34 minutes ago, Waiting4Someday said:

I feel like I'm watching a guy working the grill at a BBQ... if he's constantly tinkering, he doesn't know what he's doing. When did the NFL lose it's way?

Polymarket has Eagles as 2nd likeliest(tied) division winner even with the schedule.

I was today years old when I learned this.

Reactions to various posts as I'm catching up.

1. The schedule isn't "brutal." There are long rest periods, and some teams with playoff records last year were frauds like the Packers and Vikings. The bye is well placed in week 9.

2. They are still a stacked roster, and did a good job replacing the talent that left. A 2nd full year with Fangio implementing his defense and contributing to picking players, plus the young returning guys with another offseason learning from Fangio & coaches will continue a strong defense.

3. They will have the #1 or #2 seed. This team is not satisfied, they are still hungry. They may sacrifice the #1 seed to rest for playoffs again.

4. The league should be scared to play the Eagles, not the other way around. The core of the roster is signed for several years.

5. They are not bringing Joe Douglas back, that's ridiculous. The 2017 draft when he was here was terrible.

So Disney was making a documentary about the Chiefs season. They probably thought they would 3peat, which probably fed the Chiefs ego. I love that Chiefs fans will have to watch that documentary that ends with a dominant win - belt to ass - by the Eagles. We had to watch the Kelce doc end with a SB loss.

They probably had Barkley rep the Eagles because he would be polite. Imagine BG there trash talking Mahomes. 🤣

It would be amazing for the Eagles to go win a 3peat instead.

9 minutes ago, paco said:

I was today years old when I learned this.

'He was gonna babysit Tiki and Ronde, but then he got hiiiggghhh...'

30 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:

I wish the Flyers and Phillies would learn this: take front office and scouting talent from successful organizations.

1 hour ago, BigEFly said:

Every year we have teams that outperform expectations and teams that underperform. Predicting the difficulty of the schedule is even difficult. Take the NFCN. Both coordinators gone from the Lions, Vikings QB left and replacement is untested. Or the gints, who have quietly built a formidable DL. Injuries are a big unknown for all teams. The Eagles philosophy of one game at a time is logical.

Philosophy of next man up as well

1 hour ago, Freshmilk said:

I wish the Flyers and Phillies would learn this: take front office and scouting talent from successful organizations.

I don't think football scouts would help them that much.

10 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

That means tush push vote comes next week as well.

2 hours ago, Sack that QB said:

Polymarket has Eagles as 2nd likeliest(tied) division winner even with the schedule.

Wow, that's damning for the Bucs because the rest of the NFC South is still TERRIBLE.

48 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I don’t have strong opinions one way or the other. I think the few occurrence of a division winner being dog ish and knocking a better team down is silly, but ‘m not sure it’s happening frequently enough to change the rule. Seems like their goal here is more to make Week 18 games more meaningful.

I can think of no better representative of Philly.

5 hours ago, mattwill said:

I definitely don’t agree with your second point. Washington has every bit as brutal a schedule as the Eagles have. So, unless the Cowboys or the Giants pull a rabbit out of a hat, the Eagles are better positioned to survive Murderers Row than the Commies are. Bottom-line, the Commies are nothing but a red scare.

The biggest difference between the Eagles' schedule and Washington will be that the Eagles will have that Super Bowl Champs target on their back. Every team that they play will be bringing their top effort. Washington, by comparison, is a Johnny Come Lately, and could be overlooked by some teams... or at the very least won't have the same target on them.

I think Washington might be overrated, but the Eagles' schedule is definitely significantly harder than Washington's, with the exception that Washington has to face the Eagles, while the Eagles get to face Washington.

The schedule is basically the same, with the exception of 3 games:

@Bucs or @Falcons
@Bills in Dec. or @Dolphins in Nov.

Rams or Seahawks

It is easily argued that the Eagles have the harder of those 3 games... and that's 17% of the schedule. That's a significant chunk when the race could come down to tiebreakers.

4 hours ago, Diehardfan said:

This is stupid as hell. If a team can't win their division then tough crap. Do it on the road. Otherwise just get rid of divisions.

100% right.

4 hours ago, Waiting4Someday said:

I feel like I'm watching a guy working the grill at a BBQ... if he's constantly tinkering, he doesn't know what he's doing. When did the NFL lose it's way?

Yup. If you're lookin', you ain't cookin'!!!

3 hours ago, BigEFly said:

Every year we have teams that outperform expectations and teams that underperform. Predicting the difficulty of the schedule is even difficult. Take the NFCN. Both coordinators gone from the Lions, Vikings QB left and replacement is untested. Or the gints, who have quietly built a formidable DL. Injuries are a big unknown for all teams. The Eagles philosophy of one game at a time is logical.

Not only logical, but also extremely practical. Only one other team shows up every week. I think its against the rules to schedule 2 at once.

47 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

I don’t have strong opinions one way or the other. I think the few occurrence of a division winner being dog ish and knocking a better team down is silly, but ‘m not sure it’s happening frequently enough to change the rule. Seems like their goal here is more to make Week 18 games more meaningful.

If the division winner is really that weak, and the wild card team is really that strong... then you'd think it wouldn't be that big a deal. The road team would win and everything that is 'supposed' to happen would happen.

Take last season for example:

VIkings (14 wins) went to the neutral field to take on the Rams (10 wins), because LA was unfit for football. Vikings proved that they were overhyped and not nearly as good as their record indicated.

Meanwhile, Washingteam (12 wins) went to Tampa (10 wins) and proved they were the better team.

In other words, things ended up just fine without rewriting the rules. There's no need to upset the apple cart. If you want a home game in the playoffs, you have to win your own division, which are the teams that have the more similar schedule. The other divisions have dramatically different schedules.

38 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

The biggest difference between the Eagles' schedule and Washington will be that the Eagles will have that Super Bowl Champs target on their back. Every team that they play will be bringing their top effort. Washington, by comparison, is a Johnny Come Lately, and could be overlooked by some teams... or at the very least won't have the same target on them.

I think Washington might be overrated, but the Eagles' schedule is definitely significantly harder than Washington's, with the exception that Washington has to face the Eagles, while the Eagles get to face Washington.

The schedule is basically the same, with the exception of 3 games:

@Bucs or @Falcons
@Bills in Dec. or @Dolphins in Nov.

Rams or Seahawks

It is easily argued that the Eagles have the harder of those 3 games... and that's 17% of the schedule. That's a significant chunk when the race could come down to tiebreakers.

The biggest difference between our schedule and theirs is that they have to play us twice and we don’t.

56 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

I don’t have strong opinions one way or the other. I think the few occurrence of a division winner being dog ish and knocking a better team down is silly, but ‘m not sure it’s happening frequently enough to change the rule. Seems like their goal here is more to make Week 18 games more meaningful.

I brought up the frequency months ago during the regular season blog. from the 20 year time before the 4 divisions to inception of 4 divisions in each conference to last 10 to 5 to 3 years. It had been increasing that WC teams had better record than some division winners and really has the last 3-4 years. Chalk it up to whatever you wanna chalk it up to, but it has been increasing trend over the last 3-4 years as compared to years ago.

IMO I didn’t think they would make the rule change this soon. But I felt they would make this change within the next 20 year if it kept trending in the direction it was. Even before the Minnesota/lions game in week 18 there were players and other leaks were players/organizations weren’t thrilled with current rule. If it passes i think the Vikings/lions with the La/vikings game being moved to Arizona all played into it being expedited.

Just my opinion, but this all goes back to money trail. IMO owners were seeing their teams do the job of winning as many games as possible then they weren’t getting a home playoff game as team with a worse record was. Since they weren’t getting that extra home playoff game as it was happening more frequently they began to want to change the rule. Jmo

Wild how Dallas paid Dak all that money and every new QB contract after that hasn't even come close.

7 hours ago, Diehardfan said:

Further proof Cowboy fans are absolute idiots

They didn't have Dak though, big difference. I'm looking forward to seeing how our young corners match up against them with Dak back.