Philadelphia Eagles: The NFC East is, like, historically bad
The Philadelphia Eagles’ division is really, really bad.
The NFC East is bad.
How bad? Try a .13 winning percentage with a chance for it to drop all the way down to a .125 if the Philadelphia Eagles are unable to squeak out a win against Nick Mullens and the San Francisco 49ers.
That’s… really bad. But just how bad are we talking?
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Well, I’m glad you asked.
So, in the NFL right now, the NFC East is head and shoulders the worst division in football. They are the only division in the NFC with a losing record overall and one of only four overall to accomplish the feat.
But wait, it gets worse.
The NFC East also has the dubious distinction of having exactly zero teams with an individual winning record, which no other division can boast.
That’s, like, historically bad, right?
In a word: Yes.
Since 1991, the NFC East has been won by a sub-.500 team three times, by the 2011 Giants, the 2015 Redskins, and the Eagles in 2019. The last time a team won the division with less than nine wins was all the way back in 1982, a strike-shortened season that only lasted nine games.
Fun Fact: The 1982 Washington Redskins actually have the fewest wins of any Super Bowl-winning team in NFL history.
While one of the NFC East’s teams could conceivably string off a, well, string of wins, especially as they start to face off against each other with more frequency, it’s entirely possible that no team in the division will be able to break into double-digit wins in time for the postseason, especially when you consider just how good the AFC North is playing through the first month of the season.
That would be really, really bad, because only one team has won the Super Bowl with less than 10 wins since 1991, and that team, the New York Giants, did so as an eight seed. You have to go all the way back to that 1982 Redskins team to find a division winner that won the Super Bowl with less than 10 wins.
Hmm, maybe there’s a reason for that?
Next. Please move Hakeem Butler back to wide receiver. dark
For better or worse, the NFC East’s collective record is directly indicative of their on-field performances through the first month of the season. Though each loss – and the occasional win – has looked different than the one before, they all show a collection of teams that aren’t anywhere close to being among the best teams in the NFL – a fact that keeps getting drilled into our heads with each passing week. But hey, at least the Philadelphia Eagles don’t keep dropping heartbreakers off of historically bad defensive efforts. That’s… something, right?