And the comparison between the 2008 Eagles and the 2007 Giants comes to an end. Because to think you are similar to champions, you have to, um, win a championship.
But who were the Eagles kidding? Did anyone really think they were going to end their Super Bowl drought? I mean, come on, we’re talking about the Eagles here. And Donovan McNabb and Andy Reid. It’s like the Red Sox pre-2004. Until a team wins a championship, you can’t trust them in thinking they will. It just won’t happen.
Kurt Warner played on Sunday like the date was January 18, 2000. He [...]

How important are coaches in professional sports? Well, I guess that depends on what sport you are talking about. And since this is a football blog, we’ll start there.
In football, coaching is everything. It is the difference between a first down and a broken play. A win and a loss. A playoff berth and a 4-12 season. A Super Bowl championship and setting a franchise back a decade. Obviously the players still have to play, but as the coach you control exactly what your team does on the next play and every play after that. And while some argue that [...]

With the Giants season coming to an early ending and four teams still remaning its now time to choose who I want to see take home XLIII and I believe I have my answer. But first let’s take a look at teams.

Pittsburgh Steelers
Ben Roethlisberger is one my list of my most disliked players in the NFL. Seeing him win another Super Bowl would be like seeing Philip Rivers reach the Super Bowl or having to witness Tony Romo win a playoff game. Big Ben lives the luxury of trying to just not mess games up. He isn’t asked to [...]

Growing up in the tri-state area, I have become accustomed to seeing championships won by the local teams and have learned that winning is the only thing. With the Yankees collecting four rings in my lifetime, seeing the Rangers win it all back in ‘94 and having the Giants win all three championships since my birth, I have experienced what it’s like to be on top plenty of times. But it isn’t until you aren’t on top anymore, that you realize how hard it is not only to get there, but to stay there.
And after the Giants lost today, you [...]

Notice how I didn’t title this post “Eagles win,” or anything to do with the Eagles winning. Because for anyone who watched this game, it was clear that the New York Giants pulled a Plaxico Burress by shooting themselves in the foot (rather than the leg) all day long.
It started early on when Eli Manning gave the Eagles the ball on the doorstep of the endzone for an easy touchdown.
It continued when John Carney missed a 46-yard field goal and then again when he missed a 47-yard field goal.
It continued some more when they allowed a 3rd and 20 conversion [...]

So far this postseason has been every bit as unpredictable as the regular season was. The Chargers beat the Colts. The Ravens beat the Titans. And the Cardinals beat the Panthers. Both Baltimore and Arizona are in the final four and really no one expected either of these teams to be there. But as for the Giants and Eagles…
This game has gotten the most attention and rightfully so of any of the four games this weekend. No other game features two divisional rivals in a divisional playoff game and no other game features two teams with so much history and [...]

After a 2-2 wild card round, it’s time to go 4-0 in the divisional round. Since I screwed myself by letting my fandom get in the way by rooting for the Vikings last week, it is time to be more serious and have a perfect weekend.
BALTIMORE RAVENS @ TENNESSEE TITANS
SATURDAY
4:30 EST
Two great defenses and a game that most believe is a coin flip and it seems as though the majority is favoring the “hot” Baltimore Ravens. You just gotta love these “hot” teams that can so easily fool everyone. If they were truly the better team (like the Eagles) then they would [...]

If Johnny Mathis were to write this blog entry for me, he would probably start it off with something like, “It’s beginning to feel a lot like last year, everywhere you go.”
It was at this time last year the Giants went into Tampa Bay and came out with a win in the wild card round only to be told their season would end the following Sunday at Texas Stadium. And once they made it out of Dallas with Jerry Jones’ NFC Championship tickets in hand, they were written off because Brett Favre and the frigid temperatures at Lambeau Field awaited them a [...]

Judging by the way the media is covering this game and the way that commenters are commenting on the blog, you would think the Giants were +17 against the Eagles this weekend.
The great thing about the NFL is the one and done playoff format, like no other major professional sport. It gives teams reasons to believe and a chance to play just 60 minutes of football to advance rather than winning three of five or four of seven.
And because of this unique format, the NFL playoffs are chaotic, and unpredictable. And it is for this reason alone that any team [...]

You can forget Eli Manning and Donovan McNabb. Derrick Ward and Brian Westbrook. Domenik Hixon and DeShaun Jackson. There is one clear cut choice for the most important player in the divisional game this weekend and that player is Brandon Jacobs.
The majority of the world believes that Brian Westbrook is the most dangerous player involved in the game Sunday, but he isn’t, and it’s not even close.
The first time these teams met back in Week 10, the Giants beat the Eagles 36-31, and it wasn’t even that close. The G-Men racked up 370 yards on offense to the Eagles 255 [...]