Ranking the Eagles 15th
SI.com's Peter King is up with his annual offseason power rankings. The Eagles come in at No. 15. But what about the rest of the NFC East?
Ranking the Eagles 15th
Sheil Kapadia, Philly.com
SI.com's Peter King is up with his offseason power rankings.
Where do the Eagles rank? No. 15.
I was in favor of going to Kevin Kolb, but that doesn't mean there's a 12-win season waiting to happen. There's likely to be growing pain, maybe with a Mike Vick replacement game or two.
Before you start going crazy, King fully admits that his rankings should not be taken too seriously. My guess is he'd skip this column if it were up to him, but fans, readers (and bloggers) love arguing over these rankings as they try to kill time over the next couple of months.
In the NFC East, King has the Giants at No. 9 and the Cowboys at No. 10, but he doesn't discount the possibility of the Eagles winning the division:
Pick a team out of the hat in this division. In the last six years, the NFC East champs, in order, have been Philadelphia, New York, Philadelphia, Dallas, New York and Dallas. The Giants have spent so much money and draft currency on the defensive line, and it simply has to be better or the natives rightfully will be able to wonder if Jerry Reese knows how to build a team, or did he just catch lightning in a bottle in his first year, the Super Bowl year. The offense will score enough, that I know. What it comes down to for the Giants is the defensive investment being smart enough, and I say it will.
The other teams he has ranked ahead of the Eagles are: the Packers (1), Saints (5), Panthers (8), Seahawks (11) and Vikings (13). Donovan McNabb's Redskins are 20th.
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* Earlier in the offseason, I wrote about how rare it is for a rookie pass rusher to have an instant impact. NFL.com's Pat Kirwan tackled the topic recently also:
I'm not here to rain on the draft parade, but if your team selected a pass rusher in the top two rounds, and is about to spend the big bucks to sign him, don't expect your money's worth right away. Be realistically happy if your new addition is active for 16 games, records 30 tackles, four sacks and a forced fumble. That would make him above average for a rookie.
* The National Football Post's Wes Bunting does not see Eagles fourth-round pick Keenan Clayton having a successful NFL career:
A gifted size/speed athlete, but he just doesn’t strike me as anything more than a special teams guy at the next level.
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Glad to see that Peter King has the Eagles with Kolb ahead of the Redskins, and that the Redskins aren't even in his conversation about the eventual 2010 NFC East Champion.
Wes Bunting's article is guys who won't live up to the hype. There is hype surrounding the Eagle's 4th round pick?— richards4captain18- Peter King had the Bears winning the Super Bowl a year ago. He also had the Saints 24th— mcat13
- Packers are #1? That's our opening day opponent!— nmlawyer
- I will never understand why the Giants get so much hype. They will not contend for the NFC east.
- All I know is that Joshua Jackson from Fringe should play Kolb if they make a movie out of all of this.
- The Seahawks and Panthers better than the Eagles? Huh?— chesapeake
- Yea, richards4captain18. That is a very strange choice for not living up to the hype.
If Kolb wasn't as star QB in the NFL he would probably have been a Airborne Army Ranger leading troops into battle. His command of his team is uncanny and he will not allow his team to lose focus like McNabb did to Shawn Andrews.- Smack dab in the middle; mediocre is their middle name!— JBinPA
- lonewolf 10, like everyone else, you have NO idea what Kolb will do. "Star QB"; now that's funny!— JBinPA
Comment removed.- we have to take a step back after losing so much in the off-season as far as leadership and experience but we'll be okay in a year or two— bigALtheone
- 15 is fair because QB is a huge question mark. When its all said & done, two decisions will define Reid's career in Philly: 1) draft McNabb #2 and 2) Start Kolb in 2010. I hope the 2nd turns out as well as the first.— dragoon6
- Peter King is almost always wrong. So that could mean a few things. First, the Giants won't win the division; The Seahawks are NOT better than the Eagles (nor is Carolina), and the Eagles are better than #15.— montgomeryhopkins
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