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This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

Other than having home field

advance, which clearly the Vikings did not,

you would have assumed the position

that they were the better team

than the Philadelphia Eagles.

And, of course, you've got to play

better. They did not.

And so now the

Eagles, who barely got by, the Atlanta Falcons in the divisional round,

they stomped, bludgeoned the Vikings in this game with a kick in the nuts and everywhere else of the once-proud Vikings defense.

Nick Foles through three touchdown passes,

a couple of them to Alshan Jeffrey,

the Garrett Blunt, with the score.

It was so bad.

How bad was it on the Fox broadcast

that Joe Buck went to his garbage time programming filler

with Troy Aikman, I believe, was it the second quarter

when they started going to the trash?

The trash time, we better fill some time here at Lincoln Financial Field.

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