Wild Card Round NFL Playoffs

[auroraave]

I predict we put the 49ers in their coffin Saturday. The Bears continue their magic season and knock of the Rams with their fans losing their marbles. Then they come to Seattle and Cinderella gets it in the ass and they turn into a pumpkin. Then we face the Pats in the SB and get revenge for handing them the nightmare SB the last time we faced them.

I can't see the Donkey's coming out of the AFC - I think it's the Bills or Texans. Donkey's, again, play in another crap division, had soft schedule. I don't think Chicago weather will matter - but I am super happy the lambs have to go be miserable in it. FTR.

[57reasons]

I predict we put the 49ers in their coffin Saturday. The Bears continue their magic season and knock of the Rams with their fans losing their marbles. Then they come to Seattle and Cinderella gets it in the ass and they turn into a pumpkin. Then we face the Pats in the SB and get revenge for handing them the nightmare SB the last time we faced them.

The Bears are not beating the Rams, but I can see the rest of what you say happening.

i hear there might be snow, and cold weather might aggravate Stafford's thumb agitation, going against a strong running game and a long-starved rowdy fan base, not to mention the Rams haven't been themselves ever since a certain 4th quarter meltdown - just sayin there's a chance!

[trharder]

I can't see the Donkey's coming out of the AFC - I think it's the Bills or Texans. Donkey's, again, play in another crap division, had soft schedule. I don't think Chicago weather will matter - but I am super happy the lambs have to go be miserable in it. FTR.

Houston may be a problem.

[57reasons]

To recap....
Jacksonville is just not as good as everyone wanted them to be and Goldielocks is still over rated.
Herbert is the most over hyped and under criticized QB in the history of the NFL. That's right, I said history. And it was sure fun watching a Jim Harbaugh team set the game of offensive football back forty years....again!
The Rams defense is pedestrian. Hell, everyone's defense besides Houston might be. You watch some of these offenses that we completely shut down go out and put up points and it just amazes me. More kudos to MM.
Philly is the most dysfunctional team in football. I've been saying it all year, AJ Brown and Nick Siriani are the worst thing to happen to that Franchise since Buddy Ryan!
Lefleur is over his head. The blown timeouts were ridiculous. I can't believe more isn't made of it. It was like watching Pete Carroll and staff.

The only team in the NFL that I think can beat us if we don't play bad football is LA. And they have been mediocre at best since we pulled the rug out from under them a few weeks ago.

Agreed on almost all of this, especially the Lawrenceville Jags being overrated, and Packers such choke artists. GB has been my best friend's team for the past 50 years, and even he called them losing it before the start of the 4th quarter - saw that happening all year with that squad. Philly's dysfunction doomed them almost as much as their pedestrian quarterback - they haven't had it all year after having already conquered Goliath (KC & Mahomes) last February. Once Brown had his ring, next it was all about the dough, not that the play-calling and QB play would remind anyone of Walsh and Montana (or even Holmgren & Hasselbeck!)

On Herbert we diverge - not saying he's elite, but name any other QB this side of Cam Newton who wouldn't be a paraplegic by now behind that wreck of an OL. Gets pummeled every week but rarely misses a snap. He runs through, not always away from, contact. Because he's never had a good or healthy enough supporting cast he's been the football equivalent of King Felix, but imagine it could have been different if he had the protection/weapons combo that the likes of the Eagles, Rams, Niners, Lions and Bears trot out. Not for lack of organizational trying, just bad luck with the two lost pro-bowl tackles.

[auroraave]

It's been an utterly bizarre playoffds already - WTF am I watching? You watched Pittsburgh give up last night, even though Stroud did his best to give the game away, the panthers gave the game away to a surprisingly vulnerable Lambs team, then packers absolutely shit the bed in another epic defensive collapse written by Aaron Sorkin, the Eagles refuse to take the game from the 9ers. The only non surprise was the veteran Josh Allen willing a win against a team with no playoff experience. I mean, am I the obnly one baffled at this? Are the players fatigued? I can;t remember the playoffs looking like this before - so so so much BAD football. Maybe 28 game seasons isn't the best idea - unless you're fanduel or the sopranos.

Seattle v Buffalo SB?

[douche]

I can't see the Donkey's coming out of the AFC - I think it's the Bills or Texans. Donkey's, again, play in another crap division, had soft schedule. I don't think Chicago weather will matter - but I am super happy the lambs have to go be miserable in it. FTR.

Houston may be a problem.

I consider the Texans to be the most legit team in the AFC. It was nice to see the Steelers (and Rodgers) have their asses handed to them.

[trharder]

I can't see the Donkey's coming out of the AFC - I think it's the Bills or Texans. Donkey's, again, play in another crap division, had soft schedule. I don't think Chicago weather will matter - but I am super happy the lambs have to go be miserable in it. FTR.

Houston may be a problem.

I consider the Texans to be the most legit team in the AFC. It was nice to see the Steelers (and Rodgers) have their asses handed to them.

I think some of us in Seattle take them for granted because we handled them pretty easily, but the are a mirror image of Seattle.
Lockdown big dog defense. Hit or miss offense with sketch QB play.

[Michael K.]

I consider the Texans to be the most legit team in the AFC. It was nice to see the Steelers (and Rodgers) have their asses handed to them.

I think our defense is a touch better than Houston's defense. But our offense is far superior. Stroud looked like a scared little boy last night. Four fumbles? A brutal pick? Missing open receiver after open receiver? His happy feet reminded me of Russ Wilson every time he pissed his pants because Aaron Donald was on the field. Brutally bad.

Pittsburgh has NOTHING on offense. NOTHING. DK has quit, and he was the only weapon they had. The ONLY reason that game wasn't over at the half was how bad CJ Stroud is. Of the remaining teams, IMO? The only NFC team that could lose a Super Bowl without playing terrible is Chicago.

[Captain 97]

Houston may be a problem.

I consider the Texans to be the most legit team in the AFC. It was nice to see the Steelers (and Rodgers) have their asses handed to them.

I think some of us in Seattle take them for granted because we handled them pretty easily, but the are a mirror image of Seattle.
Lockdown big dog defense. Hit or miss offense with sketch QB play.

Hit or miss offense that is third in the League in points per game.
Sketch QB that is 8th in completion percentage, 5th in Yards, 9th in Td's and 2nd in Yards per attempt.
Darnold is significantly better than Stroud in every single passing stat other than interceptions.

[D-train]

I consider the Texans to be the most legit team in the AFC. It was nice to see the Steelers (and Rodgers) have their asses handed to them.

I think some of us in Seattle take them for granted because we handled them pretty easily, but the are a mirror image of Seattle.
Lockdown big dog defense. Hit or miss offense with sketch QB play.

Hit or miss offense that is third in the League in points per game.
Sketch QB that is 8th in completion percentage, 5th in Yards, 9th in Td's and 2nd in Yards per attempt.
Darnold is significantly better than Stroud in every single passing stat other than interceptions.

Yeah I think the obsession with INTs is a bit much. Obviously they are not good but relative to everything else they aren't that big a deal.

Of the 8 remaining QBs he does have the most but not a lot more than average:

Sam 14
Purdy 11
Stroud 8
Stafford 8
Allen 10
Maye 8
Williams 7
Nix 11

Average of 9. So he has 5 more than average. Really an INT is a the same as a very short punt. Let's say (guessing here) the guy making the INT is tackled 10 yard beyond the LOS with the outliers being a pick 6 and a 50 yard bomb that gets picked off and the guy gets immediately tackled.

So that is like a 10 yard punt vs. a typical net average on a punt is 40-45 yards so we will call it 43 yards. So that is a net loss of 43-10 = 33 yards per INT. So Sam had 14 instead of the average of 9. So he has cost the Hawks 14-9 = 5 x 33 = 165 yards more than the average playoff QB.

Obviously no good but when you compare it to his 4000+ passing yards it is really a drop in the bucket.