The Arizona Cardinals are going to the Super Bowl

Clearly, I know nothing about football. I give up trying to predict what's going to happen. The 9-7 Cardinals were supposed to be the worst team in the playoffs. They scored 427 points and gave up 426 in the season. That's terrible. They played in the worst conference in football. They gave up 56 points to the Jets, 48 to the Eagles on Thanksgiving and 47 to the Patriots in December. They're not supposed to be good, let alone in the Super Bowl.

There's only one logical conclusion: everyone is lousy this year, or at least severely flawed. The Eagles were a super shaky team that alternated between overachieving and underachieving. I, along with the rest of the world, wrote them off after the Ravens loss, and they managed to sneak into the playoffs with a 9-6-1 record. This was clearly the worst NFC championship game ever.

The best team in the conference, the Giants, had a quarterback that couldn't handle the winds of the Meadowlands despite having played there all year. Go figure.

Back to the Eagles, their biggest flaw was red zone and short yardage offense. They had problems converting short yardage situations all year. Ditto for Arizona, who also couldn't play defense.

Dallas was a paper tiger with a bunch of me-first primadonnas that sank the team with whining and poor effort. They also have the most unclutch quarterback ever in Tony Romo (a great place for ribs).

Carolina had Jake Delhomme at quarterback. Nuff said.

The Falcons were just OK on defense and had a rookie quarterback who didn't vary his snap count at all in a playoff game and cost his team the game. Seriously. Arizona jumped the snap on almost every play because they knew the count. That's a huge rookie mistake.

Green Bay couldn't play fourth quarter defense. The Bears' defense was mediocre, the offense inconsistent, and the special teams just ordinary. Minnesota has Brad Childress as its coach and the Tavaris Jackson/Gus Ferotte combo at quarterback.

I could go on and on, but that's pretty much it. Every team, at least in the NFC, had one killer flaw.