Bowen: It's never sunny in Philadelphia — why must the Eagles do this to us?

I had a college professor who was fond of the expression, “even Homer nods.” 
It was not a Simpsons reference. The phrase originated with Horace (not the one who played with Pippen and Jordan, but a one-name Roman poet dude).   
It means that even the guy who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey sometimes penned a clunker. (Chiseled a clunker? I dunno what his favored implement might have been.)
I’m not sure what Horace or Homer would have made of Jalen Hurts and the Eagles. But Sunday’s painful-to-watch 22-16 crawl past the visiting Carolina Panthers had me thinking of that observation.
A hard-earned wariness marks the soul of the Philly fan. We don’t often get carried away b...