Daily News | Fear factors: Ranking the Eagles’ potential playoff opponents by degree of difficulty
These are strange times in the NFC playoffs. Aaron Rodgers isn’t here. The defending champs aren’t, either. The Seahawks are, but Russell Wilson isn’t. Win or lose, Seattle will emerge from the playoffs with the fifth overall pick in the draft. Tom Brady is a home underdog to a team coached by Mike McCarthy. Matthew Stafford would have had a better shot at the postseason if he’d stayed in Detroit. Things are so weird that we haven’t even mentioned the Giants.
Here’s another oddity about this postseason, one that extends to the AFC as well. All six wild-card games are rematches from the regular season. Three of them are intradivision games: Seahawks-49ers, Bengals-Ravens, Dolphins-Bills. We could have two more division games in Round 2. The Chiefs could face the Chargers, and the Eagles could face the Cowboys or Giants.All of this is good news for the Eagles. Rarely does a No. 1 seed come with such a fortunate position.
This NFC field is so thin on boogeymen that we need to go out and find some. So let’s create some order out of this madness. If my math is correct, the Eagles have 11 possible combinations of opponents. Here’s how I rank them in order of difficulty, from most difficult to least:Bucs beat the Cowboys, 49ers beat the Seahawks, Vikings beat the Giants.If we’re weighting our grade relative to the rest of the possibilities, this one ranks as a 5 out of 5.
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