The question was about Carson Wentz and the way he is rolling and the timing of the Philadelphia Eagles' bye and whether offensive coordinator Frank Reich was even the slightest bit concerned that it might allow the quarterback to take a step back and see what's going on and ...

Reich jumped in before the question was fully formed, and took the response in a direction that revealed plenty about where his head was in the moments immediately following a 34-3 Eagles thrashing of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

"I'm always afraid that any of us will take a step back. It's harder to deal with success than it is failure," Reich said. "So you've got to keep an edge. Even though it's a bye week, I'd just still say, don't let your guard down. Let's go relax and have fun, but we're still in season. Keep your guard up. We're still on. So yeah, I'm always cautious. We've always got to remind ourselves of that."

It's a message head coach Doug Pederson delivered Monday -- multiple times, actually -- in his final meeting with the media before a week-long break.

"The biggest thing is complacency," Pederson said of what can sink a team that's riding high. "You think you've arrived. You think you are all that. When that creeps in, that's when you get beat. It's my job not to let that creep in. I've got to keep the guys focused and grounded. I told them this week they're going to travel and go home and people are going to pat them on the back and say how great they are. But next Monday, I'm going to tell them, 'Hey, we're back to work. We're zero and zero. This is Game 1 and let's go.' That's just the way it has to be."

In his first season coaching the Eagles, Doug Pederson hits the bye week at 3-0 behind rookie quarterback Carson Wentz, right. James Lang/USA TODAY Sports

Perhaps he and Reich had a sense of what was coming.

It has been a bye week full of adulation for the 3-0 Eagles. The players are being handed awards, the team's power rankings, ratings and Super Bowl odds have drastically improved, and the city of Philadelphia is smitten. History suggests the newfound optimism is warranted. According to the NFL, 75.6 percent of teams (99 of 131) that have started 3-0 since 1990 reached the postseason. Per ESPN's Football Power Index, the Eagles have an 82 percent chance to make the playoffs.

History also offers caveats. Over the past five seasons, at least one team that started 3-0 failed to make the playoffs in each season. The 2014 Eagles are one such example.

Pederson has seen it go both ways. Just last season, he was part of a Kansas City Chiefs team that started 1-5 and rattled off 10 consecutive victories to secure a playoff berth.

There are certainly worse problems than having to handle early success, but managing the team's psychology seems to be top of mind for the Eagles coaching staff as they transition into the second stage of the season.

"I think it's the No. 1 challenge for all of us. I speak for myself, too, when I say that we've got to stay humble through this whole thing. The season is very young, only three games in. A lot of football left, as you know. We just take them one at a time," Pederson said.

"That's just things that I've learned over my career as a player, as a coach at this level. Twenty-two years in the National Football League, you've seen a lot of ball. You have been on teams that have started fast; you have been on teams that started slow. It's just how you stay the course. You can't substitute preparation, hard work for anything. If we just stay the course and the guys prepare the way they've prepared each week, then we'll see what happens on Sundays. But so far it's been great and it'd be good to give them some time and get ready for the second half of the season."