Eagles fall to 22nd in newest NFLPA Report Card rankings

Apparently the Super Bowl champions are a bottom third organization in the NFL??????

It is once again that time of year, folks, the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) Report Card is out! The third annual survey asked players on each team to, anonymously, rank their current organization in 11 different categories.

Per the NFLPA:

THE SURVEY WAS ADMINISTERED FROM AUGUST 26 TO NOVEMBER 20, 2024. ARTEMIS STRATEGY GROUP CONDUCTED THE CENSUS SURVEY ONLINE AND PROVIDED ACCESS TO EVERY PLAYER WHO WAS ON A 2024 NFL ROSTER AT THE TIME OF THE SURVEY. A TOTAL OF 1,695 PLAYERS COMPLETED THE SURVEY THIS YEAR.

The Philadelphia Eagles, who you may remember as the current Super Bowl champions, fared quite well in this evaluation last year, finishing fourth in the league. The year before, the first year the NFLPA conducted this exciting (???) endeavor, the Birds were 14th. Not entirely sure what happened this year, but the Eagles PLUMMETED to 22nd out of 32 NFL teams once all of the results were tabulated.

Here are the categories with weighted percentages, the grades the Eagles received, and their league wide rank:

• Treatment of Families (6%): C-, 27th
• Nutritionist/Dietician (6%): B-, 28th
• Food/Dining Area (9%): A-, 7th
• Locker Room (9%): D+, 25th
• Training Room (9%): B-, 19th
• Training Staff (9%): B+, 9th
• Weight Room (9%): B, 21st
• Strength Coaches (9%): B, 28th
• Team Travel (9%): F, 30th
• Head Coach (10%): A-, 18th
• Ownership (15%): B, 16th

A failing grade for “team travel” is pretty brutal with “players feel[ing] that their team’s travel schedule is not very efficient” and also that “they should get first class seats on team flights instead of the coaching staff.” I guess travelling to Brazil to open the season wasn’t as much fun as I imagined?

However, despite the overall low grades the organization earned, the players are confident things can turn around quickly and gave three examples:

• providing childcare on game days (like most NFL teams do)
• prioritizing first-class seating for players instead of coaches
• staggering lunch times to avoid overcrowding in the cafeteria

Despite the issues of the team cafeteria being too busy, the Eagles players were extremely satisfied with the taste and freshness of the team’s food, ranking 6th and 5th in the NFL respectively.

Head coach Nick Sirianni got an A- which, due to grade inflation smdh, was 18th in the league. The players (93% of them) think he is “efficient with their time” and that he is “moderately receptive to locker room feedback on the team’s needs.” Now, I’ve said a lot of things about Sirianni in the past (who can say if they were good or bad) but I’d argue that he was more than “moderately receptive” to making changes after the disastrous way last season ended.

While the Birds scores on this report card fell, it doesn’t sound like the players are worried things will get worse. When asked what Philly currently does best, the players said that “team leadership listens to their feedback and prioritizes improvements.”

And because what would this post be without hating on some other teams, let’s see who ranked worst in all of the categories!

• Treatment of Families (6%): F-, Cincinnati Bengals
• Nutritionist/Dietician (6%): F, Cincinnati Bengals
• Food/Dining Area (9%): C, Cincinnati Bengals
• Locker Room (9%): F-, Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns
• Training Room (9%): D-, Arizona Cardinals
• Training Staff (9%): C-, Cleveland Browns
• Weight Room (9%): F, Arizona Cardinals, New England Patriots
• Strength Coaches (9%): C-, Pittsburgh Steelers
• Team Travel (9%): F-, Buffalo Bills
• Head Coach (10%): C, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars (Chicago and Jacksonville fired their head coaches)
• Ownership (15%): F, New York Jets (lmaoooooo)

Based on my amateur opinion it would appear that working for the Bengals (24th overall), Browns (30th), Cardinals (32nd), or Patriots (31st) is probably a struggle! You may think your team has it bad, unless you are a Cardinals fan, but at least they didn’t have to put out a statement after the release of these grades like Arizona did!

And lastly, because I believe in transparency, and I gloated last year when the Eagles were the best in the division, here are the overall rankings of the four NFC East teams complete with Super Bowls won this calendar year.

• Dallas Cowboys, 10th, zero
• Washington Commanders, 11th, zero
• New York Giants, 20th, zero
• Philadelphia Eagles, 22nd, one

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