NFL Power Rankings: Division Rankings After Week 15
By Brad Rowland
6) NFC East
The New York Giants have won two games in a row. On the surface, that appears to be a good thing, but after a bit of digging, you would see that the Giants toppled Tennessee and Washington in back-to-back weeks, and you would be hard pressed to find more lackluster victories. On the bright side for the NFC South, the 4-8 Giants are not in the basement.
Washington is a complete calamity, and because of the nature of their franchise (i.e. longstanding tradition and past success), they are catching more flak than most of the teams at the bottom of the league. At 3-11, Jay Gruden’s bunch have a better record than a handful of teams, but the quarterback situation is comically awful, and Washington doesn’t do anything particularly well on a weekly basis.
The top is much, much better than anything that can be said about the NFC and AFC South divisions, with Dallas and Philadelphia both resembling playoff teams, but if we simply assume that those two divisions are almost playing a different brand of football altogether, the NFC East isn’t impressive in its own right.
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