Philadelphia started the 2022 Season in a shaky fashion, but they were stable enough to keep it regularly competitive. Their wins were ugly but their luck and their high-end talent kept them in it and, more often than not, got the wins.

All coming together in a hell of an Week 12 win against the, now Divisional-bound, Buffalo Bills. Putting them up nicely with an 10-1 start.

But since?...

...it's been an abject and complete disaster.

Week 13 - With Home Field Advantage on the line, they got completely blown out AT HOME by the Niners

Week 14 - With a chance to gain a critical divisional advantage for the NFC East, they got blown out by the Cowboys

Week 15 - They entered the week with a MNF matchup against a Seahawks team coming off a 4-game losing streak, who had to rely on the woefully inconsistent Drew Lock as the starting QB.

• Lock had spent the previous week being completely stalled out against the Niners, as Seattle's porous D let San Fran walk all over them

• Despite holding strong through most of the game, the Eagles D made Lock look like vintage Russell Wilson in the end, with a brutally efficient 92-yard game-winning drive and Hurts throwing a game-losing interception

Week 16 - Philly momentarily stops the bleeding against the Giants but they still allow New York to score the 2nd most points they had up to that point in the season.

Week 17 - Facing the 3-12 Cardinals, it was a cupcake opponent to potentially save their hopes to win the division. Despite this, they lose 31-35

Week 18 - Since the start of December, they had only beaten one team: The Giants. However the rematch wouldn't be as sweet. Philly ending the regular season with a complete dud, both offensively and defensively

Wild Card - Despite making the playoffs primarily because of that strong start, they did NOTHING to change the narrative. Completely failing to muster any kind of consistency against Tampa with lackluster offense, a misfiring Hurts, and some AWFUL defense, featuring some of the worst tackling I've EVER seen.

After coming metaphorical inches from claiming the Lombardi last year, this year is nothing but an INCREDIBLE disappointment. The only saving grace came from their rival Cowboys, who also collapsed in disastrous fashion this postseason.

Regardless, it is plain to the see that the NFC East objectively leased their playoff hopes away.

Haven't seen it posted but Joel Klatt explained it beautifully on his podcast and

Transcript below:

Cowherd: “Ravens the best team in the NFL, Michigan looks like the best team in college football, what’s the connection?”

Joel Klatt: “The connection runs so much deeper than anyone actually realizes. It goes back to the Covid year when there was talk when Jim Harbaugh was going to be fired. Michigan wanted to walk away from Jim and restart and do something else. And they stuck with him and he took that reduced contract, and Jim’s move, his switch, was calling his brother. He said ‘hey man, I have to get it right and I have to beat Ohio State specifically’. And he called John and said ‘I need your defense, give me two guys’. And John gave him Mike MacDonald and Jesse Minter. John said ‘choose one’. Jim told John ‘I don’t want to choose, both of these guys are great, I can take either one’. John says ‘ well you gotta choose and the other will go coordinate at Vanderbilt’. So Jim chooses Mike MacDonald and MacDonald was the defensive coordinator at Michigan for 2021. Jesse went to Vanderbilt in order to get coordinating experience from that tree. Mike then goes back to Baltimore after 2021 to become the defensive coordinator. So what does Jim do? ‘ Give me the other guy’. And so he brings in Jesse Minter. And now Jesse Minter and Mike MacDonald are both coordinating the two best defenses in football. And they’re running a very similar if not the exact same scheme. And now what you’re starting to see in the NFL and college ranks is that people are chasing down this scheme. They all want a piece of what’s going on. And what’s going on is that they built a run front with their defensive tackles, they play hard edges on the outsides with those rush ends, and they got hybrid players in the middle of their defense - linebacker, nickel, and safety - with good solid cover guys on the edge. And that’s what they’ve built, both of them. And they’re eerily similar and you’ve seen them dominate both levels of football in the NFL and college. And it goes back to that covid year - Jim calling John and saying ‘I want your two best best and brightest young guys’ and John gave them Mike MacDonald and Jesse Minter."

I originally felt bad for Arizona because we nabbed their coach just like Alabama nabbed ours, but it sounds like the situations were very different and Fisch was making a lot of effort to stay at Arizona -- even at a below market rate, while BeBoer was putting all of his effort into keeping his options open.

My TLDR from this video:

• Fisch asked for a new contract multiple times in December and Arizona kept dragging their feet

• Nansen was lost to Texas because the Arizona BOR wouldn't hold a special meeting to give Nansen a new contract

• The Arizona AD finally presented Fisch with an MOU, but said it couldn't be signed by either party until the Arizona BOR approved it and they weren't willing to hold a special meeting to approve it and so Fisch would have to wait until Feburary to find out if the contract offer made by the AD was an offer that the AD could really stand by.

• The snakes in all of this are the Arizona AD and BOR. (Board of Regents)

This all differs greatly from DeBoer, who had a contract from Washington ready to sign in late December, but it was DeBoer that was dragging his feet signing it -- and it sounds like that is because DeBoer's agent (who is also Saban's agent) knew the Bama job was probably going to be available and DeBoer was a top target of theirs.

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