Right now, the Eagles are a good football team. There’s your big takeaway. Metaphorically, at least.
It’s easy to dwell on the negative after a loss like the one they suffered to the Chiefs on Sunday afternoon. Like, for instance, the actual takeaways. Carson Wentz was asked twice what happened on the turnover that tilted the game for good, and both times his tone told you more than his words. He made the kind of mistake that a human being will often make when confronted with a situation he has never before experienced. In this case, it was a screen pass that was dead on arrival, his intended receiver lost in a moving pile of bodies, the pass rush bearing down.