Great Win for the Eagles, but We'll Still See...

To it's credit, Sunday Night's Eagles-Cowboys game wasn't the ugliest Prime Time game of the week. To be fair, it was an exciting football game. It was also an ugly football game. I'm quite happy the Eagles pulled it together against some insanely bad calls late in the game, and beat a Dallas team that looked like it badly wanted to win this game. While it wasn't a well-played football game, at least it was a victory.

I'm being realistic though, it was an overtime win against a team that is 2-6. The Eagles are 4-4. They are a .500 team that doesn't look like they could ever beat the New Englands and Carolinas of the world. That's the reality we're living in.

The road ahead is not so hard though. Miami, Tampa, and Detroit are ahead this month, and none of them are winning teams. Even the hard stretch after- New England, Buffalo, Arizona- isn't a three-loss lock. After those games, a home game with Washington and a road game with the Giants to finish the season are games that the Eagles can win. If they just beat the teams who don't have winning records the rest of the way, they go 9-7. The idea of them going 10-6 isn't insane on this schedule.

Yet, neither is the idea of the Eagles going 7-9, because they aren't that good yet. They have some key injuries, and some existing holes even in health, and frankly they can be beaten any given week. You find me the absolute lock victory on the remainder of the schedule. It's impossible to find, because this team is inconsistent.

Do I think the Eagles are a playoff team? I think they could be a playoff team. Do I want to bet on that? Absolutely not. This team is still not consistent enough to contend for the Super Bowl, and they could completely collapse altogether, but i'm going to choose to be cautiously optimistic about what's ahead. The schedule is light, and they aren't buried yet. Sunday didn't definitively prove anything for me though.