Checking in with NFC East coaches, reseeding, more

? Maybe it was just coincidence, but I found it entirely fitting that they bunched together the tables of the NFC East coaches Wednesday morning at the NFC head coaches media breakfast. Sitting back-to-back-to-back were Wade Phillips of Dallas, Tom Coughlin of the Giants and the newbie in the group, Washington's somewhat wide-eyed rookie coach Jim Zorn. Slightly off to one side, maybe because he has the only team in the division that didn't make the playoffs last year, was Philly's Andy Reid. If there's a tighter and tougher division in the NFL, I don't know what it would be. Only the NFC East and the AFC South had three playoff qualifiers last year, and it was the Giants, of course, who shocked the world with that dramatic Super Bowl upset of the supposedly invincible Patriots (I know, because I was one of the ones doing the supposing). Even the last-place Eagles were a handful to play at season's end, winning their final three games to finish a respectable 8-8. ? Speaking of bull's-eye, nobody starts the 2008 season with a bigger one on his back than Phillips, the Cowboys second-year coach. Dallas went 13-3 in the regular season last year, but got upset at home in the divisional round by the Giants, a team it had already beaten twice earlier. For all the Super Bowl buzz surrounding the Cowboys last season, the ugly fact remains that Dallas hasn't won a playoff game since 1996, a postseason drought longer than that of the Arizona Cardinals, who last won in the playoffs in 1998. CLIKKKKKKK 3 pager ;) !