why are we everyone's Super Bowl?

The only team who's players I've heard say that was Atlanta.

But I do think teams play up against us and sometimes throw everything and the kitchen sink at us. If you don't think the Rams played all out to beat us and had an ax to grind with the whole Rob Ryan episode, you're kidding yourself. That on-sides kick alone should tell you that.

But we should take that as a sign of respect. If we weren't any good, nobody would care much, aside from it being another win (sort of like our whole history before 2009). The fact that every team we play really wants to beat us (I'm mean really, really wants to beat us), just means that we're in the upper echelon of teams in the NFL.

Still, none of that is an excuse for our poor performances/no shows in New York, Seattle and St. Louis.