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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
They're 8-0 and yes, it's a light schedule, but we lost to the Colts who are as bad as anyone Philly has played.
Philly also beat Dallas and Minnesota, who are good teams.
And to take a different tact - what DON'T they do well? Very good in the trenches, very good skill position players, a strong secondary, quality LB play. They don't have a truly great RB and their QB is untested, but he's playing extremely well.
I have a hard time saying they aren't a good football team.
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I dunno, I feel like the Chiefs are practically a Golden State/NBA type of team that plays pretty vanilla and 'meh' in the regular season sometimes, or a lot of the times.... while other teams with something to prove more or less don't take teams for granted to the same extent.
Look at 2020 Bills and 2020 Chiefs, point differential champs vs skirting by against the Falcons at home.
I feel like the Vikings are fraudier than the Eagles and Cowboys with how they've pulled games out of their asses against their shit schedule... but any of those teams could make the SB at this point with how awful the NFC is right now and I'd still have big doubts they're all that good.
Granted, I think much of it comes down to what is 'Real' or 'Good'.... playoff contenders? Yeah, any ~.500 team can make the playoffs, so I guess most of those teams would qualify.
Super Bowl contenders? I mean, I guess a couple of NFC teams will actually by default contend for the Super Bowl, but would you be THAT surprised if any of them lost their first playoff game?
I think the only 'real' teams at this point are the Chiefs and Bills... teams you'd be legitimately surprised if they lost their first playoff game (as long as it's not against each other, of course), and even mildly surprised if one didn't make it to the SB.