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Going into the month of December, the Philadelphia Eagles were 10-1 and they looked like one of the best teams in the NFL, but the holiday month has turned into a total nightmare for Philly.
Following their loss to the Cowboys, the Eagles are now on a two-game losing streak that the NFL hasn’t seen since 1983. We’ll be covering the details of that streak below.
That was one of the 15 interesting facts that our research department sent out this week about Week 14. If you’re new here, I get an email every week from our CBS Sports research department, and that email always includes some amazingly wild facts about the games that were just played.
With that in mind, here are 15 crazy facts about Week 14:
Eagles losing ugly. With their 33-13 loss to the Cowboys, the Eagles became the first team in 40 years to have a record that’s eight or more games above .500 and lose back-to-back games by 20 or more points. The last team in that situation to lose consecutive games in that manner was the 1983 Cowboys. The Cowboys started 12-2 that year, got blown out in their final two games of the season and then promptly lost in the wild-card round. That’s not a good sign for the Eagles. Vikings and Raiders make history. The Vikings’ 3-0 win was the lowest-scoring indoor game in NFL History. If you watched any of that game on Sunday. I’m sorry. It was also the lowest-scoring game since 2007 when the Steelers also beat the Dolphins 3-0.Goose eggs all over the place. Somehow there were two games on Sunday — Vikings-Raiders and Texans-Jets — that had a halftime score of 0-0, marking the first time since Oct. 30, 1988 that we had two games go to halftime with zero points on the same day. Jets offense is…
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Author : John Breech
Publish date : 2023-12-11 16:35:24
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