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All right, so some wild stuff happened on Sunday night.

Wild.

You had the Washington football team trying to beat Philadelphia.

As long as they were able to do that, boom, they were going to the playoffs.

Winners of the NFC East, which has not quite been a gauntlet this year.

And what happened?

You had Doug Peterson, the Eagles head coach, take out Jalen Hertz, and put in the game Nate Sudfeld.

That's right.

Nate Sudfeld.

And old Nate did not play too good over there.

He had a interception, had a fumble, was just atrocious.

And in the process, with Nate Sudfeld stinking up the joint, it allowed Washington to win the game,

which eliminated the New York Giants from playoff contention.

And it's gotten quite the reaction.

I get why Big Blue is all ticked off about this.

Current players, former players, fans.

They're like, what is Doug Peterson doing right now?

This is painful, man.

This is agony. I get that. You're competitive.

You're in the moment. You want your team to win. You want to go to the playoffs. I get all of that.

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