Eagles Pre-Game – Week 4

Eagles vs Jags 1:00pm on CBS.

In sports, as in life, when things are going good we sometimes dwell on the how things might eventually fall apart.  Indeed, the entire Fox News media empire is built on keeping the dummies who watch it topped-off to the brim with worries, concerns and portents of looming catastrophe.

Last week my nervous-nellyism focused on whether or not Jalen Hurts was going to run the ball too much.  He didn’t.  Instead Hurts lit up the Commanders secondary by throwing 35 times for 340 yards.

This week I’ll be lighting the Santo Toribio Romo candle in order to help the Eagles score in the 4th quarter.  This is the definition of a imaginary problem.  The Eagles 4th quarter scoring “problems” are no doubt related to the fact that they haven’t needed to score any point in the 4th quarter.

They might not need any 4th quarter points this week, so I’ll be either carrying over this concern to next week or I’ll have moved on to worrying about that fact that being the last remaining undefeated team is somehow problematic.

In related NFL news. The last word on Tua Tagovailoa’s concussion comes from the Onion:

NFL Doctors Test Tua Tagovailoa’s Mental Acuity By Seeing If He Can Sign Indemnification Agreement