about an hour after Super Bowl LII ended, and about five minutes after
Meek Mill’s “Dreams and Nightmares” stopped blaring from the locker-room speakers, the Eagles gathered around Malcolm Jenkins. The 30-year-old safety is this team’s undisputed leader, its soul, and its conscience. Despite Philadelphia going 7-9 and finishing in last place in the NFC East during head coach Doug Pederson’s debut season with the team in 2016, Jenkins had spent all spring pitching free agents on the notion that this group was building something special. And there he stood, in the middle of a pack of world champions
“I’ve been in the league for nine fukking years,” Jenkins hollered. “I ain’t never been a part of nothing like this. I ain’t
seen nothing like this.” After sharing a few more thoughts about how far these Eagles had come, Jenkins spotted the Lombardi Trophy near the back of the crowd. “Bring that up here,” he said. “Every single person in this room is on here. It took every drop from every single one of y’all. And we did it.”