"The end of the 2010 season still bothers Brent Celek. The lopsided regular-season finale, the first-round playoff knockout, the squandered potential and the team responsible for the Eagles' collapse.

"I think when you go through a whole season and you're playing real well ... we had a chance to be 12-4 and get a bye week and then the whole season was shot down in two weeks, by the same team," the Eagles' tight end said. "I think that was the worst part, and then on top of that, it was the Cowboys.

"I don't want this season to go like that did. You work too hard in the offseason, during the season, to have it end like that."

Last year's 34-14 wild card loss was the most lopsided of coach Andy Reid's postseason career and also his first wild card defeat.

Through the years, Reid's teams were nearly impossible to knock out in the first and second rounds. But the Eagles never had a chance last season against Dallas.

Just six days after they were crushed 24-0 in the Cowboys' new stadium to end the regular season, the Eagles flew back to have their rear ends kicked again."