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With Eagles now in playoffs, 10 facts and figures on their postseason history originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
After the lights at the Linc had dimmed and the parking lots had emptied out, the Eagles clinched a playoff spot Sunday with very little drama.
The combination of the Lions beating the Packers on Thursday, then the Eagles beating the Panthers, the Vikings beating the Falcons and finally the Seahawks beating the Cards on Sunday added up to a fourth straight postseason berth for the Eagles.
There’s still plenty of regular-season football to play, but here are 10 Eagles postseason facts and figures to put another playoff berth in perspective.
1. When the Eagles clinched a playoff spot, it made Nick Sirianni just the sixth coach in NFL history to reach the postseason in each of his first four seasons. The first was Paul Brown, who won the old AAFC in his first four seasons – 1946 through 1949. When the Browns joined the NFL in 1950, Brown led the Browns to the NFL Championship Game in each of the next six seasons, winning titles in 1950, 1954 and 1955. So Brown reached the postseason in his first 10 years as a head coach and first six years in the NFL. Chuck Knox led the Rams to the playoffs each year from 1973 through 1977, John Robinson also with the Rams made the postseason from 1983 through 1986, Bill Cowher got there his first five years with the Steelers from 1992 through 1997 and most recently John Harbaugh took the Ravens to the postseason in each of his first five years, from 2008 through 2012.
2. Andy Reid is now the only coach in Eagles history to take more teams to the playoffs than Sirianni. Reid spent 14 years as the Eagles’ head coach, and his teams went to the postseason nine times. Dick Vermeil also had four playoff teams – four in a row from 1978 through 1981 – and Greasy Neale, Buddy Ryan and Doug Pederson each had three.
3. Since 1988, the Eagles have reached the playoffs 23 out of 37 years. No team has been to the playoffs…
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Publish date : 2024-12-09 21:02:00
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