The Philadelphia Eagles will face the Washington Commanders within the NFC Championship Recreation on Sunday — a prospect that not solely sticks within the craw of Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones however that of New York Giants co-owner John Mara as nicely.
Whereas the Giants are sitting residence and considering their future after a 3-14 season, their two division rivals are vying for a spot within the Tremendous Bowl.
The irony is that each the Eagles and Commanders achieved their latest success on the expense of the Giants. The Eagles added operating again Saquon Barkley, who the Giants selected to not proceed on with after final season.
That call was not one Mara agreed with on the time. He questioned his common supervisor Joe Schoen’s knowledge on the transfer, including he would hate to see Barkley re-emerge in an Eagles uniform and torture them for the foreseeable future.
“I’m going to have a tricky time sleeping if Saquon goes to Philadelphia,” Mara informed Schoen in a second that was captured by HBO’s Onerous Knocks.
Naturally, Barkley went on to have his greatest season as a professional, dashing for two,005 yards in main the Eagles to the NFC East title and a 14-3 report.
Mara was then taunted final month when Barkley appeared in an advert for a sleep assist that was tongue-in-cheek in nature however stung nonetheless.
On Sunday, Barkley thrust the dagger in deeper by operating roughshod over the Los Angeles Rams within the NFC Divisional Playoffs.
Washington hit the jackpot with rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels 4 spots forward of the Giants within the NFL draft. He’s enjoying at a Patrick Mahomes-like degree.
In the meantime, the Giants don’t have any quarterback — previous, current, or future — to talk of and their prospects look extraordinarily bleak.
The Giants are as soon as once more on the underside wanting up at hated rivals. Philadelphia has handed them many a painful loss over time and Mara’s father, Wellington, had nice disdain for Washington over time.
“I can consider nothing sweeter than ruining their day,” the elder Mara as soon as stated.
There’s nothing the Giants can do to destroy the Commanders’ day proper now. They’ll solely run their very own followers’ day. They usually’ve been doing that fairly usually over the previous decade.
