A teammate hinted earlier this month that kicker David Akers was dealing with some personal issues around the time of Philadelphia's playoff loss to Green Bay. His agent, Jerrold Colton, said it was a "private family health concern." Akers had been quiet on the situation until telling the Philadelphia Inquirer that his 6-year-old daughter, Halley, had a malignant cyst in her left ovary that was removed in the week after the game. "They used the word tumor or cyst or growth," Akers said. "And you're like, 'OK, what does that mean?' Cancer is what that means." The kicker's wife, Erika, told the newspaper that she could tell from her seat in the stands at Lincoln Financial Field that her husband's mind wasn't solely on the game against the Packers. "I could tell he was there doing his job," she told the newspaper. "But he wasn't there."