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Eagles Wake-Up Call: The Bizarre Ray Rhodes Factor

If you want to win a Super Bowl, it’s probably best to just hire a former Ray Rhodes assistant to be your head coach.

Worked for Baltimore. John Harbaugh spent most of his time in Philadelphia working for Andy Reid, but it was Rhodes who hired him to be the Eagles’ special teams coordinator back in 1998. Harbaugh spent Sunday night dancing in confetti. He now has a .675 win percentage, three AFC Championship Game appearances and a Super Bowl title in five seasons with the Ravens.

That is not Rhodes’ only claim to Lombardi fame. Not by a long shot.

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