At some point during virtually every post-game press conference former Eagles coach Andy Reid conducted after a Birds victory during his tenure in Philadelphia, he uttered a phrase that went something like...
“Any time you can get a victory in the National Football League, it’s a good win.”
I’m paraphrasing, of course, but no matter what the wording actually was, the implication was the same — winning games in the NFL is really really hard, and all of them are impressive.
While I don’t necessarily subscribe to that theory all the time, some Eagles fans have been questioning whether Thursday night’s 18-12 victory against the Falcons was “impressive,” or “unimpressive.