A ridiculous end to the season with some of the Eagles shenanigans.
They were already out of playoff contention. Rested players end even then when they looked a chance of winning the game, they replaced their starting quarterback with an absolute nufty.
End result is they lost, ended up with 6th draft pick instead of 9th. Knocked the Giants out of the playoffs and allowed the team they were playing against to make them.
This shows the downside of draft systems (has also happened in AFL) where teams deliberately lose to improve their draft stocks.
The NFL should take draft picks off them as punishment.
As a Dallas fan, I am just glad we didn’t beat the Giants. Otherwise I might have broken my TV yesterday. Even some of the Eagles players looked disgusted on the sidelines with what was happening.
The whole NFC East was a train wreck this year, the NFL should replace the NFC East champion with a wild card entry in the playoffs this year.
Every divisional champions making the playoffs is always fraught with danger,as it is always possible that a team playing in a weak division with a losing record automatically gets rewarded.It is like if the NRL had a system where the top 7 are in the playoffs and the best team in queensland do also no matter where they finish