A new Super Bowl Champion will be crowned on Sunday when the Rams and Patriots play and, well, the Eagles will no longer be the "defending Super Bowl Champions." But they will always be champions. The fans will always be champions. The Lombardi Trophy will remain in the trophy case in the lobby of the NovaCare Complex.

Nobody can take Super Bowl LII away from the Eagles and the fans and the City of Philadelphia and everybody who loves the Birds.

In a sense, then, it's OK to hold on to that win. For the fans, anyway, certainly. The team – well, you know how it is. You're only as good as your next game. We've got an entire offseason to absorb a roster that is going to change, moves that are going to be made, a direction that is going to be taken. The Eagles are going to attack this offseason with intelligence, aggressiveness, and creativity. They are going to challenge the locker room. They're going to get younger. Some popular players are going to leave. That's just the nature of the NFL.

I don't know how many of you are going to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday – I know several people who are going to play the Super Bowl LII win on one television in one room and air the live broadcast of Super Bowl LIII in another room. That's fun. That's fine. I know some people who say they aren't going to watch at all, and I understand that feeling now. It may change between now and Sunday evening, but I get it. Without the Eagles in the game, how much interest is there for you?

I'm going to watch – from opening kickoff to the time the clock strikes 0:00 and not a minute before that or a minute after – and I'm going to enjoy the game because I love football. I love the NFL. It means a lot to me – a professional lifetime, for starters. But I'm not going to root for either team. I want to see great football because, frankly, I miss it when there isn't an NFL game to watch on the weekend.

And after the game is over, every team is 0-0 and the focus is on 2019. The nature of the NFL is to look ahead. That's how players and coaches and teams stay so even-keeled. You never wallow in the misery of a defeat and you don't gloat after a victory. You just move on.