor. That team is ours, but they aren’t legendary in the annals of MLB history. Just the one title holds us back. We got close and probably should have won 2 or 3 with that group, but it didn’t happen. It’s hard and it got away.

This Eagles team has it in them! Two Super Bowl appearances and one win in three years is really good, but it’s not all time great. We’d remember forever, but it would be forgotten to NFL history; second fiddle to the Chiefs and Patriots. Two wins and three appearances in four years? That’s completely different. That’s forever, Team of the Decade stuff. We can feel it in our hands and don’t want it slipping through our fingers.

This year we worry about the coach, and the QB, and the WR, and CB2, and the kicker because we are scared. Scared that what we want so bad might be lost on the smallest of details. But we also know that this team has done it before. This isn’t the Eagles our parents grew up with. These are the two time Super Bowl Champion Eagles. The Eagles that win. The Eagles that amaze. The Eagles that fly. The Eagles that give us hope!!!