NFL Playoffs 2015 season - the other teams

[Arky]

Seattle @ Minnesota

Good lord, they are saying it will be zero (0) degrees in Minneapolis on Sunday.... Not fit for man or beast.....

[Arky]

Gotta think Viking fan and Bengal fan are further up the pain meter today than some of us... very tough losses.....

[Nconroe]

And all four home teams lost during wild card weekend. Doubt if that continues. But who knows.
Seven games to go including the Super Bowl.

We shall see but seems many are currently picking Arizona vs New England for Super Bowl 50 at new Levi Stadium in Santa Clara on Feb. 7.

[WMH]

I'd like to see the Broncos take on the Cardinals. Peyton rides off into the sunset with a ring. Pretty cool ending to a historic career.

That's of course if Playoff Peyton doesn't show up.

[HPF Bob]

All 4 teams with the less-experienced QB lost although you can't really blame their losses on McCarron or Bridgewater. There was a time when the Super Bowls were routinely boring and lopsided so the NFL suits have all bus scripted the postseasons ever since. Starting around 2001, it seems the Super Bowls have been close and exciting with one or two exceptions and part of that is the league giving favoritism calls to certain franchises with high merchandize sales so the teams who are the "in" clubs get the favorable calls late in the game.

Look who survived this weekend:
The Packers
The Steelers
The Seahawks
The Chiefs

Look who got beat:
The Redskins
The Vikings
The Bengals
The Texans

Not to say the Texans could have won even with beneficial officiating but my point is that a handful of favored clubs show up in the playoffs every year and it is more than coincidence.

Of those favored clubs, almost all are still alive (Cowboys and Colts the exceptions) and the non-favored clubs are just the Chiefs and the Cardinals. Expect the Chiefs and Cardinals to get screwed next.

[barrett]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

All 4 teams with the less-experienced QB lost although you can't really blame their losses on McCarron or Bridgewater. There was a time when the Super Bowls were routinely boring and lopsided so the NFL suits have all bus scripted the postseasons ever since. Starting around 2001, it seems the Super Bowls have been close and exciting with one or two exceptions and part of that is the league giving favoritism calls to certain franchises with high merchandize sales so the teams who are the "in" clubs get the favorable calls late in the game.

Look who survived this weekend:
The Packers
The Steelers
The Seahawks
The Chiefs

Look who got beat:
The Redskins
The Vikings
The Bengals
The Texans

Not to say the Texans could have won even with beneficial officiating but my point is that a handful of favored clubs show up in the playoffs every year and it is more than coincidence.

Of those favored clubs, almost all are still alive (Cowboys and Colts the exceptions) and the non-favored clubs are just the Chiefs and the Cardinals. Expect the Chiefs and Cardinals to get screwed next.

https://youtu.be/snqFHjpDpes

I couldn't figure out how to embed this.

[chuck]

If you didn't know it before, now you do. Bob is nuts.

[barrett]

Andy Reid showed again why he might be the worst game day coach ever today. They huddled with under 2 minutes to go while trailing by 14. They ran over 5 minutes off the clock to score with just over a minute left. Just brutal clock management. He is like a more extreme version of Kubiak (even better Monday-Saturday, even worse on Sunday, and even stupider looking).

[barrett]

And it's definitely not playoff news, but the Titans decided to keep Mularkey. I guess his 2-7 finish coupled with his 18-37 career record was just too hard for Tennessee to pass up?

We really do have the 3 worst run franchises in football in our division. If we stumble into a competent QB we might go on a 10 year playoff streak without ever getting past the divisional round.

[popanot]

Originally Posted by barrett

We really do have the 3 worst run franchises in football in our division.

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

[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.

[WMH]

Originally Posted by 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.

Saw a tweet/Stat that Brady was hit 20 times during that game. Most in an NFL game this season. Belicheat did nothing to counter the pressure. Nutz.

[barrett]

When you play defense like that there isn't a game you can't win.

[Arky]

Early line is Carolina by 3.5 to 4.5 over Denver in "the big game".

Cam Newton is pretty dang hot right now and against the Denver defense, it should make for an intriguing matchup.....

Be prepared for the onslaught of those Peyton Manning Nationwide Ins. commercials over the next few weeks...