Here are the links to the only other teams in the top tier brass “Smartest teams with recent rings to show for it” the Kansas City Chiefs and the LA Rams. Now it’s time for Philly, so I better watch what I say or snowballs will be thrown at me. If Santa wasn’t safe…

Smartest teams with recent rings to show for it:

#3 Eagles: have you guys been to Wawa before?

I loathe to admit it, but the Eagles are a very crafty team overall and have been for a while. Jeff Lurie, Howie Roseman, Doug Pederson, Frank Reich, and Jim Schwartz pulled off the seemingly impossible to win their first Super Bowl. And for that, everyone should be forever grateful (because they beat the Pats). With Roseman as your GM and ultimate shot caller (executive VP of football operations or whatever they want to call him), I can be a hater all I want and it won’t matter because I’m mad jelly at the way the Eagles are operated. The 76ers, Flyers, and Phillies will remain in my pantheon of despised teams, along with all the Boston teams and all the New Jersey teams.

The main problem I see (and I could be wrong) is that you replaced your entire coaching staff after you won the Super Bowl, and then lost your coordinators again after you lost a different Super Bowl. Would love to have those problems as a Jets fan. What resulted was a season that started off really well, and then…

Who the hell knows what happened after that, man. Just a series of brain farts and the team was dead in the water come playoff time. What happened? There has to be some behind-the-scenes drama we don’t know about because nobody just forgets how to play football like that, collectively as a team, unless they all were concussed starting in Week 12. You beat the Bills in OT the week before, and then just lost every single game the rest of the way (and no, that pathetic performance against the Giants doesn’t count as a win in my book). Big Dom is shaking his head in shame right now, you let him down, Nick Sirianni. That is your legacy: memes, crying, doubts, fears, questions, concerns, and letting the world know about Big Dom the security dude. Nobody puts hands on him!

Can you imagine if Carson Wentz hadn’t gotten hurt that one year? He was playing at an MVP level before his career summarily ended and Nick Foles took over as the hero the city needed/deserved to vanquish the vile, hated Patriots. Where is that sense of urgency, or calm cool collected charisma of wearing underdog masks after a win? This team needs some confidence back, not an entirely new playbook. Sucks you lost the best center in the league, the heart and soul of your organization, and now he’s just a podcaster for a living. Hope you don’t suffer a second-half collapse again!!!

Anyways, the draft capital at your disposal, the free agent signings, and the picks have all been stellar, Roseman just crushes it time after time, and the coaches let him down tremendously time after time. And then the good coordinators got poached by worse teams. This roster has been championship quality for a while, but they just haven’t been able to get over the hump post-Foles & Pederson. But Jesus Christ, have the past handful of years had some draft day success stories. Can people stop trading with Howie? You’re never going to get the better end of him! You can outcoach the Eagles, but you can’t outdraft them. Put the phone down, don’t pick it up if there’s a number from 215, 267, or 445. If I ran a team I’d rather listen to the girl from “The Ring” tell me I’m going to die in seven days than have Howie fleece me.

“Oh, is he trying to put together the Georgia Bulldog championship defense? Should I just hand over every single player he wants that makes it super obvious what he’s trying to build? Maybe I should take one of those players?” – every stupid GM

The proof is in the pudding: Dallas Goedert in the 2nd, Avonte Maddox in the 4th, Josh Sweat in the 4th, Matt Pryor in the 6th, Jordan Mailata in the 7th, Miles Sanders in the 2nd, Jalen Hurts in the 2nd, Jack Driscoll in the 4th, Quez Watkins in the 6th, DeVonta Smith in the 1st, Kenneth Gainwell in the 5th, Marlon Tuipulotu in the 6th, Jordan Davis in the 1st, Cam Jurgens in the 2nd, Jalen Carter in the 1st, Nolan Smith in the 1st; that’s a haul and a half, plus most of these players are still on the team. Not to mention the long careers they got out of Lane Johnson, Zach Ertz, Jordan Poyer, Jordan Hicks, Fletcher Cox, and Jason Kelce WHO WENT IN THE 6TH ROUND SOMEHOW. Impressive stuff.

Nick Foles was a third-rounder, and you just gave him away, it’s wild that he came back, he looked good in that first stint with the team and you let him flap his wings and fly away from the nest. I still do not understand how you won that Super Bowl but thank goodness you did, or else I would have put a gun in my mouth.

If it wasn’t for the disparity in coaching over the last two seasons, these guys should have had a ring by now, right? They robbed the Titans blind for AJ Brown. They got Bryce Huff from my Jets (they know what they’re doing, he’s super good!). Please stop making deals with the Eagles because they will get the better of you. They sign their players to deals before the market sets, and they know how to construct a roster. It’s just a matter of inches to beat the best and not collapse mentally after losing to the 49ers in Week 12, which is why I’m confused as to why you didn’t just fire head coach Nick as a scapegoat and hire Mike Vrabel the moment he was available. Seems weird to me, but a bold strategy so let’s see if it pays off!