Saturday, September 08, 2012

Are you ready for some football?

Here's my take on the Eagles' season.


Wins
Browns
Cardinals (though the Eagles always play lousy in Arizona)
Falcons (Eags usually beat Penn Charter's Matt Ryan when he comes to town)
Giants home
Cowboys home
Redskins - away
Panthers – unless Cam Newton has a breakout game.
Bucs
Bengals
Redskins home

Losses
Giants away
Cowboys away – if they win this one and the home one they will be in very good shape

Swing
Ravens – huge momentum if we win the home opener and go 2-0
Steelers – could be a classic let down game following a Sunday night game vs. the Giants.
Lions – not sure where I see the Lions going this year. Building on last year's playoff spot or regressing with a harder schedule?
Saints – maybe put this in the loss column since it's away but can't help but think the Saints hang tough early in the season but implode as the weight of bountygate takes its toll and the loss of the players, head coach and gm takes its toll as the season wears on – hopefully by week 9 when we play them.

So that's 10 wins, 2 losses, and 4 undecided.

Splitting the undecided (Ravens and Lions as wins since their home games and Steelers and Saints as away losses), that's 12-4. Even if you then allow for bad game (like the Falcons or Panthers) that's 11-5. And then if you go ahead and throw in that the Eagles go 1-3 against the undecideds rather than 2-2, that still leaves the Eagles at worst 10-6.

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