At this point in the season, every Eagles fan in the country has hit the panic button. Many have completely given up and the calls for Kolb and a new coach are increasing every day.
I am hearing, “Thank God for the Phillies,” every day. And I don't get it. Our season is over, just like that? I don't think so.
Why is everyone giving up? Why are we so convinced that our season is over? Not one Eagles fan I have talked to believes we have a legitimate chance to make the playoffs. WHY?!
Because we're not playing like a playoff team...right now? Why did nobody make a big deal when we knocked off the 49ers, Falcons, and Seahawks by a combined 46 points?
We did just tie the Bengals. That's terrible. But we didn't lose. We have a winning record.
We're 5-4-1 right now. Five wins, four losses, and one tie that should have been a loss. We're sitting in last place, exactly where we finished last season and in 2005, and where we almost finished in 2006 (thank you, Jeff Garcia).
The NFL is an up-and-down sport. One week a team is a playoff lock. Two weeks later, fans are counting them out. Two weeks later, they're considered NFC favorites.
The Eagles have the third best point differential in the entire NFL. The Giants are first, the Titans are second, and the Philadelphia Eagles are third.
Point differential nothing in the win-loss column. A win is a win, and a loss is a loss. But it does make me feel better about this team.
The Eagles don't win close games. They win blowouts. We haven't won a close game since we knocked off the 12-1 Cowboys in December of last year (a four-point win that would have been 11 if Brian Westbrook hadn't kneeled down on the one-yard line.).
We haven't lose a blowout game since the Cowboys clobbered us in Philly last November (38-17).
The Eagles have lost four games this year and not won a fifth. These have come by a combined 19 points. Take 21 points off the Rams game from week one, spread them out, and the Birds are 10-0. This isn't possible, obviously, but what it should do is open your eyes to the fact that this team is not as bad as we think.
And you know what? Why couldn't we make the playoffs this year? We're 5-4-1.
We won't win the division, but a wild-card berth is possible.
Eight teams from the NFC will compete for the final two-wild card spots over the season's last six games: the Redskins, Cowboys, and Eagles from the East; the Packers, Bears, and Vikings from the North (one of these teams will win the division); and the Panthers, Bucs, Falcons, and Saints (one of these teams will win the division).
The Bucs are the only wild-card team more than a game ahead of the Eagles (7-3). They have a difficult remaining schedule and project to finish with 10 wins.
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