Football Playoffs 2006 - 2007

[shiznitz]

Let's talk playoffs?

NFC
Philly > NYG
Dallas > Seattle

Chicago > Dallas
NO > Philly

Chicago > NO

AFC
KC > Indy
NE > NYJ

SD > KC
Balitmore > NE

SD > Baltimore

SuperBowl

SD > Chicago

[WayAbvPar]

Philly over NYG by a ton
Seattle over Dallas (I gots to believe!)

Seattle over Chicago (Chicago is a fucking mess)
Saints over Philly

Saints over Seattle

Indy over KC
NYJ over NE

SD over Indy
Baltimore over NYJ

SD over Baltimore

SD over NO Saints

[Nebu]

<cough> Playoff pick thread plz </cough>

[Rasix]

<cough> Playoff pick thread plz </cough>

Ooops.

Interesting playoffs so far.  Is Jeramy Stevens finally not worthless?

Edit: This new Diet Pepsi commercial is stupid.  The dubbing is just pitiful.

Edit#2: What a crazy damn game.  Welcome to Goatsville: population you, Tony Romo. Just fucking nuts.

[Trippy]

Holey Moley!

Edit: What a bizarre 4th quarter.

[Signe]

I wonder how many little heart attacks WAP had during that game.

[Tannhauser]

Wow great game, glad to see the Seaducks win thanks to Tony Homo...er Romo.

Cowboys should be thankful they even made the playoffs, sure wouldn't have made it with Bledsoe.

[Paelos]

Romo was just the nail in the coffin, and I don't blame his dropping the ball for the loss. He's the only reason Dallas was even in the game at all, and we shouldn't have even had to be kicking fucking field goals in the first place.

Terry Glenn's fumble on the one was what lost the game. The Cowboys had made a 4th down GOAL LINE defensive stand, got the ball back, and had a touchdown lead with 6 minutes left. At the very least, they run about 2 minutes off the clock, go three and out, and punt the ball away to Seattle who probably scores the TD and it either goes to OT, or Dallas wins with a kick. The absolute worst case scenario at this point is a tie and OT. Best case, you run the ball out, get a few first downs, and burn so much clock they don't have enough time to move.

BUT NO! A fumble on the one, and they knock it out of the endzone as a safety. At this point, I'm looking back wishing that it had just been a TD, because then Dallas would have just been tied and had the ball again in better field position. The safety was literally the only freak thing that could have happened that would have guaranteed the game didn't go to OT.

Lets be real, nobody looked good out there at all. If I'm Chicago watching this matchup, I'm chomping at the bit to get Seattle in the next round, because they are gonna steamroll them with plays like that. Hasselbeck threw for 50% with 2 picks. Alexander had less than 70 yards, with an average of less than 3 per carry. They played in a fashion that would lose to any other team who could remotely manage the game, or play some sort of defense down the stretch. Now, barring a major upset by NY in Philly, Seattle's next stop is to play the #1 Defense in the NFC on the road.

Good luck.

[Triforcer]

During the Tony Romo lovefest I told all the 'Boys fans that he would be a second-stringer for somebody again in about two years.  I stand by that.

[Trippy]

Chicago's secondary has been looking really shaky and Rex Grossman couldn't have played worse against Green Bay if he was intentionally trying to lose the game. At this point I think the Eagles have the best chance of making it to the Super Bowl from the NFC.

[Raging Turtle]

Ravens have the most complete team. 

[Margalis]

Romo is light years ahead of duds like Chris Simms and Eli Manning. He'll do fine. He has had a half-year as starter and done a good job.

He isn't the second coming but he is certainly good enough to be a starting QB.

[Flood]

I never talk sports on F13, but let me just say that as a 20 year Charger fan I am so STOKED that they are doing well.  I love just watching football, but it's always better when your team is competitive.  :-D

But, yea I think the Bolts might make the Super Bowl (I am almost scared to say it since I haven't really gotten over the 1994 plunger raping)  If anything I'd be more worried about them facing K.C. then Indy, and for some reason I have a bad feeling about Baltimore, because they seem to have a good deal of momentum going right now.

Anyway, my final prediction is SD vs. Bears, with Bears winning off Rivers throwing a late game pick. (knock on wood though) 

Should be a good time all around however since I made sure and ask for that Super Bowl day off (and the next day LOL) and my two best friends and I are planning on watching the game together since we are all Charger fans.  Go Super Chargers woot.

[Trippy]

Ravens have the most complete team. 

I don't know. The Patriots were 2nd behind the Ravens in points allowed per game, just 2 points back and their offense is 2 points ahead of the Ravens in points scored per game. Clearly people do not fear the Patriots defense like they do the Ravens but like he's been doing for a while now somehow Bill Belichick manages to cobble together a Super Bowl-worthy team without many super stars on either side of the ball (only one Patriot is going to the Pro Bowl this year).

[El Gallo]

Romo is the white man's Kordell Stewart.

[Trippy]

Romo is the white man's Kordell Stewart.

Kordell wouldn't have been caught from behind on the botched field goal. Of course he wouldn't have been holding either but that's a different issue.

[Murgos]

Dallas > Seattle
KC > Indy

Oh for 2.  Let's see if you can make it a perfect season.

[Paelos]

Romo is the white man's Kordell Stewart.

I'm going to call bullshit on that. Stewart was prone to the pick, and made bad throwing decisions at key moments. Romo's problem now is that his internal clock on the pass rush isn't fully developed. That clock will get better with game experience, but making bad decisions with your passes is typically a hell of a lot harder to correct.

Also, Stewart never made the pro bowl in his first starting season. Romo has thrown more TD's in his first season than Aikman threw in any of his first three seasons. He's a gamer, but he needs some more time.

[naum]

Romo is the white man's Kordell Stewart.

Kordell Stewart led his team to 2 conference championship games... ...while they lost, one was given to Elway Broncos by some extremely suspicious pass interference calls (98) and the other one against NE, Stewart couldn't overcome special teams mishaps...

When Romo leads his team to two conference championships, then he might be recognized with similar status... ...otherwise it's even an outrage that a QB with 3 good games gets elevated to star and Pro Bowl status...

[Paelos]

Romo is the white man's Kordell Stewart.

Kordell Stewart led his team to 2 conference championship games... ...while they lost, one was given to Elway Broncos by some extremely suspicious pass interference calls (98) and the other one against NE, Stewart couldn't overcome special teams mishaps...

When Romo leads his team to two conference championships, then he might be recognized with similar status... ...otherwise it's even an outrage that a QB with 3 good games gets elevated to star and Pro Bowl status...

Explain to me how the guy who has the third best passer rating in the NFC (behind McNabb who's injured making him effectively second in active players), doesn't belong in the pro bowl?

[Sky]

My buddy who actually follows football has Bolts vs Bears for the bowl. I'd like to see either the Pats or Indy go, because I like those teams.

I think Romo is cool, I hope he can snap out of the funk he's in. It was pure fluke at the end, and a great defensive save because Romo still almost won the game with his heads-up thinking. He's a good QB, and as mentioned, Dallas wouldn't even have been in that game if not for him. I'm not a big Dallas fan (at all), but I like to watch good players play, and Romo is a good player.

Always makes me think of my favorite defensive player of years past, Romanowski.

[Abagadro]

I'd like to see either the Pats or Indy go

They are both losing this weekend.

[El Gallo]

Kordell Stewart led was dragged kicking and screaming by his team to 2 conference championship games

fify.  

Anyway, it was unfair of me to compare Romo, who has a bright future as a mediocre NFL starter, with Stewart, who has a bright future as the guy who can't beat out Kyle Boeller for the Ravens' backup spot.  Kordell was on my mind due to Cowher's retirement, and watching a young QB who had done nothing to justify an incredible amount of media hype blow a playoff game brought back memories of good ole Slash.  I'm sorry for bringing up his name, which makes me want to retch more than any sports-related memory I can conjure up, with the possible exception of the last play of the 1992 NLCS.

IN ANY EVENT, I was pretty underwhelmed by the Eagles, who I thought would destroy the Giants.  Still gotta stick with them as my pick for this year's NFC Champ sacrificial lamb.  Some great games on the other side, at least now that the Colts seem to have found a rush defense and the Pats have somehow managed (in true MacGyver style) to once again concoct a team out of Tom Brady, some empty milk crates, a spool of barbed wire and a bunch of salary cap space.

[WayAbvPar]

I wonder how many little heart attacks WAP had during that game.

I managed to survive by heavily medicating myself with beer.

Wow. Seattle NEVER gets lucky like that, especially in the playoffs. I am glad we get another shot at the Bears. This time, Shaun is playing, Tommie Harris ISN'T playing, and Grossman is not doing the smoke and mirrors thing any more. Chicago may very well win the game, but it will be a hell of a lot closer than 37-6 or whatever it was in Week 3. Opening line is like 9 points....that is ridiculous. No team that makes the NFL playoffs should ever be more than a touchdown dog to any other team barring some catastrophic injury to a QB or something.

Always makes me think of my favorite defensive player of years past, Romanowski.

Ugh. That guy is a fucking asshole of the 1st order. He should be in jail for his attack on his TEAMMATE during PRACTICE. Roid rage ftw.

[HaemishM]

Wow, what a set of shitty NFC games this weekend. They were entertaining, but TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE football. Just fucking awful. For the first time in a while, I can safely say that none of the wild card teams deserved any sort of playoff berth or recognition. They were shit shit shitty teams who won just enough games to make it, and for the most part are better teams than they've shown on the field.

Tony Romo can eat a dick. Why? Because he's on a team with Terrell Owens and any team who signs Terrell Owens I can only wish the worst fucking luck on. Romo can't win this game against a shitty shit shit shit Seahawks team with Owens AND Terry Glenn? To be fair, the loss isn't totally on him, because the defense should have been able to stop the lackluster Seahawks. But they didn't, and Romo couldn't bail them out. All those fuckers who anointed him the next coming of Aikman can go suck one now, because for a fucking month, that's all I heard. Romo this, Romo that. He's not that good. The team just got hot. Once they cooled off, they started tearing into each other. Or well, Owens started tearing into everyone else while dropping every pass that counted. Could Owens have played a shittier game? Was that $10 million worth, Jerry Jones? Stop hiring douchebags and you might win.

The Giants... Coughlin deserves to lose his job. His cornerbacks are atrocious, Eli hasn't consistently progressed in 3 fucking years, you can't decide what kind of offense you want to run and you can't stop your O line from shooting their dicks off. Oh and you can't keep your stars in line. Did anyone see that shot of Shockey taking Coughlin's headset off to yell in his ear? Uh uh, buddy, that's fucking laps and some time riding the pine. It's just a level of disrespect for the man's position that you just don't do. And 2 false starts in a row when you're driving for a winning score? Unacceptable. Everyone involved should be ashamed. Eli has had 3 years and he's still getting basic fundamental mechanics wrong, which tells me the coaching just isn't there. Philadelphia did ok, but they didn't win as much as didn't lose.

The Jets and Pats was the only real decent game, and the better coach and team won. Tom Brady vs Chad Pennington, I'll take Brady every time. But against San Diego? This team is going to get exposed on both sides of the ball. For all the Jets blitzes, they don't have the defensive talent that the Chargers do, and Merriman, Castillo, and others are going to light Brady up. LT will shred that defense, and I think even Phillip Rivers is going to have a good game against a suspect defensive backfield.

The Colts dominated the Chiefs, which gives me hope they'll at least reach the championship game where they'll likely get beaten by the Chargers. Bob Sanders made all the difference against the great running game of the Chiefs. He's the most valuable player on that Colts D, beyond Freeney, June or anyone else. When he's in, they can contain the run. When he's not, it's a nightmare. As good as the Ravens are, they will get beaten by Indy. They will get dinked and dunked to death.

The Bears will not beat New Orleans, and New Orleans won't lose to Philly. For all the Bears great D, they still got shredded by a mediocre offense in Green Bay. When Rex Grossman performs competently, the Bears D makes plays. When he doesn't, forget about it. Against New Orleans, the Bears won't be able to make enough plays, and their offense just won't be able to cover. Seattle is however, going to get slaughtered.

[Sky]

I'd like to see either the Pats or Indy go

They are both losing this weekend.

I'm not a betting man. I just like those teams because they seem competent and don't have douchebags like Owens doing little dances and whatnot. Also, Freeney plays defense like I do in video games.

[naum]

Anyway, it was unfair of me to compare Romo, who has a bright future as a mediocre NFL starter, with Stewart, who has a bright future as the guy who can't beat out Kyle Boeller for the Ravens' backup spot.  Kordell was on my mind due to Cowher's retirement, and watching a young QB who had done nothing to justify an incredible amount of media hype blow a playoff game brought back memories of good ole Slash.  I'm sorry for bringing up his name, which makes me want to retch more than any sports-related memory I can conjure up, with the possible exception of the last play of the 1992 NLCS.

Again, Stewart lead his team to 2 AFC championship games, destined for Canton he is not, but still far exceeds the accomplishments of an over-hyped unproven rookie that has had a grand total of 3 good games... ...the arc of Kordell's career has long ended, but when Romo leads his team to 2 conference championships and/or piles up passing records, then it might be moot, but Romo may not even be the next Scott Mitchell...

[Margalis]

Terry Glenn fumbled at the 1 and Terrel Owens was his usual ball-dropping self. It is hardly Romo's fault that they lost.

[Trippy]

In the NFC it's a toss up between the Eagles, Saints and the Bears -- one of those teams is going to back into the Super Bowl. I've never liked the Bears for some reason (probably cause I like offense over defense) and while it would be cool for the Saints to make it there given all the stuff that happened to them in 2005 - 2006 I wanna see Jeff Garcia go since I enjoyed watching him play for the 49ers and am glad that he got another chance to show that he can still play (which has been the story of his entire career).

In the AFC it definitely feels like the Chargers' year but the Patriots played better on the road than they did at home this year and Brady is 10 - 1 in playoff games (or is that 11 - 1 now?) so it's tough to count them out. It would be nice to see Marty finally make it to the Super Bowl after so many tries and LT is such a nice guy and Brady and Co. already have a bunch of rings it's okay to spread the wealth around a little.

Colts vs Ravens seems like a huge mismatch in the Ravens favor except that the last three times they have played the Colts the Colts have won including once at Baltimore. While there are defenses that can befuddle Peyton, the Ravens D is not one of them. I would like Peyton to make it to at least one Super Bowl but I'm not sure they can get past the Patriots (assuming they beat the Chargers) even if they manage to beat the Ravens plus I don't like the Ravens (similar reasons as the Bears, though I do like Steve McNair) so for this week I'm going:

Eagles over Saints
Bears over Seahawks

Chargers over Patriots
Colts over Ravens

[HaemishM]

There are 2 teams I absolutely do NOT want to see in the Super Bowl, the Bears and the Ravens. Why? Because their defenses are so good that it'll end up being a one-sided game, even if it's close. If it's the Bears, not only will the defense dominate, the Grossman-led offense will fucking twaddle around with about 4 INT's. It'll look like last year's Super Bowl all over again. And last year's Super Bowl was awful, with terrible officiating, horrible play on both sides of the ball, and just a general feeling of "How did these teams get here?" I hate sloppy football, and last year's game was sloppy football at its worst. Give me a game like the 99(?) Super Bowl with the Titans and Rams battling it out to the end, or the Panthers/Patriots Super Bowl that was such a good fight.

Super Bowls with blowouts or sloppy play just bore the fuck out of me. It makes the whole year anti-climatic.

[Paelos]

I predict a Chargers v. Saints Super Bowl. The Saints will be the moral underdog favorite, and the Chargers will have their high powered offense with LT. It would be a hell of a show.

[naum]

There are 2 teams I absolutely do NOT want to see in the Super Bowl, the Bears and the Ravens. Why? Because their defenses are so good that it'll end up being a one-sided game, even if it's close. If it's the Bears, not only will the defense dominate, the Grossman-led offense will fucking twaddle around with about 4 INT's. It'll look like last year's Super Bowl all over again. And last year's Super Bowl was awful, with terrible officiating, horrible play on both sides of the ball, and just a general feeling of "How did these teams get here?" I hate sloppy football, and last year's game was sloppy football at its worst. Give me a game like the 99(?) Super Bowl with the Titans and Rams battling it out to the end, or the Panthers/Patriots Super Bowl that was such a good fight.

I like watching defensive teams dominate. And I like it when a team pounds another into submission and humiliation in the biggest game of the season.

Besides, after halftime, who's sober enough to remember anything anyway? And all of the overpriced overhyped commercials will have already been rolled…

[WayAbvPar]

Fuck.

[CmdrSlack]

Fuck.

Sorry man.  As a Crimson Tide fan, I can tell you how badly it sucks to lose in OT.  As a Bears fan, FUCK YEAH!

[Abagadro]

I'd like to see either the Pats or Indy go

They are both losing this weekend.

NIce picks Kreskin.