Quote (Sixers @ Dec 11 2023 11:40am)
Question –
When you looked at the Eagles’ schedule before the season, how did you see them coming out this four-game stretch? 2-2? 1-3? I highly doubt anybody out there saw 3-1 or 4-0 against the Chiefs, Bills, Niners, and Cowboys.
We could probably go back two weeks further and ask ourselves if the first Dallas game should be included in the gauntlet. It’s true that the last five games have constituted a brutal run, but with the bye week sandwiched in there, it seems like most fans consider the home Cowboys game to be the end of the first part of the schedule, and then they categorize the four games post-bye as murderer’s row.
So think of it however you’d like. For the sake of the exercise, we’ll say that the Eagles went 3-2 through the toughest portion of their schedule. If you told fans before the season that they’d be 10-3 going into the Seattle game, I think most would be over the moon and doing backflips.
But it goes back to the aphorism we’ve abused on this site – it’s not that they lost, it’s how they lost. It’s a great adage because it invites critical thinking and surface penetration. In this case, the losses were a lot more ugly than the wins were pretty.
Was it murders row?
The chiefs aren't the same team. They just lose to the bills and Packers.
The dolphins haven't beat a winning team in the last 25 games.
Then you get blown out by two NFC contenders.
Am I doing this right