Week Sixteen - Washington

[Geowhizzer]

Taking the kids to Busch Gardens this weekend, so I'll miss the game.  farg it, I hate football anyway.

[BigEd76]

Kevin Harlan/Rich Gannon/Stacey Dales will be the announcers

[Rome]

Mmmmm... Stacey Dales

[shorebird]

I'm chucking it in for this season and most likely next season also. This team won't win until/unless Chip gets the qb he wants for his offense, a wr that can stretch the field and the secondary gets blown up. I thought it would be 3-5 years before we would see if Chip makes the Eagles an elite team or not. I'll admit after last year I thought it might happen a lot sooner but now this team looks a mess compared to last year. Their record is a lie. They can't play well against good defenses and just about any team that has a decent o-line can score on them.

They could possibly get a real quarterback, get some good secondary help and shore up the defense, but if that doesn't happen soon when they finally do get right with all that then they'll be looking for a new runningback because Shady doesn't look long for the NFL. The draft these next few years is key for Chips job, imo.

[BigEd76]

Their schedule is so much weaker next year and they get the NFC West opponent here. At New England is probably their only guaranteed loss (unless you miserable Fs are already marking the home game against Dallas as one too)

[ice grillin you]

Their schedule is so much weaker next year and they get the NFC West opponent here. At New England is probably their only guaranteed loss (unless you miserable Fs are already marking the home game against Dallas as one too)

lol...oh my

homer stuff aside and you def are a magical one you did have them 3-1 against the nfc west THIS year so i could see how you think they will probably be undefeated next year

[BigEd76]

Yep, I should've marked Arizona as an automatic L since all the experts had the Cards going for HFA throughout back in August.  I also had the Eagles beating Seattle since it was a cross-country game between the two Niners matchups, but hey, we all predicted the Niners collapse, Foles getting knocked out for two months and Shady being a non-factor for most of the season

H = Saints, Bucs, AZ/SEA, Bills, Dolphins
A = Falcons, Panthers, GB/DET, Patriots, Jets

You don't think that schedule with Foles* looks easier than this year's schedule with Sanchez starting half of it?

[shorebird]

Their schedule is so much weaker next year and they get the NFC West opponent here. At New England is probably their only guaranteed loss (unless you miserable Fs are already marking the home game against Dallas as one too)

What good is an easy schedule if you're one and done in the playoffs?

[phattymatty]

does anyone realize that shady is 4th in the nfl in rushing yards? i would say he's definitely been a factor.

[rjs246]

Does anyone here actually think that they're going to lose to the farging taterskins? Get ahold of yourselves, ladies.

[General_Failure]

Stop that, be miserable and demand they fire Chip.

[shorebird]

Who said they were losing to the taterskins? Even if they win the division, make the playoffs, they aren't going to the championship game or winning the Superbowl and at this point in the franchises history that's all the matters to Eagle fans. All making the playoffs means to this franchise is that they won't have as good a draft as they would if they hadn't made them.

[rjs246]

I agree of course that they are not a team that is capable of winning the SB, but I would rather watch a playoff game this year than not. That's not always the case. But unless they're getting MM, which they aren't, their first round draft position means very little to me. They have a good number of holes to fill and I don't trust them to do any better with the 20th pick than with the 24th pick.

[smeags]

the issue isnt so much where they pick, its who they pick. another marcus smith should bring about a curb stomp for the person who makes the final call.

scratch that, for everyone involved.

[ice grillin you]

Yep, I should've marked Arizona as an automatic L since all the experts had the Cards going for HFA throughout back in August.  I also had the Eagles beating Seattle since it was a cross-country game between the two Niners matchups, but hey, we all predicted the Niners collapse, Foles getting knocked out for two months and Shady being a non-factor for most of the season

H = Saints, Bucs, AZ/SEA, Bills, Dolphins
A = Falcons, Panthers, GB/DET, Patriots, Jets

You don't think that schedule with Foles* looks easier than this year's schedule with Sanchez starting half of it?

do you have any idea how much teams can change thru free agency and the draft not to mention thru a training camp....you above just reeled off a bunch of things that happened this year that made predictions difficult...now you are predicting 2015 in december 2014??

I agree of course that they are not a team that is capable of winning the SB, but I would rather watch a playoff game this year than not. That's not always the case. But unless they're getting MM, which they aren't, their first round draft position means very little to me. They have a good number of holes to fill and I don't trust them to do any better with the 20th pick than with the 24th pick.

this times a million percent...draft position in the nfl isnt that important compared to other sports and its certainly not important when picking lets say 22nd versus 18th....the important thing is that you take earl thomas and not brandon graham and kelvin benjamin not marcus smith...id much rather have the faint hope of making a playoff run than a slightly better middle of the first round pick...shtein id much rather have the three hours of excitement that one playoff game would provide than a draft bump