are hurting<\/a>, but should be ok for the game).\u00a0\u00a0Tuck’s\u00a0a monster, and Steve Spagnuolo will be sending his boys after Donovan in this game.\u00a0 With Shawn Andrews out and Jon Runyan banged up, the Eagles O-Line is not looking too great, and the unit will definitely be a key to the game.<\/p>\n3. Don’t fall behind early:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>This will be important for two reasons.\u00a0 It will\u00a0prevent the crowd from getting too much into the game and, more importantly, it will\u00a0prevent\u00a0Andy Reid and Marty Mornhinweg from\u00a0giving up on the run.\u00a0 If the Eagles are willing and able to continue handing the ball off to Westbrook and Buckhalter, the Giant defense will not be able to attack as much as they would like, and that will go a long way toward attaining Key #2.\u00a0 In their win at Giants Stadium last month, the Eagles were able to keep a slim lead throughout and put it away in the 4th quarter.\u00a0 They’ll most likely need to repeat that scenario this week.<\/p>\nAn Idea for Playoff Seeding<\/strong><\/p>\nDue to the lopsided divisions in both conferences this season and a team like the 11-5 Patriots\u00a0missing the playoffs,\u00a0there has been a lot of talk about changing the playoff format.\u00a0 Some people have called for seeding based solely on record, while others have said that a team should have to have a winning record to get a playoff berth.\u00a0 Someone else has probably thought of the idea I’ve come up with, but I’ll throw it out there anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In my plan, the criteria for making the playoffs stays exactly the same.\u00a0 I think the rivalries that arise from the division format are great, and that each division champ has to get a berth, no matter how bad their record may be.\u00a0 However, I would make a change to the seeding process.\u00a0 I would seed each team according to record, with a couple exceptions.\u00a0 First, a team must win their division to get a first-round bye.\u00a0 In other words, if the two best records in the conference are in the same division, the second-place team would get the #3 seed.\u00a0 Also, the first tie-breaker would be whether or not a team won their division, with the next tie-breakers following as currently used.<\/p>\n
Under this format, the seedings this season would look like this:<\/p>\n
AFC: 1. Tennessee, 2. Pittsburgh, 3. Indianapolis, 4. Miami, 5. Baltimore, 6. San Diego<\/p>\n
NFC: 1. New York, 2. Carolina, 3. Atlanta, 4. Minnesota, 5. Philadelphia, 6. Arizona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So\u00a0the Eagles are on to the Divisional Round to face the hated Giants in what should be a frigid Giants Stadium on Sunday.\u00a0 The game against the\u00a0Vikings last week was one of the most predictable games imaginable.\u00a0 If you\u00a0asked before\u00a0the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[416,420,417,63,4,177,421,418,360,422,419],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-brandon-jacobs","tag-chris-gocong","tag-derrick-ward","tag-donovan-mcnabb","tag-eagles","tag-giants","tag-jim-johnson","tag-justin-tuck","tag-playoffs","tag-steve-spagnuolo","tag-stewart-bradley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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So\u00a0the Eagles are on to the Divisional Round to face the hated Giants in what should be a frigid Giants Stadium on Sunday.\u00a0 The game against the\u00a0Vikings last week was one of the most predictable games imaginable.\u00a0 If you\u00a0asked before\u00a0the game what I expected to happen, I’d have probably said,\u00a0\u00a0“Both defenses will play solidly, Peterson and Westbrook will both break a long touchdown, Tarvaris Jackson will throw a killer pick, and the Eagles will win by about 10 points because they’re slightly better on defense and\u00a0much better at QB.”\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"jacobs\"](\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/si\/2007\/writers\/bucky_brooks\/12\/30\/week.17\/t2.jacobs.gy.jpg\")
one of the first things that comes to mind.\u00a0 Now more than ever (thanks Plax!), their offense is driven by the ground game.\u00a0 The scary thoughts I have involve Brandon Jacobs taking 6 yards at a time up the middle, and Derrick Ward coming off-tackle for 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n