Coaches Andy Reid and Ron Rivera, architects of remarkable franchise turnarounds, will join eight-time 101 Award winner Peyton Manning, running back LeSean McCoy and linebackers Robert Mathis and Luke Kuechly as 2013 winners of the annual NFL 101 Awards – the nation’s premier football awards event dedicated exclusively to the National Football League.
The Eagles are back in the playoffs for the first time since January 9, 2011 when they lost in the Wild Card round to the Green Bay Packers 21-16.
The Eagles (10-6) have lost three straight playoff games but hope to end the streak Saturday night when they host the New Orleans Saints (11-5) in the Wild Card round once again.
The Eagles take on the New Orleans Saints in the Wild Card round Saturday night at Lincoln Financial Field (8 09 PM, NBC). The winner advances to the Divisional round at the Carolina Panthers the following weekend.
The improbable happened. The Eagles, a team many thought was a rag-tag bunch with a few good players such as LeSean McCoy and DeSean Jackson. They were going to have a bad defense and a rookie head coach in Chip Kelly who had never coached a down of NFL football at any level before he took the reigns as head coach of the Eagles last spring.
The Eagles were going nowhere…right?
Today the Eagles are NFC East Champs after knocking off the Dallas Cowboys 24-22 and are hosting a playoff game Saturday night January 4 at 8 p.m.
The Birds jumped on Chicago early and often taking a 21-0 lead after the first quarter, 24-3 at the half on route a stunning 54-11 victory over the Bears, sending a message to the Lone Star State that the Eagles want the NFC Division title and wanted no parts of resting players because of a fluke in the standings.
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Eagles get blown out by Vikings on the road then Cowboys blow big lead to Green Bay at home setting up showdown for NFC East in Dallas December 29
LeSean McCoy rushed for an Eagles record 217 yards, surpassing Steve Van Buren’s mark of 205 set on 11/27/49 vs. Pittsburgh … McCoy also scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns of 40 and 53 yards, extending his NFL record to seven career fourth-quarter touchdowns of 40-plus yards … McCoy became the fourth player with two fourth-quarter rushing touchdowns of 40-plus in the same game (Cleveland’s Marion Motley on 10/20/46, Arizona’s LeShon Johnson on 9/22/96 and Cincinnati’s Corey Dillon on 10/22/00) … McCoy’s 1,305 yards this season ranks as the sixth-highest single season total in team history and is four yards shy of his career high ..
The Giants flew cross-country to play the San Diego Chargers in a must-win game, but got overrun in a dreadful first half that cost them their last final shot at a playoff berth.
There were several stadiums in the Northeast affected by snow Sunday including Baltimore, Pittsburgh, New England, East Rutherford and Washington, DC, but no NFL game was as affected as the Eagles-Detroit Lions game played in a full blown blizzard at Lincoln Financial Field.
