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5 Things To Look For In Upcoming Eagles Amazon TV Special

A season of unexpected lows and improbable highs: the Eagles journey in 2020 is coming to Amazon Prime next week.

The Eagles 2020 season will be featured in an upcoming Amazon Prime TV special releasing next week.
The Eagles 2020 season will be featured in an upcoming Amazon Prime TV special releasing next week. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

PHILADELPHIA, PA — A season of unexpected lows and improbable highs, season that defied the narratives of both the brightest optimists and the most hardened pessimists, is being featured in an upcoming Amazon Prime special TV series.

The series, "All or Nothing TV," debuts in just a week's time on Feb. 7. It's produced by NFL films, and has, for several seasons now, followed a team from training camp, through the regular season, and beyond.

>>Wild 2019 Eagles Season To Be Featured In Amazon Prime Special

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Here are a few storylines, major moments, and insider scoops viewers can probably look forward to seeing.

Carson Wentz's leadership

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Much was made of Wentz's status as the future leader of the franchise over the past 18 months, with several major events defining the conversation: the immediately and aggressively rebuked locker room report that he wasn't a good leader, the decision to trade Super Bowl hero Nick Foles and anoint Wentz officially, and Wentz's on-field play, which at times reflected an MVP-caliber star.

The special purports to give an inside look at the team and how they handled adversity, and surely any doubts about Wentz's leadership and ability to stay healthy will be put to rest following a season where the team overcame tremendous odds to reach the postseason, largely on Wentz's shoulders.

Howie Roseman and the depth the Birds piled up

Nelson Agholor. Lane Johnson. Brandon Brooks. Zach Ertz. Every week it seemed, a new Eagles star, a new crucial part of their lineup, went down.

And every week, someone new stepped up.

By the end of the season, the Birds were relying on third, fourth, and fifth string starters to get the job done. They faced an uphill climb just to have a shot at making the playoffs, and were able to do so by winning four consecutive games on the backs of players like Boston Scott, Dallas Goedert, and Cre'Von LeBlanc.

Much of that credit is due to general manager Howie Roseman, whose eye for unheralded talent propelled the Birds to the Super Bowl in 2018 and kept them in the fight this year when much of the team was lost to injuries.

That wild Packers win

The Eagles beat one of the best teams in the game and Super Bowl contender on Monday Night Football early in the year, when they took down the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field.

On the heels of that win, the Birds, for the moment, again seemed like contenders themselves. It was a season highlight, and seeing the epic matchup from a behind the scenes perspective, before the wheels fell off, is something Eagles fans won't want to miss.

Doug Pederson's role

Every Eagles fan has seen Pederson in action, and even in the darkest moments of the 2019 season, they largely gave him a pass, as he will be forever remembered as the man that brought Philadelphia their first Super Bowl.

But his role in taking a team that was 5-7, coming off a loss to the Miami Dolphins, to the brink of the second round of the playoffs, should not be understated.

What did Pederson do to keep a crippled and underperforming team motivated? How was he able to adjust an offense that was constantly shifting in strategy due to lost pieces?

The Eagles didn't want to appear in this documentary

According to a Philadelphia Inquirer report last fall, the Eagles did not want to appear in this documentary.

It's no secret that the Birds, particularly Roseman and owner Jeffrey Lurie, like to keep their secrets, secret.

The NFL and Amazon have an agreement to follow a team, and if there are no volunteers, then a team is selected at random.

“There has to be somebody on the show,’’ Eagles president Don Smolenski told the Inquirer. “And if there are no volunteers, then the league makes a selection.

Fans are clearly getting an unprecedented look into the behind the scenes operations employed by the Birds. What will they learn, and how forthcoming were Eagles players and personnel?

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