CLICK HERE if you're interested in reading the "What went wrong?" version of this column. Losing an embarrassing playoff game in the wake of a frustrating season is no way to defend your Super Bowl championship, but no matter how bitter the taste of last season might be, there were plenty of positives, some of which set Philly up pretty well for the future: Philly won 11 games despite a brutal schedule. A quick review of the Eagles' schedule reveals "only" six games against e

Well, it wasn't what we had hoped: the Eagles' attempt to be just the fourth team in the salary cap era to repeat as champions went up in smoke. Back in January, I didn't want to waste time talking about that 49ers game (you all saw what I saw), but no one who watched that team could have been too shocked by what happened: the offense again went ice cold for too long, aided by untimely dropped passes and foolish penalties. It's the same script from September, October, Novemb

Three years ago, in anticipation of a Philly Super Bowl run, I wrote a piece that attempted to use statistical history to determine the mold that champions typically come from. I ended up finding seven statistical traits that seemed to predict success with some frequency. Last year I came back to that project and updated it a bit with a couple new and different insights (that article came to the conclusion that Philly was a serious threat to win the big game, and well, tha