Andrew (PHI) Class of 2019
Dec 31, 2019 23:48:22 GMT -5
Philadelphia Eagles (Andrew), Carolina Panthers (Justin), and 2 more like this
Post by Cincinnati Bengals (Chris) on Dec 31, 2019 23:48:22 GMT -5
PHI (Andrew) 2010-
Regular Season Record: 83-37 (2nd), (.755)
Postseason Record: 11-8 (2nd), (.579)
200-Point Games: 2x (223.84, 3rd 201.57 25th)
Single-Season Scoring Record: 1881.39 (7th), 2018
Division Titles: 6x NFC East winner (2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018)
NFC Championships: 2x (2018, 2019)
Super Bowl Championships: 2018, 2019
A 2019 write-up is not reflected in this piece, but will be done soon. However, the statistics have all been updated to reflect present day.
Dave (WAS)- Got to give this one to Andrew. Great competitor who has progressed his team over the years.
Chris (CIN)- As for my vote, I'm gonna have to go with Andrew. He's been in the league since the beginning, and correct me if I'm wrong but, I believe he's been in the playoffs every year. What he did when he got there, up until 2018, wasn't great. But he finally broke through, won himself a championship (And now another since I wrote this), and is now 2nd all-time in wins as well. Because of the championships, this is a no-brainer for me, but even if he hadn't won it all, I think he still would've been my vote. He's had the most dominant team in the league now on more than one occasion and come up empty, so his body of work was good enough even without them.
Goose (BAL)- PHI (Andrew) Great regular season record aka Andy Reid, but broke through in 2018. Who knows, maybe Andy will follow.
Andrew is one of the few remaining original members of the league (We’re now down to 6 I believe, in Andrew, Aaron, Chris (NE), Cecil, Goose, and Erik). Unfortunately, we don’t have any 2009 information to share on him, or any of those other members. Andrew was constantly this league’s Leonardo DiCaprio; despite constantly fielding dominant teams during the regular season, he entered 2018 with a 3-8 record in the playoffs. Though he is always in the running for a championship, little did anyone know, 2018 would finally be the season he got the serious playoff monkey of his back, and took it all the way. But we would be remiss if we didn’t start this story at the very beginning, which as Julie Andrews opines, is “A very good place to start.”
In 2010, Andrew had a solid year, finishing 8-4, winning his first (Documented) division title, edging out the Washington Redskins (Then run by someone named dooz311) in a head-to-head that decided the title and caused the loser, also an 8-4 team, to miss the playoffs entirely (Back then only six teams per conference made the playoffs). In the first round, however, Andrew faced an at-large Detroit team (And fellow HOF member, Ryan), a juggernaut of an at-large team, whose only loss was to another 11-1 team for the division title. While he was demolished by the Lions by 60 points, Ryan’s team cruised all the way to the championship game, where he lost the first of two Super Bowls he participated in—so there was no shame in losing to such a team, even if this did start a troubling run of playoff ineptitude.
The next season (2011), Andrew took a ginormous step backwards, falling to 6-6, some 400 points shy of his previous season’s scoring total, and actually being outscored by his opponents by nearly 100 points. He did, however, manage to nab the 7-seed, and once again made an early exit at the hands of a powerhouse (Mike’s…or Mindy’s 49ers) by over 50 points. This, by any measure, was Andrew’s worst season in the league. 2012 brought marginally brighter skies for the Iggles, as Andrew’s squad improved by a 100-point margin, and rebounded back to 8-4, earning the 5th seed, and eviscerating the NFC South champion Carolina Panthers by over 100 points. The second round wasn’t as kind to Andrew, however, as he was easily toppled by fellow HOFer, Cecil. Unfortunately for Andrew, 2013 wasn’t much better on paper. While the Eagles treaded water statistically, Andrew’s opponents raised their scoring by over 300 points from the previous year, outscoring him by 50 points, and relegating him to a 7-5 record, and another 7-seed. While he was beaten by the Bears, he did manage to stay competitive in defeat. So, four (Technically five) seasons in, Andrew looks like a pretty good owner, but not great, right? Well, get ready, because the switch is about to be flipped, and in 2014, Andrew arguably had the best team in the league.
Andrew’s Eagles didn’t so much take flight in 2014 as they were shot out of a cannon. His squad scored 350 points more than in the previous season, a 1799-point single-season mark that ranked in the top-10 for single-season scoring at the time, and is only just outside of that range now. Basically, the Eagles cake-walked over the league, losing only to Chris’ Bengals by a 30-spot in Week 3. How dominant was his season? Only one other team came within 20 points of him, and only three other teams were within 40 points. The Eagles easily claimed the #1 seed, but then the playoffs up-and-reared its ugly head--None other than perennial spoiler, Dave (WAS), awaited him. And did Dave ever spoil one—beating the high-powered Eagles by over 20 points, dropping a 180+ spot on I’m sure a stunned Andrew, who had just three weeks prior, defeated the Redskins by nearly that same margin. But that folks, was regular season Dave. This was Playoff Dave—this league’s version of Playoff Rondo. And just like that, Philly’s season was over, and Andrew’s best chance at a championship, maybe ever, went with it. Additionally, Andrew was saddled with a 1-4 career playoff record at this point, though clearly due to some bad luck, and facing off against behemoths in every other postseason. How dominant was Philadelphia’s lineup that season? Take a look for yourself:
QB- Russell Wilson 22.14 PPG
RB- Matt Forte 18.58 PPG
WR- Kelvin Benjamin 12.11 PPG (Half of the year)
WR- Michael Crabtree 8.25 PPG
TE- Delanie Walker 9.81 PPG (Most of the year), Playoffs- Health Miller/Marcedes Lewis 6 PPG
RWT- Jeremy Hill 10.21 PPG (Most of the year), Playoffs- Justin Forsett
Bench- Pierre Garcon 7 PPG, Lorenzo Taliaferro 5.32 PPG, C.J. Fiedorowicz 0.2 PPG, Bobby Rainey 8.16 PPG (Most of the year), Donte Moncrief 1.95 PPG (Half of the year), Andrew Hawkins 8.71 PPG (Most of the year)
DL- Johnathan Hankins 5.89 PPG
DL- Michael Bennett 5.02 PPG, Playoffs- J.J. Watt 15.42 PPG
LB- Sio Moore 13.19 PPG
LB- Vontaze Burfict 10.53 PPG (Half of the year), Playoffs- Curtis Lofton 11.84 PPG
DB- Mike Adams 10.06 PPG
DB- Tony Jefferson 8.15 PPG (Most of the year), Playoffs- Kam Chancellor 9.88 PPG
ID- Darryl Smith 11.39 PPG
ID- Emmanuel Lamur 11.81 PPG
Bench- Josh Mauga 8.84 PPG, Patrick Willis 8.22 PPG (Half of the year/injury), Christian Kirksey 6.42 PPG (Half of the year), Patrick Chung 7.42 PPG (Half of the year), Da’Norris Searcy 6.21 PPG, Playoffs- J.T. Thomas 6.3 PPG
How dominant was Andrew’s team? Well, he was the only team in league history (To my knowledge), to start the season with eight starting inside linebackers (One on IR), in Vontaze Burfict, Patrick Willis, Emmanuel Lamur, Darryl Smith, Nigel Bradham, Christian Kirksey, Sio Moore, and Kiko Alonso (IR), and for most of the year (Until Week 9 when he traded for J.J. Watt), he kept seven rostered. That team, despite its shortcomings in the season’s final frame, was one of the best in league history, and short of some depth pieces at the WR position, and better health among IDPs, it’s hard to imagine Andrew not winning the title that year. Unfortunately, he was relying far too often on weekly plug-and-play FA signings and downgraded players at their positions to prop up other positions by the end of the year, that I think it took its toll—even if, looking over the lineup he started in the First Round game that netted him 150 points in the loss, was objectively still as strong as any in the league.
Unfortunately for Andrew, there was a momentary changing of the guard in the NFC East, as Playoff Dave turned into 9 regular season wins Dave, parlaying his 2014 playoff upset of the Eagles into a division title (His first), and he was unable to carry that momentum into 2015, when the Eagles scored 150 fewer points than in their banner year in 2014 (Still a fantastic season by any measure). The biggest impediments to Philly’s continued success: WR depth (Where Benjamin missed the season due to injury, and was replaced by an underwhelming 4.5 PPG rookie, both in real life and Andrew’s lineup, named Devin Funchess), and IDP health (Rookie sensation Jordan Hicks bowed out for the season after only 8 games, and Kiko Alonso never returned to health or effectiveness. The roster strength was still enough to obliterate Vic’s Saints by 80 in the opening round, but once again, Andrew stalled out in the Second Round, this time to the Lions, who once again went all the way and lost the Super Bowl by virtue of an ill-timed Odell Beckham outburst with Josh Norman landing him suspended for an all-important game.
Enter 2016: A new league, and a new era for the NFC East, as Aaron stepped down temporarily (And Ty filled his shoes mostly admirably), and a two-team race commenced between Dave and Andrew for dominance of the division. When the dust settled, Andrew reigned supreme, and the Redskins haven’t been able to make a serious challenge since (Outside of some other playoff heroics against another HOF member, Cecil, in the First Round of the 2017 Playoffs). While he wasn’t up to his 2014 standards, Andrew’s squad was still one of the best teams in the league, and in an extraordinarily strong year at the top of the NFC, he was upset by the upstart Panthers’ (Justin), who had just barely missed capturing the NFC South in their first year, in tight 135-131 matchup. While he hadn’t yet crested the peak, or returned to his 2014 form, this year would start a streak of three-consecutive division crowns for Andrew, and lead to his ascendance to the top of the league.
While his point production was at a four-year low in 2017, it didn’t impact his standing within the division, as Andrew pumped out another solid 8-4 season, nabbed another 4-seed for his efforts, aaaaaaannnnnnddddd…you guessed it, fell victim to another upset in the playoffs—this time to an overachieving New Orleans squad who somehow made it to the NFC Championship without ever eclipsing 138 points. Chalk it up to more bad luck, but Andrew’s playoff record to this point seemed to be one of two possibilities: Get blown out by an all-time heavyweight, or get waylaid by a lightweight temporarily wearing a suit of armor. But now we’re at the time of the story where it gets good—the time that I teased at the beginning of this: 2018.
Despite every single week coming up Cecil for the first few months of the season—what with him rewriting the entire history book of the league on a week-to-week basis, en route to the first perfect recorded 12-0 in league history that will stand up—Andrew, dare I say quietly had one of the best years in league history, wally-pipping Chris right at the last to finish 6th (Now 7th) all-time on the single season scoring record with 1881.39 points. He also produced the 3rd-highest scoring game in league history, with a 70-plus point shellacking of Chris’ Bengals earlier in the year (The highest non-Cecil total ever). The Eagles climbed back over the 10-win threshold for the first time since 2014, and due to a flurry of perhaps risky long-term, but certainly helpful in the short-term, all-in moves at the trade deadline, Andrew cemented himself as a legitimate contender for the title, and propelled himself into the postseason on a huge tear. That streak continued in the First Round, when he fairly easily dispatched of the Falcons, and kept going one round later, as he destroyed Justin’s Panthers, getting his revenge two years later. In the NFC Championship Game, his first, he handled the defending-champion Minnesota Vikings (Matt), who were fresh off of upsetting the best team in league history--Cecil’s Seahawks—the week before. Finally in the title game for the first time, Andrew handily beat the overmatched Texans (Ryan) to win his first Super Bowl title, 172-137.
Whereas Andrew is now our only two-time Super Bowl Champion, a two-time NFC Champion, a 6x NFC East Champion (And 4x in a row and running), has finished with a .500 or better record every year, has a .755 winning percentage all-time, is the 2nd-winningest GM of all-time at 83-37 (And our 2nd-winningest playoff with a postseason record of 11-8), the owner of two 200-point games, the 3rd-highest score of all-time (223.84), and the 7th-highest scoring season of all-time (1881.39 points), as well as holding a 4-5 (3-5 regular season) record vs. Aaron (DAL), and a 4-4 record (4-3 regular season) vs. Dave (WAS), his biggest division rivals, we are glad to enshrine Andrew (PHI) into the Canton Dynasty League’s Hall of Fame.
Regular Season Record: 83-37 (2nd), (.755)
Postseason Record: 11-8 (2nd), (.579)
200-Point Games: 2x (223.84, 3rd 201.57 25th)
Single-Season Scoring Record: 1881.39 (7th), 2018
Division Titles: 6x NFC East winner (2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018)
NFC Championships: 2x (2018, 2019)
Super Bowl Championships: 2018, 2019
A 2019 write-up is not reflected in this piece, but will be done soon. However, the statistics have all been updated to reflect present day.
Dave (WAS)- Got to give this one to Andrew. Great competitor who has progressed his team over the years.
Chris (CIN)- As for my vote, I'm gonna have to go with Andrew. He's been in the league since the beginning, and correct me if I'm wrong but, I believe he's been in the playoffs every year. What he did when he got there, up until 2018, wasn't great. But he finally broke through, won himself a championship (And now another since I wrote this), and is now 2nd all-time in wins as well. Because of the championships, this is a no-brainer for me, but even if he hadn't won it all, I think he still would've been my vote. He's had the most dominant team in the league now on more than one occasion and come up empty, so his body of work was good enough even without them.
Goose (BAL)- PHI (Andrew) Great regular season record aka Andy Reid, but broke through in 2018. Who knows, maybe Andy will follow.
Andrew is one of the few remaining original members of the league (We’re now down to 6 I believe, in Andrew, Aaron, Chris (NE), Cecil, Goose, and Erik). Unfortunately, we don’t have any 2009 information to share on him, or any of those other members. Andrew was constantly this league’s Leonardo DiCaprio; despite constantly fielding dominant teams during the regular season, he entered 2018 with a 3-8 record in the playoffs. Though he is always in the running for a championship, little did anyone know, 2018 would finally be the season he got the serious playoff monkey of his back, and took it all the way. But we would be remiss if we didn’t start this story at the very beginning, which as Julie Andrews opines, is “A very good place to start.”
In 2010, Andrew had a solid year, finishing 8-4, winning his first (Documented) division title, edging out the Washington Redskins (Then run by someone named dooz311) in a head-to-head that decided the title and caused the loser, also an 8-4 team, to miss the playoffs entirely (Back then only six teams per conference made the playoffs). In the first round, however, Andrew faced an at-large Detroit team (And fellow HOF member, Ryan), a juggernaut of an at-large team, whose only loss was to another 11-1 team for the division title. While he was demolished by the Lions by 60 points, Ryan’s team cruised all the way to the championship game, where he lost the first of two Super Bowls he participated in—so there was no shame in losing to such a team, even if this did start a troubling run of playoff ineptitude.
The next season (2011), Andrew took a ginormous step backwards, falling to 6-6, some 400 points shy of his previous season’s scoring total, and actually being outscored by his opponents by nearly 100 points. He did, however, manage to nab the 7-seed, and once again made an early exit at the hands of a powerhouse (Mike’s…or Mindy’s 49ers) by over 50 points. This, by any measure, was Andrew’s worst season in the league. 2012 brought marginally brighter skies for the Iggles, as Andrew’s squad improved by a 100-point margin, and rebounded back to 8-4, earning the 5th seed, and eviscerating the NFC South champion Carolina Panthers by over 100 points. The second round wasn’t as kind to Andrew, however, as he was easily toppled by fellow HOFer, Cecil. Unfortunately for Andrew, 2013 wasn’t much better on paper. While the Eagles treaded water statistically, Andrew’s opponents raised their scoring by over 300 points from the previous year, outscoring him by 50 points, and relegating him to a 7-5 record, and another 7-seed. While he was beaten by the Bears, he did manage to stay competitive in defeat. So, four (Technically five) seasons in, Andrew looks like a pretty good owner, but not great, right? Well, get ready, because the switch is about to be flipped, and in 2014, Andrew arguably had the best team in the league.
Andrew’s Eagles didn’t so much take flight in 2014 as they were shot out of a cannon. His squad scored 350 points more than in the previous season, a 1799-point single-season mark that ranked in the top-10 for single-season scoring at the time, and is only just outside of that range now. Basically, the Eagles cake-walked over the league, losing only to Chris’ Bengals by a 30-spot in Week 3. How dominant was his season? Only one other team came within 20 points of him, and only three other teams were within 40 points. The Eagles easily claimed the #1 seed, but then the playoffs up-and-reared its ugly head--None other than perennial spoiler, Dave (WAS), awaited him. And did Dave ever spoil one—beating the high-powered Eagles by over 20 points, dropping a 180+ spot on I’m sure a stunned Andrew, who had just three weeks prior, defeated the Redskins by nearly that same margin. But that folks, was regular season Dave. This was Playoff Dave—this league’s version of Playoff Rondo. And just like that, Philly’s season was over, and Andrew’s best chance at a championship, maybe ever, went with it. Additionally, Andrew was saddled with a 1-4 career playoff record at this point, though clearly due to some bad luck, and facing off against behemoths in every other postseason. How dominant was Philadelphia’s lineup that season? Take a look for yourself:
QB- Russell Wilson 22.14 PPG
RB- Matt Forte 18.58 PPG
WR- Kelvin Benjamin 12.11 PPG (Half of the year)
WR- Michael Crabtree 8.25 PPG
TE- Delanie Walker 9.81 PPG (Most of the year), Playoffs- Health Miller/Marcedes Lewis 6 PPG
RWT- Jeremy Hill 10.21 PPG (Most of the year), Playoffs- Justin Forsett
Bench- Pierre Garcon 7 PPG, Lorenzo Taliaferro 5.32 PPG, C.J. Fiedorowicz 0.2 PPG, Bobby Rainey 8.16 PPG (Most of the year), Donte Moncrief 1.95 PPG (Half of the year), Andrew Hawkins 8.71 PPG (Most of the year)
DL- Johnathan Hankins 5.89 PPG
DL- Michael Bennett 5.02 PPG, Playoffs- J.J. Watt 15.42 PPG
LB- Sio Moore 13.19 PPG
LB- Vontaze Burfict 10.53 PPG (Half of the year), Playoffs- Curtis Lofton 11.84 PPG
DB- Mike Adams 10.06 PPG
DB- Tony Jefferson 8.15 PPG (Most of the year), Playoffs- Kam Chancellor 9.88 PPG
ID- Darryl Smith 11.39 PPG
ID- Emmanuel Lamur 11.81 PPG
Bench- Josh Mauga 8.84 PPG, Patrick Willis 8.22 PPG (Half of the year/injury), Christian Kirksey 6.42 PPG (Half of the year), Patrick Chung 7.42 PPG (Half of the year), Da’Norris Searcy 6.21 PPG, Playoffs- J.T. Thomas 6.3 PPG
How dominant was Andrew’s team? Well, he was the only team in league history (To my knowledge), to start the season with eight starting inside linebackers (One on IR), in Vontaze Burfict, Patrick Willis, Emmanuel Lamur, Darryl Smith, Nigel Bradham, Christian Kirksey, Sio Moore, and Kiko Alonso (IR), and for most of the year (Until Week 9 when he traded for J.J. Watt), he kept seven rostered. That team, despite its shortcomings in the season’s final frame, was one of the best in league history, and short of some depth pieces at the WR position, and better health among IDPs, it’s hard to imagine Andrew not winning the title that year. Unfortunately, he was relying far too often on weekly plug-and-play FA signings and downgraded players at their positions to prop up other positions by the end of the year, that I think it took its toll—even if, looking over the lineup he started in the First Round game that netted him 150 points in the loss, was objectively still as strong as any in the league.
Unfortunately for Andrew, there was a momentary changing of the guard in the NFC East, as Playoff Dave turned into 9 regular season wins Dave, parlaying his 2014 playoff upset of the Eagles into a division title (His first), and he was unable to carry that momentum into 2015, when the Eagles scored 150 fewer points than in their banner year in 2014 (Still a fantastic season by any measure). The biggest impediments to Philly’s continued success: WR depth (Where Benjamin missed the season due to injury, and was replaced by an underwhelming 4.5 PPG rookie, both in real life and Andrew’s lineup, named Devin Funchess), and IDP health (Rookie sensation Jordan Hicks bowed out for the season after only 8 games, and Kiko Alonso never returned to health or effectiveness. The roster strength was still enough to obliterate Vic’s Saints by 80 in the opening round, but once again, Andrew stalled out in the Second Round, this time to the Lions, who once again went all the way and lost the Super Bowl by virtue of an ill-timed Odell Beckham outburst with Josh Norman landing him suspended for an all-important game.
Enter 2016: A new league, and a new era for the NFC East, as Aaron stepped down temporarily (And Ty filled his shoes mostly admirably), and a two-team race commenced between Dave and Andrew for dominance of the division. When the dust settled, Andrew reigned supreme, and the Redskins haven’t been able to make a serious challenge since (Outside of some other playoff heroics against another HOF member, Cecil, in the First Round of the 2017 Playoffs). While he wasn’t up to his 2014 standards, Andrew’s squad was still one of the best teams in the league, and in an extraordinarily strong year at the top of the NFC, he was upset by the upstart Panthers’ (Justin), who had just barely missed capturing the NFC South in their first year, in tight 135-131 matchup. While he hadn’t yet crested the peak, or returned to his 2014 form, this year would start a streak of three-consecutive division crowns for Andrew, and lead to his ascendance to the top of the league.
While his point production was at a four-year low in 2017, it didn’t impact his standing within the division, as Andrew pumped out another solid 8-4 season, nabbed another 4-seed for his efforts, aaaaaaannnnnnddddd…you guessed it, fell victim to another upset in the playoffs—this time to an overachieving New Orleans squad who somehow made it to the NFC Championship without ever eclipsing 138 points. Chalk it up to more bad luck, but Andrew’s playoff record to this point seemed to be one of two possibilities: Get blown out by an all-time heavyweight, or get waylaid by a lightweight temporarily wearing a suit of armor. But now we’re at the time of the story where it gets good—the time that I teased at the beginning of this: 2018.
Despite every single week coming up Cecil for the first few months of the season—what with him rewriting the entire history book of the league on a week-to-week basis, en route to the first perfect recorded 12-0 in league history that will stand up—Andrew, dare I say quietly had one of the best years in league history, wally-pipping Chris right at the last to finish 6th (Now 7th) all-time on the single season scoring record with 1881.39 points. He also produced the 3rd-highest scoring game in league history, with a 70-plus point shellacking of Chris’ Bengals earlier in the year (The highest non-Cecil total ever). The Eagles climbed back over the 10-win threshold for the first time since 2014, and due to a flurry of perhaps risky long-term, but certainly helpful in the short-term, all-in moves at the trade deadline, Andrew cemented himself as a legitimate contender for the title, and propelled himself into the postseason on a huge tear. That streak continued in the First Round, when he fairly easily dispatched of the Falcons, and kept going one round later, as he destroyed Justin’s Panthers, getting his revenge two years later. In the NFC Championship Game, his first, he handled the defending-champion Minnesota Vikings (Matt), who were fresh off of upsetting the best team in league history--Cecil’s Seahawks—the week before. Finally in the title game for the first time, Andrew handily beat the overmatched Texans (Ryan) to win his first Super Bowl title, 172-137.
Whereas Andrew is now our only two-time Super Bowl Champion, a two-time NFC Champion, a 6x NFC East Champion (And 4x in a row and running), has finished with a .500 or better record every year, has a .755 winning percentage all-time, is the 2nd-winningest GM of all-time at 83-37 (And our 2nd-winningest playoff with a postseason record of 11-8), the owner of two 200-point games, the 3rd-highest score of all-time (223.84), and the 7th-highest scoring season of all-time (1881.39 points), as well as holding a 4-5 (3-5 regular season) record vs. Aaron (DAL), and a 4-4 record (4-3 regular season) vs. Dave (WAS), his biggest division rivals, we are glad to enshrine Andrew (PHI) into the Canton Dynasty League’s Hall of Fame.