Another catastrophic loss for Eagles caps off regular season

Roob’s Observations: Another catastrophic loss for Eagles caps off regular season originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

Another catastrophic loss to cap off a catastrophic regular season.

The Eagles followed one of the worst losses in franchise history to one that was almost as bad.

Here’s how you can remember the 2023 Eagles: The first team in NFL history to open a season 10-1 and not win 12 games.

And they even had one more chance than teams in a 16-game season.

Also the first team in 37 years to open up 10-1 and not win its division. In 1986, the Jets were 10-1 and finished 11-6 and didn’t win a game. The Eagles were 10-1 and finished 1-5 with a skin-of-their teeth win over the Giants their only win since November.

This was a meltdown of historic proportions.

The Eagles got embarrassed again Sunday, finishing the regular season with another wretched performance – this one a 27-10 loss to the Giants at MetLife.

This is a Giants team that has long since been eliminated from postseason contention, that had lost 17 of its last 20 to the Eagles, that hadn’t beaten a winning team all year.

Holy cow, this is unimaginably bad.

1. I’m going to start with Nick Sirianni because I’ve scoffed at the notion that he could lose his job this offseason a year after taking the Eagles to the Super Bowl. I still don’t think he will, but I could see how Jeff Lurie could be thinking about it. After this? How could you not? It’s not Lurie to make rash decisions, and even Chip Kelly got a third year after not winning playoff game his first two seasons and missing out on the playoffs his second year. But this is a collapse the likes of which the NFL has never seen. The Eagles didn’t just finish 1-5 after a 10-1 start, they lost in spectacular fashion. Blowing big leads, losing to awful teams, getting picked apart by backup quarterbacks, falling apart week after week in every way imaginable. The league has been around a long time and this is unprecedented stuff. Sunday…

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Publish date : 2024-01-08 01:11:14

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