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Saint Nick!!!
Monday
Holy shit I can't believe the Eagles on the Super Bowl. I'm still completely stunned...and tired...and hungover...and incredibly happy. Yesterday was awesome. I never in a million years thought Nick Foles was going to go on a magical 2-game playoff run where he threw for 725 total yards while completing 71% of his passes and scoring 7 touchdowns. The Eagles just scored 79 points in their last two games...which were against what everyone thought were the best two teams in football.
It's legendary. I'll never forget Foles' touchdown catch. I nearly lost my voice just seconds earlier yelling at Doug Peterson to kick the field goal but I can't argue with the result! Also, that call to go for it on 4th down from their own 45 in the 4th quarter was unbelievable (I'll on on the record as being 100% on board with that call the whole time). Nobody does that! Doug Peterson has balls of steel.
Philadelphia's victory makes the NFC East the first division in the NFL in which every team has a Super Bowl ring.
But the Eagles weren't the only winners yesterday. JRA Football crowned a new king. DonnieJonesinAPhillyBlount is our champion. He took over the lead in late October and never relinquished it. (Note: The closest anyone came to topping DonnieJones was me just as the playoffs started. I proceeded to lost every game I bet for the last month.) Check out the chart below that shows the paths of the top 8 finishers through the season.
http://www.jrafootball.com/images/blurbPics/AdminRankScore20180205122824.png
DonnieJonesinAPhillyBlount hung around the top from really the first weekend. Impressive performance. Congratulations!
Congratulations to everyone that finished in the top 13 places. You're all going home with something. I'd write more about you all but this hangover sucks. Payouts are below. If you've won, email me with your PayPal username and I'll shoot you your winnings.
Can The Commish Can Tell The Future?
Monday
I woke up at 4:30am this morning with a newspaper headline rattling around in my head. I thought about it for a while and, the more I pondered, the more it made sense. It made so much sense, in fact, that I need to share it here.
Saint Nick Delivers Late Christmas Gift
Wait, hear me out. I know it's improbable, but think about the stories and the ramifications. I truly believe that, all things being equal, the better story has an advantage. Imagine the legs on this news cycle: The Eagles actually winning a title for the first time since 1960...Nick Foles being nicknamed Saint Nick in a nod to one of Philadephia's most misunderstood and darkest moments (throwing snowballs at Santa Claus)...The underdog story of a team coming together after their MVP went down...Awesome people Malcolm Jenkins and Chris Long getting biggers platform for their causes...
And the biggest: Nick Foles vs Carson Wentz. It'd be absolutely perfect for Philadelphia to be so tortured that even a Super Bowl win would come with a quarterback controversy
Imagine the arguments! In order to make the Super Bowl dream come true, Nick Foles would need to go on a Joe Flacco-in-2013 run and he'd be king of the City. Philadelphians everywhere would argue Carson vs Nick. There would be no middle ground and there wouldn't be room for both players on next year's team. Who gets traded? How many first round picks would Wentz yield? Four? Five? He could be the centerpiece of the biggest trade in NFL history. Or maybe Nick Foles would be the one to go. What would the Eagles receive from him? The Browns would surely give an entire draft for a 29-year-old quarterback coming off a Super Bowl victory, right? It'd be insanity.
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