Undefeated Eagles May Lose To Super Bowl Coach: Philly Sports Chatter

An old friend comes to Philly Sunday and he should get a big hand from the home crowd.

He's Doug Pederson, the only Super Bowl winner in franchise history. And Dougie Fresh is showing the NFL that he still has the goods, guiding the upstart Jacksonville Jaguars to a 2-1 record.

For the Florida franchise, that's almost as major news as a hurricane bearing down on the Sunshine State, especially after the disaster that was college coach Urban Meyer last season.

Believe it or not, the undefeated Philadelphia Eagles could actually lose to Pederson Sunday.

I know, I know...it's hard to even say based on how dominating the Birds played against Washington and Minnesota.

Quarterback Jalen Hurts is the toast of the town right now. And that defense was a beast in sacking Wentz more times than he ever was as an Eagles quarterback. And that was a lot!

Anyone seeing this game on the schedule would always mark it as an easy win.

But not this year. At least not right now.

Pederson has turned this team around. They play hard. They play with grit. They play with pride and they play with heart.

Last year, the Jags were the laughing stock of the league as Meyer got caught in scathing media reports for actually kicking his kicker during practice and letting his team fly out after a game so he could stay behind at a function where he had a woman on his lap.

Dougie's big scandals in Philly were wanting to select his own coaches. That eventually led to his ouster by Owner Jeffrey Lurie and General Manager Howie Roseman.

Dougie also experienced a fallout with Wentz where he had to bench his whining quarterback who never ran the plays Pederson called and failed to follow his coaching in any way, shape or form.

Pederson doesn't deal with that in Jacksonville.

He's never really gotten the credit as a quarterback whisperer for developing Wentz and transforming backup Nick Foles into a Super Bowl hero and a living legend in Philadelphia.

But he's doing the same with Jags QB Trevor Lawrence, who has all the talent in the world but just needs the right tutelage, which he didn't get from Meyer as a rookie.

Pederson's performance on the sidelines was solid Sunday. He upset the Los Angeles Chargers, considered one of the top teams in the AFC.

That win will build a team's confidence. Which is why Dougie just might take advantage of the emotional moment at the Linc Sunday and show Lurie and Roseman that they made a mistake.

Again, he's the only coach in Eagles history to win the Super Bowl. Those coaches usually don't get canned. (At least things are working out great so far with Nick Sirianni.)

Pederson won a Super Bowl where Dick Vermeil and Andy Reid didn't. One of them is in the Hall of Fame and the other will head to Canton once he decides to leave the Kansas City Chiefs.

So yes, this will be a special homecoming for Pederson and the Eagles.

It's the first time both are meeting. There will be applause and tears. There will be hugs and handshakes.

But there also could be an upset in the making too.