From: dggok@pbhyg.PacBell.COM (4E150M)
Subject: Re: San Fancisco vs the NFC East
Reply-To: dggok@PacBell.COM (David G. Gok)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:30:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.220852.22225@ntmtv> jmartin@ntmtv.UUCP (Jeff Martin) writes:
>From article <1993Jan4.152508.12628@asl.dl.nec.com>, by nix@aslslc43.asl.dl.nec.com (David Nix):
>> After the dust settled from the wildcard games, the NFC is right where it
>> started three years ago:  San Francisco on top and a bevy of NFC East teams
>> vying to knock the 49ers off that pedestal.
>> 
>> The NFC playoffs come down to this:  The best team in the NFL vs. the best
>> division in the NFL, to the victor goes the spoils.
>> 
>> Nix
>
>Part of the reason that the 49er's are atop thier pedestal is that
>they are part of a weaker divison. That bevy of NFC east teams spent

How would you like to measure this?  The NFC West has a better record
outside of their division than the NFC East.  Check your stats :-)

>a good part of this season knocking each other off to the benefit of
>the 9ers. 
>
>The Cowboys/Eagles/Redskins interconference rivalies accounted for 2
>losses per team with each team splitting each series. If SF played

No.  All this shows is that Dallas, Philadelphia and Washington are
relatively close in strength.  Says nothing about SF's chances in
this so-called stronger division.

>in a stronger conference, like the NFC east their record probably

We already play in the stronger conference, the NFC.  Does your
team play somewhere else?

>would not have been 14-2. 

Just because the Cowboys and Eagles have NEVER in their HISTORY
won 14 games doesn't mean that you have to slam another team's 14-2
record.  Since you don't like it this year, try on 1984, 1989 and
1990 for size.  If you want 13 game win seasons (NEVER done by
the Eagles) try 1981 and 1987 on for size also. :-)

>
>Let me anticipate a few potential arguments in favor of the NFC West:

I'm not defending the NFC West.  The 49er argument is that they are
14-2 and your team is not.

>
>> The 49ers swept their toughest rival New Orleans.
>
>  - Yes in two very close games. Those same Saints were dispatched 
>    by the Eagles in the first round of the playoffs.
>
>> The 49ers beat the Eagles this year.
>
>  - Yes, at home the 9ers beat the Eagles in a game that was so close
>    that the outcome arguably hinged on a single (mis?)spotting of a ball. 
>    Hardly a reason to assume dominence over an entire division.
>
>> Another NFC west team, the Rams, beat the divison winning Cowboys.
>
>  - ...And the NFC east last place team the Cardinals beat SF. 
>    It happens. Go figure.
>
>This is not to say that having earned home field advantage that
>the 9ers won't get to the Super Bowl. But don't live under any

Unless one of your strong NFC East teams comes to the Stick and
beats the 49ers. :-)

>delusion that the 49er's are not the beneficerey of a weaker division
>than the Eagles/Cowboys/Redskins any of whom would have eagerly
>traded four games with each other for games with the Rams and
>Falcons.

Yeah, and they also got 4 games against the Giants and Phoenix.  Big
deal.

>
>Jeff Martin


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