Philly fans, unite in this thread!!!!
 

I would like one common thread to refer to next Sunday when they get eliminated.

Yes, I am picking the Falcons. Eagles choke 4 times in a row.

Everyone bagged me for picking the Pats last week and the Jets over the Chargers the week before.

:thumbsup

Philly is a choke team. Just because the Red Sox won a damn post season title in 80 years does not mean that Philly will win the NFC title game. The plates are not that off track, yet.

the Falcons have more of a chance than people give them credit...whats the spread?

*waves a Tastykake in your general direction*

Philly is the popular team this week. Last week it was the Colts. Before that it was the Chargers.

Little Eagle fu fu flying through the forest picking up the Falcons and *BOOM* boppin them on the head

:)

Being a Philly girl through and through I have to route for my guys.

Cory, You are right and it is on everyones' mind in Philly...We are know to choke when it comes down to the end. But we are hungry and playing in Philly. The curse could indeed be lifted!!!

Sarah- SHHHH no talk about tasty kakes- I already cheated on my diet this week so I have to be strong for a good 6 weeks until I cheat again!!!

Beware of the Falcons

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/ne...05-434350.html

PHILADELPHIA - They had stretched their hands to the sky together in the locker room after their victory Sunday, the Eagles standing together and vowing not to let the Atlanta Falcons keep them from the Super Bowl, and Ike Reese had to stop them and say something.


"I talked to the players," Reese, the Eagles linebacker and Pro Bowl special-teams player, said Sunday, after the Eagles had beaten the Minnesota Vikings to advance to one more NFC Championship Game. "I said, 'Sacrifice for a week, man. Whatever it is, sacrifice for the good of the team. We'll live the rest of our lives knowing we have a chance to play in Jacksonville. If you sacrifice this week, put in a little extra time, rest our bodies, we'll go out there and win.' "


In that way, it sounds so easy for the Eagles: Work harder, rest more, and that darned Super Bowl berth will take care of itself, as if the last three NFC title games never happened, as if the Atlanta Falcons - Michael Vick and two fine running backs in Warrick Dunn and T.J. Duckett and a fierce defense - didn't even exist.


Oh, but they do. They were 11-5 this season, undoubtedly the second-best team in the NFC during the regular season, and they were 11-3 before first-year coach Jim Mora Jr. rested a few of his starters as Andy Reid did, before his team, too, lost two games that didn't matter. And even if the Eagles manage to purge their minds of the potential stigma of losing a fourth consecutive championship game, even if they're really as relaxed as they're telling everyone they are, the Falcons still might beat them. Just because, on one Sunday in January, they're the better team.


"It's going to be a big challenge for us," Reese said. "They want to run the ball - no ifs, ands or buts about it. They don't mind throwing the ball 15 times a game. They're going to run the ball. They've got three capable backs back there, including Vick, and they can beat you at any time."


This is not to suggest that the prospects for an Eagles victory Sunday - and for the franchise's first Super Bowl appearance in 24 years - aren't good. Of the four Eagles teams that have reached this point since 2002, this edition is the healthiest, the deepest and the most talented - even with Terrell Owens off convalescing in a hyperbaric chamber somewhere. If they don't end this excruciating tradition of theirs this year, it's fair to wonder when they ever will.




Truth be told, though, there is a realistic chance that this tradition will last another year. It is easy to pooh-pooh the Falcons as the product of a weak division - the NFC South, in which they were the only team with a winning record - and the comfy confines of a domed home field. But their style of play - run the ball, turn the other team's quarterback into a grease spot - is built for the bad weather conditions they'll likely face Sunday, and for all his flaws and inconsistencies, Vick is too dynamic a player to be dismissed as incapable of carrying the Falcons past the Eagles all by himself. When he plays, the Falcons are 25-13-1. When he plays, they are an elite team in the NFL.


Worse for the Eagles, Atlanta enters Sunday's game as an elite underdog. The Falcons - in that clich Mora already has used - are "playing with house money." The Eagles are the ones expected to get to the Super Bowl. The Eagles are the ones facing ignominy and embarrassment if they lose yet again in a title game. In Mora's rookie season as a head coach, the Falcons went from 5-11 to 11-5, a bad-to-good story just like Carolina was last year.


"The biggest factor of all was Coach Mora and the new coaching staff," Falcons safety and Central Bucks East grad Bryan Scott said last week of the Falcons' turnaround. "He turned us into believers the minute he stepped into the building."


So here they come, a dangerous animal, a formidable foe with nothing to lose. One team with a clear conscience facing another carrying a heavy history on its shoulders.


"There's a little bit of attitude there, a bit of tickedoffedness with the fact that we haven't gone to [the Super Bowl] and not being so happy about it," Reese said. "It's kind of having a little edge to you and saying, 'Hey, it's tough to get back to the title game every year.' We need to seal the deal."


Can they, finally?


They can. They should. But don't believe for a second that a stern opponent doesn't stand in their way.


January 18, 2005ha7:27 AM

Eaglessssssssssssssss Eaglesssssssssssss Eaglesssssssssssssssssssssss

EAGLES ALL THE WAY....

I said it last week about the Vikings and I will say the same to Atlanta. "prepare for the end your season this weekend"

Philly's headed to jacksonville for an all Pennsylvania showdown.

The Eagles have better numbers all the way across the board. Trotter was a huge factor last weekend. McNabb was smart, strong, and dependable as ever. Mitchell was a lucky SOB. But they dont play a game based on a player, they play based on a team. With a Killer Defense and an well executed offense, topped off with the Eagles Fans (I feel bad for any Falcons fans in that stadium)...this games in the bag.

You can wave it, in true Philly fashion, I'm throwing it. :)

Eagles Court will be very busy on Sunday...It is really sad that we have a court room and judge in the stadium.

You are not giving the Falcons any credit. I would not just overlook them. They are a good team as well.

They are not a one man show. Eagles fans keep saying this. They have a good defense and 3 backs (considering Vick) that are as good as any in the League.

The Eagles are ahead of themselves, once again. Much like their fans are, once again. Stats do not mean anything in big games.

Don't fell bad, I grew up a Chiefs fan. I could list the playoff loses here. It is worse than the Eagles.

Shamus McCaffery will be a busy man this weekend.

I can agree with Corey on one point, if Vick is on his game, its going to be damn close, a nail biter till the end.

pah..don't give them the good stuff..eat it and throw scrapple

WEG_Cory, I dont feel bad at all. My "home" team is the Miami Dolphins LMAO

I picked them to beat the Patriots this season.

It is not about the "better" team when you are dealing with one game.

The Chiefs won more games and made more playoff appearences than any other team in the 90s. One of their defenses is in the top 2 or 3 best of all time and until the recent Ravens team, they held the scoring record (least points allowed).