"Brent Celek is still bothered by the way the 2010 season ended -- the lopsided season finale, the first-round playoff knockout, the squandered potential and the team responsible for the Eagles' collapse.

"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 recalled. "I think that was the worst part, and then on top of that, it was the Cowboys.

"I think guys were mad at that. I am. 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 had cultivated an image as being nearly impossible to knock out in the first and second round, but the Eagles never had a chance against Dallas.

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

"It was pretty bad," right tackle Winston Justice said. "I was watching that film a couple of weeks ago and we were down, like, 34-7 or something like that. We were in (the) two minute (offense) in the second quarter. That's bad. We probably ran the ball four times."

Maybe that's what scares fans most about Sunday's wild-card game against Green Bay at Lincoln Financial Field, a game seemingly every analysts and talking head has handed to the sixth-seeded Packers.

Their last -- and most vivid -- memory of the Eagles is last Tuesday's 24-14 loss to a hopeless Minnesota team that won easily behind a rookie quarterback and a defensive effort that spoiled Michael Vick's MVP candidacy.

The Vikings trampled Vick and won behind Joe Webb in game the Eagles needed to retain their chance of securing a first-round bye -- a complete meltdown just nine days after a lousy effort for 52 of 60 minutes against the Giants at the Meadowlands."