... year for a football team. For example, Eagles fans will remember Week One of the 2007 season as the game that doomed the Eagles for the year, but sent the Green Bay Packers to the NFC Championship Game.

Many would question how the first game could possibly have such an impact, but really it's simple. The confidence you get from a big win can help you through the entire year, and adversely, the hurt of losing a game you should have won can kill a season. Were the Packers the second-best team in the NFC that year? Probably not. They overachieved because of that confidence.

It may not be the same situation for the Eagles and Panthers, because both are good teams, and it probably wouldn't be much of a surprise to see either t...

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