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After a surprising weekend we are left with some interesting teams and are now down to the final four teams in the NFL.  At this point we should throw everything we have on all of these teams and start new.  Out of four of the teams left, all four are mostly surprises that have shown us again that, it’s not how you start a season it’s how you finish.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are heading to the AFC Championship after a convincing win over San Diego yesterday.  A home team finally won as all three prior road teams in these playoffs had beaten the home team prior to Sunday afternoon.  Ben Rothlisberger showed little signs that he was carried off in a stretcher two weeks ago as the Steelers played football the way they do as they ran and played strong defense against a LT less San Diego Chargers team.

As for the team meeting the Steelers it will be the Baltimore Ravens whom on Saturday beat the Tennessee Titans, who probably should have won, but had way to many mistakes in Saturdays 13 t0 10 defeat.  The Titans turned the ball over and the Ravens just kept winning again as Joe Flacco became the only Rookie quarterback to win in a divisional round game and advance to the Conference Championship since the current playoff system was put into place.  The Ravens and Steelers match up will be a fist fight at mid field winner take all,  should be a good AFC Championship!

In the NFC Conference the two of the most unlikely teams will meet in the NFC Championship.  The Arizona Cardinals once again pulled off the upset and ended a good Carolina Panthers season which definably will end in disappointment.  For the second week in a row the Arizona defense showed up and totally destroyed the Carolina Panthers.  Jake Delhomme threw 5 interceptions in a wet soaked field and Arizona took full advantage of the poor play and won for the first time in a eastern time zone game.

As for hottest match-up of the weekend the defending Super Bowl Champions were beaten at their own game as the Philadelphia Eagles took the Giants, again on the road.  The Eagles led by a re possessed Donovan McNabb went into the New York Meadowlands and stole the show.  Another gutty performance by the Eagle defense and the Giants just could not get it going with Brandon Jacobs and Eli Manning while the Eagles are back in the NFC Championship game since the last time their team went to the Super Bowl.

What to do make of all of this then, a whole lot of defense has been shown from these last four teams and being the road team in these playoffs seems to have changed the term home field advantage to now a disadvantage. Both of these Conference Championships will be a good game as games are good when they are not what you expected in the beginning of the year.  As of right now who knows what will happen and the final two will be a mystery for the upcoming week. As always the NFL Playoffs give us all the drama and suspense we need to get us coming back for more to watch.

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