Black Sunday for NFC Eastern Division

    As you can probably surmise by the title of this posting, it was a downer day for the Eastern Division of the NFC today.. Every team in the division suffered a bitter defeat in this second week of the 2013 NFL season.
   Since the Dallas Cowboys are near and dear to my heart,..I will start with them.

       The Cowboys won last week against the New York Giants in a game that saw them with six turnovers courtesy of the guys from the Big Apple. Today they traveled to Kansas City to face a team with over twenty new players added to the roster since last year... New Coach Andy Reid has a history of beating the Cowboys and he lived up to that history as the Chiefs defeated Dallas 17-16 and moved their record to two wins so far this season. They only had two wins total in all of the 2012 season.
     The Washington Redskins made the playoffs last year and the off-season has been filled with a lot of hype about how good the team will be this season. Well, a funny thing happened to the Skins the first two weeks of this season; they have lost both games, last week to Philadelphia and today the Green Bay Packers trounced Washington 38-20 in a game not that close.

      Aaron Rogers and the Packers revealed that highly prized quarterback Robert Griffin III of Washington is indeed human after all. The Redskins are a better team than in previous seasons, but they are not Super Bowl contenders just yet.
    The Philadelphia Eagles were on cloud nine after their opening season game against Washington. New Coach Chip Kelly and his up tempo offense has been the talk of the league...but apparently the San Diego Chargers were not impressed.

     San Diego quarterback Phillip Rivers threw three touchdowns and the Chargers handed the Eagles their first loss 33-30.
   In New York the Giants were hosting the Denver Broncos and all week it was billed as the Manning Bowl. Denver is led by their quarterback, Peyton Manning, and Eli Manning is the quarterback of the NY Giants. Younger brother, Eli, tossed four interceptions and the Broncos won 41-23 going away.

      It was a good game, but the Giants gave up too many turnovers for the second week in a row, and now must start some re-evaluation. 
    Here is a quick glimpse at the standings after two weeks of play..

                            NFC Eastern Division
                                               W        L
Dallas                                      1         1
Philadelphia                            1         1
New York                                0         2
Washington                             0         2

         One member of the NFC East will have little time to try and right the sinking ship as Philadelphia will play again on Thursday night as they host the Kansas City Chiefs. It will be the return of Head Coach Andy Reid to the City of Brotherly Love as he led the Eagles for fourteen seasons before moving to Kansas City this past off-season.
    Coming up next Sunday the remainder of the division needs to get back to their winning ways if the division is to retain its highly regarded attitude. Dallas will be at home to host the St Louis Rams, who are also coming off a loss. Detroit will be in the nation's capitol to test the Redskins in week three, and the New York Giants will visit Carolina to try and not fall to 0-3.