Les Bowen: The Bottom Line: Making playoffs a big plus for Eagles coach Reid

Given some sympathetic coaxing by national media members in attendance at his postgame news conference (including one guy who had been among McNabb's harshest critics in the Terrell Owens debacle of 2005), McNabb made several interesting statements.

He reiterated his "Big Yellow Taxi" refrain of last week, while making it clear that he doesn't want this to all be about him: "You never get enough credit until you're gone, and I'm not looking for any credit right now," McNabb said.

Maybe the most relevant thing going forward was when McNabb was asked about speaking up for himself within the organization - presumably, in the postseason conversation he has been talking about ever since he was benched for the second half of the Baltimore game Nov. 23. As rosy as life looks this morning, for No. 5 and the raised-from-the-dead team, that is still going to be a very interesting conversation, which could entail a McNabb demand for a new contract and a signing bonus that would effectively make him untradeable for at least a few years.

"They know when something else is on my mind," McNabb said. "And it's important - that's just professionalism, if it's something on your mind, you go and share it with the people that need to hear it, and there has been a lot on my mind, and there will be something that is shared when the time comes."