With the NFC East kicking the season off with two divisional matchups. There’s already two teams with a division win, and a division loss.
The 1-0 Eagles currently sit 2nd in the NFC East behind a 1-0 Commanders team about to kickoff for Week 2’s Thursday Night Game against a 1-0 Packers that mortgaged the next few years on Micah Parsons getting them over the hump and to the Super Bowl.
Regardless of tonight’s outcome. The Eagles will get a look at two teams they won’t play until the 2nd half of the season. Which could be deciding factors for the NFC East Title, and maybe. The NFC.
Will We Have A New Division Winner
There hasn’t been a repeat NFC East winner since 2004, when the Eagles owned the division from the 2001-2004 division. Able to win the division with records of 11-5, 12-4(twice) and 13-3.
Last season, the Eagles came out on top of the division with a 14-3 record. Beating out the Commanders who finished with a 12-5 record of their own.
The NFL projected that the Eagles will finish the season with 11.6 wins, and that the Commanders will regress back to 10.4 wins. Will 12 games be enough for either team to win the division this year? And where will that place them amongst the rest of the NFC contenders like the Packers, Rams & Lions?
A Question For Week 18.
As always, the NFL scheduled every Week 18 matchup to be a divisional game. Even though most teams have clinched a playoff spot or been eliminated from contention weeks prior, the NFL still wants these matchups to “matter.”
So a week 18 match between the Eagles and the Commanders could bring the division down to the wire. Especially ending the year with two games against Washington, and a snowy trip to Buffalo in between. Week 18 has the potential to be worth all the marbles… 16 1/2 weeks from now.
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