Well, the Vikings got destroyed in their NFC championship game against the Philadelphia Eagles. A complete and unexpected beatdown of a very good team. The game was over early and when it (mercifully) ended the Vikings were left to pack up and once again ponder what went wrong in their preparations for this game as so many Vikings teams of the past before them were forced to do. What a difference a week makes. The Vikings were coming off a very emotional late game victory the previous week. And then they fell off the cliff in this game. Are the Eagles that much better a team than the Vikings? No, but the games are played on the field and backup quarterback Nick Foles and the Eagles as a team both offensively and defensively stepped up big time. It's Foles second go round with the Eagles and he has made the most of it so far filling in at QB for the injured Carson Wentz. Foles returning to Philadelphia now as a backup and leading the Eagles this far will surely be a big story leading into this SB.
The Eagles will face the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII.
What would Joe Mannix do in this situation? I think I know. He'd punch that annoying twit Cris Collinsworth right in the nose to finally shut him up. He was clearly rooting for the Patriots on every replay. Not his job. Even when it was clear he was wrong.
The Eagles are going to have a quarterback controversy.
I know it's early to talk about this but Nick Foles was brilliant once again in prime time. Against Brady. Against the Patriots. And against a tough Vikings defense in the playoffs.
Carson Wentz went down, and Nick Foles returned to this team and led the Eagles franchise to the promised land tonight. It's going to be mighty hard for them to sit Foles for Wentz next season. It will be interesting.
Some teams make excuses when they lose to the Patriots. They wait for "somebody else" to beat them to clear the way. And of course, year in and year out that never happens. The Eagles actually went out there tonight and DID IT.
Now back to the Mannix weekend marathon on the Decades Channel.
And breath out. Julio secured for this season, at least. Jake Matthews secured, Quinn and Dimitrov secured. Ryan secured. Looks like the team is getting sorted
Great. 32 teams, and we were the only ones with 'nul points' out of all the first pre-season games. Methinks we need to figure out why that happened...
Oh sigh. I think it will be a very long season for my Seahawks.
I know the feeling
Have a hug from me
You didn't do too badly though, at 24-27, and neither did we at 12-18, but in our game it felt like the old problems were still very much evident despite all the off-season rhetoric about addressing them.
