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Andy Reid's First Fifth?

Andy Reid is staring down the barrell of his first five-game losing streak as a head coach.

Andy Reid started his Eagles' head coaching career with a four-game losing streak. Would have been nice to bookend it by ending gis career with one.

The Eagles have lost four consecutive games four times under Reid, but have always won before the slide hit five.

In fact, the first time he snapped a four-game losing streak — and his first win as Eagles coach — came against the Cowboys.

By the way, the last two times an Eagles coach lost five games in a row (Ray Rhodes, 1998; Rich Kotite, 1994), the head coach was gone at the end of the season.

And in case you are counting (as we are), Wednesday is day No. 5,050 of the Andy Reid era.

The Eagles' four-game losing streaks, and their following victory, under Reid: