NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BOUND!!!!!!!!!

SEE YOU IN THE DOME NEXT SUNDAY BOYS!!!!!!!

Scoring Plays:
1Q - PHI - Nick Foles to Jordan Matthews 37 yd TD pass (PAT Good) 7-0 PHI
1Q - PHI - Nick Foles 1 yd TD rush (PAT Good) 14-0 PHI
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2Q - NO - Drew Brees to Keith Kirkwood 2 yd TD pass (PAT Good) 14-7 PHI
2Q - NO - Wil Lutz 45 yd FG GOOD 14-10 PHI
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3Q - NO - Drew Brees to Michael Thomas 2 yd TD pass (PAT Good) 17-14 NO
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4Q - NO - Wil Lutz 39 yd FG GOOD 20-14 NO
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And officially... welcome back to the playoffs Saints Talk

Neither Foles Magic nor the cold can stop the Saints

After a full week off for our beloved Who Dats, it's the Divisional Round of the playoffs tonight as the Black & Gold face a second meeting against the defending Super Bowl Champions, the Philadelphia Eagles.

Yes, the Saints did send the Eagles to the low point of their season earlier this year when New Orleans crushed Philadelphia 48-7 in the Superdome, sending them to a 4-6 record and seemingly too far back to make a playoff run. But since that game, the Eagles have won 6 of 7, including last week's infamous "double doink" win over the Chicago Bears in Chicago in the Wild Card round.

But what's to stop today from being like November 18th? Yes, they're riding that Foles comeback train like the end of last season and this time they have former Saint Darren Sproles playing, but Philly's defense is still in shambles and the Saints are as healthy as they've been pretty much since BEFORE that first Eagles game, esp on the offensive line where Terron Armstead, who was out against the Eagles, is expected to play today.

That takes us to our injury report, which shows that the 2 weeks off did A LOT of good for the Who Dats with Simmie Cobbs as the only Saint with any kind of injury designation, which means ALL of New Orleans' main players are up and ready to go today. Meanwhile, the lack of rest has the Eagles hoping some beat up bodies can continue to perform. Four Eagles are listed as QUESTIONABLE after having only practicing on a limited basis during the week; DE Michael Bennett, OT Jason Peters, WR Mike Wallace, & WR Shelton Gibson was a Friday add to the injury report with a hamstring injury. Philly's other QUESTIONALBLE players who did fully practice on Friday are LB DJ Alexander & CB Sidney Jones.

LET'S END THE DEFENDING CHAMPS'S SEASON AND CONTINUE ON TO THE NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME NEXT WEEK!!!

Uniforms: The Saints will continue to ride the success of the all black uniform into today's first playoff game

Today's Officials: The officiating crews are not the same crews a during the season, instead they are mix-and-match "all star" officiating crews. The name in parenthesis will be the head referee whose crew that official worked on during the regular season

Referee: #51 Carl Cheffers (was referee of Eagles/Saints back in November)

Umpire: #20 Barry Anderson (Carl Cheffers)
Down Judge: #134 Ed Camp (Shawn Hochuli)
Line Judge: #32 Jeff Bergman (Alex Kemp)
Field Judge: #117 John Jenkins (Alex Kemp)
Side Judge: #120 Jonah Monroe (Jerome Boger)
Back Judge: #46 Perry Paganelli (John Parry)
Replay official: Charles Stewart (Carl Cheffers)
Replay assistant: Jim Grant (Carl Cheffers)
Alternates: Craig Wrolstad (R), Byron Boston (LJ - Walt Anderson), Jim Quirk (BJ - Clete Blakeman)

Inactive Lists:
PHI-
LB B.J. Bello
DT Bruce Hector
CB Sidney Jones
WR Mike Wallace
G Matt Pryor
G Chance Warmack
QB Carson Wentz

NO-
TE Dan Arnold
WR Austin Carr
C Will Clapp
WR Simmie Cobbs Jr.
DE Trey Hendrickson
T Derek Newton
LB Manti Te'o
RB Dwayne Washington

This post was edited on 1/13/19 at 6:51 pm