After their Super Bowl trip last season, the Philadelphia Eagles are entering the 2023 campaign as a team to beat in the NFC. But Pro Bowl defensive end Demarcus Lawrence doesn’t believe the Eagles are that much better than his Dallas Cowboys.
Speaking with reporters earlier this week, Lawrence said that the Cowboys are much closer to the Eagles than most other people think.
“I don’t feel like it’s a huge gap at all,” Lawrence said.
Lawrence feels that the Cowboys team that finished 2022 with a 12-5 record will be even better this season and give the Eagles a run for their money in NFC East.
“I feel like through this time right now, when we headed to training camp, that we made those adjustments, we learned those different things that we need to learn about our teammates so we can fully function the way we should out there on the field,” he added.
Despite the Eagles getting to an 8-0 start last season, the Cowboys did a good job in keeping up. They split the head-to-head series, and the NFC East title ended up coming down to a wire.
However, the Eagles performed much better in the postseason, where they made a dominant run through the NFC and suffered a narrow 38-35 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl.
The Cowboys, on the other hand, ended their playoff run in the divisional round, where they fell to the San Francisco 49ers.
