According to DVOA, the NFC East had one of the easiest schedules since the merger last year. It was a paper tiger then, too. Philly sort of lucked into the Super Bowl, though they'll fight you tooth and nail on that.
This year, Dallas was a paper tiger that got really exposed in Buffalo when they couldn't stop the run. Not having Diggs meant they had trouble stopping the pass, too. I had Green Bay winning that game given the way they were playing at the end of the year. A bunch of hungry young receivers and a blossoming quarterback spelled doom for a team perched upon a house of cards.
Philly is a different story. MAC has the million dollar question. Why did they quit? Did they give up once they saw what San Francisco brought to the table? Surely they didn't do that, did they? Whatever the case, they have a lot of talent and what appears to be dysfunctional situations all over the place. I can't believe that the players are happy with Matt Patricia as the DC. And the OC, Johnson, is no treat. Hurts looks hurt. There's dissension there. A.J. Brown didn't play, so we have to assume he's hurt, too.
Gonna be a long off-season in Philly.