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[DeaconKnowledge]

When is the last time that 3 teams in the playoffs came from one division?

Googled:

2007. when the Colts won the AFC South and the Titans and Jaguars were wild cards and the Cowboys won the NFC East and the Redskins and Giants were wild card

As for the playoffs, which team would you be most afraid to see?

AFC - Not sure, but a third Steelers/Ravens matchup will be hell on Earth for my heart.

NFC - Believe it or not the Giants and Cowboys. Particularly the Giants. I think they'll do some damage this year.

 

[squicken]

I'm a huge Jacksonville fan this week. Let's go Jags!!!!!

Boo this man! Go Colts. In Gabbert we trust

 

[bionic77]

Googled:



As for the playoffs, which team would you be most afraid to see?

AFC - Not sure, but a third Steelers/Ravens matchup will be hell on Earth for my heart.

NFC - Believe it or not the Giants and Cowboys. Particularly the Giants. I think they'll do some damage this year.

Disagree on the NFC East. The East is garbage this year dude.

 

[TheLegendary]

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As for the playoffs, which team would you be most afraid to see?

AFC - Not sure, but a third Steelers/Ravens matchup will be hell on Earth for my heart.

NFC - Believe it or not the Giants and Cowboys. Particularly the Giants. I think they'll do some damage this year.

Giants', sure. Cowboys no way.

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Disagree on the NFC East. The East is garbage this year dude.

Yeah they've been garbage so far, but Romo is quietly having a good season. His coaches are shit, but they have some serious weapons and a talented defense with D Ware on it. if the coaches learn to stay the fuck out of the way they could really be something.

The Giants...I dunno, just got this feeling. I don't see them winning the Super Bowl or anything, but I feel like they have one good upset in them.

 

[bionic77]

Yeah they've been garbage so far, but Romo is quietly having a good season. His coaches are shit, but they have some serious weapons and a talented defense with D Ware on it. if the coaches learn to stay the fuck out of the way they could really be something.

The Giants...I dunno, just got this feeling. I don't see them winning the Super Bowl or anything, but I feel like they have one good upset in them.

Eli can't do it by himself dude.

Not in the bedroom with his wife or on the football field.

 

[Wellington]

When is the last time that 3 teams in the playoffs came from one division?

2007. Cowboys, Giants, Redskins AND Titans, Colts, Jags. Weird that it happened twice in that same year.

Beaten.

 

[TheLegendary]

The Giants...I dunno, just got this feeling. I don't see them winning the Super Bowl or anything, but I feel like they have one good upset in them.

So then theyre not scarier than the top 3 NFC teams

 

[brentech]

Particularly the Giants. I think they'll do some damage this year.

but their coach will be all doped up on pain killers, so they'll clearly have their worst games ever. lol

 

[Wellington]

I feel good that if the Giants make the playoffs they can beat either Detroit or Atlanta. If they do, I would also feel pretty good about a game against GB. The Saints at home would be the only team that scares me.

However, let me just say that the Giants have had the same record over the last seven games as the Colts, so let's not get too riled up.

 

[captive]

I feel good that if the Giants make the playoffs they can beat either Detroit or Atlanta. If they do, I would also feel pretty good about a game against GB. The Saints at home would be the only team that scares me.

However, let me just say that the Giants have had the same record over the last seven games as the Colts, so let's not get too riled up.

they've also faced the toughest schedule over that same span.

 

[Bowser]

Sunday - Jan 1st, 2012
WAS @ PHI
DET @ GB
NYJ @ MIA
CAR @ NO
SF @ STL
CHI @ MIN
TEN @ HOU
IND @ JAC
BUF @ NE
PIT @ CLE
KC @ DEN
BAL @ CIN
SEA @ ARI
TB @ ATL
SD @ OAK
DAL @ NYG

May have to rethink some of these...picked a lot of road teams.

 

[tmdorsey]

Well as if I needed more reason to hate the Saints. That shit last night with stopping the game and celebrating the record was just classless.

I kinda hope we do play them assholes again in the first round just to have a chance to knock them out the first round. If that spectacle last night doesn't piss off and light a fire under the team, then nothing can and they are just as mentally weak as the "analysts" say they are

 

[Plinko]

AFC - Not sure, but a third Steelers/Ravens matchup will be hell on Earth for my heart.

NFC - Believe it or not the Giants and Cowboys. Particularly the Giants. I think they'll do some damage this year.

Not understanding the Cowboys love here. They've looked awful recently.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Fuck the Bills.If those assholes would have layed down and got blowed out the Patriots could have home field wrapped up.

 

[Bowser]

I usually hate anything Gregg Doyel writes, but I agree with his take regarding the "fiasco" about Brees and the Saints going for the record last night:

The Atlanta Falcons embarrassed themselves Monday night, and I'm not talking about the final score, which was 45-16 in favor of the New Orleans Saints.

I'm not talking about being victimized by Saints quarterback Drew Brees for the 304 passing yards he needed to break Dan Marino's single-season record of 5,084 yards (Brees finished with 307 yards, for a season total of 5,087).

I'm talking about the Falcons' reaction, late in the game and then afterward, to the sight -- shocking! -- of Brees still in the game, still throwing passes, in the final minutes.

The Falcons gestured and stared. They pouted and sulked. They gave our Pete Prisco passive-aggressive comments of the most gutless variety -- anonymously, because none of them had the stones to attach his name to it -- about the nerve (the nerve!) of Saints coach Sean Payton, who let Brees play the game for 60 full minutes.

See, the Falcons wanted pity. They wanted Payton to feel sorry for them by letting off the gas, stop playing the game, stop trying. That would have made the Falcons feel better, I guess: The sight of the Saints feeling sorry for their woebegone little defense.

So at this point, I have a question for the Falcons and their coaches: Are you guys professionals, or are you babies?

This isn't high school, and that wasn't one Class 5A monster running up the score on a tiny Class 1A opponent. This was one NFL playoff team playing another NFL playoff team, in a league with a salary cap and reverse draft order and other rules designed to promote parity.

Sure, Brees could have stopped playing in the fourth quarter, could have come up a few yards short of the record, could have subjected himself and his team to a week's worth of distraction entering the regular-season finale Sunday against Carolina -- a game the Saints need to win to have any shot of a first-round playoff bye.

But never mind that!

The Saints should have worried about the feelings of the poor Atlanta Falcons!

Hey, Atlanta, when you're done with that baby's bib ... please send it my way. I think I'm going to be sick.

http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/34060839

Amen

 

[cajunator]

Well as if I needed more reason to hate the Saints. That shit last night with stopping the game and celebrating the record was just classless.

I kinda hope we do play them assholes again in the first round just to have a chance to knock them out the first round. If that spectacle last night doesn't piss off and light a fire under the team, then nothing can and they are just as mentally weak as the "analysts" say they are

Dude you know damned well if matty ice was poised to break that record in your dome on mnf in a huge game that mike smith would do the exact same thing. You would be 100% ok with it too. Your team had multiple chances to stop it and they didnt. Thats what it comes down to. This is the nfl. Your players are paid millions to stop offenses. Its not the Saints fault that the falcons d failed.

 

[verbum]

Well as if I needed more reason to hate the Saints. That shit last night with stopping the game and celebrating the record was just classless.

I kinda hope we do play them assholes again in the first round just to have a chance to knock them out the first round. If that spectacle last night doesn't piss off and light a fire under the team, then nothing can and they are just as mentally weak as the "analysts" say they are

I hope so too, but I have to tell ya, seeing that game last night was like taking Viagra and ending up in the ER with chest pains. Expecting one thing and getting another.

Could the defense have been any worse?

 

[Big Baybee]

Well as if I needed more reason to hate the Saints. That shit last night with stopping the game and celebrating the record was just classless.

I kinda hope we do play them assholes again in the first round just to have a chance to knock them out the first round. If that spectacle last night doesn't piss off and light a fire under the team, then nothing can and they are just as mentally weak as the "analysts" say they are

SMH. This is kind of sad.

 

[Nightz]

Well as if I needed more reason to hate the Saints. That shit last night with stopping the game and celebrating the record was just classless.

Maybe the Falcons could have, you know, stopped him from getting the record by playing some defense.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

I wonder if the Patriots would have celebrated Bradys 50th td pass if the game was at home.

 

[meadowrag]

I kinda hope we do play them assholes again in the first round just to have a chance to knock them out the first round. If that spectacle last night doesn't piss off and light a fire under the team, then nothing can and they are just as mentally weak as the "analysts" say they are

I want us to go right back there again. We almost have to in order to reclaim any dignity at all.
No one else wants to go there anyways, I say let us go and play a real game this time.
We know we are capable of playing them close, I have no idea what happened. But I suppose "I dunno" is the story of this season.

I don't give a shit who we play, I really hope it is the Saints. I'm sick of this team whooping up on scrubs and then shitting the bed against top-tier teams. Go beat the best or be one and done again.

attention-seeking drama article

Oh please.
Everyone went up to Brees as soon as the game was over and congratulated him. Players were obviously disappointed but good-natured. When the press-conference media tried to bait Smith into talking about running up the score he simply said that it was our job to stop them. There isn't a single player on the Atlanta team who didn't expect them to go for the record.

 

[eznark]

Maybe the Falcons could have, you know, stopped him from getting the record by playing some defense.

Show me where your comment is related to his comment. He has no problem with the stat whoring and running up the score. The stopping the game for an extended period of time to celebrate with a couple minutes left seems to be where he is upset.

If this was baseball, Brees would get drilled his next time up. Hopefully the Falcons man up and plant Brees next time they get a chance. More likely they will whiff and he'll throw a 45 yard lob against your busted coverage.

 

[Nightz]

Show me where your comment is related to his comment.

No record, no celebration.

 

[BaltimoreLarry]

AFC - Not sure, but a third Steelers/Ravens matchup will be hell on Earth for my heart.

I may die.

 

[meadowrag]

Dude you know damned well if matty ice was poised to break that record in your dome on mnf in a huge game that mike smith would do the exact same thing.

Well, we will sort of find out.
Ryan will probably beat the franchise record for passing yards this week against Tampa.

 

[Big Baybee]

Well, we will sort of find out.
Ryan will probably beat the franchise record for passing yards this week against Tampa.

Not the same thing.

 

[captive]

If this was baseball, Brees would get drilled his next time up. Hopefully the Falcons man up and plant Brees next time they get a chance. More likely they will whiff and he'll throw a 45 yard lob against your busted coverage.

no he wouldn't, when Craig Biggio got his 3000th hit they stopped the game, his family came out, Jeff Bagwell came out they even were handed a microphone and celebrated during the game.

 

[bionic77]

I may die.

What is Ray Lewis going to do to Flacco if he shits the bed against the Steelers in the playoffs yet again?

Then again is Lewis even fast enough to still catch Flacco anymore?

 

[BaltimoreLarry]

What is Ray Lewis going to do to Flacco if he shits the bed against the Steelers in the playoffs yet again?

Then again is Lewis even fast enough to still catch Flacco anymore?

Nice avatar!

 

[Narag]

I wonder if the Patriots would have celebrated Bradys 50th td pass if the game was at home.

Doesn't Brady get a chance to set the single season passing yards record himself this week before brees takes it back?

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Doesn't Brady get a chance to set the single season passing yards record himself this week before brees takes it back?

He's got 4897 so he can get there.

 

[bionic77]

Nice avatar!

We both know that isn't true.

 

[eznark]

no he wouldn't, when Craig Biggio got his 3000th hit they stopped the game, his family came out, Jeff Bagwell came out they even were handed a microphone and celebrated during the game.

3,000 hit celebrations, Ripken's celebration, those sorts of things are discussed generally with the opponent and the league sends out notice of what to expect. It doesn't sound like that happened here at all. I equate it more to Prince's grenade celebration against San Fran.

 

[tmdorsey]

Show me where your comment is related to his comment. He has no problem with the stat whoring and running up the score. The stopping the game for an extended period of time to celebrate with a couple minutes left seems to be where he is upset.

Thank you. Reading is fundamental. It's common knowledge that Brees and Peyton are stat whores so that's nothing new.

The problem isn't him breaking the record, the problem is the handling of breaking the record. From the PA announcer chanting DREW BREEES to the extended stoppage of the game. Just bad fucking form all around.

Saints just be like Patriot fans and accept that your coach is a classless jackass. This is the same dude that called an onside kick when they were destroying the Colts. I seriously hope they get theirs in the playoffs.

 

[verbum]

Braylon Edwards;

"I was released today by the 49ers due to my injury that required more time to rehab and hasn't allowed me to re-sync with the offense," Edwards wrote in a statement on his web site. "I wish the 49ers organization the best of luck during the Playoffs. I will be working hard this off season to strengthen my knee and prepare for the 2012 season. Thanks for your continued support and for being such loyal fans."

I hope he can come back and play again.

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Thank you. Reading is fundamental.

The problem isn't him breaking the record, the problem is the handling of breaking the record. From the PA announcer chanting DREW BREEES to the extended stoppage of the game. Just bad fucking form all around.

Saints just be like Patriot fans and accept that your coach is a classless jackass. This is the same dude that called an onside kick when they were destroying the Colts. I seriously hope they get theirs in the playoffs.

You mean during 62-7?

 

[Wellington]

they've also faced the toughest schedule over that same span.

Yes, they did face the #1 seed in both conferences, and the #2 and 3 seed in the NFC, but there's no excusing losses to the Eagles led by Vince Young and getting swept by the Redskins this season. The Redskins just lost to the Vikings... with no AP or Ponder. :|

 

[Narag]

You mean during 62-7?

Good times.

 

[tmdorsey]

You mean during 62-7?

Yep.

 

[sonicmj1]

I feel good that if the Giants make the playoffs they can beat either Detroit or Atlanta. If they do, I would also feel pretty good about a game against GB. The Saints at home would be the only team that scares me.

However, let me just say that the Giants have had the same record over the last seven games as the Colts, so let's not get too riled up.

I'm afraid I'm taking too much from last week's game, but with Kenny Philips back and Tuck playing as well as he has all season, the Giants defense looked better last week than they had in ages. The secondary played fairly well, and they were assisted by the best pass rushing the Giants have shown in a long time. That makes a huge difference.

If the Giants show up for the Cowboys game with that same quality of defensive play, they might make a decent run at the playoffs.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Thank you. Reading is fundamental. It's common knowledge that Brees and Peyton are stat whores so that's nothing new.

The problem isn't him breaking the record, the problem is the handling of breaking the record. From the PA announcer chanting DREW BREEES to the extended stoppage of the game. Just bad fucking form all around.

Saints just be like Patriot fans and accept that your coach is a classless jackass. This is the same dude that called an onside kick when they were destroying the Colts. I seriously hope they get theirs in the playoffs.

Hey you don't talk about our coach that way.

 

[mYm|17|]

Braylon getting cut and Niners are thin at WR..........*sigh*

At least they play the Rams this week

 

[Wellington]

I'm afraid I'm taking too much from last week's game, but with Kenny Philips back and Tuck playing as well as he has all season, the Giants defense looked better last week than they had in ages. The secondary played fairly well, and they were assisted by the best pass rushing the Giants have shown in a long time. That makes a huge difference.

If the Giants show up for the Cowboys game with that same quality of defensive play, they might make a decent run at the playoffs.

Can't take anything from that game on Saturday. The Jets are pretty clueless on offense.

 

[Big Baybee]

Man, I respected the Falcons fans here before last night. That celebration lasted the length of a timeout. This was a major record falling. Ez, your players celebrate every TD by fucking crowd surfing lol.

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

Good times.

Yep.

Seriously? I never even bothered to watch the highlights for that game. They really went for an onsides?

What was the score when they did it?

 

[BaltimoreLarry]

We both know that isn't true.

You need to stay away from avatar bets. Have you won any this year?

 

[sonicmj1]

When? They went on and on how they weren't after it. Even said that Brees claimed if they made a list of 10 things to accomplish during the season that the Marino record wasn't one of them.

It's complete horseshit. Personal accolades are the only reason to run the score up to 62 against Indianapolis. What was it, 62-7? Yeah they needed that extra TD to prevent a potential comeback. :rolleyes

As I recall, the last TD was a pick 6.

They stopped passing at 48-7.

 

[TheLegendary]

Man, I respected the Falcons fans here before last night. That celebration lasted the length of a timeout. This was a major record falling. Ez, your players celebrate every TD by fucking crowd surfing lol.

Oh man

 

[snesfreak]

Hey, I'm not gonna bitch when they stop the game to announce Josh has broken the record for most INTs in a season next week.