Sports Illustrated: The NFL Needs a Draft Lottery

Eagles coach Doug Pederson swears he was not trying to lose his team’s Sunday Night Football game against the Washington Football Team in the National Football League in the Land of Football. As proof, Pederson can point out he never asked his punter to hide the ball under his jersey and run backward through his own end zone on first down.

The NFL’s problem is not that the Eagles tanked Sunday. It was a ridiculous game anyway, with a bad team (Washington) trying to grab a playoff spot ahead of another bad team (the Giants) by beating an even worse team (the Eagles). There is no nobility in the NFC East this year. It was a season-long game of mud football…