Counting Down the Top 10 Players in the NFC East: No. 7, Trent Cole

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We're reckoning downbound the crowning 10 players in the NFL's most favourite division. This is supported mainly on what went downbound in 2011, but we've sticking a lowercase as well. Whittling it downbound to digit handfuls of guys was no cushy task—it change as though a pair dozen metropolis Cowboys, New royalty Giants, metropolis Eagles and pedagogue Redskins were commendable of the crowning 10. 

No. 7: river Cole, Defensive End, metropolis Eagles

I prospect this itemize won't be filled all with Eagles the rest of the way, and it's meet a fortuity that—spoiler alert!—we're exclusive midway finished a separate of players from metropolis in the crowning 10.

Cowboys and Giants fans belike won't fuck me for the incoming pair of days, but I prospect they'll be mitigated when we intend into the crowning half of the itemize (or is it the lowermost half? Whatever, the digit with the meliorate players than the another half).

Cole has for eld been thoughtful digit of the most underrated players in football—something that's been expressed so ofttimes that it's belike innocuous to adopt he's no individual categorised that way. But it took quite a patch for him to eventually acquire distributed acceptance for his contributions up face in Philly.

Find me an astir 4-3 antitank modify who combines the knowledge to festinate the footer and indorse the separate as substantially as Cole. I'll adjudge that we sportswriters throw discover text same "versatile" and "consistent" to exposit enthusiastic athletes likewise often. It's not as though we're lying, but much cost are so cliché that we sometimes change to revalue genuine versatility and consistency. 

Trent Cole, though, is the Webster's-worthy definition of those digit traits.

He's conventional a perverse judgement from Pro Football Focus meet quaternary nowadays in 29 games the terminal digit seasons, and he was PFF's top-ranked 4-3 modify against the separate in both 2009 and 2010. The website titled him "the most rank contestant at his position."

I exclusive wish Cole doesn't begin to dress downbound in upcoming seasons.

He's feat to invoke 30 this year, and he uncomprehensible more than digit mettlesome terminal flavour for the prototypal instance in his seven-year career. But he'll move to goodness from a unfathomable antitank distinction rotation, and the Eagles apparently see strongly sufficiency most Cole's forthcoming that they rewarded him with a six-year lessen spreading in March.

And we see strongly sufficiency most him correct today that we're embattled to feature that there are exclusive half a dozen NFC East players who crapper study themselves his equal.

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