Eagles schedule win-loss predictions for 2022 NFL season

The 2022 NFL schedule is formally right here and meaning it’s time for a very severe and scientific train: predicting the Philadelphia Eagles’ remaining report by figuring out wins and losses on a game-by-game foundation!

Final 12 months round this time, I had the Eagles finishing with an 8-9 record. I used to be just a little too low on them since they completed 9-8!

Let’s check out how issues may shake out this 12 months. (Additionally try much more schedule evaluation within the latest BGN Radio podcast!)

Week 1 – at Detroit Lions (Sept. 11, 1:00 PM, FOX)

The Eagles completely kicked the crap out of the Lions final 12 months. That recreation completed with a quite iconic rating of 44 to six. One could be remiss to suppose issues will go so simply for the Birds this time round. The Lions are going to be more healthy and higher than they had been at that time. That blowout loss was not a typical outcome for Detroit final 12 months regardless of them being a nasty crew. Dan Campbell goes to have his crew taking part in exhausting with a purpose to search revenge. The Lions pull off the upset with Jameson Williams and D.J. Chark validating considerations about Philly’s secondary.

LOSS: 0-1

Week 2 – Minnesota Vikings (Sept. 19, 8:30 PM, ABC) Monday Night time Soccer

Kirk Cousins kinda owns the Eagles with a profession 6-3 report and a 104.9 passer towards Philly. However he’s not precisely the most effective primetime quarterback, going 10-18 in such video games. The Eagles aren’t beginning their season 0-2. They handle to outlive Justin Jefferson having a giant recreation to advance to 1-1. (If you wish to have the Eagles beating the Lions and shedding to the Vikings, similar distinction.)

WIN: 1-1

Week 3 – at Washington Commanders (Sept. 25, 1:00 PM, FOX)

To start with, the NFL screwed up by having Carson Wentz’s first recreation towards the Eagles not happening in Philly. However, hey, there ought to nonetheless be a big contingent of Eagles followers current at FedEx Area. Outdoors of the Wentz angle, Washington is a boring crew. They notably added Jahan Dotson and so they’re getting Chase Younger again. However the Commanders obtained worse within the trenches with losses similar to Brandon Scherff, Tim Settle, and Matt Ioannidis. The Eagles take this recreation to start out out 1-0 within the division.

WIN: 2-1

Welcome again to Philly, Doug Pederson! The Eagles higher do proper by Dougie P and provides their solely Super Bowl-winning head coach some correct recognition previous to the sport. After the coin is flipped, although, Doug is the enemy. And he’s in all probability going to battle to steer an unproven and untalented Jags crew to victory. Trevor Lawrence has the potential to be fairly good however we haven’t seen something too particular from him simply but.

WIN: 3-1

Week 5 – at Arizona Cardinals (Oct. 9, 4:25 PM, FOX)

The Cardinals will notably be with out DeAndre Hopkins on this matchup since he was hit with a six-game suspension. That’s a giant break for the Eagles’ secondary. The Playing cards have had dangerous offseason vibes with Kyler Murray seemingly sad about not getting a long-term contract. It’s additionally exhausting to disregard how Murray and Kliff Kingsbury have collapsed late within the final two seasons. Sadly for the Eagles, this recreation is earlier within the 12 months. And, for all his faults, Murray does possess uncooked expertise that may make him pesky to defend. The desert can also be a tricky place to play generally. I’m going to say the Eagles lose this one despite the fact that I believe there’s potential for Arizona’s season to rapidly go south. Possibly I’m not trusting the vibes sufficient.

LOSS: 3-2

Week 6 – Dallas Cowboys (Oct. 16, 8:20 PM, NBC) Sunday Night time Soccer*

Jalen Hurts is 0-2 towards the Cowboys. Each losses got here in blowout style. Simply because that occurred up to now doesn’t essentially assure it’ll occur once more. But it surely doesn’t do something to earn him the advantage of the doubt. Till he truly stops struggling the Eagles’ greatest rival, I’m not going to merely assume it’ll occur.

LOSS: 3-3

Week 7 – BYE

And on the seventh week, the Eagles rested.

The Stillers are 0-9 in Philadelphia since 1966. The Eagles personal them in Philly. Only a testomony to Wawa being superior to Sheetz. It’s not exhausting to think about Pittsburgh’s shedding streak extending to 0-10 contemplating their quarterback choices are Mitchell Trubisky and Kenny Pickett. The latter might be going to get the beginning because it’s a primary alternative for the “Kenny Pickett grew up as an Eagles fan!” headlines. However regardless of the very fact Mike Tomlin at all times has him crew taking part in exhausting, the Eagles edge out their Keystone State brethren.

WIN: 4-3

Week 9 – at Houston Texans (Nov. 3, 8:15, Prime Video) Thursday Night time Soccer

The Texans have one of many worst rosters within the NFL. Individuals prefer to say Davis Mills confirmed some constructive indicators final 12 months, particularly relative to different rookie quarterbacks. And whereas there’s some fact to that, he’s not scaring anyone. Jonathan Gannon’s protection has a monitor report of caring for the lesser quarterbacks and he falls into that class. Additionally, I’m very a lot giving the sting to Nick Sirianni over Lovie Smith. I imply, how is Lovie Smith an NFL head coach within the 12 months 2022. The Texans didn’t even need him to be their coach (so perhaps he’s truly the precise resolution?) however they couldn’t rent most popular selection Josh McCown resulting from optics within the aftermath of the Brian Flores allegations.

WIN: 5-3

Week 10 – Washington Commanders (Nov. 14, 8:15 PM, ESPN) Monday Night time Soccer

Everyone knows the Eagles are shedding one recreation to Carson Wentz this 12 months, proper? One in all two issues are going to occur. Both 1) he’s going to go off towards his former crew or 2) he’s going to have an aggressively mediocre and even dangerous recreation the place Washington wins regardless of him and folks nonetheless declare that he obtained ‘revenge’ on the Eagles anyway. (Not completely not like what occurred with Donovan McNabb ‘beating’ the Birds in his return to Philly regardless of solely finishing eight passes.) The Eagles are splitting with the Commanders.

LOSS: 5-4

Week 11 – at Indianapolis Colts (Nov. 20, 1:00 PM, CBS)

The Eagles had their method with Matt Ryan in Week 1 final 12 months. They in all probability gained’t be capable to dominate him as a lot as they did again then since his supporting solid in Indy is best than it was in Atlanta. However are the Colts actually that intimidating? They’ve some good gamers. Jonathan Taylor might be going to provide the Birds some suits. But it surely’s a toss-up recreation to me. I may see the Eagles advancing to 2-0 towards Frank Reich.

WIN: 6-4

Week 12 – Green Bay Packers (Nov. 27, 8:20 PM, NBC) Sunday Night time Soccer*

The hardest recreation on the Eagles’ schedule. After watching Gannon’s protection get completely destroyed by superb quarterbacks final 12 months, it’s exhausting to think about he’s going to have solutions for Aaron Rodgers. The reigning back-to-back MVP shouldn’t battle to reap the benefits of Philly’s secondary.

LOSS: 6-5

Week 13 – Tennessee Titans (Dec. 4, 1:00 PM, CBS)

Methinks the Eagles cut up the earlier recreation and this one. When you have the order flipped, wonderful. I don’t see numerous juice to this matchup. There’s the plain angle of the A.J. Brown revenge recreation. But it surely’s not like Eagles followers severely hate Titans followers. I assume there’s some low key intrigue with Jim Schwartz returning to Philly as a member of the Titans teaching workers. The Titans are clearly worse with out Brown and there are questions on Derrick Henry holding up as the inspiration of their offense.

WIN: 7-5

Week 14 – at New York Giants (Dec. 11, 1:00 PM, FOX)

You understand how I picked the Cowboys to beat the Eagles as a result of Hurts hasn’t earned the advantage of the doubt? Nicely, comparable principal right here with the Giants not incomes the advantage of the doubt over the Eagles. Regardless that the G-Males did beat Hurts final 12 months. However that recreation was extra concerning the Eagles being terrible and beating themselves than New York doing something nice. The Giants’ roster is simply very dangerous.

WIN: 8-5

Week 15 – at Chicago Bears (Dec. 18, 1:00 PM, FOX)

Da Bears are straight trash. Justin Fields is extremely overrated; he was very dangerous as a rookie. In equity to Fields, he hasn’t been surrounded with a robust supporting solid. Chicago’s prime three receivers are … Darnell Mooney, Equanimeous St. Brown, and Byron Pringle. Yikes! The Bears’ offensive line can also be dangerous. This crew could possibly be within the combine for the No. 1 general decide within the 2023 NFL Draft.

WIN: 9-5

Week 16 – at Dallas Cowboys (Dec. 24, 4:25 PM, FOX) Saturday

As if the Eagles’ struggles towards the Cowboys weren’t regarding sufficient, the Birds have a number of disadvantages working towards them on this recreation. The primary is that they should journey on lower than ordinary relaxation because it’s a Saturday recreation. The second is that they’re taking part in their third straight highway recreation in three weeks. Groups in that state of affairs traditionally don’t fare effectively. The Eagles get swept by Dallas.

LOSS: 9-6

Hurts might battle towards the Cowboys however he excels towards the Saints. These are the principles. New Orleans is arguably essentially the most delusional crew within the NFL. For some cause, they suppose they’re in nice form regardless of shedding Sean Payton and having Jameis Winston beneath middle. The concept Winston turned the nook final 12 months and is sweet now could be foolish. There’s an excessive amount of proof of him being a turnover machine to suppose these points are endlessly solved.

WIN: 10-6

Week 18 – New York Giants (Jan. 7 or 8, TBD, TBD)

At all times powerful to foretell the season finale if you don’t know if the sport goes to be significant or not. The Eagles oddly had the advantage of resting their starters because the No. 7 seed within the NFC playoff picture final 12 months. We’ll guess that they’ll want Week 18 this time round and so they shouldn’t battle

WIN: 11-6

PLAYOFFS?!

Contemplating there hasn’t been a repeat NFC East winner in, oh, practically 20 years … one shouldn’t merely assume the Cowboys are profitable the division. In fact, I say that after having the Birds getting swept by Dallas. However the path is there with the Cowboys getting worse this offseason and seemingly being poised for some form of step again.

Even when they win the division, I’ll have my doubts concerning the Eagles profitable a playoff recreation until they show they’ll hold with the large boys within the common season.

Ultimate report: 11-6

The Eagles have one of many best schedules within the league this primarily based on 2022 projected win totals. If there’s something we discovered from final 12 months, it’s that they’re fairly good at caring for enterprise in terms of the dangerous/mediocre groups. However they actually struggled towards the legitimately good ones.

The sense right here is we’ll see some comparable leads to 2022. The Eagles definitely have the potential to be higher with some essential offseason additions similar to A.J. Brown, Haason Reddick, and Jordan Davis. It’s additionally potential Jalen Hurts takes a big step ahead.

But it surely’s additionally fairly potential that Hurts continues to not be superb at throwing the soccer at a excessive stage. And Philly’s apparent holes within the secondary may show to be as troublesome as they at the moment look like on paper.

The Eagles are hardly in “Tremendous Bowl or bust” mode however the crew ought to completely be held to larger expectations in 2022. In the event that they make the playoffs solely to get beat decisively within the first spherical once more, effectively, that’s simply not a profitable season.

Hurts is very dealing with numerous stress as he tries to persuade the Birds that he’s worthy of a long-term contract extension. He must show he can go up towards the higher quarterbacks within the league and lead the Eagles to victory.

On the threat of jinxing it, it’s exhausting to think about the Eagles having a catastrophe season. Even when their beginning quarterback will get injured, they nonetheless have an honest probability to hit the over on their projected win whole of 8.5 video games.

Whereas a lot is to be decided, one factor is for certain: the 2022 Eagles needs to be fascinating to observe. Can’t look ahead to September to be right here.