Jan 12th 2009 8:30AM by Ryan Wilson (author feed)
Six weeks ago, the Eagles headed into a Thanksgiving night game against the Cardinals without much to be thankful for. They had tied the sad-sack Bengals and been obliterated by the Ravens in back-to-back contests, and at 5-5-1, there was a better chance of Freddie Mitchell making his triumphant NFL return than Philly qualifying for the postseason.

There’s still a lot of football to be played, as they say, but from the vantage point of a fifth NFC Championship game appearance this decade, the Eagles might look back to their 48-20 Turkey Day whuppin’ of the Cardinals as the turning point in a topsy-turvy ‘08.Continue Reading