Sviatoslav
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Maybe get the bye and defer the home field? Best of both worlds.
NFL 2014 Week 15 |OT| Drunk in Love
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grandjedi6
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Why not? If you didn't determine it by division, then everyone would complain about teams getting their record artificially raised by playing terrible divisions like the NFC and AFC South. At least this way you're competing with people who had similar schedules to you.
Plus, are the Eagles the team we really want to make this point over? They pretty much just beat terrible teams this year, got trounced when they faced their fellow playoff teams, and have a terrible conference record (which screws them over way more than the playoff system). Plus they had a quarterback injury, so at least they have an excuse.
Beerman462
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Warren Buffett hopes Ndamukong Suh stays with Lions
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...ett-hopes-ndamukong-suh-stays-lions/20405557/
Suh is going to the Cardinals
WesternHeretic
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I hate drafting DB early. We have a good DB coaches, and Pete has said to be a really good DB coach.
Sherman was 5th round, Max was 6th round, Brandon Browner was picked up from freaking Canada, Earl was 1st, Kam was 5th round.
Thurmond was 4th (before he left), Lane was 6th, Throald Simon is 5th, Jeron Johnson undrafted.
^ That's actually pretty freaking amazing how none or our secondary the last two years was first 3 rounds except for Earl.
Ninja Scooter
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This I don't have a problem with. A 8-8 team should never host a playoff game against an 11-5 team.
lol Seriously? Why?
TheDarkKnight774
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Dear NY! Please do me a favor and beat Philly next week. OBJ go nuts!
Philly plays WSH next week.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
Which is good because we all remember what happened the last time the Lions became 1st in the division.
This is a bad plan because it doesn't account for all situations. You can't guarantee how many teams will be above or below 500. It's theoritically possible for an entire conference to be above or below 500.
TheDarkKnight774
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Ack so it's the last week. Bummer. There's no way philly loses to the Redskins.
Why?
They won their division.
So?
WesternHeretic
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Saving this post so I can repost after they lose.
I was actually surprised the Eagles were able to keep Dez Bryant in check on Thanksgiving with our single-high man coverage defense.
Davis said they were alternating between doubling him and not doubling him, and Romo just read the defense right. I'm kind of pissed off that Billy Davis thinks that Nate Allen is Earl Thomas. He can't cover that much of the field. If you look him off once, you get your weakness on an island against Dez Bryant.
I'm still confused about Williams leaving Bryant wide open on that big conversion on the final field goal drive for Dallas.
Cary is like "let me help you double Terrance Williams on the outside and leave the 6'5" athletic behemoth wide-open with no one in the vicinity of him." You might as well just hand them 3 points and a two possession game.
This doesn't make up for the fact that both Sanchez's interceptions led to TDs. That's where the Eagles lost the game. The Ertz pass. The defense played 40 minutes again, and the defensive line was outstanding against the run and pass rush. We just couldn't stop turning the ball over and shot ourselves in the foot over and over again in the beginning of the game.
Davis said they were alternating between doubling him and not doubling him, and Romo just read the defense right. I'm kind of pissed off that Billy Davis thinks that Nate Allen is Earl Thomas. He can't cover that much of the field. If you look him off once, you get your weakness on an island against Dez Bryant.
I'm still confused about Williams leaving Bryant wide open on that big conversion on the final field goal drive for Dallas.
Cary is like "let me help you double Terrance Williams on the outside and leave the 6'5" athletic behemoth wide-open with no one in the vicinity of him." You might as well just hand them 3 points and a two possession game.
This doesn't make up for the fact that both Sanchez's interceptions led to TDs. That's where the Eagles lost the game. The Ertz pass. The defense played 40 minutes again, and the defensive line was outstanding against the run and pass rush. We just couldn't stop turning the ball over and shot ourselves in the foot over and over again in the beginning of the game.
To be fair, Thomas is half the reason you guys can use the personnel you do.
Grover Cleveland
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An under .500 team made the playoffs in a non-strike shortened season only once in the history of the league. And they won their home playoff game.
I don't see this as a massive problem worth changing the playoff structure over. We're getting expanded playoffs next year so it's all a moot point, but you're suggesting fundamentally changing the postseason of the game for something that is at best a statistical anomaly.
I don't see this as a massive problem worth changing the playoff structure over. We're getting expanded playoffs next year so it's all a moot point, but you're suggesting fundamentally changing the postseason of the game for something that is at best a statistical anomaly.
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Distant pic, that doesn't show much, only reason I'm posting this is because its on Deadspin. The title should say it all:
Butthole Eaten At Lions Tailgate
http://deadspin.com/butthole-eaten-at-lions-tailgate-1670931368
Warning NSFW/L
Distant pic, that doesn't show much, only reason I'm posting this is because its on Deadspin. The title should say it all:
Butthole Eaten At Lions Tailgate
http://deadspin.com/butthole-eaten-at-lions-tailgate-1670931368
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It's like in baseball. You play most of your games against divisional teams. You can't have a balanced schedule. Teams are going to get different match-ups. Divisions exist only as a means of determining who gets in the playoffs.
Some years you get a tough division, other years it's easy.
WesternHeretic
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Yea you're right his speed is stupid fast. He cover so much ground that they really don't ever need Kam to play deep. It's like we play a 4-4. 4 lineman + 4 LB.
They deserve a spot, this year being the exception. I say force the 4-6 seed to fight it out. Guarantee the top 3 division winners the 1-3 seeds. The "worst" division winner isn't guaranteed a spot, but a non-division leading team has to have at least a half game lead over the 4th division winner in order to unseat them in the playoffs. A division winner would be the ultimate tiebreaker over the H2H match-up. This way, winning the division still has power, but if you suck, then you don't get in.
Kas, I'm not in the mood tonight for your tomfoolery.
I wish you guys lost today. 
I wouldn't have to sweat making the playoffs.
I wouldn't have to sweat making the playoffs.Kas, I'm not in the mood tonight for your tomfoolery.
I wish you guys lost today.
Good teams win when it matters against tough divisional opponent, JABEE.
We're a great team, JABEE.
rokkerkory
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Hawks > cards next week!
RellyRell28
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Saw the pic a little while ago. As much as I wanted the receiver to be a chick, I can't look at it anymore cause of what it most likely is.
BaltimoreLarry
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Seriously, can Cutler and Maquess Wilson combine for 15 points against the shitty Saints secondary? They should, but.....Cutler.
Campbell, Suh '15! So many QB's would die.
WesternHeretic
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It was 41:5X last week against us. So basically 42. So in the last 120 minutes of Eagles games they only had the ball for 36 minutes.
Can't wait for him to kill your QB in practice.
Meh, doesn't help when our QB can't hit a 6'5 TE with about 10 yards of separation.
unknownstranger
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Any team with a decent running game is going to own time of possession unless he learns how to adjust.
FrenchMovieTheme
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if eating butt isn't safe for work then i don't want to work!
Lion Heart
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Not even close to being over. Colts is a super tough match up for Dallas and Philly cant lose to these two scrubs.
That Washington game might come back to haunt Dallas and even with 11 wins they wouldn't make it.
Has an 11-5 team ever missed the playoffs? Probably but I can probably count on one hand the number of times its happened.
For what it's worth, I am pretty sure Luck might have been playing injured these past few weeks. So we were being karma'd this whole time.
yankeehater
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jnc at that being the problem tonight. Maybe instead of spending the offseason creating new holes at WR, Chip and Howie should have tried to fix the holes in the secondary. 2 weeks in a row the DL makes plays and forces 3rd and longs and the secondary just gives them up. Eagles are a bad team, that got lucky to play a bunch of even worse teams this year. They wont make the playoffs and it is for the best, they need better draft picks for Howie to waste on huge busts.
I've been wondering if the Colts can get into trouble for injury report shenanigans lately.
Futurevoid
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yankeehater
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Ray Didenger was on WIP today and he said he is hearing he will be back but that Fewell will be gone.
huh. didn't know Jeter caught football games.
I don't see why they would fire him in the first place. You're not going to magical find someone better.
Ninja Scooter
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Cowher's waiting for that old fuck to retire, but to be honest is Cowher even any better? Especially with so many years away from the game?
If he took over the giants? No, he's still going to suck. No matter what coach they plug in there, it's not really going to get any better.
WesternHeretic
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Jim.....
http://www.nfl.com/videos/dallas-cowboys/0ap3000000443898/Cowboys-bus-gets-eggs-tra-special-welcome
Philly fan almost as class-less as Seattle fans. They are taking a step up next time you know they will be trolling other teams thread!
Let's hope Irsay money continues to do its thing.