Yes, the New York Giants did win the Super Bowl after a 9-7 regular season in 2011. But in reality, the NFC East isn’t what it used to be. What once was pro football’s mightiest division, year after year, finished a combined 12 games below .500 last season.
That made it six consecutive seasons that the NFC East failed to have a winning record outside the division, or have more than one team qualify for the playoffs.
But as we approach midseason in 2016, things could be about to change. On a Sunday when the New York Giants topped the Rams in London, 17-10, and Philadelphia dropped Minnesota from the ranks of the unbeaten, 21-10, the NFC East is shaping up as the NFL’s toughest division again.