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[Onyxmeth]

nordlead said:

Onyxmeth said:

nordlead said:
WOW, everything lined up perfectly for the eagles this week. Now, all they have to do is play the same as they did this week, and they'll be heading to the super bowl.

Also, if they beat the vikings, then they'll be playing the Giants, who have been a complete flop the last 4 weeks.

Que? You slept through the Carolina game or something? Also you're seriously going to count this week as a flop? I've never seen a more purposely relaxed game played by the Giants in a long while. When is the last time they swapped out so many starters for second and third string players and dropped Eli after the first half? That game didn't matter at all and they still came within one point of beating Minnesota. At least that should bode well for the Eagles. Minnesota won't make it anywhere in the playoffs at this rate.

 

I didn't watch most of the Carolina game, but when you go from scoring on your first drive, and scoring on most of your drives, to barely being able to score with your starting lineup (in refence to thier last 3 losses), then that is sad.

Also, Giants had the chance to knock the Vikings out of the playoffs (them having the #1 run defence is a very good reason to play hard and get rid of them early), and they sit around and let them in. Now the Giants are likely to face them again (if they beat the Eagles) and the giants second string played better against them than their first string. So now you have a team, that knows they can stand up against the Giants coming into the playoffs after a good victory. Just from a mental perspective, it was stupid not to beat them first before replacing starters.

For the Giants, they are flopping, and unless they can pull it together, they will either lose to the Eagles, or the Vikings, whoever faces them in the playoffs.

 

That's just the way Coughlin decided to play it. He was more concerned with getting his injured players healthy, and resting key players than winning a game for pride. The Vikings were going to the playoffs regardless of the outcome. You can say whatever you'd like about the strategy, but don't call it a real game like the Giants legitimately played the Vikings and lost. That did not happen. The Vikings won in the final moments of a game they barely won against second and third stringers.

The Carolina game was hard fought and the Giants came out on top. Carolina is a killer team and I have a feeling they'll be making it all the way back to the NFC Championship.

The other two games I agree with, but I believe it was a funk the Giants are now over. Jacobs is back to center the offense and Hixon is better handling his position as starting receiver in favor of Plaxico. Obviously they still have some work to do with adapting the playbook to Hixon because he isn't going to be able to run the exact same plays as fluidly.

Regarding the Eagles, just remember they too came off a loss at the Redskins, and an overall pretty inconsistent season, so it happens to a lot of teams. The Eagles are not immune to playing a bad game. I give them all the credit in the world for what they did to the Cowboys, but that was also a product of that team imploding finally. Like they were saying on Fox yesturday, " Dallas has a lot of toys but they don't have a team".

The Vikings are a joke. The Eagles will destroy them in the first round. They have nothing to combat the Eagles with, and god forbid they do pull out a squeaker, they have nothing to combat the G-Men with. Mark my words it'll be Eagles vs. Giants and Panthers vs. Falcons on the other end.