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The Duke
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...it doesn't matter how much mud and dust you kick up in the front stretch. It's who's kicking up the mud and dust in the home stretch that counts."
Folks, we are in the home stretch now. It officially begins this week. This is the Great 8 round of the playoffs. Win or go home. As much as I loved the win last week, this is the one I have wanted. I think the chance to play for the NFC Championship is validation.
All season long the media has made their snide little remarks about the past thirteen years and they have called that journalism. It has pissed us off, amused us, or turned us completely off. That is their job to some degree, but along the way I feel they forgot how to write. How to find a story and make it resonate with the fans. They were too busy trying to incite rather than excite.
If we win this week, that has to stop. They will no longer be able stand by their motto of "I report it even if you don't like it. That's my job." If we win the stories turn from failures of the past to the charge towards the future.
Back in September we lost to the Giants and then the Broncos. The world ended for some that day. The media became convinced it was the same old song and dance and they decided that they would report that this season.
Then when the team began to rally they played the "I'm just the mean old media card." You have to wonder after reading about Tony's jabs and Keith Brooking standing up to Steve Dennis to the degree that he did if they aren't getting it.
They wanted us to come charging out of the gate making noise. But the horse that runs up front early sometimes fades. This team started clicking at exactly the right moment. Just like they said they would. Despite all the media doing their unpleasant jobs. Maybe it's just me, but in retrospect they look pretty uninformed about the actual game of football. That isn't new, but it is still disappointing.
The backstretch is behind us, we are in the stretch run, the home stretch is looming. Will we make it a horse race? That remains to be seen, but at least for now, we are in the running.
Folks, we are in the home stretch now. It officially begins this week. This is the Great 8 round of the playoffs. Win or go home. As much as I loved the win last week, this is the one I have wanted. I think the chance to play for the NFC Championship is validation.
All season long the media has made their snide little remarks about the past thirteen years and they have called that journalism. It has pissed us off, amused us, or turned us completely off. That is their job to some degree, but along the way I feel they forgot how to write. How to find a story and make it resonate with the fans. They were too busy trying to incite rather than excite.
If we win this week, that has to stop. They will no longer be able stand by their motto of "I report it even if you don't like it. That's my job." If we win the stories turn from failures of the past to the charge towards the future.
Back in September we lost to the Giants and then the Broncos. The world ended for some that day. The media became convinced it was the same old song and dance and they decided that they would report that this season.
Then when the team began to rally they played the "I'm just the mean old media card." You have to wonder after reading about Tony's jabs and Keith Brooking standing up to Steve Dennis to the degree that he did if they aren't getting it.
They wanted us to come charging out of the gate making noise. But the horse that runs up front early sometimes fades. This team started clicking at exactly the right moment. Just like they said they would. Despite all the media doing their unpleasant jobs. Maybe it's just me, but in retrospect they look pretty uninformed about the actual game of football. That isn't new, but it is still disappointing.
The backstretch is behind us, we are in the stretch run, the home stretch is looming. Will we make it a horse race? That remains to be seen, but at least for now, we are in the running.
