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The Philadelphia Eagles’ actualization is starting to get crowded.
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Almost every above media aperture has the 8-1 Eagles ranked as the NFL’s top team. Entering the week, the Westgate had the Eagles as the action admired to win the Super Bowl.
But Chiefs linebacker Tamba Hali isn’t affairs the hype. The five-time Pro Bowler alleged the Cowboys the best aggregation in the alliance afterwards Dallas ashamed the Chiefs aftermost week. Kansas City handed Philadelphia its alone accident in Anniversary 2.
Hali was afflicted with the Cowboys’ abhorrent line, active adventurous and the comedy of quarterback Dak Prescott.
Of course, Hali accustomed affluence of backfire for his adventurous comments. But let’s assay it. Or alike better, let’s attending at the absolute NFC playoff landscape. The accepted top four seeds in the NFC didn’t accomplish the playoffs a year ago.
Often accepting the No. 1 berry isn’t abundant to get to the Super Bowl. Just ask the 2016 Cowboys.
It’s all about defense, the arena adventurous and playoff experience. The Eagles accept two of three bare the postseason experience.
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If the Eagles get in, it would be their aboriginal playoff adventurous back the 2013 season. That aforementioned year was the aftermost time the Saints, the NFC South leader, fabricated the postseason. But that’s not an affair back Drew Brees is your quarterback and Sean Payton your coach. The Saints won it all in 2009.
The playoff aridity is abundant best for the Rams with their aftermost actualization in 2004. Rams quarterback Jared Goff was 10 years old.
The Vikings, who are aboriginal in the NFC North, fabricated the playoffs in 2015 and accept arguably the best aegis in the league. But their black quarterback bearings ability eventually bolt up.
So if you’re the Eagles, Saints, Rams and Vikings, you’ll appetite to abstain the Cowboys and the annoying Seattle Seahawks.
It doesn’t amount what berry the Seahawks draw. They’re consistently a boxy out and accept affluence of playoff experience. Would second-year quarterback Carson Wentz be able to handle the Legion of Boom?
And afore we acme the Eagles, can they comedy the Cowboys first? They’ll accommodated for their aboriginal of two showdowns abutting week.
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The Eagles are great. But let’s columnist on the breaks. This NFC chase is advanced accessible and will be fun to watch branch against January with so abounding new faces.
Giants drillmaster on hot seat
Ben McAdoo’s job is in accident afterwards the Giants gave up an awkward 51 credibility at home to the Rams aftermost week.
If McAdoo loses his job, it wouldn’t be fair to accumulate accepted administrator Jerry Reese. The longtime advanced appointment baton of the Giants has bootless to fix the abhorrent band for years. Eli Manning has taken so abounding sacks over the years, he’s absitively to bomb instead of demography a hit.
Reese, who took over as accepted administrator in 2007, additionally bootless his crumbling quarterback by not giving him a reliable active game. Just anticipate about all the advantageous amateur and green active backs in the league. The Giants didn’t get one.
The Giants absent their two best advanced receivers to injury. That’s not McAdoo’s fault. It’s time for a apple-pie slate in New York.
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Gilbert Manzano covers the NFL for the Review-Journal. He can be accomplished at gmanzano@reviewjournal.com. Follow @gmanzano24 on Twitter.
NFC playoff push
Five teams are in the coursing for a acknowledgment to the playoffs:
— Philadelphia Eagles, 2013
— New Orleans Saints, 2013
— Los Angeles Rams, 2004
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— Minnesota Vikings, 2015
— Carolina Panthers, 2015
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