The Nick Foles magic. Again?

Sure, many would scoff at the notion of Nick Foles being any sort of great quarterback. Hes knocked around the league for several years now and can't seem to even hold down a starting position.

But this is the same guy that stepped in for the Philadelphia Eagles last year and wound up leading them to a Super Bowl championship. The MVP of same, no less.

He probably never would have seen the field of play had not Eagles starter Carson Wentz gone down with a blown out knee last year. So ya gotta give credit where it's due. Foles stepped in, the Eagles took off and, presto, Lombardi trophy when it was all said and done.

This year, be it a Super Bowl hangover or whatever, the Eagles, with Wentz back, have floundered. They were a not-so-good 6 -7 heading into the Sunday night match-up against the LA Rams. Their playoff chances were iffy, at best.

Yet like last year, Wentz is out again. This time with a small fracture in his back. Will he be back this year? Nobody knows for sure.

A look around the NFC East, the division the Eagles belong to, doesn't exactly show a murderer's row.

The Washington Redskins, not that good to start with, were down to their third-string quarterback at last look, pretty much out of the picture.

The NY Giants are just gawd-awful.

The Dallas Cowboys had been showing a little life of late, then WHAM, they just got skunked by the Indianapolis Colts 23-0.

Enter NIck Foles again. He just led the Eagles to a victory over the (sorta) high-flying Rams -- in LA, no less.

So the Eagles are now 7-7, usually considered mundane, but also very much in the playoff picture.

Next week they go home to the "City of Brotherly Love", the ultimate misnomer, to take on the sometimes really good, sometimes not-so-good Houston Texans.

And then off to DC to face the Skins in the regular season finale.

Both games are definitely winnable.

If the Eagles can pull that off and wind up 9-7, even if the Cowboys sew up the division, they could sneak into the playoffs as a wild card.

And then -- who knows? Wild cards have gone on to win the Super Bowl before.

Could Foles and the Eagles -- gasp -- pull THAT off?

Probably not. After all, even if they make the post-season, their playoff road would involve going into Chicago against a resurgent and very good Bears team (especially defensively), down to the Big Easy to face Drew Brees and the high-flying Saints, maybe right back in LA for another go-round against those same Rams, or some combination of the above. And that WOULD be a murderer's row.

That's not even to mention who will survive the blood-bath in the AFC playoffs. The KC Chiefs, Brady and the Pats, under the radar but outstanding LA Chargers? And don't sleep on the Pittsburgh Steelers. Ya never know about those guys.

But wouldn't it be something if Nick Foles could pull off the "impossible" again?

Hey, nobody thought he and the Eagles could beat the Patriots in last year's Super Bowl either.

How did that turn out?

Carson who?