The 620 Sportsline producer Rod Lakin gave a guest column on how ridiculous the East Coast media is.

You knew it was coming. You’d think after Saturday’s domination in Carolina it wouldn’t come so quickly, but there it was: “Let’s book Eagles for Tampa.“

That was the headline that greeted the masses on ESPN.com’s main NFL page on Sunday night. The column, written by Gene Wojciechowski, rehashes a familiar spiel: The Arizona Cardinals Cinderella run is over before the (insert East Coast opponent)’s game has even started. They’re facing insurmountable odds, and it’s sheer insanity to believe a win is possible.

Wojciechowski nearly says as much with his lame list of miracle analogies, preceded by the lead “Anything is possible.” Anything was seemingly more possible than a Cardinals-Eagles NFC Championship Game. After all, two weeks ago the Cards presumptive opponent under a far fetched NFC title scenario most likely would’ve been the New York Giants or the Carolina Panthers.

Under the latter scenario, who would’ve considered the possibility of an Arizona win, let alone a rout like the one we witnessed on Saturday?

And this is the point.

Had the Carolina Panthers won a game that everyone (including Mr. Wojciechowski, I‘m sure) thought they were going to win, who would’ve been careless enough to disregard their Super Bowl chances, at home, in the NFC Championship? Gene Wojciechowski is welcome to make that claim to me. Just as he has, incredulously, made one that writes off a team that handed those very same Panthers their first home loss this year.