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Dieter Kurtenbach: The NFL's championship weekend should encourage the 49ers, Raidersc | The Sacramento Bee

I watched four good but incomplete teams play for a berth in the Super Bowl on Sunday. I was unimpressed.

I saw a New England team struggle for 50 minutes, barely escaping with an AFC Championship Game victory against a Jacksonville Jaguars team that was a competent quarterback and a trusting coaching staff away from going to their first Super Bowl.

Then I watched two backup quarterbacks battle for the NFC Championship, with Nick Foles tearing up one of the NFL's best defenses, getting the better of the Case Keenum-led Vikings.

Somehow, someway, is the best the NFL has to offer.