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The Philadelphia coach left no stone unturned in preparation for the biggest game of the year.

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Eagles coach Nick Sirianni was in the middle of final preparations for the team’s first postseason game against the division rival Giants when he decided to go to an unorthodox source of motivation.
As the team met on Friday night ahead of Saturday’s divisional round game, Sirianni showed the team Eminem’s rap battle in his movie 8 Mile and the team loved it, per John Clark of NBC Sports Philadelphia.

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The current Philadelphia Eagle wrapped up a miserable first quarter for the Giants.
When cornerback James Bradberry was cut by the New York Giants for salary cap reasons, the Philadelphia Eagles wasted no time picking him up on a one-year deal to help boost their secondary. Bradberry had a career-best season and was voted second-team All-Pro.
In Saturday’s Divisional Round playoff game against his former team, Bradberry jumped a Daniel Jones pass intended for Darius Slayton and made the interception.

The biggest chain story in the NFL since Aqib Talib and Michael Crabtree
Every year we watch the NFL and wonder why a multi-billion dollar operation still uses chain crews to determine whether or not the ball reached the first-down marker. But what happens if the chains don’t actually work?
Early in the first quarter of the NFC Divisional Round between the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles, the game had to be delayed for several minutes for “an administrative stoppage” because the chains broke off from the signal poles. Seriously. In 2023.

The star quarterback missed the entire second quarter of Saturday’s win over the Jaguars after suffering an ankle injury.

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After battling an ankle injury throughout Saturday’s game against the Jaguars, Patrick Mahomes revealed an ultimatum given to him by the Chiefs after he was forced to miss part of the 27–17 divisional round win.
Mahomes, who was listed as questionable to return shortly after the injury, missed the entire second quarter before returning to finish the game following halftime.

TE Dallas Goedert stiff-armed and spun his way into the end zone of the Giants-Eagles divisional-round game.

Terquavion Smith was down on the court for several minutes before he was stretchered off and taken to a local hospital.

Stephen A. Smith did not hold back when discussing the Brooklyn Nets and would be star player Ben Simmons.
Simmons is in his first healthy season in Brooklyn, and it has not gone particularly well.
During ESPN’s NBA Countdown show, Smith said that with his poor performance, Simmons is essentially ”stealing money” from his current team.
“Ben Simmons, it’s a sad situation,” Smith explained. “And I don’t mean this literally, because obviously, he’s not doing it, but one would say, he is stealing money.

Trevor Lawrence knows what it is like to lose, but know he knows what it is like to lose on a Saturday. That is new to him.
Jacksonville’s loss to Kansas City marked his first loss on the seventh day of the week since at least middle school. That goes back eight years.
Trevor Lawrence had not lost on a Saturday, dating back to 2014.
Lawrence was the top-ranked prospect in the college football recruiting Class of 2018 after lighting up the stat sheet at Cartersville High School in Georgia.

What we saw from Patrick Mahomes on Saturday was a picture of courage that people who witnessed will talk about in the years to come.
It was Willis Reed coming out of that locker room unexpectedly.
It was Kerri Strug vaulting for gold in the Olympics.
Or Jim Abbott throwing no-hit baseball off his only hand.
Patrick Mahomes played three quarters of this NFL divisional round playoff game against the Jacksonville Jaguars with what is known to be an ankle sprain and believed to be a high-ankle sprain at that.
Most people need crutches to walk with a high ankle sprain.

The Chiefs quarterback only missed one drive during Saturday’s 27–20 win over the Jaguars.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes missed just one drive (and a kneel to end the quarter) with an ankle injury in the team’s 27–20 win over the Jaguars in the divisional round on Saturday.
Despite the injury, Mahomes still thinks he will be ready to go for next weekend’s AFC Championship game.
Mahomes’s X-Rays came back negative, he said, but a diagnosis on his ankle has yet to be revealed. It is believed he suffered a high ankle sprain, per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.