Here we are sitting at 10-1 atop the NFC East, the NFC and the NFL, ready to clinch the division in fucking November, coming off a FUN beatdown of the Chicago Bears, complete with dancing, bowling and probably at least one upper-level handjo ‘neath a blanket, and yet I’m having to breathe flames on horrible local media takes.

I’m not sure where to start, but I loathe for it to be on fan-favorite Ray Didinger, who fell into the trap of existing in the Philly sports media bubble (it happens to the best of us, Ray).

Diddy (and Seth Joyner, who hates everything) was upset with the way Jay Ajayi handled himself in a post-game interview when he was asked about his touches and fumble near the goal line, which, if the Eagles’ sideline video from last week was any indication, Ajayi will hear about from teammates for weeks on-end or until he snaps off another 70-yard run and shuts everybody the fuck up.

Here’s what Ajayi said:

“My role is to run the plays that the coaches call. I just go out and run the plays that coaches call.”

And here’s how CSN thought it should cut Didinger’s reaction to it:

Ajayi fired back with clown Emojis, which Ray will never see because I’m not sure he owns a connected device or knows how to use one:

Somehow worse, Didinger doubled down on his comments on WIP this morning:

“There was just something that I saw in there that was a red flag to me, and I just expressed it,” Didinger told host Angelo Cataldi. “Seth [Joyner] and I were both sitting next to each other when we saw it, and we both agreed that he looked like he was … in Stage 2 of a five-stage pout, and I just thought that when you’re 10-1 it’s not the time for that.”

Doug Pederson was also on the WIP morning show and, for what it’s worth, didn’t seem to have an issue with anything Ajayi said.

Look, we all love Diddy, and rightfully so, but this is a bad and oh-so-Philly take. What he did – and what the assembled media was trying to do after the game – is make something out of nothing, which is exactly what the media did to LeGarrette Blount after Week 2 when they tried to extract a substance that wasn’t there and found away to remove it from its context anyway.

We talked about this on the podcast this morning– the local media covers sports like they’re covering Congress. I’m all for good solid reporting, and Eagles reporters are among the best in this regard, but sometimes they forget who they’re writing for and that they’re basically entertainment reporters. That part will sting them, but it’s something the best ones understand. Trying to find a crack in this beauty of a fucking airship is NOT what fans want. Put simply, you are not serving the fan when you do this– you are serving yourself.

What’s more, if you paid any sort of attention you would’ve seen that Ajayi was mad at himself on the sideline for the fumble. Obviously it was still eating at him after the game, and my guess is that his consternation had more to do with that than being unhappy with his touches. And even if not, no one cares!

And that brings us to Chris Otto of Lancaster Online. I’m not even sure I want to give this toad attention, but here is the entire exchange following his horrific take:

HE BLOCKED ME OVER THAT! Can you imagine being this soft? How do you move through our world without getting hurt? Indeed he did, by words with barely-rounded edges:

Anyway, this is especially bad. For one, the Chiefs were a much different team in Week 2, coming off a THROTTLING of the Patriots, who I’m guessing aren’t having their loss checked for its street cred. And never mind the pesky little fact that Otto’s argument was so easily debunked in less than a sentence.

I agree that we shouldn’t just put the Eagles in the Super Bowl yet, but the desire on the part of sum to downplay what they’ve done, as if they’re playing unranked cupcakes, is pathetic. They are destroying NFL teams and also the 49ers. These next two weeks will tell us a lot more (even if the Seahawks aren’t great and the Eagles are favorites!), but even then you’ll have dolts telling us that they haven’t played the Steelers (field goal to beat the Packers!) or Patriots (two losses!) yet. Well, assholes, the good news is they wouldn’t have to play either of those teams until the Super Bowl, and will only have to beat one of the “elite” NFC teams, likely at home during the NFC Championship. I think we’d all take that chance.