NFC East: Beast running rampant

by Ed Valentine on Sep 24, 2008 7:00 AM EDT in New York Giants News

From the Department of the Obvious comes this bit of information -- the NFC East is the best division in football.

ESPN's weekly power rankings have the Dallas Cowboys, our New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles occupying the top three spots, respectively. That's pretty impressive.

Over at CBS Sportsline, the Cowboys are No. 1, the Giants are No. 2 and the Eagles are No. 5.

Sportsline's Pete Prisco had this to say about the NFC East:

We expected the division to be tough, but this good?

Right now it would be hard to argue against an NFC East team playing in the Super Bowl -- unless they beat the daylights out of each other.

With only two games between the teams so far, it means we have plenty of division wars left to come. Will the team that wins the division be a group of battled-tested warriors or a beaten-up, punch-drunk champ who just happened to be the last team standing?

The way the Cowboys are going, it might be the former. They have an offense that can't be stopped and a defense that showed signs of coming to life against the Packers.

The NFC East is the SEC of the NFL.

The Washington Redskins are pretty good, too. All four of these teams are playoff caliber. I think, though, they will knock each other around and one of them is going home early.

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by NYERinKY on Sep 24, 2008 12:34 PM EDT reply actions

No loses...

outside of the division so far. Redskins only lost to Giants, Eagles only lost to Cowboys… It is possible for 1 division to get 3 of the 4 wild card spots??

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by sportsfloormats on Sep 24, 2008 11:18 PM EDT reply actions

there's only 2 Wild Card spots

and the NFC East has owned both of them the last 2 years.

Here’s an interesting problem, which is almost certainly not gonna happen, but hey, you never know. Say every team in the NFC East goes undefeated outside the division, and splits their series with each other (they each win at home and lose on the road). All 4 of them would finish 12-4…which team gets left out of the playoffs? How could the NFL POSSIBLY justify leaving one of them out in that situation?

by cjmulrain on Sep 25, 2008 7:56 AM EDT up reply actions