PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles spent the offseason and training camp declaring that they are not the defending Super Bowl champion.

“We’re the 2024 world champs, that’s it,“ Jordan Mailata said early in training camp. ”We’re not defending (crap). “I don’t like hearing we’re the defending champions. We’re not defending nothing.

“We just won the title, and now we’ve got to go win it again, prove it all over again. That’s the mentality this team is going to have. We’re not here to prove anything to anyone else but ourselves and we know the mission. We’re mission-focused.”

That’s a nice way to look at things from the Eagles’ perspective, but that’s not likely to be the way their opponents see things this season. The Rams, in particular, can look back at last season and believe that they we

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