FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - By the time Bill Davis had returned home from Detroit last week in desperate need of some time to decompress with his family, he had already watched his defense's Thanksgiving horror show against the Lions three times.
His longest 10 days as the Eagles' defensive coordinator had to begin with that everlasting aspect of his postgame routine. Always, in the immediate aftermath of every game, Davis reviews the film again and again, probing each play for his and his players' mistakes - a bad blitz call, a missed tackle, a blown assignment. Reviewing the Eagles' previous two games, though, was a task that took on no small hint of sadomasochism.