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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nick Foles used the bye week to go back to basics. seed to open the playoffs as an underdog mainly because Foles is the starting quarterback instead of Carson Wentz.But Foles hasn’t lost confidence despite public perception that he can’t lead the Eagles to the Super Bowl Stitched Derrick Shelby Jersey , or even a victory over the Atlanta Falcons (11-6) on Saturday in the divisional round.“It’s just going out there and playing and staying in the zone and trusting my instincts,” Foles said.“I’ve played this game a long time. There’s a reason I’ve been able to do what I’ve been able to do. When I play my best and I’m most comfortable, I just go out there and play.”Foles has had success against defenses similar to Atlanta’s. The Falcons employ a Cover-3 scheme as their base defense. The three deep zones are covered by two cornerbacks and the free safety. The Seahawks have excelled at it for several years. Of course, they have a world-class secondary.Falcons coach Dan Quinn was Seattle’s defensive coordinator when they won the Super Bowl four years ago.Foles has never faced Quinn, but he beat the Jaguars in 2014 with the Eagles and in 2016 with the Chiefs. He beat the Seahawks in 2015 with St. Louis. Gus Bradley, who preceded Quinn as Seattle’s defensive coordinator, was Jacksonville’s coach in both games against Foles.Foles is 65 of 105 (61.9 percent) for 842 yards with five touchdowns passes and one interceptions in those three games against Cover-3 defenses.“You know where they are going to be. That’s the thing with this defense,” Eagles coach Doug Pederson said. “They play with a lot of confidence. It’s an aggressive style. It’s fast flow and they are not going to pull any punches.“They are not going to try to trick you or do anything to get in your head or anything like that. It’s just line up and try to beat us.”The Falcons don’t blitz much but still get pressure on quarterbacks. They tied for 13th in the league with 39 sacks. Adrian Clayborn led the way with 9 sacks, including six in one game against the Cowboys.Atlanta allowed 17.5 points per game over the final six games and then shut down the league’s highest-scoring offense in a 26-13 win at the Los Angeles Rams in the wild-card game.“This defense is much improved over the course of the season,” Pederson said. “You saw it against the Rams. They are fast. They are flying to the football.“Secondary is aggressive. Guys know how to cover. A lot of single-high. They are going to challenge our receivers and that’s what you’re seeing on tape. It’s a quality defense, but that’s what we expect this time of year.”Foles played well immediately after Wentz tore his ACL in Week 14. He was 20 of 48 for 279 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions in his first five quarters versus 23 of 49 for 202 yards with one TD and two picks in the last five quarters.“I haven’t executed as well as I wanted to the past couple of weeks, but I go out there and play and having this time to self-scout Youth Derrick Shelby Jersey , go through practice, you realize just go out there and play,” Foles said.“Maybe I wasn’t doing that as much those last couple of games. It’s as simple as that. Sometimes, the hardest things are the simplest things. Basically, get out of your own head and go play the game you know how to play.”——AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP–NFL—— Sometimes history repeats itself. We like to think that the march of progress and the march of time move relentlessly forward, but the truth is that sometimes we cover familiar ground, whether we want to or not. Enter the upcoming Super Bowl. The 2001 Super Bowl paired the juggernaut Rams against the upstart Patriots, a team with a seasoned veteran quarterback destined for the Hall of Fame against a young player on the cusp of unexpected greatness. Nearly two decades later, these two teams will meet again with the situation neatly reversed. The two franchises have taken very different roads here. The Rams would make it to the Divisional Round in 2003 and 2004 and then proceed to miss the playoffs for 12 consecutive seasons, with their drought finally ending with a 2017 playoff berth swiftly ended by the Falcons. Now they’re in the Super Bowl again with one of the league’s most celebrated young coaches, with a young quarterback at the helm, and with one of the best offenses in the league yet again.The Patriots are no longer young Stitched Wes Schweitzer Jersey , though they continue to have young talent worth mentioning. Tom Brady is not a rookie and is almost certainly winding down a Hall of Fame career, but the Patriots left 2001 and went on to become perhaps the most successful dynasty in NFL history, single-handedly dominating the AFC for nearly two straight decades. Annoyingly, this likely won’t be the final year for Brady and Belichick and this franchise, but we are looking at the end of this particular epoch of Patriots football. It would seem fitting if the same team that helped kick off the dynasty with a loss ended it by winning, wouldn’t it?History may repeat itself, but it is rarely so neat. The Rams got embroiled in an ugly slugfest with the Saints, and whatever you thought of the four-plus missed penalties on New Orleans and the awful missed call late that got Los Angeles off the hook, that’s not the kind of game they’re likely to win against the Patriots. But the Rams are so frighteningly capable of scoring from just about anywhere—not to mention capable of stretches of dominance on defense—that no one will take a Patriots win for granted.And hell, I’m rooting for them. The Rams could become an insufferable team in no time flat, because Sean McVay is everyone’s boy darling and teams are trying desperately to copy them, but the Patriots have been insufferable for the better part of 15 years. It would be nice to see their stranglehold over the AFC come to an end Youth Wes Schweitzer Jersey , starting with back-to-back Super Bowl losses, and to see a team that hasn’t been there in a long time walk away with a title. It may also spur a host of teams to rush into ill-advised hires trying to find the next McVay, and that never hurts. Here’s what you’ll need to know to watch this year’s Super Bowl in Atlanta, if you’re so inclined. Who: Los Angeles Rams vs. New England Patriots Time: Sunday, February 3, 6:30 p.m. ESTLocation: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GeorgiaChannel: CBSStreaming: CBSSports.com Will Chik-fil-A be open? No, but we’ve heard replacement Fries Up is great and Darren Rovell should be quiet