It was one of those moments when you felt a subtle shift in the undercurrent.
Two minutes gone in the second quarter, the Eagles up six, the Patriots with a first down on their 36-yard-line. With his pocket collapsing, Tom Brady stepped up and saw a wide open Brandin Cooks 21 yards down field. The diminutive receiver squared his body and attempted to make an open-field move on a defender 3 yards in front. But just as he accelerated into his first step, a streak of midnight green flashed into his left-hand periphery. The resulting hit by Malcolm Jenkins left Cooks crumpled in a motionless heap on the Eagles’ 40-yard line and the Patriots without their best outside-the-numbers threat for the rest of the game.