Next Four Games
A friend writes about the Eagles' November schedule:
I would add that we really need the Cowboys game to be one of the wins. To bury them at 2-6 rather than tied with us at 3-5 (and they get the tiebreaker). When they get Romo back they will be good again.
We have lost our opportunity to "blow" a game. We have done that 2-3 times already this year (Washington, ugh.) already. You just can't do it too many times in a season. With parity you can lose a few you should win. We have hit our limit.
You need to get to 9-7 at minimum and 10-6 probably avoids tiebreaker. We are 3-4. 7-2 is a stretch considering at Foxborough and the aforementioned parity. So if you are going to go 6-3 (which .667 football) then you can't lose tiebreaker and this need cowboys game. That said - if we lose then we must have Cowboys fall big time so only tiebreaker is Giants and we beat them to end season.
But, this is a big but, if we go 2-2 over this next stretch of games, leaving us 5-6 heading into Foxboro, the season's probably over.Dallas (2-5), Miami (3-4), Tampa (3-4), Detroit (1-7) -- those are the next 4 opponents.
In the previous 2 seasons, I'd expect us to go 4-0 over that stretch. I'll settle for 3-1, which would get us to 6-5 heading into Foxboro. Which leaves us 6-6 afterward, and needing to go 3-1 in the final 4 games after that to win the division.
If in a parallel universe we actually win all 4 of those games, 7-4 heading into Foxboro, we should be in really good shape, as the Giants, now 4-4, play their next 3 on the road, including one in Foxboro.
I would add that we really need the Cowboys game to be one of the wins. To bury them at 2-6 rather than tied with us at 3-5 (and they get the tiebreaker). When they get Romo back they will be good again.
We have lost our opportunity to "blow" a game. We have done that 2-3 times already this year (Washington, ugh.) already. You just can't do it too many times in a season. With parity you can lose a few you should win. We have hit our limit.
You need to get to 9-7 at minimum and 10-6 probably avoids tiebreaker. We are 3-4. 7-2 is a stretch considering at Foxborough and the aforementioned parity. So if you are going to go 6-3 (which .667 football) then you can't lose tiebreaker and this need cowboys game. That said - if we lose then we must have Cowboys fall big time so only tiebreaker is Giants and we beat them to end season.
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