Green Akers: Not the Place To Be

If there is one place I wouldn't like to be, it would have to be in the city of Philadelphia, Monday morning, and named David Akers.

You had to feel bad for the guy. Everyone has tough days. Akers tough day just happened to be in the NFC Championship game. It all started in the second quarter. He snapped out of his scoring streak after missing a kick.

Ironically the kick was wide right. Later in the game, Donovan McNabb threw a touchdown to Celek. Making the score 24-13. The Eagles were coming back. Except on the kickoff, David Akers kicked it out of bounds.

Coach Andy Reid verbally showed compassion with Akers, except his form of compassion involved scolding the kicker for kicking the kickoff out of bounds.

After he kicked it out of bounds, it was go time for the Eagles. Three plays. Eleven Seconds. Change of downs. The Eagles' defense controlled the Cardinals. And Ben Graham punted it back into McNabb's hands.

McNabb controlled the ball. And in less than two minutes he bullied the Cardinals' Defense into giving up another touchdown. And that is when Akers potentially killed all of his teams momentum. He booted the Extra Point wide right once again.

The Eagles went from a possible comeback, to questioning if they could possibly do this. If Akers had made the field goal and extra point. The score would have been Arizona 24 Philadelphia 23.

However, if Akers had made the field goal previously in the game, the score would have been Arizona 24 Philadelphia 22, with the option of tying the ball game in the third quarter with a two point conversion after McNabb's third-quarter touchdown.

Let's fast-forward just a little bit. Philadelphia scores the next touchdown in the game. Meaning they would have the upper-hand here.

If they missed the two point previously the score would have been Philadelphia 29 Arizona 24 (assuming Philly makes the extra point) And if they made the two point conversion, they would be leading 31-24.

Now, I know your saying, "Well this is dumb and what is the point in this?" The point is: If Akers had made the field goal earlier in the game, Philadelphia would have been in great position late in the game to win it.

Arizona took the lead late in the game. So once again assuming Akers had a perfect day, once again depending on the two point conversion earlier in the game, Arizona would have been leading 31-29, or it would have been a tied game.

Late in the fourth quarter. Philadelphia was down. They had to call all of their timeouts, to try and make a comeback.

If the score had been 31-31, Philadelphia would have had all the momentum with 2:53 seconds left to attempt to make a game tying field goal.

But once again this is all "If's" and "They could've" David Akers didn't get the job done. And it may have possibly cost the Philadelphia Eagles the chance of playing in this year's Super Bowl.