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

Another year, another insane Eagles-Bills game ! This one was defensive in nature, helped by the miserable Buffalo weather, and like that matchup from two years ago went down to the final play. Much has been made about Philly's offense going completely stagnant for the second half (which it did, frustratingly), but to that I'll offer a nominal defense: the weather was terrible, the Bills offense had been totally strangled by the Eagles' D (until late in the third quarter the

What were you doing on November 28, 2004? I was wrapping up my first semester in college, which feels like a lifetime ago. That date happened to be when the Eagles clinched their fourth consecutive NFC East title. The Birds had ruled the division for much of the decade and were in the midst of a Super Bowl run. It was hard to imagine that reign ever ending, and yet that would remarkably be the start of the longest run of nonconsecutive division champs in NFL history. That's a