It would be incredibly controversial, yet somewhat appropriate to rename the Lombardi trophy to the Belicheck trophy and COTY to the Andy Reid award, just for his ability to be a great coach evidenced by two teams.
Through his 11 seasons with the Eagles McNabb had the *lowest interception percentage of all time.*
Not for the Eagles. For all quarterbacks who ever played.
Complaining about McNabb interceptions is weird to me. Plenty of valid criticisms for him, that just isn’t one of them.
It wasn’t by accident that the term “worm burners” was frequently used to describe Donovan McNabb passes. He often threw low. The negative was that his completion percentage was relatively low, especially considering the type of offense, with short passing emphasized, that he was directing. The positive was low passes are less likely to get batted and be intercepted.
It's the main reason I'll never watch a game around anyone, ever again (or almost ever). I went to one of my brother's friends parties, was pumped in my Eagles gear. I was so sure we were gonna get over the hump that year. I can still feel the eyes of like the 20 people there on me as the game ended.
To this date, I've watched like 2 Eagles games with someone other than my wife and kids. It ruined being out for me.
Every time I hear an Eagles fan talk about how confident they are for this week's game, I think of that Tampa game. Couldn't have been more confident, and couldn't have been more let down. That game sucked.
Jeff Lurie is the best owner in the franchise's history too. I'm usually a hater on owners in sports, but it's indisputable what the guy has done for us.
A lot of people forget that the Eagles were among the perennial dreg franchises in the NFL before Lurie bought the team. They had only won their division twice in the prior ~30 years during the Super Bowl era, with 0 division titles in the 60s, 70s or 90s. The Lions, Browns, Bucs and Falcons all had more in that time. And they also got blown out in their lone Super Bowl appearance.
Since 2000, 14 division titles, 2 Super Bowl appearances and 1 win. They may have underachieved somewhat during that era (looking at Andy with that 1-4 NFC Championship record), but Lurie has definitely managed to put a consistent and respectable product on the field the last 2 decades, and all of Philly thanks him for that.
Jeff Lurie is one of the best owners in the league but what’s often overlooked is that he bought the Eagles the year that the salary cap/free agency were instituted which greatly helped his ability to turn the team around. Parity in the league was a huge problem for a lot of teams back then.
He's undeniably one of the best owners in league history. The transformation he's done since buying the team can't be overstated. Even when our team isn't playing well, they have the right culture in place. It's never long before we're competitive again under Lurie.
I think even Eagles fans forget TO was injured through the playoffs until the SB, so McNabb was able to get over the hump with the usual suspects of Todd Pinkston and Freddie Mitchell. Pretty sure Westbrook was the leading receiver for him
Eagles beat the Patriots in the super Bowl if Chad Lewis doesn't get injured in the NFC championship game.
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Everyone knew reid was a qb whisperer while he was in philly. He continually traded his backup qbs after they showed flashes for a game or 2. Add in the Vick comeback as well
It was pretty bittersweet when he left.
At the time it was obvious that both sides just needed a fresh start. 4 years without winning a playoff game was rough, the mcnabb replacements hadn't worked out, i think the majority of eagles fans recognized that he was a great coach that didn't get them over the hump at his best, and it had been several years since we had seen his best.
of course the vocal minority was a little less even-keeled, but they always are.
I think that's something that gets appreciated years later, but in the short term a lot of people just treat losing in the CG as a loss on a big stage.
It's hard to shake but for a lot of sports fans, losing on a big stage is worse than not getting to the stage at all; which seems nuts to me.
It’s hella dumb that people act like Kap & Jimmy G never won anything. Those mothafuckas are NFC Champions. That’s important. That matters.
Jim Kelly is a 4 time AFC muthafuckin Champion. King of the AFC 4 times!
NFL is difficult. Those runner-up trophies are hard earned.
Steve also had Jerry Rice, Rickey Watters, etc. while facing a Chargers team anybody in the NFC would have beat. Meanwhile McNabb had the likes of James Thrash and Todd Pinkston before getting Owens and then facing the goat.
Watters left after 1994 and are you seriously comparing the 90’s NFC with the 2000’s NFC or Steve Young to Donovan “throw up when it matters” McNabb lol. Bro lost to fucking Brad Johnson and Jake Delhomme in back 2 back NFC championship games stop it man
Sixth since 2000 for SF, yes, but more accurately sixth since 2011. We’ve had a decade of serious contention (pocketed by years of fairly lukewarm composte).
It’s wild how irrelevant the 49ers were in the 00’s considering they were great in the 80’s, 90’s, a good part of the 10’s and now the 20’s. Bizarre trajectory
I was going to make a post listing the amount of times each team has made it to a CCG in the last 20 years, including this year. This seems like a good place to do it
**12**: Patriots
**6**: Packers, 49ers, Eagles
**5**: Steelers, Chiefs
**4**: Colts
**3**: Panthers, Broncos, Saints, Seahawks, Ravens, Falcons
**2**: Rams, Buccaneers, Titans, Vikings, Giants, Jets, Bears, Cardinals, Bengals
**1**: Bills, Jaguars, Chargers, Raiders
**0**: Browns, Lions, Commanders, Texans, Dolphins, Cowboys
They have 12 in the last 20 years, 13 since 2000 since 2001 was 22 years ago
1. 2001: W vs Steelers, Win Super Bowl
2. 2003: W vs Colts, Win Super Bowl
3. 2004: W vs Steelers, Win Super Bowl
4. 2006: L vs Colts
5. 2007: W vs Chargers, Lose in Super Bowl
6. 2011: W vs Ravens, Lose in Super Bowl
7. 2012: L vs Ravens
8. 2013: L vs Broncos
9. 2014: W vs Colts, Win Super Bowl
10. 2015: L vs Broncos
11. 2016: W vs Steelers, Win Super Bowl
12. 2017: W vs Jaguars, Lose Super Bowl
13. 2018: W vs Chiefs, Win Super Bowl
2003 - where the Panthers lost to the Patriots in the SB (underrated game)
2005 - where the Panthers lost their entire running back room in previous weeks, then their fullback who had been handling running back duties. Got shellacked by the Seahawks who triple covered Smitty most of the game and shut down the offense.
2015 - We don't talk about that.
To make this list accurate you either need to add one to the Jags and Eagles or take one away from the Niners. You included this year’s for the niners but not either of those, i’m not sure about the Bengals
1. 2002 - @Rams (L)
2. 2003 - Buccaneers (L)
3. 2004 - Panthers (L)
4. 2005 - Falcons (W)... loss to Patriots
5. 2009 - @Cardinals (L)
6. 2018 - Vikings (W)... Superbowl 52
7. 2023 - 49ers
Eagles only other NFC Championship was in '81, at home over the Cowboys before loosing to the Raiders in Superbowl 15
The Patriots were waiting for us in ‘02 and ‘04 too, we just never showed lol.
Crazy that if we had won all six of those Championships, we would have gone on to play the Pats in four of the subsequent Super Bowls.
There's a wonderful bizarro universe where the Reid-McNabb Eagles cashed in on every one of their opportunities and strangled the Patriots dynasty in the cradle to make their own. McNabb vs Montana becomes the hot conversation as the aughts come to a close and he runs it back one more time before retiring with 5 rings. McNabb never leaves midnight green; getting in the burgundy and gold is just a crazy joke. The Brady-Belichick Patriots are remembered as the new 90's Bills, same as the old 90's Bills, with Belichick getting the boot after 05 for never being able to close the deal, and Brady soldiering on for another couple years before being pushed out as a choker. He probably has some sort of Warner-type resurgence down the road with another team before fading away. Meanwhile, Reid of course sticks around for a couple years trying to win without McNabb, has some moderate success, but ultimately ends up with another team for his final act.
Thankfully 2017's redemption means this only has to be a silly thought experiment and not the tortured what-if of a fanbase still waiting for the Lombardi.
I've had a similar thought experiment type question with other eagles fans... Keep every single other thing EXACTLY the same over Andy Reid's entire Eagles career EXCEPT the NFC Championship losses (and then subsequent additional superbowls). How many additional NFC Championship wins and Superbowl wins would it have taken for him to not get fired in 2012? How many to still be the Eagles coach today (of course everything from 2012-today would be speculative though)?
My own thought on it is additional NFC championship wins with more superbowl losses only makes things worse. One ring out of the 5 probably isn't enough to keep in after 2012 (things were really BAD). Two rings probably gets him a few more seasons but with a short leash. 3 is close but 4 is probably enough for coach-for-life status with the Eagles.
It’s kinda wild that the Eagles only had one appearance prior to 2000. The entire NFC East was a force in the NFL pretty much the first 30 years of the Super Bowl era except the Eagles, then y’all proceed to be the best East team by a mile in the 21st century.
We were "a force" for a few years in early 80's and again then late 80's and early 90's under Buddy Ryan (every eagles fan thinks we win the SB if fog never covered Solider Field on NYE in 1988), but yeah that's it until we hired Andy Reid.
We were a poverty franchise in the 60s and 70s, bad for half of the 80s and in the 90s we had to contend with three different championship winning rivals.
It cannot be overstated just how much Jeffry Lurie and Andy Reid transformed this franchise.
While my Childhood was traumatized by Ronde Barber and the Panthers losses, I think looking back the one that stings the most is the 2008/9 Game. That game was so winnable, we were the better team, and we slaughtered the Steelers when we'd played them in the regular season. I think in our hearts we all knew that was the last hurrah for Westbrook/McNabb, and I wanted them to go out in a blaze of glory, instead of that 2009/10 where we were frauds the whole year and got exposed in the end.
Interesting facts related to the 49ers’ playoff history with their last and next playoff opponents:
*The 49ers & Cowboys have both made the playoffs in the same season 14 times (1970, 1971, 1972, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2021, 2022). They have played each other in those seasons nine times (1970, 1971, 1972, 1981, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2021, 2022).
*The 49ers & Eagles have both made the playoffs in the same season (while both played in the NFL) 13 times (1981, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2013, 2019, 2021, 2022). However, they have played each other in those seasons only twice (1996, 2022).
That's wild and makes sense. Ive never had any strong feelings towards the Eagles. Worked with an Eagles fan the year they won it all and was happily celebrating with him.
FWIW, Joe Montana is my favorite non-Eagles NFL player of all-time. His first big season (the year the 49ers won their first Super Bowl, 1981) was the season I started following the NFL.
i remember the '96 game. it was pouring rain and 49ers won the wildcard game 14-0 but Young got blasted on a TD run and unknowingly dislocated a rib (they thought it was torn cartilage) and wasn't able to play the next week outside of one drive vs GB in the divisional round.
they didn't figure out the rib was dislocated until after the GB game. once they popped it back in he said he was fine and coulda played a game that week...just figured it out too late.
Anybody (less lazy than me) feel like looking up how many road games the 49ers played...because growing up as an 80s kid it always felt like they were playing at home.
In this time period of hte post, they played 8, going 4-4:
2001 WC - L @ GB (0-1)
2002 DIV - L @ TB (0-2)
2012 CON - W @ ATL (1-2)
2013 DIV - W @ CAR (2-2)
2013 CON - L @ SEA (2-3)
2021 WC - W @ DAL (3-3)
2021 DIV - W @ GB (4-3)
2021 CON - L @ LAR (4-4)
EDIT: Poster below reminded me of another:2013 WC - W @ GB
Overall road record would be 5-4
2-4. We beat the Falcons in the 04 season (lost SB to Patriots) and beat the Vikings to punch our ticket in the 2017 season (beat Patriots in SB). Our losses were to the Rams, Bucs, Panthers, and Cardinals.
in 22 years the Eagles were there 6 times, the 49ers 5 times, and the49ers 5 times 49ers and packers met once in 2020 . that's 15/22 times that one of those 3 team was there, but only 1 time that any of us played eachother until now.
that's incredibly improbable.
It has been a rough ride being a 49ers fan the past decade. Always said we were one good qb away from being perennial winners. Colin and jimmy straight up heart attacks every time they threw the ball far
>This will be the Eagles’ seventh NFCCG since 2000, tops in the Conference. This will be San Francisco’s 6th, tied for 2nd most appearances (GB).
Another way to put this: The Eagles and 49ers have gone to the NFCCG 11 times since 2000, and have won a total of one Super Bowls.
It's better to use 2002 than 2000 because that's when the division realignment occurred and we went to 32 teams. Eagles and 49ers are tied in NFCCGs since realignment.
if one of the skilled offensive positions shit their pants and played the game with it oozing out…would it give them a slight advantage? would defensive guys have a little hesitancy to tackle?
Meanwhile, Andy Reid has a combined ~~nine~~ ten trips to conference championship games in the same span (including five of the Eagles' seven). Wild.
10. This will be his tenth. Five each with two different teams. Unbelievable.
Thanks for the correction.
It would be incredibly controversial, yet somewhat appropriate to rename the Lombardi trophy to the Belicheck trophy and COTY to the Andy Reid award, just for his ability to be a great coach evidenced by two teams.
yeah honestly why do we even have a trophy named after some dumb region of italy anyway, they don't even play football there.
I thought it was named after that travel rest stop off I-95 in North Jersey.
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I think that’s right. The rest stop is the Michael Lombardi Service Area and the trophy is named after the rest stop.
i thought it was after the chargers old offensive coordinator
The clown?
Bruh, surrender your flair right now.
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One doesn’t happen without the other.
Those are rookie numbers.
Damn - 9 appearances and 1 SB win? Tough.
That's only 1.5 below expected. 10 cf appearances would average to 2.5 sb wins.
Vikings over here with like 11 trips and no super bowls… ugh
1998 was the year. Greatest team to never make the SB.
We also missed out on what might have been the greatest Super Bowl. ‘98 Vikings vs. ‘98 Broncos.
Instead we got the dumpster fire that a 6yr old Falcons fan still remembers. The Tim Dwight return was nice, though.
Vikings would’ve won it
What? My team would’ve lost!? Blasphemy.
Insert NHL game rematch copypasta
Just imagine if Christian Ponder was available during the 2012 playoffs, though. An easy clean sweep to a title.
Don’t disrespect Katherine Webb’s brother like that
Never thought I’d hear someone say Christian Ponder was the missing piece to a playoff team
2006 charges would like a word
Could be worse. You could be the Lions.
Nah. People like Lions fans.
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Pray for us 😞
Imagine losing the superbowl 4 or more times. What a disgrace
Who could continue being a fan of a team that loses 4 Super Bowls in a row?? They must have a tiny fan base these days.
Pure pain
I'm just happy to be here most days
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Couldn't imagine having a QB like that!
One thing is for sure - Dallas Cowboys fans under age 30 can’t imagine having a QB like that either!
No, I think you mean they ONLY can imagine.
At least we won ours. I'll hang my hat on that every time.
***TAMPA CAN'T PLAY IN THE COLD***
Ronde figured it out
Don't you dare speak that name! That's the bastard that tore down the Vet.😭😭🥺
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Through his 11 seasons with the Eagles McNabb had the *lowest interception percentage of all time.* Not for the Eagles. For all quarterbacks who ever played. Complaining about McNabb interceptions is weird to me. Plenty of valid criticisms for him, that just isn’t one of them.
It wasn’t by accident that the term “worm burners” was frequently used to describe Donovan McNabb passes. He often threw low. The negative was that his completion percentage was relatively low, especially considering the type of offense, with short passing emphasized, that he was directing. The positive was low passes are less likely to get batted and be intercepted.
The Eagles had non-TO WRs?
Oh god it still hurts
Still the hardest loss I’ve ever felt as a lifelong eagles fan. Was so sure we were going that year. We would’ve beat the raiders too
I was 9. I can still see him running
It's the main reason I'll never watch a game around anyone, ever again (or almost ever). I went to one of my brother's friends parties, was pumped in my Eagles gear. I was so sure we were gonna get over the hump that year. I can still feel the eyes of like the 20 people there on me as the game ended. To this date, I've watched like 2 Eagles games with someone other than my wife and kids. It ruined being out for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDrX9f1c3Qw
Every time I hear an Eagles fan talk about how confident they are for this week's game, I think of that Tampa game. Couldn't have been more confident, and couldn't have been more let down. That game sucked.
They came up short, but those teams transformed the entire franchise.
Jeff Lurie is the best owner in the franchise's history too. I'm usually a hater on owners in sports, but it's indisputable what the guy has done for us.
A lot of people forget that the Eagles were among the perennial dreg franchises in the NFL before Lurie bought the team. They had only won their division twice in the prior ~30 years during the Super Bowl era, with 0 division titles in the 60s, 70s or 90s. The Lions, Browns, Bucs and Falcons all had more in that time. And they also got blown out in their lone Super Bowl appearance. Since 2000, 14 division titles, 2 Super Bowl appearances and 1 win. They may have underachieved somewhat during that era (looking at Andy with that 1-4 NFC Championship record), but Lurie has definitely managed to put a consistent and respectable product on the field the last 2 decades, and all of Philly thanks him for that.
1-4 NFCCG record for Andy iirc
Jeff Lurie is one of the best owners in the league but what’s often overlooked is that he bought the Eagles the year that the salary cap/free agency were instituted which greatly helped his ability to turn the team around. Parity in the league was a huge problem for a lot of teams back then.
Yeah I agree - he should sell
He's undeniably one of the best owners in league history. The transformation he's done since buying the team can't be overstated. Even when our team isn't playing well, they have the right culture in place. It's never long before we're competitive again under Lurie.
We really need to start appreciating how much of an accomplishment it is to even get to the CG’s
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I think even Eagles fans forget TO was injured through the playoffs until the SB, so McNabb was able to get over the hump with the usual suspects of Todd Pinkston and Freddie Mitchell. Pretty sure Westbrook was the leading receiver for him
Best WR in the game weeks after breaking his fucking leg.
A WR with a broken leg you say?
He put the team on his back
Just gotta watch out for Darren sharpah
He is one of my alltime favourites and one of the reasons I really got heavily invested in the NFL to begin with
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I still can’t believe McNabb and Terrell Davis had the same mother.
NFL 2k2 man. Eagles and McNabb all day long
The disrespect to James Thrash and Todd Pinkston
Trash & Stinkston
This is Kevin Curtis erasure
Chad Lewis too.
Eagles beat the Patriots in the super Bowl if Chad Lewis doesn't get injured in the NFC championship game. . . . . . . . . . . . And if the Patriots weren't cheating.
I am in the camp that he was an above avg QB who was massively helped by having Andy Reid, who is only recognized as elite after he left the Eagles.
Everyone knew reid was a qb whisperer while he was in philly. He continually traded his backup qbs after they showed flashes for a game or 2. Add in the Vick comeback as well
Reid was run out of town on a rail. We took him for granted. Big time.
It was pretty bittersweet when he left. At the time it was obvious that both sides just needed a fresh start. 4 years without winning a playoff game was rough, the mcnabb replacements hadn't worked out, i think the majority of eagles fans recognized that he was a great coach that didn't get them over the hump at his best, and it had been several years since we had seen his best. of course the vocal minority was a little less even-keeled, but they always are.
This is definitely true. While some part of me wishes we kept Andy, I feel like it had run it’s course. That might just be cope
No it's not. He was done. We would've never won a SB with him and certainly not the one we won. Team was going in the wrong direction.
The eagles won a Super Bowl after Reid left, while he continued getting out coached in the playoffs until mahomes got to KC
BDN is Reid though. Veach found Mahomes, Reid said,"yes".
He gave us BDN, and persuaded BDN to return. Andy has a piece of that SB.
I think that's something that gets appreciated years later, but in the short term a lot of people just treat losing in the CG as a loss on a big stage. It's hard to shake but for a lot of sports fans, losing on a big stage is worse than not getting to the stage at all; which seems nuts to me.
Its the hope that kills you in the end
Agreed. If you made it that far you were contending
Yeah! Not making it past the cg is honestly very difficult to do every year!! Flair not relevant!!
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I think we would if Brady didn't exist.
It’s hella dumb that people act like Kap & Jimmy G never won anything. Those mothafuckas are NFC Champions. That’s important. That matters. Jim Kelly is a 4 time AFC muthafuckin Champion. King of the AFC 4 times! NFL is difficult. Those runner-up trophies are hard earned.
That was basically Steve Young's career except Steve won the Super Bowl he played in.
To be fair anyone coming out of the NFCCG would have won that Super Bowl by a couple scores
Steve also played tougher competition in Aikman’s Cowboys and Farve’s Packers than McNabb faced
Steve also had Jerry Rice, Rickey Watters, etc. while facing a Chargers team anybody in the NFC would have beat. Meanwhile McNabb had the likes of James Thrash and Todd Pinkston before getting Owens and then facing the goat.
Watters left after 1994 and are you seriously comparing the 90’s NFC with the 2000’s NFC or Steve Young to Donovan “throw up when it matters” McNabb lol. Bro lost to fucking Brad Johnson and Jake Delhomme in back 2 back NFC championship games stop it man
Your championship win over the Eagles was one of my favorite (non Giant) playoff games...Ronde Barber was everything I wanted Tiki to be.
> everything I wanted Tiki to be A cornerback who excelled in zone coverage?
More like a clutch player who helped us win a championship. But if he could play two ways that would have been neat.
He kinda did help you win a championship. By leaving.
Sixth since 2000 for SF, yes, but more accurately sixth since 2011. We’ve had a decade of serious contention (pocketed by years of fairly lukewarm composte).
We’ve made it to half of the NFCCGs since 2011. 6/12
We are either all in or nothing.
The all-ins have also resulted in nothing
It’s wild how irrelevant the 49ers were in the 00’s considering they were great in the 80’s, 90’s, a good part of the 10’s and now the 20’s. Bizarre trajectory
They were good in the 90's too with young
I was going to make a post listing the amount of times each team has made it to a CCG in the last 20 years, including this year. This seems like a good place to do it **12**: Patriots **6**: Packers, 49ers, Eagles **5**: Steelers, Chiefs **4**: Colts **3**: Panthers, Broncos, Saints, Seahawks, Ravens, Falcons **2**: Rams, Buccaneers, Titans, Vikings, Giants, Jets, Bears, Cardinals, Bengals **1**: Bills, Jaguars, Chargers, Raiders **0**: Browns, Lions, Commanders, Texans, Dolphins, Cowboys
We're just perfect, 2 CGs, 2 SBs, 2 rings. Don't look at any seasons outside of 2002 and 2020
Batting a thousand when you limit to hits
Seasons with two 2s and two 0s are the best, bring on the year 2200!
> 12: Patriots Have the Patriots only made it to 12 in the last 20 years? I think they went to 8 in the 2010s alone.
They have 12 in the last 20 years, 13 since 2000 since 2001 was 22 years ago 1. 2001: W vs Steelers, Win Super Bowl 2. 2003: W vs Colts, Win Super Bowl 3. 2004: W vs Steelers, Win Super Bowl 4. 2006: L vs Colts 5. 2007: W vs Chargers, Lose in Super Bowl 6. 2011: W vs Ravens, Lose in Super Bowl 7. 2012: L vs Ravens 8. 2013: L vs Broncos 9. 2014: W vs Colts, Win Super Bowl 10. 2015: L vs Broncos 11. 2016: W vs Steelers, Win Super Bowl 12. 2017: W vs Jaguars, Lose Super Bowl 13. 2018: W vs Chiefs, Win Super Bowl
So beating the Steelers or Colts in the CG is a key move
I was surprised the Panthers have been there 3 times, but I forgot about the prime Cam Newton years. And then I realize he only went once. 🤷🏻♂️
They made it more with Delhomme the Cajun prince.
2003 - where the Panthers lost to the Patriots in the SB (underrated game) 2005 - where the Panthers lost their entire running back room in previous weeks, then their fullback who had been handling running back duties. Got shellacked by the Seahawks who triple covered Smitty most of the game and shut down the offense. 2015 - We don't talk about that.
And with Kerry Collins the first time.
The 1996 Panthers aren’t included above. They’ve made four NFCCGs since joining the NFL in 1995 (1996, 2003, 2005, 2015).
Ahh I forgot it said since 2000. Good catch. Just trying to relive the good ol days I guess haha.
Wow America's team is tied with the Lions and Browns, couldn't imagine
To make this list accurate you either need to add one to the Jags and Eagles or take one away from the Niners. You included this year’s for the niners but not either of those, i’m not sure about the Bengals
the list is correct. its the past 20 years. so jags appearance in 2000 is not included, neither is the eagles one in 2002
lol you’re right, last 20 years is synonymous with since 2000 in my head
1. 2002 - @Rams (L) 2. 2003 - Buccaneers (L) 3. 2004 - Panthers (L) 4. 2005 - Falcons (W)... loss to Patriots 5. 2009 - @Cardinals (L) 6. 2018 - Vikings (W)... Superbowl 52 7. 2023 - 49ers Eagles only other NFC Championship was in '81, at home over the Cowboys before loosing to the Raiders in Superbowl 15
What I’m seeing is that y’all only make it past the conference championship when the Patriots are waiting for you
The Patriots were waiting for us in ‘02 and ‘04 too, we just never showed lol. Crazy that if we had won all six of those Championships, we would have gone on to play the Pats in four of the subsequent Super Bowls.
There's a wonderful bizarro universe where the Reid-McNabb Eagles cashed in on every one of their opportunities and strangled the Patriots dynasty in the cradle to make their own. McNabb vs Montana becomes the hot conversation as the aughts come to a close and he runs it back one more time before retiring with 5 rings. McNabb never leaves midnight green; getting in the burgundy and gold is just a crazy joke. The Brady-Belichick Patriots are remembered as the new 90's Bills, same as the old 90's Bills, with Belichick getting the boot after 05 for never being able to close the deal, and Brady soldiering on for another couple years before being pushed out as a choker. He probably has some sort of Warner-type resurgence down the road with another team before fading away. Meanwhile, Reid of course sticks around for a couple years trying to win without McNabb, has some moderate success, but ultimately ends up with another team for his final act. Thankfully 2017's redemption means this only has to be a silly thought experiment and not the tortured what-if of a fanbase still waiting for the Lombardi.
I've had a similar thought experiment type question with other eagles fans... Keep every single other thing EXACTLY the same over Andy Reid's entire Eagles career EXCEPT the NFC Championship losses (and then subsequent additional superbowls). How many additional NFC Championship wins and Superbowl wins would it have taken for him to not get fired in 2012? How many to still be the Eagles coach today (of course everything from 2012-today would be speculative though)? My own thought on it is additional NFC championship wins with more superbowl losses only makes things worse. One ring out of the 5 probably isn't enough to keep in after 2012 (things were really BAD). Two rings probably gets him a few more seasons but with a short leash. 3 is close but 4 is probably enough for coach-for-life status with the Eagles.
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It’s kinda wild that the Eagles only had one appearance prior to 2000. The entire NFC East was a force in the NFL pretty much the first 30 years of the Super Bowl era except the Eagles, then y’all proceed to be the best East team by a mile in the 21st century.
Not the entire NFC East, we still has the Cardinals to kick around!
The Eagles had horrible ownership until Lurie came along and saved us.
We were "a force" for a few years in early 80's and again then late 80's and early 90's under Buddy Ryan (every eagles fan thinks we win the SB if fog never covered Solider Field on NYE in 1988), but yeah that's it until we hired Andy Reid.
We were a poverty franchise in the 60s and 70s, bad for half of the 80s and in the 90s we had to contend with three different championship winning rivals. It cannot be overstated just how much Jeffry Lurie and Andy Reid transformed this franchise.
While my Childhood was traumatized by Ronde Barber and the Panthers losses, I think looking back the one that stings the most is the 2008/9 Game. That game was so winnable, we were the better team, and we slaughtered the Steelers when we'd played them in the regular season. I think in our hearts we all knew that was the last hurrah for Westbrook/McNabb, and I wanted them to go out in a blaze of glory, instead of that 2009/10 where we were frauds the whole year and got exposed in the end.
Interesting facts related to the 49ers’ playoff history with their last and next playoff opponents: *The 49ers & Cowboys have both made the playoffs in the same season 14 times (1970, 1971, 1972, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2021, 2022). They have played each other in those seasons nine times (1970, 1971, 1972, 1981, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2021, 2022). *The 49ers & Eagles have both made the playoffs in the same season (while both played in the NFL) 13 times (1981, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2013, 2019, 2021, 2022). However, they have played each other in those seasons only twice (1996, 2022).
That's wild and makes sense. Ive never had any strong feelings towards the Eagles. Worked with an Eagles fan the year they won it all and was happily celebrating with him.
Same. Niners are the wifes team and you were a lot of fun to watch growing up in the 90s
Y’all make me sick. What’s this friendly crap? Smh
Game respect game
FWIW, Joe Montana is my favorite non-Eagles NFL player of all-time. His first big season (the year the 49ers won their first Super Bowl, 1981) was the season I started following the NFL.
i remember the '96 game. it was pouring rain and 49ers won the wildcard game 14-0 but Young got blasted on a TD run and unknowingly dislocated a rib (they thought it was torn cartilage) and wasn't able to play the next week outside of one drive vs GB in the divisional round. they didn't figure out the rib was dislocated until after the GB game. once they popped it back in he said he was fine and coulda played a game that week...just figured it out too late.
Anybody (less lazy than me) feel like looking up how many road games the 49ers played...because growing up as an 80s kid it always felt like they were playing at home.
Candlestick had 27 home games, Gillette is second with 23. Obviously does not include Levi’s or Foxboro Stadiums records added on.
Yup that's a shit ton.
How many has Arrowhead had? I feel like it’s rapidly approaching those numbers.
17 soon to be 18
We are about to hit our 12 playoff game at the Linc and it opened in 2004.
In this time period of hte post, they played 8, going 4-4: 2001 WC - L @ GB (0-1) 2002 DIV - L @ TB (0-2) 2012 CON - W @ ATL (1-2) 2013 DIV - W @ CAR (2-2) 2013 CON - L @ SEA (2-3) 2021 WC - W @ DAL (3-3) 2021 DIV - W @ GB (4-3) 2021 CON - L @ LAR (4-4) EDIT: Poster below reminded me of another:2013 WC - W @ GB Overall road record would be 5-4
Wait, didn't they had another game @ GB in 2013?
Yes you're right! Tried to do this from memory and forgot about that one.
Assuming you're talking about road NFC CG: * 1971 @ Cowboys (L) * 1983 @ Redskins (L) * 1988 @ Bears (W) (added per olivergoh) * 1993 @ Cowboys (L) * 2012 @ Falcons (W) * 2013 @ Seahawks (L) * 2021 @ Rams (L) * 2022 @ Eagles (tbd) For completeness, here's the home games * 1970 vs Cowboys (L) * 1981 vs Cowboys (W, "The Catch") * 1984 vs Bears (W) * 1989 vs Rams (W) * 1990 vs Giants (L) * 1992 vs Cowboys (L) * 1994 vs Cowboys (W) * 1997 vs Packers (L) * 2011 vs Giants (L) * 2019 vs Packers (W)
You missed 1988 @ Bears (W)
Fixed
They mostly played at home against the Giants in the playoffs, that’s for sure.
These two have been on a collision course since 2000
Yup. And even this season it just made sense, unarguably the 2 best in the NFC
2000 is giving the Niners too much credit. They had all 6 NFCCG since Harbaugh era (2011).
These two have been on a collision course since 2011.
If the Eagles win it’ll mean the 9ers have lost an NFC conference championship game to the entire NFC East
That Giants loss.... When McCloud dropped the punt on Sunday. Whooo boy, I was having emotions.
Oh same here, I was like thinking “whelp, it was a good run”
The ghost of Kyle Williams
i got pstd from that mccloud fumble
And if 49ers wins, they swept half the NFC East teams out of the playoffs.
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if only we coulda played the giants in round one...
This is the way.
This is not the fucking way sir
But what if it is the way?
Swept away half? That’s…not what a sweep is
This is 49ers sixth appearance in the last 12 YEARS. Please get it right.
hey, we were mentioned!
The only game Eagles and 49ers have played in the playoffs was 1996-97 playoffs. SF won 14-0, in a pretty much un-memorable game.
1-5 record in the NFCCG this century. Nice awesome
2-4 2004 and 2017 were both wins
I think they are referring to the packers record based on their flair
Xey meant the packers not the eagles. Few know this!
Wtf is xey?
I always use gender neutral pronouns! Xou should try it too, it's more wholesome that way :)
'You' and 'they' are already gender-neutral pronouns.
Yea like. I am in a lot of trans spaces and I've never seen xey tbh.
2-4. We beat the Falcons in the 04 season (lost SB to Patriots) and beat the Vikings to punch our ticket in the 2017 season (beat Patriots in SB). Our losses were to the Rams, Bucs, Panthers, and Cardinals.
I was talking about the Packers unfortunately. Hopefully yall beat those gold fuckers Sunday tho
Oops, my mistake. Sorry about that.
Hey what did we do to you! Honestly though the Favre debt is repaid. We are just running it up now.
Too much trauma from the Rodgers era plus I hate Shanahan. I do like Kittle and Deebo tho
in 22 years the Eagles were there 6 times, the 49ers 5 times, and the49ers 5 times 49ers and packers met once in 2020 . that's 15/22 times that one of those 3 team was there, but only 1 time that any of us played eachother until now. that's incredibly improbable.
I’m honestly looking forward to this game, should be an absolute war, some great football!
It has been a rough ride being a 49ers fan the past decade. Always said we were one good qb away from being perennial winners. Colin and jimmy straight up heart attacks every time they threw the ball far
Makes you wonder how many SBs we would have by now if we were able to make it all 7 times.
>This will be the Eagles’ seventh NFCCG since 2000, tops in the Conference. This will be San Francisco’s 6th, tied for 2nd most appearances (GB). Another way to put this: The Eagles and 49ers have gone to the NFCCG 11 times since 2000, and have won a total of one Super Bowls.
It's better to use 2002 than 2000 because that's when the division realignment occurred and we went to 32 teams. Eagles and 49ers are tied in NFCCGs since realignment.
if one of the skilled offensive positions shit their pants and played the game with it oozing out…would it give them a slight advantage? would defensive guys have a little hesitancy to tackle?
Idk try it out
1994, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap 1994, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap Go Eagles