After their run to the Tremendous Bowl final 12 months and the emergence of Jalen Hurts as one of many league’s most dynamic and efficient gamers, the Philadelphia Eagles have by no means been extra common league-wide.
Until you’re the San Francisco 49ers, that’s.
Or possibly the Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants or Washington Commanders.
However I digress. Fanbases with out an axe to grind in opposition to the Birds acknowledge a superb factor after they see it, and except the defending world champion Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, there’s maybe no workforce followers need to see come into their dwelling stadium extra.
OK, it’s an enormous odd to me that the house sport Pats’ are trying ahead to second-most is one which will likely be performed in Germany, 1000’s of miles away, however I digress. By fairly a large margin, the Eagles’ opening-week tilt in opposition to New England is tops on their listing.
Positive, it’s a rematch of Tremendous Bowl 52 which, in case you’re new to all this, has some historic relevance.
One would think about Patriots followers aren’t the one ones trying ahead to matchup in opposition to the Eagles. Chiefs followers will undoubtedly be psyched for the Tremendous Bowl rematch in Week 11. The divisional video games are at all times simply extra logs on the fireplace of the long-standing rivalry inside the NFC East, and Rams, Seahawks, Bucs and Jets followers definitely will stand up for making an attempt to knock off the presumptive NFC favorites to get again to the Tremendous Bowl this 12 months.
NFL.com simply ranked the Eagles as essentially the most full workforce within the NFL proper now.
They got here up simply quick in Tremendous Bowl LVII, however there’s no purpose to suppose the state of the Eagles’ roster isn’t pretty much as good as — if not higher than — it was a 12 months in the past.
ESPN has the Eagles at No. 3 within the Energy Rankings, however provides them one of the best probabilities total, of any workforce within the league, to succeed in the Tremendous Bowl, at 14%.
The median AFC playoff workforce in our simulations is roughly 2.4 factors per sport higher than the median NFC playoff workforce. That’s an enormous purpose Philadelphia leads Kansas Metropolis in Tremendous Bowl probabilities, 14% to 13%. The Chiefs additionally face fairly the gauntlet of a schedule within the common season — second hardest within the league, based on FPI — which dampens their projections regardless of being one of the best workforce in soccer by virtually a full level. The 49ers, Payments and Bengals spherical out the highest 5, whereas the Dallas Cowboys are the one different workforce above 5% (7%).
So it’s simple to see why fanbases like New England’s are trying ahead to seeing the Eagles come to city, even when it means their workforce is prone to lose.
The Birds are enjoyable, and all people desires some.
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