The Philadelphia Eagles entered Week 12 with an 8-2 record. The Dallas Cowboys were 4-5-1.<\/p>\n
Had the Eagles not blown a 21-point lead in their loss to the Cowboys, Philly\u2019s magic number (read: the combination of Eagles wins plus Cowboys losses) to officially clinch the NFC East would\u2019ve been down to two.<\/p>\n
But the Eagles did blow that game. And then the Cowboys beat the Kansas City Chiefs on Thanksgiving. And then the Eagles lost to the Chicago Bears on Black Friday.<\/p>\n
So the Eagles\u2019 magic number to clinch the division remains four with five games left to play. On that note:<\/p>\n
EAGLES REMAINING SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 14 \u2014 at Los Angeles Chargers COWBOYS REMAINING SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 14 \u2014 at Detroit Lions Even if the Eagles only win two more games, the Cowboys would still lose the division if they also lose two games (math: two plus two equals the magic number of four). The odds of the Eagles winning the NFC East on FanDuel Sportsbook is -900, meaning that you\u2019d have to place a $900 wager to win $100. The Cowboys, meanwhile, are at +650. So, you\u2019d win $650 by placing a $100 wager.<\/p>\n In other words, the Eagles still have a really good chance to win the division and thus host a home playoff game.<\/p>\n But actually winning in the playoffs? Well, it\u2019s hard to feel great about the Eagles\u2019 chances at the moment with offense looking like a disaster. We can say \u201cmaybe it\u2019ll change at some point\u201d but that kind of feels like Charlie Brown believing in Lucy actually not pulling the football away at this point.<\/p>\n While the Eagles\u2019 loss to the Bears hardly prevents the Birds from winning the NFC East, the loss is damaging from the standpoint of trying to get a first-round bye. Chicago now holds a head-to-head tiebreaker over the Eagles in the NFC playoff picture and the Los Angeles Rams have an opportunity to increase their lead over Philly as the No. 1 seed if they beat the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the entire current NFC playoff picture \u2026 with the disclaimer that a bunch of teams have obviously yet to play in Week 13.<\/p>\n 1) Los Angeles Rams: 9-2 5) Seattle Seahawks: 8-3 ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN<\/p>\n 8) Detroit Lions: 7-5 11) Atlanta Falcons: 4-7 16) New York Giants: 2-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles entered Week 12 with an 8-2 record. The Dallas Cowboys were 4-5-1. Had the Eagles…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":413091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,76139,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-413090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115633666586441009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Week 15 \u2014 vs. Las Vegas Raiders
Week 16 \u2014 at Washington Commanders
Week 17 \u2014 at Buffalo Bills
Week 18 \u2014 vs. Washington Commanders<\/p>\n
Week 15 \u2014 vs. Minnesota Vikings
Week 16 \u2014 vs. Los Angeles Chargers
Week 17 \u2014 at Washington Commanders
Week 18 \u2014 vs. New York Giants<\/p>\n
2) Chicago Bears: 9-3
3) Philadelphia Eagles: 8-4
4) Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 6-5<\/p>\n
6) Green Bay Packers: 8-3-1
7) San Francisco 49ers: 8-4<\/p>\n
9) Dallas Cowboys: 6-5-1
10) Carolina Panthers: 6-6<\/p>\n
12) Minnesota Vikings: 4-7
13) Arizona Cardinals: 3-8
14) Washington Commanders: 3-8
15) New Orleans Saints: 2-9<\/p>\n