Officially, they are teetering on the edge.
The Birds didn't just drop to 2-3 overall - they also are 0-2 in the division and 1-3 in the conference.
It's not just that the Eagles have only made the playoffs once under Andy Reid when having a losing record after five games. It's that the Redskins and Dallas Cowboys are 4-1 while the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants (4-0) are the only undefeated team in the NFC.
The Eagles are last in the NFC East and look like they legitimately belong there.
They were the only NFC East team to miss the playoffs last season, and they are well on their way to a repeat performance.
It's amazing how 2 weeks can change so many things. After beating Pittsburgh, the Eagles looked like they might be special.
Today, they look average, like a team with few answers to the questions raised after consecutive losses.
For a coach who likes to tell us, "It's my responsibility that we play better," Reid doesn't seem to know how to live up to that.
If Reid really had answers, wouldn't he have delivered them before his team fell two games behind all three division rivals?
Doesn't it stand to reason that if Reid really could "get our guys in better positions to make plays," this would not have been the fourth straight game that his offense checked out with at least 30 minutes to play in a game?
If a coach actually knew how to "make sure that [plays] get made," would his team really have failed to gain less than the yard it need at the goal line in the fourth quarter for the second straight week?
"I'm not going to get into all that," Reid said when asked how Brian Westbrook lost 3 yards on a third-and-1 from the Redskins' 2 that forced the Eagles to settle for a 23-yard field goal from David Akers.
Hey, I wouldn't want to get into all that, either.
