There’s a belief out there that the reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles are “the team nobody wants to play” in the 2019 NFL playoffs. Count Doug Pederson’s former teammate Brett Favre in that group.
In a recent interview with SiriusXM NFL Radio, Favre had the following to say:
Doug [Pederson] is a very close friend of mine, and there were several stretches throughout this year where he did not return any messages to me. Understandably so. It was a trying time for him.
And I’m with you, after that Saints game, I mean, they got just absolutely destroyed.