PHILADELPHIA — It is a useless exercise that is commonly practiced all over the country by professional football writers.
The schedule comes out some time in May and writers from the East Coast to the West Coast and all points in between immediately feel the need to predict the outcome of games while analyzing all the minutia involved.
I plead guilty because I cannot deny the mountain of evidence. Here are the May predictions released by myself and colleague Cayden Steele and here is all the minutia I uncovered about the 17 games the Eagles will play this season. I was proud to dig up the fun fact that a Wheel of Fortune host once kicked the Chargers to a win over the Eagles, but beyond that there was nothing written in May about the schedule that couldn’t have waited until right