The Eagles are NFC East favorites according to the experts in Las Vegas and around the world making odds for sportsbooks.
The books usually get it right, but the Eagles have a laundry list of unknowns heading into 2024, ranging from their new coordinators and schemes, some new big ticket veterans like Saquon Barkley and Bryce Huff, and rookies who’ll be expected to do a lot this season like Quinyon Mitchell.
What are “experts” across the NFL media landscape predicting for the Eagles? Will they win the division? Make it to the Super Bowl? Here’s a few snippets from predictions we found:
The Eagles went on a five-game winning streak to end the season. That included a crucial 22-10 win in Week 17 in which their pass rush devastated quarterback Dak Prescott and the Cowboys’ passing attack to snatch the NFC East title away from Dallas via head-to-head tiebreaker.
But the momentum didn’t carry over into the postseason. Though they entered as the No. 2 seed, the Eagles saw their season end abruptly at the hands of Williams and the Bears, who pulled off a surprising upset. Dallas didn’t fare any better, as the Cowboys lost in a playoff blowout for the second straight season, falling 37-14 to the San Francisco 49ers. [ESPN]
Another note from an ESPN predictions article — the Eagles have a 79.4% chance of making it to the postseason, and are projected to have 10.5 wins.
NFC East winners — NFL.com
The NFL’s own website polled 28 of its writers and 24 of them picked the Eagles to win the NFC East, with the other four going with Dallas.
The NFC East hasn’t had a repeat champion since the Eagles won three straight following realignment in 2002. Our analysts see that trend continuing this season (sorry, Cowboys!), with Philadelphia receiving 24 first-place votes and earning a playoff spot on all 28 of our analysts’ ballots. Dallas is still predicted to be the conference’s fifth seed, receiving the most total points among all NFC wild-card contenders. A playoff berth would be nothing new for Dallas, which is one of just 10 teams with double-digit playoff appearances this millennium. However, of those 10 teams, all but the Cowboys have advanced to a conference title game; in fact, the other nine have all won at least one Lombardi Trophy since 2000. [NFL.com]
NFC East winners — SI.com
Connor Orr at Sports Illustrated predicted all 272 regular season NFL games and chalked the Eagles up for 10 wins — good for an NFC East crown with the Cowboys projected to win nine. A look at some of his reasoning:
