PhiladelphiaEagles

The line of scrimmage, first, because it decides more games

2 of 32. Rush efficiency 0.71, pass efficiency 0.72, a run-pass option scheme at a 0.49 rush rate and a tempo of 0.98 against a league average of one.

This site does not rank offensive linemen individually and its roster figure counts seven skill players and no linemen, which means the second-best line in football reaches this page as a single integer. I price the line above the skill positions and I am not going to stop because a page is built the other way. What I will say is that the club figure of 82.2 is arrived at without the best structural asset this roster has, and it still comes second.

The seven, and the one hole in them

Quarterback 95.4, 30 of 457. First back 97.7, 20. First receiver 94.9, 32. Tight end 83.4. Second receiver 77.5. Flex 50.7. Second back 20.6.

Six of seven above forty-nine and four of seven above eighty-two. The second back at 20.6 is the only real hole and it carries 7% of the figure, the smallest weight there is. For a club that runs at 0.49 that is a thinner backfield than the identity implies, and it is the one place an injury turns a strength into a question.

I am sceptical of receiver-heavy value distributions as a marker of offensive quality and this roster does not have one. The heaviest single slot here is the quarterback at 28%, and he rates 95.4 while running an option scheme behind the second-best line in football. That is a structural advantage rather than a stylistic one and I will argue it against the numbers if I have to. Here I do not have to.

The defense, which is quietly the third-best thing here

Pass defense 0.75, 11 of 32. Rush defense 0.63, 10. Forward composite 0.4, 10. Three constructions, all top eleven, no disagreement between backward and forward worth arguing about.

That is what pushes Team Power to 3 of 32. A club whose worst defensive ranking is eleventh and whose worst offensive ranking is a second running back does not have a weakness on this page, and pages like that are rare enough to say out loud.

The verdict, which this market will want early

Strength of schedule ranks 29 of 32 counting easiest first, which is one of the hardest in football, and 15 of 17 games are outdoors. The value-weighted age is 27, 25 of 32, with 22.5% of the rated talent under twenty-five. The bye is week 10.

The verdict is that this is the most complete roster in football on the evidence this site carries, and that the hard schedule is the only thing on the page arguing against it. Second in skill talent, third in the blended rating, second at the line, top eleven in three defensive measurements. I do not hand out that verdict often and I am not softening it. The thing that beats this club will be an injury at one of two positions, and neither of them is a receiver.