Why the Eagles Only Remaining Obstacle To A February Parade — Is Themselves.
It’s been ages ago it seems since an also aging Dr. Benjamin Franklin walked out of the State House in Philadelphia and was questioned about what type of government that the Continental Congress Delegates had decided on. That exact question, asked of him by Elizabeth Willing Powel’s was that Franklin cleverly responded to, “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.”
The genius of Franklin’s answer in the shadow of Independence Hall perfectly captured both the promise of America and a future forecasting of both the trials and tribulations that the great USA would endure.
The question burning in the minds of most Philadelphians in 2025 after a meaningless 20–13 second-team week 18 victory — what will be the fate of these Philadelphia Eagles? Will this much-anticipated season end with the frantic celebration of a frigid parade or a fizzling-out loss like last January in Tampa Bay? The answer is simple — It’s completely up to the Eagles.
It’s not controlling your own destiny — it’s just being the better team.
Just like Ol’ Dr. Franklin’s forecast for the United States — a nation born in Philadelphia in 1776 — the 2024 Eagles (born in Philadelphia in the heat of summer Training Camp, now 2025) are in complete control of that destiny. The only other NFL Team that can beat the Eagles when they are at their peak is the one staring back at them in the mirror.
With the exception of a game where they didn’t make the flight in Tampa Bay in September, a dropped pass against the Falcons, and a fourth quarter against Washington to forget without Jalen Hurts— the Eagles have been mostly unstoppable. And their contests haven’t even been that close. They’ve set a record for margin of victory on the road that hearkens back to 1949, featured a 2,000 rusher, MVP candidate, and potentially NFL record-setter in the backfield, scored the most points in team history, and tied most games won for any team in Eagles history at 14.
They are more complete than Vermeil’s 1980 team, have better weapons than Andy Reid’s 2004-2005 squad, have more ability than Doug Pederson’s magical 2018 roster, and 2022–2023? Let’s just say that they are a much better version of themselves.
These Eagles are the painstakingly, perfectly crafted on-field product of Howie Roseman and the Eagles Front Office like the city has never seen before. Inside of it’s heralded Novacare Complex walls is an amazing combination of a franchise quarterback, best running back in the NFL along with two of it’s finest wide receivers, a Pro Bowl caliber offensive-line, a Vic Fangio unit complete with some of the finest defenders in all of the NFL that only gets better as the weeks go by, and a rookie class that has showed us only a sliver of their true on-field potential for years to come.
To win, the Eagles will need to steel themselves against the adversity that has shadowed them all season long. They’ll have to overcome a reported fracture between the franchise quarterback and it’s franchise wide receiver. They’ll have to overcome the sideline quibbles that those national TV cameras just can’t resist capturing at the end of the game. And they’ll need a young Head Coach — one of the finest in the NFL — to funnel his youthful emotional outbursts into veteran-coaching decision-making that will best win games and keep the Super Bowl run moving forward, week after week — home or away.
Nearly three years after the 1787 Continental Congress and plagued by kidney stones, gout, and a variety of other ailments — Benjamin Franklin passed away in Philadelphia in April of 1790. Of the nearly 20,000 people who attended his funeral — many of whom were Philadelphians — packed the streets in numbers that rival a present-day Eagles Championship Parade. America did indeed keep it’s republic as assuredly as the Eagles control their own destiny to the Super Bowl. Not even a partially concussed Jalen Hurts nor a potentially Love-less Packers can stand in the way.
The only team that can stop Philadelphia from the championship is the Eagles. If they keep the “main thing, the main thing,” concentrating on only the utter domination that has brought us to this point — then that Super Bowl victory feeling of 2018?
That feeling will find us all — once again.
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