And so it is the Saints

Pretty incredible game up in Seattle. It looked like yet again things were going to go the Packers way, that the 49ers were going to blow a late 2 score lead and give the Packers home field advantage. 

That whole last minute was crazy. I was screaming for the Niners to use timeouts, but they didn't. Then Seattle got a pass to the 1, so it looked like all the time would run off AND Seattle would score. They spiked the ball, then they made such a production of bringing in Marshawn Lynch that they actually got a delay of game. 2 incompletions followed.

Then on 4th down Wilson zipped a pass to the goalline, and the tackle was made with the ball literally inches from the white. 

Not since Mike Jones stopped Kevin Dyson one yard shy of the endzone in super bowl 34 has a single tackle held such importance. 

That tackle affected every NFC playoff team's fortunes. It could be the biggest play of the whole NFL season depending on how things play out. 

Those inches mean that next week the Vikings are going to New Orleans to play the mighty Saints.

Look, literally nobody on planet earth is going to give the Vikings any chance whatsoever to win that game. Maybe they don't have any chance. We could be walking into the next 41-donut massacre for all we know. 

But this is the matchup I wanted. I look at it this way. This is the one of the 3 possible matchups that carries the least pressure. 

If we had played the Packers again and lost it would be "why did you let that team beat you 3 times in one season," to say nothing of the unbearable taunting we would get from Packtards.

If we went to Seattle for the 2nd time in a month and lost again it would be "why did you lose twice to that one man team with all the injuries." 

There would be expectations with those games. I feel like there will be none with the Saints. Nobody doubts the Saints are better. They lose this game and I feel like it would not be taken as some disaster. The pressure is on the Saints for sure. Brees can't play forever. They've had 2 straight years of gut punch playoff losses. They have a lot more to lose from a loss than we do. 

We have very little to lose, in my opinion. I think only a blowout loss(which is possible) would cause a crisis, aside from that section of the fans and media who rage at every setback and want Zimmer and Spielman fired and Cousins released constantly. 

But what if we win? 😮

It would be the biggest playoff upset win since probably that 1987 run(which also started in New Orleans and then went to San Francisco).

Go get it. Shock the world. 

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