For all of the comparisons made between current Eagles head coach Doug Pederson and former head coach Andy Reid in the past year, dominance on special teams has gone under the radar.
From 2000-05, under then-coordinator John Harbaugh, the Eagles' special teams unit finished in the top 10 of the league five times, according to Dallas Morning News columnist and Pro Football Hall of Fame voter Rick Gosselin's annual rankings which are the considered to be the standard by which all teams are judged. In two of those six years, the Eagles were atop the NFL leaderboard.