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Same as last year. Lay out your game by game winners.

Wild Card weekend: 1pt
Second weekend: 2pts
Conference weekend: 4pts
The Big Game: 8pts

Keep your prediction in a simple format at the top of your post and then all the yadda yadda you want below that.

AFC:

Ravens
Cinci

Indy
Cinci

Indy

NFC:

Eagles
Green Bay

Eagles
Minn

Minn

The Big Game: Indy

AFC:

Bengals
Pats

Colts
Chargers

Chargers

NFC:

'Boys
Cards

Saints
Cards

Cards

Game: Cards win

edited: Giving up on work for the day to turn my attention to more important things, like the format of my post. Sorry about the mess.

AFC:

Ravens
Bengals

Colts
Chargers

Chargers

NFC:

Cowboys
Green Bay

Vikings
Saints

Saints

The Big Game: Saints

I can't believe I'm not only going to expect a Norv Turner team to get to the Super Bowl, I'm going to expect the SAINTS to get to and WIN a Super Bowl. But there it is.

AFC:

Pats over Baltimore
Bengals over Jets

Colts over Bengals
Chargers over Pats

Colts over Chargers

NFC:

Philly over Dallas
Green Bay over Arizona

Saints over Philly
Green Bay over Vikings

Saints over Green Bay

Big One: Saints over Colts

NO finally wins one  :grin:

AFC:

Ravens
Bengals

Colts
Chargers

Chargers

NFC:

Eagles
Packers

Vikings
Saints

Vikings

The Big Game: Chargers

I think my brain is incapable of thinking the Cowboys or Saints can win a playoff game.  Then again, I'm picking the Chargers so what do I know?

There is a lot of Ravens love, too, but I think people are forgetting how totally unimpressive they were at the start of the season. Still, momentum means a lot in the playoffs and the Ravens look solid if not spectacular.

Weren't the Ravens actually VERY impressive the first three games, and then went into a slide?  Maybe that's what you meant.  Or maybe I misremember.

Ravens have been inconsistent - but so have the Pats. The Pats defense has been pretty terrible, while the Ravens have good defense other than a slightly penalty prone backfield. Also, the Pats are without Welker who is a shitton more important than I think even the Patriots realize to that passing game. The cold won't bother either team, negating any home field advantage. When in doubt in January, go with the better defense.

AFC:

Jets
Patriots

Colts
Chargers

Colts

NFC:

Cowboys
Packers

Cowboys
Saints

Cowboys

Big Game: Colts.

I don't bet against Belichick in Foxboro, no matter what the guys on Sportscenter say. I don't trust the Bengals and Marvin Lewis in the playoffs. I think Norv Turner coaches the game of his life against Belichick but Manning crushes his dreams. Defense wins championships and I think Dallas takes down McNabb, Favre and Brees in succession, but Indy is too experienced for them and they wilt in the Super Bowl.

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AFC
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NE
CIN

NE
SD

SD

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NFC
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ARI
DAL

ARI
DAL

ARI

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SB XLIV
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SD

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NOTES
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√ …teams that throttle back (Colts, Saints) and coast into the playoffs typically encounter difficulty in restoring play at the previous stellar level…

√ …Chargers, Cowboys, Packers hottest teams going into playoffs… …Cardinals still most formidable with superior coaching than those three…

√ …Bengals are an enigma — could either flop or be Superbowl bound…

√ …Vikings will get great performance from Favre but it won't be enough to offset other deficiencies…
 

Favre is going to pull one of great fuck-up games during the playoffs. That is a just a free prediction.

Ya, but if Vikings win, Favre will be a football legend.

Round 1:
NY Jets over Cincinatti
Baltimore over New England

Phili over Dallas
Arizona over Green Bay

Round 2:
San Diego over NY Jets
Indianapolis over Baltimore

NO Saints over Phili
Minnesota over Arizona

Round 3:
San Diego over Indianapolis
Minnesota over NO Saints

Superbowl:
San Diego over Minnesota

Wildcard Round

Cincy over NYJ (hopefully this will get GRRM to quit blogging about football and finish his fucking series)
Baltimore over NE

Philly over Dallas
GB over Arizona

Divisional Round

SD over Cincy
Baltimore over Indy

NO over Philly
GB over Minn (pls pls pls pls pls )

Championship Round

Baltimore over SD

GB over NO

Super Bowl

GB over Baltimore

Wild Card:

Cincy
Baltimore

Dallas
GB

Divisional

Colts
SD

Dallas
Minn

Conference

Minn
SD


SB:

SD

Jets
Ravens

Cowboys
Cardinals

Div

Colts
Chargers

Saints
Cowboys

Conf
Chargers
Cowboys

SB

Chargers

The only game I'll care about is Vikings - Packers.
 

AFC:

Jets
Patriots

Chargers
Colts

Colts


NFC:

Packers
Cowboys

Vikings
Saints

Vikings


Big game:  Colts.  No, Vikings!  Bleh, probably the damn Colts.  Manning throws for 400 and 4 TDs.  AP leaves the game early as a result of knocking himself out with his own biceps.  Favre cries after the game, but promises to be back (and then promptly retires the next day).

Oh hey forgot to pick:

AFC:

Jets
Ravens

Colts
Chargers

Colts

NFC:

Cowboys
Packers

Packers
Vikings

Vikings

Super Bowl: Colts

AFC:

Jets
Ravens

Chargers
Colts

Colts


NFC:

Packers
Eagles

Vikings
Saints

Saints

Super Bowl Winner: Saints

Crap, just noticed I had the divisional matchup wrong.

Maybe since the game hasn't happened yet and my teams are still live I can change my NFC picks:

Minn over Dallas
New Orleans over GB

Minn over New Orleans

Tally after WildCard weekend:

0 pts: Azuredream
1 pts: shiznitz, caladein, WayAbvPar
2 pts: 01101010, Haemish, Montague, naum, Abagadro, Cyrrex, Nebu
3 pts: Draegan, Trppy
4 pts: Rasix

Azuredream and myself are fucked since 2 of our divisional picks did not advance, but this could get interesting if Indy and/or the Chargers blow it. I am also fucked because half my Superbowl matchup is gone.

Thank you Karlos Dansby for saving my ass. And Kurt fucking Warner: 29 of 33 for 379 yards with five touchdowns and no interceptions? Seriously... if they had lost, I would look to him to give the finger to the entire defense before retiring.

Not going against my pick, but the old man bowl (Cards vs Vikings) would be  :awesome_for_real:

Welp. This is my entire football season (pro, college, and fantasy) in a nutshell.

How did anyone pick the Bengals over the Jets after the Jets thrashed their starters?

Everybody always counts the Jets short. Mostly because they usually deserve it.

It could be worse  :awesome_for_real:

Damn GB defense screwed me.

sigh... So much for that  :why_so_serious:

See ya next year.

New update:

No way to win either because a key team is gone or other people have the same picks from here with higher points:

01101010
caladein
naum
Draegan
WayAbvPar
Rasix
Azuredream
Abagadro
Trippy
Nebu
Montague

If Colts beat the Vikings, Cyrrex edges Trippy.

If Saints beat the Colts, Nebu wins.

If Minnesota wins, I steal it (by 1pt if they beat Indy).

If somehow the Jets win it all, I am not sure yet.

Damn you Cyrrex! There's no way I can pass you.

Then I have accomplished all that I set out to!

Even though both of my Super Bowl picks are still alive, however, I don't have much confidence.  Feels wrong.  We'll see.

Superbowl will be won by the Vikings.  Then Brett Favera will pour gasoline all over himself and set it all on fire with a match from his victory cigar, because he wants to go out in a blaze of glory.

Goddamned Norv Turner. I knew he would shit the bed in the playoffs but I figured it would be against the Colts, not the freaking Jets.

And the Cowboys... yeah. Don't know what I was thinking with that one.

Never bet on Norv Turner or Wade Phillips. 

Yes. Advice I should have paid heed to.

Norv has made it to a Conference Championship, at least (2007 season with the Chargers). Wade has never been past the Divisional round as a head coach.

Watching Flacco play these last few games makes me wonder how people (including me) thought the Ravens ever had a chance in hell. NF: teams don't go to the Superbowl with mediocre QBs - unless that QB is having a breakout year like Manning did.  Still, the Giants won on close-your-eyes-and-pray pass.

Flacco a different QB in post-season than regular season. In both seasons, his playoff QB rating is half of what it is during regular season play (80/88 for 2008-09 regular season, 50/39 for 2008-2009 playoffs)… …Ravens running game and defense have carried them to 3-2 playoff mark last 2 years. But the defense is still no resemblance of the 2000 season that delivered SB title to Trent Dilfer led squad.

Trent Dilfer doesn't want to disagree with you, but he really really has to. So do Doug Williams, Brad Johnson, Mark Rypien, Jeff Hostetler and Jim McMahon. Teams can win with mediocre QB's. And Flacco seems like at least twice the QB Dilfer was on the same type of team that Dilfer won with. He needs a Shannon Sharpe, though, and he doesn't currently have a receiver who can game in game out catch the ball in traffic.

You forgot Big Ben in his first Super Bowl.

There's a difference between being a mediocre/bad quarterback and having a bad game. Roethlisberger is a franchise QB with all the tools needed for a HOF career. You can't say the same about Dilfer, Johnson, Doug Williams, et. al.

 :heart: Jeff Hostetler :heart:

Doug Williams says differently.

Nebu, as much as I want to see Roethlisberger shatter both his legs in a freak locker room showering accident, I disagree.  He's already won two Super Bowls - and unless I'm mistaken, only Jim Plunkett has won two without making it into the HOF.  And Roethlisberger is WAAAAY better than Plunkett ever was.  If Ben wins a third, he's practically a shoe-in.

I agree and that's why I deleted my post.  I took a deeper look at his stats and felt I was being overly critical. 

Still, the HoF is about how you play relative to both your peers and against history.  Ben does well against history, but in a passing dominated era, he's not as strong a candidate. 

Took me a while to complete my post, so I didn't see the deletion.  Anyway, given his age and likely who will be going up against...he has the Super Bowl edge.  Fair or not, it means a great deal in the mind of the voters.

Voters feel that super bowls = team leadership.  It's a sign of a quality QB to lead a team to and win the big game.  Joe Montana won 4 super bowls and won three MVP's (this is from memory, excuse any errors) for example.  That's a HoF QB.   

I think Ben has a shot, but it may take another big game for him to be a lock.

Yep, two is a strong case by itself.  Two and a solid career are nearly a lock.  Three is a lock, maybe even first ballot?  I can't fucking believe I'm making a case for Ben fucking Roethlisberger.  Let's talk about something else now.

Mark Sanchez:  future HOFer?

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Sanchez is looking very, very good.  And he seems to have his head screwed on right, unlike Leinart. 

It is going to be Dirty Sanchez on Sunday. But Jets fans are used to shame and disappointment.

Jets fans have nothing to be ashamed of from that run. They got a lot of teams to take them seriously this season.

The Jets had to rely on Sanchez to win that game, and he didn't. That was all the Colts wanted. If he could beat them, the Jets deserved the Super Bowl. Of course, it didn't help the Jets that Greene got hurt, but still - your QB is there to win games for you. He couldn't. Give him time.

Bingo. I didn't expect a rookie to go all the way against Manning and the Colts. He put on a good show early and he will be a force to be reckoned with in the future, but I'm happy with the showing and there's no shame in the result.

Yeah, good run by Sanchez and the Jets in general.  Nothing at all to be ashamed of there.

Meanwhile, WTF Minnesota?  Fumble much?

Final update:

Saints = Nebu

Colts = Trippy (by 1pt over Montague)

It's hard to hold onto the ball with both hands on your throat. 

Sometimes I hate being a Vikings fan. 

DOH!   :angryfist:

Wait, how did I beat out Cyrrex? Did I do my math wrong earlier?

No I messed up. I keep forgetting to read Cyrrex's edited paragraph. He initially predicted Vikings.

Colts - Cyrrex by 1pt over Trippy

Lesson: the early rounds do matter!

 :grin:

Congrats on the NFL double this year.

For once, I am quite glad that my pick was wrong.

Detroit Lions, Super Bowl Champs.