Philadelphia Eagles versus NFC East: Rankings after these last 20 years

If you’re a Philadelphia Eagles fan, keep one eye on the Giants.

Record vs. Philadelphia: (12-28 Win% .300)

Record vs. Dallas: (18-22 Win% .450)

Record vs. Washington: (28-12 Win% .700)

Regular Season Record vs. NFC East: (58-62 Win% .483) 3rd in NFC East <-4 points>

Overall Regular Season Record: (152-168 Win% .475) 3rd in NFC East <-16 points>

NFC East Championships: (3) (2005,2008,2011) T-Last in NFC East <30 points>

Total Playoff Appearances: (7) T-2nd in NFC East <24 points, 4 Non-Division Champion Playoff Appearances-2002,2006,2007,2016>

Playoff Wins: (8) 2nd in NFC East <32 points>

Playoff Byes: (1) (2008) 3rd in NFC East <4 points>

NFC Conference Championships: (2) (2007,2011) T-1st in NFC East <50 points>

Super Bowl Wins: (2) (2007,2011) 1st in NFC East <100 points>

Total Ranking Points: (220 points) 2nd in NFC East

Summary:

The Giants are hard to rank. Take two seasons in the last 20 years away, and you are left with a team barely outperforming Washington. They’re not Washington bad, but those two incredible seasons alone catapult them up the list to the second spot.

The odds of the Giants and Eli Manning beating the Patriots twice in the Super Bowl were as likely to happen as a blind man discovering that Planet Earth is flat.

Cheers to all the flat-earthers. Manning may have played himself into the Hall of Fame off the back of two playoff runs, but for whatever it’s worth, playoff triumph is more critical than regular-season achievement, and New York has a lot of it, putting them at the number two spot on this list.