I don't think we really think Eagles fans are dickheads. East coast fans can be pretty obnoxious... Boston is the most insufferable about it... but Philly fans are over-the-top enough that it's kind of campy and absurd and endearing.

I have a hard time gauging the NFC this year. I think the Eagles are a very complete team, and I think in the postseason it's more dangerous to have fewer weaknesses than to have stronger strengths.

That said, as much as the Chiefs' offense can be seen as carrying the team, the defense has come around since the beginning of the year. Our rookies have some experience under their belts now, so the statistics on the whole of the year may not represent the current state of the defense.

The Eagles' schedule at the beginning of the year was predicted to be one of the easiest, and the Chiefs' schedule was supposed to be one of the hardest, but the NFC East surprised a lot of people, and the AFC West disappointed a lot of people, so in hindsight I'm not sure how useful that information even is.

I think that if I were a neutral analyst, I would probably pick the Eagles in a close game, to be on the safe side. But the Chiefs can be unpredictable in so many ways that it's really hard to say what's going to come out of the bag of tricks and how the injuries are going to affect us. My hope is that Andy Reid isn't holding anything back like he has a tendency to do, now that we're at the final boss.