AS THE 2017 Eagles football season draws near, Birds loyalists are getting ready for their preseason ritual - alternating between wild-eyed enthusiasm about whether they should be making Super Bowl reservations and traditional pessimism that something is bound to go wrong.
Now that the dust has settled from the draft and free agency, there is no question the Birds improved by adding some important new weapons on offense and making some interesting new additions on defense.
So, with all of the new weapons around him, will Carson Wentz improve as the Eagles' starting quarterback or regress with a "sophomore slump"?