Through 10 weeks of the 2022 season, the NFL has a team in clear pole position: the 8-0 Philadelphia Eagles.
While it’s certainly not without flaws, Philadelphia has consistently proven to be the one team that has overcome all of its shortcomings thus far. As pro football’s lone undefeated team in mid-November, Philadelphia has also sat at the top of For The Win’s power rankings for most of the 2022 campaign for good reason.
This is a loaded Eagles squad with multiple game-breakers on both sides of the ball and a head coach in Nick Sirianni pushing all the right buttons. It’ll be hard to see anyone in the NFC trip them up in a potential journey to Super Bowl 57.
But as everyone knows, winning the Super Bowl is one thing. Finishing the entire season undefeated — especially with one extra contest in the still relatively new 17-game schedule — is an entirely different story.
This isn’t to say the Eagles can’t do it. The NFC is horrendous conference-wide, and Philadelphia has a relatively soft schedule the rest of the way. But maintaining focus and bringing your best every week, as the conversation and media attention around your undefeated campaign magnifies in scope by the week, is one tall mountain to climb successfully.
The Eagles might go undefeated in the regular season, becoming only the second team ever to do so and the first to do it in the 17-game format. But it’s more likely they let their guard down. Or a team on their remaining schedule lands a heck of a haymaker while trying to end history.
Let’s break down the five most likely regular season matchups left on the Eagles’ schedule where they could finally fall short and lose.