The NFC is a joke. According to NFL.com standings, AFC is 40-20 against NFC this season.
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The NFC is a joke. According to NFL.com standings, AFC is 40-20 against NFC this season.
Only two teams (Cowboys and Panthers) have winning records against the AFC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
The proof for the NFC sucking is that San Francisco has a shot to win their division. And it's past week three!
And in 5 years or so the AFC will suck. :p
Snowy wheather + a QB who JUST came back from injury and was a bit rusty as a result = not a good combination for the Seattle Seahawks...at least it wasn't for the 1st Half.
Now it looks like Matt Hasselbeck's gotten back into a rhythm, and the snow's pretty much melted. Now it looks like the Seahawks could engineer quite a comeback.
I don't think the Seahawks' defense is good enough to hang with the Bears or Cowboys. I'd say they could maybe win one game in the playoffs, but no more.
But who knows? Maybe they'll turn me around if they play on fire the next 5 weeks.
Well, looks like four weeks of rest has certainly paid off for Matt Hasselbeck. At first, I thought he choked in the first half of last night's game due to being a bit rusty, since he missed four and a half games due to injury, and just returned. Now, I think the weather was a factor (since the weather improved in the 2nd half). And, the Seahawks aren't used to playing their home games in the snow, seeing as how this was their first home game in franchise history to be played in the snow.
And whoever was wearing the zebra-striped shirts in last night's game needs to be fired. I saw two bullcalls in that game. You can call them cancelled-out calls, since one bad call went favored one side, and the other one favored the other side, but that doesn't change the fact that both calls were bad.
First bad call, a roughing-the-passer penalty against Cullen Jenkins. Problem was, that was CLEARLY not roughing-the-passer. If you look closely at the replay, his hand hit Hasselbeck's back, and the only contact to Hasselbeck's head was when Jenkins' hand slid to the helmet. I believe that was on a 3rd down play, and the pass was incomplete. The Seahawks would've had to punt that one away had it not been for that penalty.
The second bull
Now the Playoff picture's getting a bit clearer in the NFC.
If the Playoffs were to start today, here's what the playoff standings would look like:
AFC
- Indianapolis Colts (10-1)
- Baltimore Ravens (9-2)
- San Diego Chargers (9-2)
- New England Patriots (8-3)
- Kansas City Chiefs (7-4)
- Denver Broncos (7-4)
The AFC West would hold not one, but BOTH Wild Card teams.
Kansas City owns the tiebreaker over Denver by virtue of Division Record (KC's 3-1 Division Record vs. Denver's 3-2).
Baltimore owns the tiebreaker over San Diego by virtue of a head-to-head win (Week 4).
On the outside looking in...
- New York Jets (6-5)
- Jacksonville Jaguars (6-5)
- Buffalo Bills (5-6)
- Miami Dolphins (5-6)
Meanwhile, in the NFC...
- Chicago Bears (9-2)
- New Orleans Saints (7-4)
- Seattle Seahawks (7-4)
- Dallas Cowboys (7-4)
- Carolina Panthers (6-5)
- New York Giants (6-5)
New Orleans holds the tiebreaker over both Dallas and Seattle by virtue of Conference Record (New Orleans' 6-1 Conference Record vs. Seattle's 6-3 and Dallas' 4-3).
By the same virtue, Seattle holds the tiebreaker over Dallas (Seattle's 6-3 Conference Record vs. Dallas' 4-3).
Carolina holds the tiebreaker over the New York Giants by virtue of Conference Record (Carolina's 5-2 vs. the New York Giants' 4-4).
On the outside looking in...
- Minnesota Vikings (5-6)
- Philadelphia Eagles (5-6)
- San Francisco 49ers (5-6)
- Atlanta Falcons (5-6)
- St. Louis Rams (5-6)
Any team with a 4-7 record or worse, you can consider them out of playoff contention at this point. I'm not certain whether or not the 4-7 teams are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, though.
I'm pretty sure it's too early for them to be mathematically eliminated, but yeah they don't got a shot.
I guess those teams need to ask the incumbent Kansas City Chiefs head coach why they play football (after all, he told us why we play football when he was the New York Jets head coach).Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
We already saw one quarterback controversy result in not only a QB switch for one team, but a rise in momentum for said team.
Of course, we also saw the Broncos bench Jake Plummer in favor of Jay Cutler, but it failed to produce the Tony Romo results on Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks.
Now, the Chicago Bears have a QB Controversy.
However, I question the Bears' coach's decision to keep Rex Grossman as his starting QB. A QB rating of 1.3 in a single game is unacceptable. The Bears are clearly gambling with their decision to keep Grossman as their starting Quarterback. They may have clinched the NFC North, and they may have an easy-enough schedule to clinch a first-round bye, or even home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. Their defense and special teams are good enough to pick up the offensive slack that Rex Grossman has created, but the Bears' decision to keep Rex Grossman at starting QB may come back to bite them in the ass come playoff time. They were VERY lucky to have won that game yesterday!
In the NFC right now, there is a 4-way tie for the two wild card spots between the New York Football Giants (aka, the "Gee-Men"), the Atlanta Falcons, the Carolina Panthers, and the Philadelphia Eagles, the result of an Eagles win over the Panthers on Monday Night Football. Personally, I think the Falcons and Panthers have a better chance than the Eagles and Giants.
And talk about a momentum change in the NFC East; the team known for over 2 and a half decades as "America's Team" has been on fire since their Monday Night Football loss to the Giants, while the Giants, on the other hand, have been struggling since then (of course, the injury bug greatly factors into this, too). Sunday's game between the two made it all but made Dallas' lead over the NFC East official (the Giants can still grab the NFC East, but it's unlikely); Dallas can clinch the NFC East as early as Week 15. All I have to say about that is this; HOW 'BOUT THEM COWBOYS?!
And while I'm on the subject of the Giants, I have one simple question; why the HELL did the Giants draft Mathias Kiwanuka to begin with?! He made two costly mistakes on two consecutive games. First, he tries to sack Vince Young on 4th and 10 (obviously with the Titans going for it on 4th and 10, taking a huge risk), then he just lets him go, and allows him to run, all because he's scared of that infamous "roughing the passer" penalty. HELLO?! This isn't flag football! This isn't touch football! This is the National friggin' Football League. That means you're not supposed to be playing like a wuss. Tom Coughlin yelling at Kiwanuka for that botched sack was obviously warranted. Lawrence Taylor would've sacked the hell out of Vince Young, maybe even sent him to the emergency room, if he was still playing! Guess what the result of that aborted sack is? 1st Down! Had Kiwanuka not been such a dumbass, the Giants would've not only gotten the ball by virtue of turnover on downs, they also would've protected the 7-point lead they had. One week later, Mathias Kiwanuka picks off Tony Romo...only to fumble the damn ball and give possession right back to the Cowboys immediately afterward. The sad part about that? Like the game before, the Giants were up by a touchdown when he screwed up, only it happened in the 1st quarter. Of course, Kiwanuka was just one of many Giants to have cost that team the game; another factor that sealed their fate was PENALTIES! That also includes FOUR PERSONAL FOULS. And if I'm not mistaken, you get fined for a personal foul penalty in the NFL. This ain't the NBA, where personal fouls are tame in comparison. Like, over 900 yards, as well as the game, down the drain for the Giants, all because of stupid penalties. If they continue to play like this, the Giants certainly won't win the NFC East, let alone make the playoffs.
And yes, I know the Giants have injury problems. I can understand how that can affect a team in the long-run if they start piling up, like they have in the Giants' case. That's one thing. But when the players who are healthy start playing sloppy, that's something else. And put those two together, and you've got yourself a horrible combination. Such is the case with the Giants. The injuries, obviously, are beyond the Giants' control. The Giants just have to suck it up and wait for guys like Michael Strahan to get healthy and back in the line-up. Some players, such as LaVar Arrington, are out for the season. But sloppy play from the likes of Eli Manning and Mathias Kiwanuka, along with *cough*costly penalties*cough*...that is NOT beyond the Giants' control. And I'm beginning to question how disciplined the Giants are, which, in turn, leads me to question Tom Coughlin's ability to coach the team.
And I thought the legal troubles for the Cincinnati Bengals were over. Apparently not. Rookie wide receiver Reggie McNeal was arrested in Houston for resisting arrest after being denied entrance to a night club. In a nutshell, he was refused entrance because the club was closing, and he got unruly with the cops. He allegedly elbowed one of the cops in the chest. Thus, McNeal proved that the Bengals are STILL the Jail Blazers of the NFL. Something tells me that it's only a matter of time before Chad Johnson and Carson Palmer fall into that trap...
Hester get 2 returns for TDs giving him 6 this season (NFL record) :D Grossman throws for 200 yard and 2 TDs NO INT :D :D And they have liek 170 rushing yards. Hell yes offense was on tonight. Defense didn't play as well but, as usual lots of injurys. But I love it. Super bowl shuffle baby.
Hester also tied a record this season, as well; longest play in NFL History (108 yards, originally set last season by Nathan Vasher). That play, like Vasher's 108 yarder, was a missed field goal return.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrowaBartonIV ^_^
Yeah I know, Hester is tearing :skull::skull::skull::skull: up on special teams.
No, Tom Coughlin had no right to yell at Mathias Kiwianuka at all. You already have the answer on why he was so afraid of roughing the passer. It was 4TH AND 10! If Vince indeed had thrown the ball and he took Vince down afterwards, that (under these bs protect the QB rules) would've definitely been roughing the passer. You know what that gives? An automatic 1st down! If that's what had happened, then Tom Coughlin has the right to yell at Mathias. If LT had done it, then he would've looked like a fool too. Letting him go was the correct decision and the lesser of two evils in his circumstance. It's the refs fault for calling so many stupid roughing the passer calls and getting D-lineman scared to hurt their team, especially on 3rd and 4th downs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bloodline666
Speaking of Vince Young, coming back home and running that 39-yard TD run to win the game in overtime couldn't have been any sweeter. What the hell were the Texans thinking calling an all-out blitz? Between him and Reggie Bush having absolutely monster games, I'm sure the Texans GM isn't going to get many friendly Christmas cards.
Also, god Indianapolis needs to pull themselves together. Granted, Jacksonville is a hugely underrated team, but that was just plain out sad. Could you imagine the havoc having a back like Ladainian Tomlinson , Larry Johnson, or even Jamal Lewis/Rudi Johnson facing that run D would create? The Colts are in a freefall right now.
To end it, ever since I saw a young Ladainian Tomlinson at TCU, I knew he was going to be special. I'm looking forward to talking about him and Peyton Manning to my kids thirty years from now. He truly deserves to be my generation's LT.
San Fran upset Seattle!? wow nice one guys :p