With the Eagles sitting at 4-7, and a very good chance of being 4-8 after this Sunday's matchup against the Patriots in Foxboro, it's time to start looking around at the rest of the bad teams in the NFL who will serve as competition with the Eagles for draft position.
Obviously, figuring out who has a worse record is the easy part. However, because the Eagles are one of seven teams with a 4-7 record, tiebreakers are likely to come into play when it's all said and done. In the draft, if two teams have the same record, the team that faced the easier strength of schedule picks first. If two teams have the same record and the same strength of schedule, it goes to a coin toss, which happens more than you'd think.
There are two different ways to calculate strength of schedule before the regular season has come to a close:
- The overwhelmingly popular (and wrong) way is to calculate each teams' strength of schedules up to the current week of the schedule.
- The correct way is to use the entirety of each teams' schedules, which provides a more accurate representation of what their strength of schedules will look like when the season is complete.
Unfortunately, the wrong way has the Eagles in a three-way coin toss tie for the 6th to 8th overall spots. The more accurate way has them drafting 9th overall, noted below:
| Pick | Team | Wins | Losses | S.O.S. |
| 1 | Titans | 2 | 9 | 0.511 |
| 2 | Browns | 2 | 9 | 0.517 |
| 3 | Cowboys | 3 | 8 | 0.523 |
| T-4 (coin toss) | 49ers | 3 | 8 | 0.534 |
| T-4 (coin toss) | Chargers | 3 | 8 | 0.534 |
| 6 | Dolphins | 4 | 7 | 0.477 |
| 7 | Jaguars | 4 | 7 | 0.489 |
| 8 | Ravens | 4 | 7 | 0.494 |
| 9 | Eagles | 4 | 7 | 0.511 |
| 10 | Rams | 4 | 7 | 0.517 |
| 11 | Saints | 4 | 7 | 0.523 |
| 12 | Lions | 4 | 7 | 0.528 |
| T-13 (coin toss) | Giants | 5 | 6 | 0.489 |
| T-13 (coin toss) | Buccaneers | 5 | 6 | 0.489 |
| 15 | Raiders | 5 | 6 | 0.506 |
| 16 | Bills | 5 | 6 | 0.511 |
| 17 | Bears | 5 | 6 | 0.528 |
| 18 | Jets | 6 | 5 | 0.455 |
| 19 | Falcons | 6 | 5 | 0.489 |
| 20 | Steelers | 6 | 5 | 0.511 |
If you prefer the wrong way better, here's how that looks:
| Pick | Team | Wins | Losses | S.O.S. |
| 1 | Titans | 2 | 9 | 0.479 |
| 2 | Browns | 2 | 9 | 0.504 |
| 3 | Chargers | 3 | 8 | 0.496 |
| 4 | Cowboys | 3 | 8 | 0.529 |
| 5 | 49ers | 3 | 8 | 0.579 |
| T-6 (coin toss) | Eagles | 4 | 7 | 0.463 |
| T-6 (coin toss) | Dolphins | 4 | 7 | 0.463 |
| T-6 (coin toss) | Ravens | 4 | 7 | 0.463 |
| T-9 (coin toss) | Jaguars | 4 | 7 | 0.512 |
| T-9 (coin toss) | Saints | 4 | 7 | 0.512 |
| 11 | Rams | 4 | 7 | 0.529 |
| 12 | Lions | 4 | 7 | 0.579 |
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