In most cases, I avoid making comparisons between different sports, but I’ll do it here to prove a point about Sunday night’s matchup between the Eagles and Dolphins.
Remember when the Michigan Fab Five referred to Christian Laettner as a soft, overrated pretty boy in a documentary? You might have seen the video lately on a trendy TikTok. The Argentina men’s national team thought of the same of David Beckham before facing England in the 1998 World Cup. Yes, I recently watched the Beckham Netflix documentary (I highly recommend it).
Here’s my point: The Dolphins’ flashy offense had the spotlight, such as Laettner and Beckham did. But the Eagles entered Sunday night as the defending NFC champions with an offense that can also score. Maybe it’s not as flashy as Miami’s, and they’ve never scored 70 points in a game, but they have scored many touchdowns in the past two seasons. Most importantly, they have done it in various ways—pretty and ugly—against the best teams in the league.
