National Football League announces Patriots-Vikings Super Bowl matchup on Facebook

For now, though: conference championship games! But with homefield advantage and a better kicker, I’m 52 percent confident the Eagles pull it out and advance to the Super Bowl. That makes this contest unusual – since the inception of the Super Bowl, no competing teams have had more playoff victories (Minnesota has 20, while the Eagles have 16) and no Super Bowl rings, according to Pro Football Reference, which keeps statistics on the NFL. What else is good news is that the Vikings are playing in the NFC Championship game…

Four months removed from reconstructive surgery, Robinson is now traveling with the team, so he’ll be on the sideline Sunday at New England, serving as a mentor to a raw receiving corps. “The New Englands of the world, they’ve been in that position quite a bit, but it’s not something that happens often”.

However, the value will be with Jacksonville. I really wanted to see the Patriots and Steelers rematch, but the Jaguars had other plans. I think we’re all headed to Minneapolis. Keenum is a gutsy leader who throws short- and medium-range passes well and does a good job of sliding in the pocket to avoid the pass rush. Bryan Braman made up for his part of the fumble by tipping a punt late in the first half that led to Jake Elliott‘s 53-yard field goal.

Absolutely. This is nearly like stealing. But again, against the Evil Empire that is Tom Brady, Bill Bellichick and the Patriots, this was the easiest pick. This doesn’t have any value, but it’s the only one that makes sense. “You nearly have to set your mentality or have an identity that we’re going to spend this money defensively and we’re going to be a team that gets there based on our defense”. That offers up a pretty valid reason as to which team will use the game’s first timeout.

Third, win on special teams.

In the frenzied anticipation of last week’s game, more than 900 fans showed up at the cinema to watch the game free of charge.

Compare the two rosters side by side, and they’re relatively close in terms of talent.

And when there’s turnovers, there’s opportunities for defensive touchdowns. He also managed to attend his first regular season football game since becoming an ESPN broadcaster, taking in the Seahawks-Jaguars game at EverBank Field on December 10. At the risk of everything else, they had to get this right, and they did. And yet they combined for the NFL’s No. 3 passing game in Football Outsiders’ DVOA efficiency metric, and that’s how Minnesota became so much more than a defense and a running game while constrained by the same salary cap and draft structure as everyone else.

The Philadelphia Eagles are fully embracing their underdog role entering the NFC Championship Game. Jacksonville’s defense has the ability to slow down Brady and the New England offense.

That means it will be hard for the teams to do anything on offense, especially in the early going when each quarterback will steer clear of making a mistake. Still, they beat Atlanta but only scored 15 points. Sure, they’re Vikings fans so a certain amount of skepticism remains. The Purple has to improve in a lot of areas if it’s going to win at Philly on Sunday, but go ahead and join me in complete Rube Mode and enjoy the ride.

Current starting left tackle Halapoulivaati Vaitai has been one of the, if not the most, scrutinized of the offensive linemen. “Yeah, I’ve gone back and looked at that match up in particular just to see the battle that went on and the types of things that Alshon did against him and the coverage technique that he used”. This is the biggest game Keenum has played in, probably Foles too, so quarterback play is going to be very important.

Team to have most first downs?

Many fans consider places like one of the three Klinger’s locations to be the best seat in the house for the game, but some people are lucky enough to have a seat in the house at Lincoln Financial Field.

There are some definite choices.

Now, it’s all about the who?

Chris McPherson: I’ll go with three different ones here.

[UPDATE]: Even Google is predicting a Patriots-Vikings game.