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By Matt Lombardo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

MINNEAPOLIS -- The New England Patriots are playing for their sixth Super Bowl championship won by the dynamic duo of head coach Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, but the Eagles aim to stop them dead in their tracks on Sunday at U.S. Bank Stadium, and hoist their first Vince Lombardi Trophy in franchise history.

While theoretically, it would be easy for a team to get caught up in or intimidated by the mystique that the Patriots carry with them into their eighth Super Bowl appearance, the Eagles haven't been paying that any mind whatsoever this week.

Here's what the Eagles are saying about why they aren't intimidated by the Patriots:

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DT - Tim Jernigan

“Not even a little bit,” Jernigan told NJ Advance Media, when asked if it’s hard not to be intimidated by the Patriots. “Not even a little bit, man. This team out here is full of dogs. This team is full of guys that are searching for opportunity. Everybody’s hungry, from the players to the coaches, to the staff, everybody. I think that’s what makes us different than a lot of teams that have played them.

“I just want to come out and pay my respects to not just Brady, but the entire New England Patriots team, by having one of my better games. That’s going to be my way of showing my respect. I’m going to give them everything I’ve got. Every single guy on this team is going to do the same thing.”

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C - Jason Kelce

"I think when you've been playing for a long time, you've had games where you've played unbelievable players and unbelievable coaches. To me, this isn't any different. These guys have been more consistent throughout the years, but this is the NFL. You play good players every week. There's good coaches you go against every week. I don't think you look at this any different than the fact that this is just another game, you see what they do really well and how you can defend it."

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S - Rodney McLeod

"We really don't worry about them, too much. I think that we respect Bill Belichick, as a head coach. We respect Tom Brady. They're a duo that's won a lot of championships. We respect them because of that, but we understand what we need to do. They've been on this stage before, but we know we have to bring our best. Everything that we've been doing all year, we have to heighten it a little more and understand how they're going to attack us, but be prepared and practice hard."

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DT - Beau Allen

"For me personally, that's not something I've really thought about too much. That's the second or third time someone has asked me about that today, so I think that's something that's talked about more in the media. This is the Super Bowl, man. We're a good football team, too."

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Head Coach Doug Pederson

"If I make this all about them, we're in trouble. Honestly, we're in trouble. Everything is going to be written about it. Everything has been written about it, talked about it, discussed, debated, and it's about us. And I'll keep saying that. It's what we do and how well we execute. I can't worry about that."

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RB - Corey Clement

"We've been underdogs for a few weeks now. We were underdogs in our own house. That's kind of crazy. At the same time, that just adds fuel to our fire. We're not going to let any of that phase us.

"You can either let their aura effect you, or not. My choice, I'm not going to let it effect me. I'm pretty sure that everybody else on the team is not going to allow that, as well."

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Defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz

"I owe a lot to Bill Belichick. He got my career started. The first three years of my NFL career were with him in Cleveland. That's the last thing that we'll be thinking about in preparation and that's the last thing that any of these players -- you think any of our players care that in 1993 I got hired as an unpaid intern? Do you really think that they think that's going to -- they are just going out and playing. We need to come up with a good plan. We need to execute. We need to keep in mind what we're good at, keep in mind our matchups and all those different things. And if we do a good enough job at that, we'll be able to come out with a victory."

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LT - Lane Johnson

"For what they did to us in 2004 in the Super Bowl, to get a chance at payback, there would be nothing sweeter than that. I remember watching that game when I was 14 years old. I was hoping the Eagles would win. Just coming up short, you could feel their pain. You could also feel the passion of what this city wants. And we're here, so it's right at our fingertips."

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WR - Alshon Jeffery

"I'm not here to talk about any [Super Bowl] dreams. All I can tell you is, we're coming home with that trophy."

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S - Malcolm Jenkins

"Greatest quarterback of all time, but that doesn't mean that he's unbeatable. We've got a destination that we're geared to. No matter who's in front of us, we've got somewhere to go."

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RB - LeGarrette Blount

"Straight enemies. Ain't no friends. ... Ain't no homies. None of that. We know what we're going to do. They know what they're going to do. We both have the same goal in mind. There aren't any hard feelings, it just is what it is.

"I play for the Eagles now. I don't play for the Patriots, anymore. I don't watch the Patriots. I don't care about the Patriots. I just focus on what we need to do to put us in the best position to win this game. I had a great time there last year, but, last year is last year."

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