Objectively Speaking...

... and this won't be popular.

But the Eagles are 2-2 after four games, just the way we thought they'd be when the schedule came out.  And the offense has shown flashes of utter brilliance without even having all the best players out there.  I'm still very optimistic about the season, based upon what we've seen so far. 

Things that a Westbrook-less loss does not prove:

• That this team sucks.
• That they're not going to make the playoffs this year.
• That it's "time for [fill in the blank] to go!"

• That the NFC East standings will look anything like they do currently in three months.

Bottom line:  This was a bad loss in the sense that it could be the difference come playoff time between: having home-field advantage / winning the division / grabbing the wild card / watching from home.  But given all the guys who were out -- and particularly the one guy who was out -- we'd be reading way too much into this loss to take it as some kind of death knell for the season.

And I think we can be pretty sure Westbrook is now going to play next week.