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Which is the best division in the NFL?


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7 hours ago, aceinthehouse said:

It's ok guys... 🏆

You know who the best Division is.

I hope all 4 make the Playoffs. That's never happened.

If the Playoffs were today?

The Eagles would be the #1 seed.

Cowboys #5 seed.

Giants #6 Seed

Commanders #7 seed.

(With Vikings #2, Seahawks #3 & Falcons #4)

In fairness, before the change to include for 3 wildcards it was impossible. 

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2 minutes ago, DerbyRam said:

NFC West was hyped last year and 3 teams went to the play-offs - with one winning the Super Bowl. 

I don't think it had the same buzz or expectation this year. 

Sure it did, not sure why people keep saying this?

Defending SB Champs (repeat), run it back!

49ers with Lance, No Jimmy, our year!

Cards as the potential 3rd WC team. Added Hollywood, Murray contract completed, next step!

Only team no one thought would be worth a 💩, is probably the 2nd best team in the division at the moment.  A Geno Smith led Seahawks team.

The talk was always NFC will get at least  2 teams , probably 3 from the NFCW. This narrative has only changed because of thier 2022 records.

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47 minutes ago, LeotheLion said:

Vegas over under win totals for NFCW in 2021 was 38.5. It was 34.5 in 2022. It clearly wasn't thought as tough. A lot of that was due to Seattle's perceived drop-off. 

So there was a 4 gm difference in large part to the departure of Russell Wilson.  Not sure, how this differs from what I posted? 

2-3 teams were expected by the masses to make the playoffs.  Only 1 probably will. SB Champs, most likely not that team.

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32 minutes ago, Nabbs4u said:

So there was a 4 gm difference in large part to the departure of Russell Wilson.  Not sure, how this differs from what I posted? 

2-3 teams were expected by the masses to make the playoffs.  Only 1 probably will. SB Champs, most likely not that team.

4 games is massive. In 2021 the 38.5 wins was the highest in the NFC. NFCS was 2nd at 35.5, NFCF 3rd at 32, and NFCE 4th at 31.5. In 2022 the 34.5 by the NFCW was tied with NFCE with the NFCN being close at 33.5.

Only 2 (not sure where you are getting 3) NFCW teams were projected to make the playoffs in 2022 versus 3 in 2021. People clearly thought correctly the NFCW was not nearly as strong in 2022. The AFCW is the division that took all of the preseason hype. 

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NFC East standings:

1. Eagles: 7-0 2.

Cowboys: 6-2 

Giants: 6-2 4.

Commanders: 4-4

At 23-8 combined, that's good for a win percentage of .742, the highest combined win percentage for a division through 8 weeks since the merger in 1970.

 

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Can you believe that I am actually rooting for the entire NFC East to make the playoffs, something that has never been done by any division?

Commanders currently have same record as 49ers but lose the tie-breaker.

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11 hours ago, pf9 said:

Can you believe that I am actually rooting for the entire NFC East to make the playoffs, something that has never been done by any division?

Commanders currently have same record as 49ers but lose the tie-breaker.

It's still early. That will probably get watered down.

I'd predict something like 9ers (and LAR) ending with 10, Commies ending with about 8, right there with some other NFC teams.

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No division has ever placed all of its teams in the playoffs, and I would agree that this has never been possible until last season. That said, I don’t think there has ever been a division where all the teams would have made the playoffs if there was just one more wild card team.

Four playoff teams from a division is not unprecedented, though. They used to have 3 wild cards before the realignment to 4 divisions per conference, and the NFC Central twice sent 4 teams to the playoffs (1994 and 1997) and the AFC East did it once (1998). Each of those divisions had a laggard team that wouldn’t have made the playoffs with even one extra wild card to make it a 7-team field, though. 

I think it’s extremely unlikely that all 4 NFCE teams make it, though. That would require WAS to beat out one of SEA/SF, which would seem to require that they finish at least 5-4 and get some help on tiebreakers. That makes it likely that they’d need to make some hay against the rest of the NFCE — and PHI in particular (and DAL to a lesser extent) are terrible matchups for WAS with their strong line play on both sides of the ball. And if they managed to sweep NYG, would that put the Giants at risking of missing out? 

I think if WAS manages to beat MIN this weekend, then perhaps that puts us on NFCE Watch for all 4 possibly making it. But assuming they’ll lose to PHI on MNF the next week, a loss to MIN probably puts them at 4-6 and a real longshot to make it back. If they do win it, that Week 14 game at SF looms pretty large as a potential pivot point. 

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4 hours ago, e16bball said:

No division has ever placed all of its teams in the playoffs, and I would agree that this has never been possible until last season. That said, I don’t think there has ever been a division where all the teams would have made the playoffs if there was just one more wild card team.

Four playoff teams from a division is not unprecedented, though. They used to have 3 wild cards before the realignment to 4 divisions per conference, and the NFC Central twice sent 4 teams to the playoffs (1994 and 1997) and the AFC East did it once (1998). Each of those divisions had a laggard team that wouldn’t have made the playoffs with even one extra wild card to make it a 7-team field, though. 

I think it’s extremely unlikely that all 4 NFCE teams make it, though. That would require WAS to beat out one of SEA/SF, which would seem to require that they finish at least 5-4 and get some help on tiebreakers. That makes it likely that they’d need to make some hay against the rest of the NFCE — and PHI in particular (and DAL to a lesser extent) are terrible matchups for WAS with their strong line play on both sides of the ball. And if they managed to sweep NYG, would that put the Giants at risking of missing out? 

I think if WAS manages to beat MIN this weekend, then perhaps that puts us on NFCE Watch for all 4 possibly making it. But assuming they’ll lose to PHI on MNF the next week, a loss to MIN probably puts them at 4-6 and a real longshot to make it back. If they do win it, that Week 14 game at SF looms pretty large as a potential pivot point. 

It was made possible 2 years ago, not 1.

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5 hours ago, e16bball said:

No division has ever placed all of its teams in the playoffs, and I would agree that this has never been possible until last season. That said, I don’t think there has ever been a division where all the teams would have made the playoffs if there was just one more wild card team.

NFCE, 07? Eagles finished 4th at 8-8, tied for the next best record with the Vikings and Cards. Not sure how the tiebreaker works out with Arizona (they beat Minnesota that season).

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