Whaaaaaa Happened?

So I decided after the Titans lost (The Ravens didn't win, the Titans lost...awful), that it was a good time to go out and get some food. So in the middle of my Thai food I decided to check the score of the Carolina/Arizona and saw it was 7-0 Carolina. Just as I predicted.

Then I came home to see it was 30-7 Cardinals. The Arizona Cardinals. Are you kidding me? I was worried about Jake Delhomme throwing up a stinker (a nice 11.51 passer rating...wow), but wow...amazing. I was DEAD wrong about this game. I admit it (Paul, you can revel in my wrongness).

This is even more incentive for the Giants to just put away the Eagles tomorrow and face the Cardinals in the NFC Championship game. Think about this also. In 2000 the Ravens beat the Titans in the playoffs. In 2000 the Super Bowl was in Tampa Bay. In 2000 the Giants had a first round bye and played the Eagles in the Divisional Round (in the "Jason Sehorn Game"). The Giants faced the Ravens in the Super Bowl that year. Everything is the same this year. Let's hope the Giants have better Super Bowl results (Eli doesn't seem the betting--or drinking-- type).

So the Cards will play in the NFC Championship game. Even more amazingly, if the Eagles win, the Cardinals will HOST the NFC Championship game.

I hate to declare it this early, especially since Arizona's biggest problem is closing games. But a 23 point lead is a pretty amazing and surprising start. Do you think that the Panthers were looking a little far ahead? They probably figured they were ticketed for the NFC Championship game. They've lost this one so far without much of a fight.

Speaking of losing games for yourself, how the Titans handed the Ravens the game today will never cease to amaze me. They were given every chance to win that game but turnovers, horrible execution in Ravens territory, a ridiculous amount of penalties (especially for a Jeff Fischer team), and one bad call by the zebras at the end (how that was not a delay of game amazes me).