Sometimes it happens all at once. After 12 years and almost as many votes of confidence, one day a coach can wake up and everything he's accomplished means nothing, all his team's promise is tacitly promised to his successor.

Philadelphia fans woke up today and checked both their national and local sports news. In both places, right on the front page where they and the rest of the country and Joe Banner and Jeffrey Lurie couldn't possibly miss it, are the surest signs that Reid's green days are numbered. "Blame Andy Reid" goes one headline; "Time to bid Reid bye-bye?" asks the other, the inessential question mark a newspaper's sop to impartiality.