ESPN analyst tabs Eagles as NFL team most likely to decline in 2024

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After a 10-1 start, the failed miserably down the stretch run of the 2023 season, dropping six of their final seven games, including a 32-9 drubbing by the in the Wild-Card round of the NFL playoffs.The team made a considerable amount of changes in the offseason, but one NFL analyst sees the arrow pointing down on the Eagles entering 2024.ESPNs predicted this season, and the Eagles unceremoniously made his list.New column ($): The five teams most likely to decline in 2024, including three teams in one division!This column is also 27-6 in projecting team decline since 2017. Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) After the second half of last season, changes had to be made, Barnwell wrote. A team that had looked like the best in the league during the winter of 2022 looked old, overmatched and out of ideas.The Eagles are banking on the fresh approach of new offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, who has during their first offseason together. Veteran defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, another Derrick Coleman Jersey  newbie on the Eagles staff, will try to flip a defense that was at defending the pa s in 2023. New additions to the roster, like and , are other reasons for optimism.AsBarnwell points out, theEagles are a difficult team to predict. They came a play or two shy of winning the Super Bowl in 2022. The ending last season was ugly, with lo ses to backup QB Drew Lock and the, and a bad team at home down the stretch; but the Eagles did secure close wins over the , and in 2023.After crunching the numbers, Barnwell remains skeptical that the Eagles can improve upon last years 11-win season.I like most of the moves (GM Howie) Roseman made during the offseason, and I'm open-minded about the impact the new coordinators will have on the coaching staff, he wrote. I also know that trusting the best indicators of underlying performance often leads to the right answers about what a team will do in the upcoming season, and those don't look great for the Eagles.MORE EAGLES NEWS:  Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot Jersey