NFL Playoffs 2015 season - the other teams

[barrett]

Originally Posted by popanot

Unfortunately, fans of the other 3 AFCS teams probably include us in that list.

Indy might because they've been lucky enough to get the first pick in the right 2 drafts. There is no way Tennessee or Jax look at us like that. We are not the Patriots, but we've won 3 of 5 division titles while those train wreck franchises still have whether to fire their coach as their most important January decision.

[Arky]

Early lines on Championship weekend:

New England by 3 @ Denver

Carolina by 3 @ home vs. Arizona

[popanot]

I think NE has a shot to win it or at least make it a competitive Super Bowl against the NFC. But IMO, DEN will get crushed by either of those teams.

[barrett]

I think Denver's defense makes them a break away from beating anyone. Wade is an All-Timer as a DC. It would be hilarious to watch him win Gary Kubiak a super bowl.

That said, New England owned Wade his whole time here.

[Arky]

I was on Denver -6.5 and -7 depending on the contest/wager. After the game started, it all came back to me how Kubes kinda puckers up and gets conservative during big games - running the ball, FG's instead of TD's, etc.... Somehow, they got the lead up to 10 with just a couple of minutes left in the game but then Pittsburgh quickly went down the field and kicked a FG to put it back at 7. So, I ended up with a win on the -6.5 line and a push on the -7 line.

All the spreads this weekend were "sharp". A couple were decided by 1 point - only Carolina winning by 7 (spread was -2.5) actually covered "well". The books seem to be on top of their game this time of year..... See Alabama vs. Clemson with 10 million dollars changing sides in the last minute on the meaningless (to the Tide) Clemson TD.

And doesn't Chris Boswell (Pittsburgh kicker) look like Mr. Dependable right about now..... Put him on the list of "ones that got away"...

[WMH]

Pretty good games this weekend.

Always amazed at the number of clock management blunders these guys have in crucial situations. It has to be a factor of all the commotion going on, as despite what we usually think about them when they lose, these coaches are all pretty smart people and know the game well. You would think they could hire someone for $100K or so, just to grab the coaches ear for these type of things.

NE/KC went about as expected. Will be interesting to see how long Belicheat stays coaching after he loses Brady. That dude is unreal. Saw an amazing stat that he has reached the conference championship 10 of 16 years. Really?

The Pack made it a better game than I thought they would. Old man Fitz came to life for the birds.

Pretty amazed that the Hawks made a game out of it. Only reason I stayed tuned in was lack of other options.

Didn't catch much of the Broncos/Steelers game. Happy Kubes and Wade won. Hope they put a spanking on NE, just don't really see that happening.

3 games left.......

[HPF Bob]

Congratulations to Gary Kubiak, Wade Phillips and Owen Daniels for reaching Super Bowl 50. What a defensive slugfest.

My goodness, the CBS crew is sucking the Patriots like you can't believe. Boomer Esiason must have had money on the game. New England played well and you can question about 70 different calls or no-calls but the bottom line is Wade's defense beat the snot out of Brady and kept him off-balance almost the entire game.