Eagles' Sheldon Brown: "You don't fool with him." article 9/18

My point being that this team needs to be completely self motivated to be a Super Bowl caliber team. There have been instances in each of the past 3 seasons where our team has come out completely flat for no apparent reason. That can't happen. There's no question that our team has had some motivation issues in the past.

It happens to every team every season at some point. I don't believe "motivation" has ever been an issue for this team. Even the 16-0 Patriots had "bad games" (like a 20-10 win over a 4-12 NYJs with only 270 yards of offense).

Your point is baseless and useless.