It steals up on you, amid the wackiness of the NFL season. Just like that, a funny trend becomes an irrevocable fact. A nine-win team has won more than half of its allotment of games. It is going to finish the regular season as a winner. It is almost certain to make the playoffs.
Glory is at hand.
I'm not talking about the Ravens here. I expected the Ravens to be at least 8-5 at this point, and I was one inconceivably shanked Al Del Greco field goal from being right. I know this because my own brother didn't imagine it. For normal folks, following the Eagles means quaffing a bottomless cup of bitterness. The City of Brotherly Love is filled with wretched, vicious people, turned mean and hopeless by years of blown draft picks, incompetent special teams, cruel injuries, and Rich Kotite.