Now we can all take a deep breath and cancel our flights to Vegas to put the mortgage on the Eagles’s odds to win the Super Bowl. Delay construction of the Carson Wentz statue on the steps of the Philadelphia art museum.

The 3-0 start to the season, and to Wentz’s career, is now a nice three-game win streak and an impressive window into Wentz’s potential — not the dawn of the next great quarterback era. And before we go any further, we can put a moratorium on comparisons to anything Peyton Manning or Brett Favre did or does.

Those came not from the overreaching media and fans (who have also compared him to Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers, among others), but from Wentz’s head coach, Doug Pederson, a rookie as well, who himself was being measured for a bust in Canton in some quarters because of that start.

In short: It was three games. And the fourth game was a loss Sunday, 24-23, to the persistently lousy Lions. When they say the NFL will humble you fast, it’s not an exaggeration.

The lesson, as usual, is that a window that small doesn’t show you everything. So it’s still tough to know how good the Eagles are, or how much better they are than last year, or better than they were expected to be.

And we also don't know if Wentz is the steal of the millennium, or of the century, or of this year’s draft ... or of anything. The bandwagon had gotten so overloaded, the axles were creaking. And had Wentz led the Eagles downfield in the final 1:28 to win the game, a backup bandwagon would have been put on rush order.

Unfortunately, Wentz threw an interception on the first play of that drive to seal the loss. It was inevitable, in that moment or some other. It’s what quarterbacks do — especially rookie quarterbacks — and it was amazing that it took Wentz that long to throw one in his brief NFL career.

But it was just as amazing how that three-plus game run of no turnovers had fed the insanity surrounding the team and the sudden star quarterback.

The idea of this Eagles team, largely torn down and rebuilt in the wake of the Chip Kelly era, managing three straight wins seemed preposterous. But winning three right at the start inflated a lot of things far, far out of proportion.

Falling behind 21-7 to a Lions team whose coach’s job security was questioned this week was a reality check. Taking the lead back, then losing it, then turning it over twice down the stretch were all things the Eagles needed at least as much as they needed a 4-0 start.

Everybody seems to have clarity now on a lot of topics concerning Philadelphia.

It’s vulnerable to a passing offense, even one as unreliable as the one Matthew Stafford runs. Its own offense is inconsistent. Wentz needs a lot more protection, and he still needs to be less reckless when he runs.

And they’ve played three pretty wretched franchises (Browns, Bears, Lions). They beat two of them, shocked a Steelers team that is way better than how it played against them and then hit a serious post-bye wall Sunday.

Wentz, Pederson and the Eagles did better in their first month than anyone had anticipated. They beat the teams in front of them, which is all anyone can ask. They still have a lot of season, and obstacles, in front of them.

But they’re not going to Disneyland yet. Until further notice, they’re still a team, quarterback and coach with plenty to learn.