Need a Miracle? A Lesson in Allowing From a Philadelphia Eagle Coach
In the 10th game of this NFL football season, the 5-4 Philadelphia Eagles eeked out a tie of the lowly 1-8 Cincinnati Bengals. Most fans and pundits believed this spelled the end of Philly's playoff chances — maybe not mathematically, yet — but surely their ineffective play against a pathetic opponent was an indicator of the '08 teams ability.
Through plucky tenacity (that all Philadelphian's possess) as of the last game of the season, the Eagles were still not mathematically eliminated from the playoffs...though they did need a miracle to make it in. Specifically here's the confluence of events they needed to break their way:
- The 4-11 Raiders needed to somehow beat the superior 9-6 Buccaneers (who were extremely motivated because they needed to win the game to get in the playoffs themselves), AND
- Either the 9-6 Vikings or 9-6 Bears to lose, AND
- The Eagles had to BEAT the 9-6 Cowboys (who just needed to beat the Eagles to make it in the playoffs on their own accord).
A Trifecta of Epic Proportions.
Well, this Sunday the world will still be able to watch the Eagles play, because the miracle trifecta did indeed happen and they are playing against the Vikings in the first round of the playoffs. While this was truly an amazing, unlikely feat, I just got a behind the curtain peak as to what makes this Eagles team "tick" and an understanding of potentially WHY this miracle was "manifested."
One of my best friends in the world (who is even more of a homer and die hard Eagle fan than I am) is friends with one of the Eagle coaches. After last Sunday's miracle, he wrote his coach friend this email note:
Here's the coaches response:Subject: Greetings from Aruba
What a fantastic game and holiday present! Max and I watched the game
in our hotel and I'm sure annoyed the entire place with our cheering.
One day you'll have to explain how a team could so under achieve one
week, and so excel the next.
Great luck in the playoff. We'll be cheering for you.
DA
Is it any wonder that with coaching leadership like this (and this isn't even coming from the head coach) that the Eagle players persevered and eventually triumphed?It's very simple.
We are all humans.
When some people fall down or have failure.
They stay down. We refused to stay down or worry about
What people write or say about our falling down or failures.
We got back up; got some help along the way and here we are.
Take care,
It's not how far you fall, it's how high you bounce.
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In his day, which has long since past, he was the definition of cool and won a veritable plethora of athletic awards, including for field goal kicking in college. Today he'd have a tough time even putting on a helmet as it would likely scrape off the few strands of hair he has left remaining on his head.
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