Cover 4: Links to the Absolute Best in NFC East Coverage

Every morning, the B/R NFC East blog brings you all the day's best stories and articles in one, easy-to-access compendium. This is Cover 4, linking you to today's top writing in the division.

Giants

Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News assures us that hot seat talk is over for Tom Coughlin after this Super Bowl win—really. Even though, you know, winning his first Super Bowl against the only 18-0 team in the history of football wasn't enough to earn him free beers at any bar in the New York-New Jersey area. 

Eli Manning has earned the tag as an elite quarterback, but is he out of his brother's shadow? B/R featured columnist Gabe Zaldivar doesn't think so, and it's hard to argue with his closing statement: "He may be an elite quarterback, but it just so happens his brother is a legendary one." Not much Eli can do about that.

Cowboys

Tony Romo may be the most polarizing figure in Texas not named Josh Hamilton. B/R Cowboys featured columnist Peter Matarazzo has three things Romo can do to improve for the 2012 season. The biggest thing he can do is to give his coach confidence in his ability to make key plays down the stretch to win football games.

And if he can't improve? B/R contributor Cameron McAuley has five quarterbacks the Cowboys should target in the 2012 draft. He doesn't seem to think the Cowboys should take the plunge on one of the first-round QBs, but has identified Brandon Weeden among others as potential targets for Dallas.

Redskins

"Manning Watch" has become a nationwide epidemic, and the Redskins are among the teams most attracted to the franchise quarterback. In fact, according to Howard Eskin of an NBC affiliate in Philadelphia, the Redskins are a leading candidate for Peyton Manning's services. Just don't believe the Redskins if they tell you otherwise.

B/R's Wes O'Donnell says that this could be just the move that makes the NFC East the power conference even though none of the teams finished with more than nine wins in 2011.

Meanwhile, the Redskins are dealing with their own big-time free agent in linebacker London Fletcher. Bruce Allen has already said that the team wants their captain back, according to Redskins.com's Brian Tinsman.

Eagles

Fans of the "Dream Team" Philadelphia Eagles were treated to a nightmare 2011 season, but according to B/R contributor Jason Arias, there are some moves the team could make to improve their chances in 2012. Not surprisingly, those moves include adding depth at several key positions, fixing the defensive coordinator conundrum and addressing the linebacking corps.

If you ask Alec Baldwin, though, it may not be that easy. Dan Stamm of NBC Philadelphia has Baldwin ripping the Eagles (which isn't all that surprising, since he's a New York sports fan), saying that the Eagles' dream season "was one of those dreams where you show up at school naked, you forget to study for the test and you lose four of your first five games."

Ouch.