If the NFL handed out Lombardi Trophies for salary cap management or accumulation of talented individual players or confidence that borders at times on hubris, the Eagles would have some hardware to go along with that pair of NFC titles won in 2004 and 1980.
But the ultimate prize continues to be reserved for the winner of the ultimate game, and the Eagles ultimately have failed to do that, for 45 years and counting. This year, team president Joe Banner declared that the difference between success and failure to be winning the Super Bowl. So far, the Eagles have won one of three regular-season games.
After Sunday’s loss to the Giants, running back LeSean McCoy tried to lay claim to another one of those non-trophy trophies, proclaiming that the better team didn’t win the game. “That team over there is not better than us,” McCoy said, per Ebenezer Samuel of the New York Daily News. “But we can’t keep saying that each week we lose.
“Everybody’s hyping us up to be this great team, and we lose two games straight. Nobody’s going to give us victories because we got all the best players.”
McCoy fundamentally is right. But on what basis does he rely when claiming that the Giants aren’t better than the Eagles? The scoreboard says that, on Sunday, the Giants were 13 points better than the Eagles.
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