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The Saints crushed the Eagles in New Orleans during the regular season

In week 11 this season, the Eagles traveled to New Orleans and were obliterated, 48-7. The loss dropped Philadelphia to 4-6, nearly ending their playoff hopes. But behind Nick Foles, the Eagles miraculously made the postseason — after the Saints loss, Philadelphia’s odds of winning a Wild Card berth dropped to just 2% — and won a Wild Card matchup against the Bears. That brings the Eagles back to the Superdome, with a chance for revenge against the Saints.

The Eagles are 8-point underdogs, and the ugly regular season performance is just one of the reasons why. But it’s hard not to draw comparisons to another team in green that once avenged a regular season embarrassment. Eight seasons ago, the Jets traveled to Foxboro for a Monday Night game with a potential division title hanging in the balance. Both teams were 9-2, and New York had defeated New England at home earlier in the year. But that night, the Patriots blew out the Jets 45-3, in a game that showed just how far the Jets still had to go to measure up to the league’s best teams.

Except, it hadn’t. Because 41 days later, in a rematch in Foxboro in the division round of the playoffs, the Jets shocked the Patriots, winning 28-21 as 9.5-point underdogs.

As it turns out, that’s the largest margin ever avenged in the playoffs in a rematch at the same site. The table below shows all postseason games featuring:

1) A rematch of a regular season game in the same location;

2) In the regular season, the winning team won by at least 14 points;

3) In the playoffs, the winning team lost the regular season game.

WonLostYearRS MargRS WkRS BoxscoreLocLineRdP Boxscore
NYJNWE2010-421345-3Road9.5D28-21
MINRAM1977-32635-3RoadD14-7
DENHOU1987-30440-10Home-10D34-10
KANHOU1993-30230-0Road7D28-20
ARIDAL1998-28138-10Road7W20-7
PITHOU1989-27727-0Road7W26-23
ARIGNB2009-261733-7Home2.5W51-45
GNBNYG1944-241024-0RoadC14-7
RAMDAL1979-24730-6Road8.5D21-19
NYGRAM1984-21533-12Road4.5W16-13
BUFBCL1948-201535-15RoadD28-17
BALPIT2014-20943-23Road3W30-17
BUFNYJ1981-19733-14Road3W31-27
PITIND2005-191226-7Road8.5D21-18
TAMDET1997-18727-9Home-3W20-10
RAMCLE1951-15238-23HomeC24-17
RAMTAM1979-15421-6Road-3.5C9-0
CHINYG1946-14614-0RoadC24-14
WASDAL1982-141324-10Home2C31-17
WASPHI1990-141028-14Road4.5W20-6
SDGKAN1992-14124-10Home-3W17-0
INDDEN2003-141631-17Home-3W41-10
NWEPIT2004-14834-20Road-3C41-27
INDNYJ2009-141629-15Home-8.5C30-17
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