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Mandalore76 on 23 January 2023
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PAOerfulone said:
Chris Hu said:

The Eagles, 49ers and Chiefs should all win easily this weekend. The Bengals versus the Bills is the only one that could go either way. I'm pretty sure the NFL wants the Bengals to win since I doubt, they want to have the AFC championship game at a neutral site.

Not so sure about the Eagles. As @Angelus said, they've been very iffy since Hurts got hurt. Plus, the Giants are rolling and rested. They didn't play any of their key players in Week 18, essentially giving them a bye week. And Division games are always tough. 

And I want to believe the 49ers got it in the bag... But those fucking Cowboys, man.

I actually think, and said it at the time to my father-in-law who is a Giants fan, that it was a huge mistake on Daboll's part to not even try to figure out what does or doesn't work against a team that they might well end up facing in the playoffs and did.  In 2007, the Giants had a playoff spot locked up regardless of what was going to happen in the final week of the season against the undefeated New England Patriots.  All the NY media at the time was saying how it wasn't the Giants responsbility to try to stop the Patriots from finishing the regular season undefeated, at that Tom Coughlin, the Giants head coach at the time, should rest his starters.  Coughlin chose not to take the week off and played his starters.  The Patriots won, but had to score 38 points to eke out a 3 point victory in the game.  Meanwhile, Coughlin and the Giants gained some very valuable in game experience that may very well have proved the difference a little over a month later when the Giants held the Patriots offense to 14 points and defeated them in the Super Bowl.  

The Giants got into the post-season on a soft schedule, while actually finishing the year 0-6 against NFC playoff teams.  That's not the kind of team that should be playing their backups against a potential playoff opponent.  All due credit to them for beating Minnesota on the road in their rematch.  But, I saw the Vikings as fraud contenders midway through the season to begin with.  Legitimate 13 win teams don't have blowout defeats to the tune of 24-7, 40-3, and 41-17 in their loss column.  And, in the games that they won, they struggled mightily to eke out victories against teams with losing records like the Colts, Jets, Saints, and Patriots.  They were never going to be long for this postseason.