Son of a Monkey's Uncle, It Feels Good to be right

If you're a regular here, you might recall this post from about a month ago in which the douchily-named Gregg Easterbrook said this:

Sour Decision of the Week: With the score 13-13 in overtime, Philadelphia faced a fourth-and-1 on its own 22-yard line with 1:30 remaining in the fifth quarter and punted. But for the Eagles, wasn't a tie as bad as a loss? TMQ suspects that at the end of the season, that tie will effectively be a loss for the Nesharim.

And then I spent about 20 minutes explaining why this was stupid. Well well well, looky here. It's week 17, and the Eagles control their own destiny. Beating the Cowboys will give them a 9-6-1 record and a wild card berth. Just missing the playoffs would be the Cowboys and Bucaneers, both at 9-7. Now, had the Eagles gone for that 4th down in Cincinnati, missed it, and lost the game, they would be able to finish only 9-7 with a win today. And both Tampa and Dallas would still be 9-7 and both would have tiebreakers over them, meaning the Eagles would be unable to reach the playoffs. Meanwhile, had the Eagles gone for the 4th down, made it, and gone on to win the game, they would be... in exactly the same position they are now. What a sour decision!

Long story short: although things didn't work out exactly as I had predicted back then, Gregg was extremely wrong and I was mostly right. Nah nah nah nah nah. Just go back and read the middle part of that old post if you can't figure out what I'm talking about. Hot diggity damn, I am a genius.