Your "Official" 2006 prediction thread!

[Jukin]

How many of these have we done already this year? OK if this is the "OFFICIAL Official one" then I'll stick with my 11-5, Division title, Super Bowl appearance prediction. The rest of the division is not nearly as good as the "experts" are saying and we can expect to go 8-0 and still not get any respect thanks to the "soft" part of the schedule. I expect to hear an awful lot of "wait until they hit the second half of the schedule and the bubble bursts" talk. I can't wait to piss off the Hodges & Dr. Z's of the world again!!!! Man that makes me happy seeing them so angry at how good we really are!!!

[Flying Dutchman]

12-4. They make it to the SB then we'll see. Given the early schedule I think a young team like this will do very well to make the turn in 6-2. Down the stretch they will be stronger, more experienced, their depth will begin to show and the usual Andy Reid down the stretch march will take place for another 6-2 record. If the injury Gods are with us, I am really high on this year's team.

[saratoga]

11-5, win the division, host a first round game and win

beyond that...

[musicman]

13-3 Super Bowl Champs. the defense outscores 3 teams this year as it returns to glory. McNabb has his finest season.Sweep Redskins,split with Gints and Girls.

[dawkins20]

11-5

a loss to the Giants in week 15 puts us in a tie with them at 10-4 going into the last two weeks. But our 4-1 division record gives us the tiebreaker over the Giants.

We lose to Dallas in Dallas and the Giants beat the Saints in week 15. We then beat the Falcons 31-7 on New Years Eve to wrap up the division and get a 1st round bye. Giants lose to the Skins and blow the division. (Seattle has home field throughout)

(our 5 losses are @Dallas, @NYG, Carolina, @Indy, @Tampa)

Carolina is forced to play in the Wildcard round. Giants beat the Bears. Panthers beat the Cowboys.

Panthers come to Philly and the media gives us no chance. (Carolina beat us in Philly earlier in the year) Eagles revenge the loss to them years ago and win 20-13. the 12th man makes all the difference

Eagles then have to go to Seattle. They totally shut down Alexander and win a nailbiter 16-13 to advance to the SB. Eagles celebrate on Seattle turf

I'll make my SB prediction when we get there.

[Eaglebreath]

I've been saying Super Bowl champs all offseason. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. I think we'll win 10 or 11 games, depending on how the ball bounces. We should get out of the gate quickly, but the schedule is very difficult at the end. I do not agree with that dumba$$ed Dr. Z though. We are not going to get swept away at the end. No way, no how.

We're going to have to go on the road at some point in the playoffs. My guess is we'll have to go through Seattle and their cake schedule, but I'd really enjoy beating the f'ing $hit out of Carolina for some payback.

I have no idea who's destiny it is to get smoked by us in the bowl, but I honestly don't think it's going to be NE this year. MIA, IND, or even CIN, but I think NE is going to take some lumps this year, along with Pittsburgh.

[JackieBlue]

12 and 4 is reasonable here-
HFA works well with a 12-4 season-
So it has to be there....

We'll start off [6-0]
Houston,NYG,SanFran,GB,DALLass,NO, till
Tampa Bay- Lets see- Its 50/50
we go 7-0 by beating Tampa- JMHO

Then the game before the bye- Hmmm-
JackieVille... (6-2)

From Nov 12th to Dec 10th-
Washington are the Bookends-
Wash (W), Tenny (W), Indy (L),
Carolina (W), And Wash (Sweep)

We're 4-1 in that stretch ( 10- 3 )

After to big wins with the Gnats
and Dallass... We pull all our boys and
SAFELY lose to lowly Atlanta 21-20

we're 2-1 here to be at (12-4)
Again we sweep our DIV.

We beat the NFC EAST AGAIN! SSSsssweep'em outthedoor-

Beat the Bengals in the SB Dawkins/Westy share MVP

[pete liske]

Wow, the optimism here is encouraging. I don't know if i'm that confident though. I'm probably just a little skittish, still trying to get last year out of my head. I'm going to say9-7 to 10-6 ( thinking maybe 5-3 or 6-2 in the first half and about 4-4 or 5-3 in the 2nd half). I see them fighting for a wildcard spot and maybe 1 or 2 playoff wins. I'm sure I'll change my tune midseason, if they play like most of you expect.
I just don't put much stock in preseason and really want to see how they look against New York and Dallas before I jump on the Superbowl express.

[j-bird]

I've been on the fence here MdFan between 10-6 or 12-4 so let's split the difference and Officially call it 11-5.The big key here is getting off to a fast start.The club HAS to be at least 6-2 at the break in order to make the playoffs.I say we go 4-2 in the NFC East,splitting with the gmen & cowpokes,sweeping the 4skins.Once the playoffs begin,health permitting,the O should be in high gear.Expect the D to carry this team all year especially the first half of the schedule.

[rspurr]

My prediction has been the same all along. 12-4, first round bye.

That's as far as I go.

I also predict that we destroy the Cowboys at home on Oct.8 and we win 2 out of 3 of those road games vs the NFC EAST at the end of the season.

[stevemc]

11-5 - the last month is too much to sustain more than this IMO.

[nyc_eagle]

11-5

[Tony]

12-4, why not.

At least the NFCCG. Win that and it's a crapshoot, but I think we stack up well against anybody.

The Indy game will tell us more....

[Leonard Tose]

12-4. that tough late-season schedule might not be so tough when the time comes around to play the games. some teams could be out of it at that point and IR'ing people at the drop of a hat to play rookies.

i dunno about the Super Bowl. all depends on getting a first-round bye, IMHO.

[Vet Turf]

10-6 tie for the division lead with the Giants. Tie-breaker goes to the Giants and the Eagles get the last wild card berth and win the wild card game. After that, matchups matchups matchups.

Thus the east goes (1) Giants/Eagles tie, (3) Cowboys & (4) Skins

McNabb returns to MVP candidate form through a balanced passing attack and he even gets 500 yards rushing.