🏈 The Eagles pulled the same trick twice | Morning Newsletter

It should be a cooler day with a high of 41 and a slight chance of rain.

I’m letting you know now that this newsletter will have a lot of Eagles content for the next two weeks, at least. It’s just simply what everyone is talking about.

In just five years, the Eagles are back in the Super Bowl. And they did it with a different coach and quarterback than they had last time.

Our columnist Mike Sielski explores how the team did it and shares a clue to their success.

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It’s noteworthy to have a franchise go through so much change after winning a championship and then position itself to win another in such a short time.

And by firing Chip Kelly in late 2015 and Pederson in early 2021, Jeffrey Lurie created that upheaval. In both situations, the team reached the Super Bowl two years after Lurie decided that a man he had selected to coach the Eagles could no longer do the job.

In Sielski’s own words: “From a pure on-field, strategic standpoint, a team that hires a smart, unpredictable head coach will have an advantage on its opponents for a while as the rest of the NFL tries to figure out his philosophy and play-calling patterns ... From a broader, management-oriented perspective, though, Lurie and Howie Roseman seem to have come around to following the principle that it’s better to let go of a coach too early than too late.”

Keep reading for Sielski’s take on this persistent pattern to consistently move on.

Nearly all of the candidates vying to become Philadelphia’s next mayor said they would declare gun violence a citywide emergency.

It’s not clear what it would do, though. Emergency declarations on the local level don’t always lead to new funding or personnel.

The possibilities:

Continue reading for more proposals from the Philly mayoral candidates.

About 76,000 Afghan evacuees who were brought to the United States when their country fell to the Taliban in 2021 could face mass unemployment, with their work authorizations set to expire this summer.

The newcomers — 800 in the Philly area — have found work across industries as cashiers, in warehouses, and even helping fellow evacuees in immigration agencies.

Some background: Almost all the Afghans were admitted under what’s called humanitarian parole, which is a permission to enter the country. It’s not an immigration status and it’s temporary. Congress tied their ability to work to their humanitarian parole with the idea that they would apply for asylum.

Every Afghan client of the immigration agency HIAS Pennsylvania has filed for asylum, but none of the 26 has received a ruling. The wait time for a typical asylum case to be heard is nearly five years.

Keep reading to learn what the foundation is doing to mitigate the looming crisis.

How much money did A Philly Special Christmas, the Eagles Christmas album, raise?

A. $1.25 million

B. $3 million

C. $500,000

D. $2 million

Find out if you know the answer.

🚨 Reading: An opinion piece that explains why Tyre Nichols’ death is a reminder that Philly police need more oversight.

💭 Wondering: About our future, since the world is likely to hit the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade.

🍿 Watching: Netflix’s You People, mostly because I’m tuning into anything with Nia Long.

Hint: Summer of Soul

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We’ll select a reader at random to shout out here. Cheers to Sara Senior, who correctly guessed Monday’s answer: Bartram’s Garden. Email us if you know the answer.

And that’s it from me. I’ll be back in your inbox tomorrow. 📧