PHILADELPHIA — There were a few ways to watch the NFL’s two playoff games Sunday, the two games that have had the whole football-loving world buzzing ever since. One way, if you were a Buffalo Bills fan, was to ricochet from joy to horror to ecstasy to complete heartbreak. Another way was to sit back, be an engaged and overjoyed observer of the sport, and marvel at the performances of the four quarterbacks: the Rams’ Matthew Stafford, the Buccaneers’ Tom Brady, the Bills’ Josh Allen, and the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes. All of them were, to varying degrees, great, and they made Sunday a pure pleasure from start to finish.
But there was another way to watch those games. You could watch them with an eye toward the other teams in the league, or perhaps to one team in particular, to the team you follow most closely. Around here, that team, of course, is the Eagles, and you could watch those games and compare the Eagles to the four teams playing in those games. You could even picture the Eagles’ coaches and players and decision-makers making those same comparisons. What do those teams have that we don’t?
I picture Jalen Hurts watching those games Sunday, and I picture him saying to himself, Damn, I can’t wait to get back at it. I can’t wait for another shot at the postseason.
