WP: You Have to Beat the Bully (Wilbon)
 

You don't dare think of the playoffs without first beating division rivals, without winning at home, without rebounding from a humiliating defeat.

A contender's resume has to have something other than running up the score on everybody's favorite homecoming opponent, the sorry, no-account 49ers.

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