Graveyard
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Hierarchy
8) Giants (5-10): After the Football Team cut Dwayne Haskins, many in the Giants Twitter community (local media, national media, and fans) asserted that the Giants were right to take Daniel Jones with the sixth overall pick in the 2019 draft instead of Haskins.
I suppose the Giants got heat at the time for liking Jones more than Haskins, but the loudest folks complaining about that weren t exactly great minds.
The real argument wasn t whether Jones was better than Haskins. It was that they took a quarterback unworthy of going sixth overall instead of Josh Allen (the pass rusher, not the quarterback). Allen got hurt his second season, but as a rookie he had 10.5 sacks, 2 FF, and 23 QB hits.
Meanwhile, the Eagles were returning their head coach, quarterback, and defensive coordinator for their fifth straight season, and seemingly should have had a leg up on their competition. In the end, the Eagles were the first team eliminated in the wretched NFC East.
3) The They Did Their Best To Keep the Eagles In It Award: The Entire NFC East
Somehow the Eagles entered this weekend at 4-9-1 and still had a path to an NFC East championship. They needed the following to occur:
The Giants had to lose one of their two remaining games. ✔️
The Football Team had to lose to the Panthers. ✔️
The Bad
• The offensive resurgence under Jalen Hurts was a nice story and ultimately creates some intrigue for the Eagles heading into 2021, but in the end, the state of the secondary was just too much to overcome. And while the Eagles certainly couldn t have planned around the rash of injuries they had on the back end, they seem to run into these problems year after year, banking on no-name talent in the secondary to bail them out. At a certain point, it s not just a health issue, it s a failure to identify proper starters to avoid getting to this spot.