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Due to the NFL playoffs not being an actual tournament, Atlanta and Chicago won't know their divisional-round opponents until both NFC games are completed next week.
For Atlanta, they will play whoever has the lowest seed between the NFC West champ, the Saints, and the Packers. Chicago will play whoever has the lowest seed between the Eagles, the NFC West champ, and the Saints.
So if we win and Green Bay wins, Green Bay will go to Atlanta and we will go to Chicago. But if we win and Philly wins, we will go to Atlanta and Philly will go to Chicago.
This brings us to the aforementioned interesting playoff scenario: Would you rather Philly win so we go to Atlanta for not only an opportunity to end their Super Bowl hopes but also play in a dome where we are most effective. Or would you rather Green Bay win to keep our hopes of an NFC Championship game in New Orleans alive? We would then have to go to Chicago for a chance to atone that awful '06 NFCC debacle, but we'll be playing on that sluggish swamp of a field in the cold.
While I'd love to have another NFCC in the Dome, it's too much of a longshot (both us and Green Bay would have to win 2 straight on the road). And I'd much rather go after the Falcons in our home away from home. And what a matchup that'd be: longtime rivals who have always been cellar dwellers now meet for the 1st time in the playoffs, split their season series, scoring the exact same amount of points in their 2 meetings, and we wouldn't have very far to travel.
Which scenario would YOU rather see?
For Atlanta, they will play whoever has the lowest seed between the NFC West champ, the Saints, and the Packers. Chicago will play whoever has the lowest seed between the Eagles, the NFC West champ, and the Saints.
So if we win and Green Bay wins, Green Bay will go to Atlanta and we will go to Chicago. But if we win and Philly wins, we will go to Atlanta and Philly will go to Chicago.
This brings us to the aforementioned interesting playoff scenario: Would you rather Philly win so we go to Atlanta for not only an opportunity to end their Super Bowl hopes but also play in a dome where we are most effective. Or would you rather Green Bay win to keep our hopes of an NFC Championship game in New Orleans alive? We would then have to go to Chicago for a chance to atone that awful '06 NFCC debacle, but we'll be playing on that sluggish swamp of a field in the cold.
While I'd love to have another NFCC in the Dome, it's too much of a longshot (both us and Green Bay would have to win 2 straight on the road). And I'd much rather go after the Falcons in our home away from home. And what a matchup that'd be: longtime rivals who have always been cellar dwellers now meet for the 1st time in the playoffs, split their season series, scoring the exact same amount of points in their 2 meetings, and we wouldn't have very far to travel.
Which scenario would YOU rather see?