It doesn’t get worse than this – The Eagles returned to the Super Bowl last year and lost after an impressive season.

Ok, yes it does.

Pete Carroll was a yard away from a second Super Bowl in 2015 and it was on him – the wrong call, a resulting interception allowing the Patriots to pull out the game — he took the blame and it hurt.

How do winners handle heartbreaking defeat.

Eagles coach Nick Siriani:

“We’ll overcome this too … we’ll use it to motivate us.  We’ll use this pain, we’ll use this failure to motivate us so we can make it a strength.”

Ours would truly be a storybook world if everything worked out the way we wanted it to.

Winners take adversity and use it as a building block for success.