Most sportsbooks have the Eagles as the biggest underdogs to win the Super Bowl. They are plus 5.5 points in Sunday's Wildcard game at the Bears, the biggest underdog of the weekend as well.
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Just the way they like it.
"I will say last year we were underdogs, but we were obviously the number one seed in the entire dance so it was kind of even more of an insult that we were being underrated," Jason Kelce told Angelo Cataldi and the 94WIP Morning Show on Wednesday.
"This year, we snuck in on the last game. I think we've got a lot of motivation as is, I think we're peaking right now as a team, but I don't want to say it's the exact same as last year. But hell, I'll use any motivation that I can get right now, Angelo."
Kelce is correct. Last season, the Eagles were 13-3, had the huge Wildcard round bye and had home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs. This year, it's a lot more difficult.
The road to the Super Bowl, for Philadelphia, will be: at Chicago, at New Orleans, and then most likely at the Los Angeles Rams. If the Eagles were to go on and win the Super Bowl again behind Nick Foles, they would finish 2019 on a seven-game winning streak, including five road wins.
It's not impossible, but the underdog label is certainly warranted this time around.
