When and The place: Week 17 in Orchard Park
Final season: Misplaced to the Chiefs within the playoffs. Once more. The Payments have received 4 straight common season video games towards the Chiefs, and have misplaced 4 straight playoff video games towards the Chiefs.
Added: Joey Bosa, Larry Ogunjobi, Tra’Davious White, Elijah Moore, Josh Palmer
Misplaced: Mack Hollins, Rasul Douglas, Amari Cooper, Von Miller
Gamers added or misplaced so as of snaps performed final season.
Prime draft picks: Maxwell Hairston, TJ Sanders, Landon Jackson
Greatest query dealing with this group: How does this group recover from the Chiefs hump?
Bringing in outdated and injured defenders, one in every of who was on the group from 2017 to 2023, and a few heat our bodies at WR is just not going to maneuver the needle for this group.
That is principally operating it again for the Payments. Identical head coach, identical playcallers, no main roster overhaul. On the one hand, it is sensible to maintain collectively a group that misplaced to the Chiefs by 3 factors final 12 months and misplaced to the Chiefs by 3 factors the 12 months earlier than, and misplaced to the Chiefs in OT two years earlier than that. The Payments are so shut. However however, we’re on 12 months 4 of the Payments are only one play away from the Tremendous Bowl. Definition of madness and all that.
This season needs to be Tremendous Bowl or bust for Sean McDermott. He’s the fourth longest tenured head coach and the three who have been employed earlier than him, Andy Reid, John Harbaugh, and Mike Tomlin have all received the Tremendous Bowl.
Placing this sport in Week 17 was a extremely poor selection by the NFL schedulers. The Payments have wrapped up the AFC East earlier than Week 17 thrice prior to now 5 seasons; they need to do it once more this 12 months. The NFC East has been much more aggressive, and the Eagles face a doubtlessly brutal schedule, nevertheless it shouldn’t be a shock if each these groups are just about locked in on their playoff seeding at kickoff. This sport may have had much more juice earlier within the season, even by only a few weeks.
