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To: stock leader who wrote (1837)	10/5/2005 7:31:38 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2260

Naw piece of cake.. We have a race Forget another Eagles cakewalk in NFC this season Posted: Tuesday September 13, 2005 10:21AM; Updated: Tuesday September 13, 2005 6:19PM Michael Vick led the Falcons to an ugly 14-10 win over the Eagles on Monday night. ATLANTA -- Not to overstate the big-picture view of what Atlanta's Monday-night conquest of Philadelphia means, but you'd have to say that it recasts the very top of the NFC power structure -- at least for this week. The Falcons' 14-10 win -- however ugly it was -- leads me to believe they'll be no cakewalk for the Eagles in the NFC this season. No clinching homefield advantage in November. It's early, but after one week we appear to have ourselves a real race, dear football fans. Not the one-person beauty contest that unfolded in the conference in 2004. I mean, after watching Sunday's action, is there any one ready to crown Carolina, Minnesota or St. Louis as the NFC's next big thing? So why not the Falcons? Last we checked, they hold the head-to-head tiebreaker against the Eagles. We arrived at this possibly premature conclusion because the Falcons, the team Philly beat up on in NFC Championship Game last January, returned the favor almost nine months later at the loud-as-a-rock-concert Georgia Dome. When was the last time the Eagles lost a meaningful game to an NFC opponent? Discounting the playoffs, of course, you have to go back to Week 5 in 2003, when Dallas nipped the Birds 23-21 to drop Philadelphia to 3-2. True, you have to knock out the champion and Atlanta didn't really get that accomplished with its four-point season-opening victory. But it did at least signal that the Falcons can stay on the field with the team that has made four consecutive NFC title games. In some ways, by struggling to beat the Eagles, the Falcons might be better served in the long run. A big blowout of Philadelphia could have had the effect of infusing Atlanta with a bit too much confidence in mid-September. The Falcons might have assumed they've arrived, when in fact their 2005 journey has just begun. This way, they know what they're capable of doing against Philadelphia, but things didn't go so easily that they foolishly begin to discount the still potent Eagles. sportsillustrated.cnn.com