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NFThree East
By Cowboy Teddy · @TeddyHadden97 ·
Hello again, Cowboy Teddy with another week to highlight the state and outlook of the NFC East. This week I will recap the last slate and give my best bet on what the rest of the season will look like for each team. Before I jump into that I must say the reviews are in, and my last post was well recieved. My phone has been blowing up this week with many people saying I am the M Night Shyamalan of sports writing. While I am confused and despondent about those reviews, I will continue to write about the NFC East each week despite the fact Microsoft Word has discovered my membership expired several months ago on my laptop and I am unwilling to subscribe to an outdated way of life. The year is 2026 and we can no longer expect the average person to pay 200 dollars a year to put letters on a screen, but that is their problem and not mine. With that being said, let's start with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Eagles: Well the lost. Anybody with a modicum of general football knowledge could've told you that the team on its 3rd string QB, 5th sting RB, and 3rd string wide receivers would probably struggle with an in division rival. I will spare you the lecture on how and why the Cowboys won this game. With that being said, I spoke to a few of my friends about the game and was actually surprised by the takeaways from what this game means. Its not secret that many Philly fans think Nick Srianni is a king of underperforming with a loaded roster, despite playing in two super bowls and making playoffs several times in his career. If you were to ask me personally as a Cowboys fan, I would enjoy to see him fired in an extremely biased way because whether he is good or not, I am not a fan. What I did find intriguing though, is that many Eagles fans actually want to see Howie fired as well. My friend claims that Howie plays a major role in the last two years of the teams decline that made me wonder how right he was. In his own words they have a glaring hole at the safety position that many teams in the NFL have taken notice to and regularly plan to exploit that weakness. He goes on to say the Greenard trade has been an unmitigated failure, Jordan Davis has been invisible, the tight end they drafted was described as "unplayable" by Eagles beat writers, and that the hiring of Sean Mannion has been a horrible disaster. I should put a disclaimer that this is one of the most pessimistic people I know, but he did tell me during the Eagles 2018 season they would make the Super Bowl and lose on a last second field goal and his heart would explode and the beginning of Week 4, so I have to at least consider he might have a point. Having looked at the rest of the schedule, I personally see them going 2-8 the rest of the way. Not because they are a bad team or poorly coached, but it seems as if nobody can stay healthy and every win hurts their draft. It would be best for them to go 0-10, but as we now things are rarely done correctly in this league. Editors note; do not let Jalen Hurts get on a plane with blood clots.
Cowboys: Congratulations to the Cowboys, we beat and incredibly decimated Eagles team in a race to win the weakest division and only let them carve our defense up by 21 points. Anybody celebrating this win by saying something other than "Oh, thats nice." is about the have their heart ripped out of their chest in less than five days. This defense is so beyond horrible that it has me questioning whether or not any of our defensive coordinators deserve any of the criticism they are hit with. While the win is good, this is an all too familiar trap us fans fall into when we believe we have a shot against "good teams." So if you haven't heard it yet, let me be the first to tell you, we are going to lose this game to the Arizona Cardinals. There is a trend in the NFL where no matter how good or bad one team is, they have a ridiculous win loss ratio against a non rival with zero implications on the line. Off the top of my head, I can think of Packers losing to Niners, Eagles losing to Seahawks, or Indianapolis losing to Steelers. These don't seem like massive rivalries, but nevertheless we find ourselves looking at the same score year in and year out. Of the remaining schedule, I see the Cowboys going 6-3, as a BEST CASE Scenario. With that being said, I need somebody with access to send this article to Jerry Jones with my fool proof plan to solve our defensive finally. The Solution is idiotic; we intentionally allow the opposing offense to get into field goal range. The current system of getting them to 3rd and whatever and then letting them get a first down from anywhere on the field is clearly not working, and with this method we might chicken them into getting a field goal instead of seven points. In a more serious note though, we need to run the ball more on offense to the defense has less time to play on the field. Yes, it is that bad.
Commanders: This team is so annoying. They managed to beat the last years Super Bowl Champions and played competitive football against a very tough Niners team but seemingly has no idea how time works. Back to back weeks they have horrible and completely avoidable miscues and yet nobody watching the screen has a clear idea who is at fault. Dan Quinn managed to avoid getting fired on the Bye Week, but if I were him I would absolutely bench Jayden Daniels. Not because he is a bad player or uncoachable, but because every week he makes viewers question the coach's playcalling and none of this has resulted in a win for over a year and half of him starting. At least with Aaron Rodgers, there's some level of defense one can give to the Steelers playcalling regarding his disgareements with the coach, but in the case of Jayden Daniels it is impossible to tell if he's suffering from his coach or exposing it. None of this article is accusing him of being the problem, but the communication coming from their team regarding this is mediocre at best, and I'm annoyed I have to care about it seeing as how they have more of a season to play for than the Eagles at this point. Even worse, I see them winning four in a row and then losing six, so who knows what this team will look like after the bye.
Giants: What bad can you say about this team? Like em or hate em, the giants have at least become a team I dont mind watching. In years prior, they were an incredibly sad watch of a team that almost looked good who would find a way to choke games away they probably shouldn't be in a 4th quarter meltdown (I blame Daboll). Cut to this year and they are a modern day Soap Opera. They have absolutely no clue what is going on at Qb in the best way possible. They can't tank with Jameis because he's competitive enough to prevent it, and they can't excel with JJ knowning they have a "franchise guy" waiting to get healthy to return next year. While many people wrote JJ off, you can never underestimate the Vikings ability to develop good QBs and let them walk on to other franchises a year late. If you asked me personally if I thought the Giants could win the Super Bowl, I would tell you no. With that being said, I wouldn't have taken them over the 16-0 Patriots in the Super Bowl, so I guess what the hell do I know. I would congratulate them for beating the Texans, but they're is currently nobody in the country that can tell you if that is an impressive feat for now, so I will remain cautiously intrigued about the rest of the Giants season. On first glance, I would say they go 5-5 the rest of the way, but the NFL gods have a sick perverted sense of humor, so I fully expect them to play the Cowboys at 8-7-1 and 8-8.