Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
And oh, how it hurts to watch all this unfold in Philadelphia.
Here’s the deal.
The San Francisco Giants will host the New York Giants in the NFC title game for the right to go to the Super Bowl.
In easily the two best games over the Divisional Playoff weekend, the Niners stunned the Saints in one of the best playoff games you’ll ever see, while the Giants knocked the vaunted Packers off their perch in Green Bay on Sunday afternoon.
Of course, Eagles fans will likely look at this another way.
They will look at the Niners as the team the Birds had buried, 20-3, at the Linc back in October, only to fall asleep in the second half and watch San Francisco score three unanswered touchdowns to escape with a 24-23 win.
It was a repeat of the week before, when the Eagles went into the fourth quarter with a 16-14 lead over the Giants, only to see it disappear in the fourth quarter, The Eagles would do this five times - blowing second half leads.
By Week 11, the Eagles were finally rounding into form and took the measure of the G-Men in North Jersey, 17-10.
Bottom line? I still think one of the best teams in the NFC did not make the playoffs.
That is likely to come as little consolation to Birds fans.
We will have to live with the idea that one of the teams in the Super Bowl is going to be one the Eagles had dead to rights, or in the case of the Giants actually beat once.
I said it before and I will say it again.
That home loss to the Cardinals kept the Eagles out of the playoffs. It is unforgiveable.
It should have cost Andy Reid his job. Obviously that is not going to happen.
Enjoy watching the Giants and Niners in the NFC title game.
And thinking about what might have been.
And oh, how it hurts to watch all this unfold in Philadelphia.
Here’s the deal.
The San Francisco Giants will host the New York Giants in the NFC title game for the right to go to the Super Bowl.
In easily the two best games over the Divisional Playoff weekend, the Niners stunned the Saints in one of the best playoff games you’ll ever see, while the Giants knocked the vaunted Packers off their perch in Green Bay on Sunday afternoon.
Of course, Eagles fans will likely look at this another way.
They will look at the Niners as the team the Birds had buried, 20-3, at the Linc back in October, only to fall asleep in the second half and watch San Francisco score three unanswered touchdowns to escape with a 24-23 win.
It was a repeat of the week before, when the Eagles went into the fourth quarter with a 16-14 lead over the Giants, only to see it disappear in the fourth quarter, The Eagles would do this five times - blowing second half leads.
By Week 11, the Eagles were finally rounding into form and took the measure of the G-Men in North Jersey, 17-10.
Bottom line? I still think one of the best teams in the NFC did not make the playoffs.
That is likely to come as little consolation to Birds fans.
We will have to live with the idea that one of the teams in the Super Bowl is going to be one the Eagles had dead to rights, or in the case of the Giants actually beat once.
I said it before and I will say it again.
That home loss to the Cardinals kept the Eagles out of the playoffs. It is unforgiveable.
It should have cost Andy Reid his job. Obviously that is not going to happen.
Enjoy watching the Giants and Niners in the NFC title game.
And thinking about what might have been.
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