# NFL Division Weekend **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 13, 2018, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534 "2018-01-13T13:54:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/41 "2018-01-14T20:38:32Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > You mean the defender pushing Jones to the ground? You know, like hands on helping him there? Did you miss that part? I didn’t. I laughed when the receiver slipped, I know that. 😃 The analysts said it was clean, maybe not entirely, but he definitely went FLOOOP. We saw that from both teams around the game. And, no, the Steelers won’t go away. It’s up to JAX to hang on or pick off Big Ben. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/42 "2018-01-14T20:38:41Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > The play is right here. The receiver is knocked to the ground. [x.com](https://twitter.com/NFL/status/952340289850523648)? I haven’t watched more than five minutes of football all season. I have no rooting interest in a game between the Eagles and the Falcons. And, as a general proposition, i believe that Philadelphia sports fans deserve every disappointment and every bad beat and every shattered dream that is inflicted on them. But that play you linked was 50-50, at best. It certainly looked to me like Jones slipped and was going down on his own. A penalty against Atlanta there would have been an injustice, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/43 "2018-01-14T20:44:18Z")
This Jags/Steelers game is the most entertaining game I’ve seen all season. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/44 "2018-01-14T20:57:09Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > This Jags/Steelers game is the most entertaining game I’ve seen all season. Same here, especially now that it’s almost certain the Stealers are going to lose. Can JAX beat Brady & Co. in Foxborough? ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/45 "2018-01-14T21:00:08Z")
Wish I could go back in time and bet the over. Everyone had this as a 20-16 type game. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/46 "2018-01-14T21:00:12Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Same here, especially now that it’s almost certain the Stealers are going to lose. > > Can JAX beat Brady & Co. in Foxborough? I picked Jags vs Vikings in the SDMB Super Bowl pool. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/47 "2018-01-14T21:20:48Z")
80 seems like a lot of points for a playoff game. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/48 "2018-01-14T21:28:06Z")
These teams had the 2nd and 7th best defense in the league. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/49 "2018-01-14T21:38:25Z")
Every time the Stealers lose, an Angel gets his wings. Thank me later, Clarence. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/50 "2018-01-14T21:43:30Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Every time the Stealers lose, an Angel gets his wings. Thank me later, Clarence. Whereas every time the Bungles lose, that’s just Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/51 "2018-01-14T22:30:56Z")
Keenan has a really unorthodox release but boy does it work for him. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/52 "2018-01-14T22:58:05Z")
The Jags actually managed to impress me, and that’s not easy to do. I think they might actually have a chance to unseat the Kings of Referee Aid. Brady sucks when he’s pressured (one of my two principal objections to people naming him GOAT. I think Russell Wilson is better than Brady, let alone Joe Montana. The other is that he has BB and a lot of damn good personnel behind him. If he weren’t on the Pats, he’d be Eli at best). Sacksonville probably does have the best chance to beat them, of all the AFC contenders. The question is will Bortles show up like he did this week, or will he be the way he was for most of the season? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/53 "2018-01-14T23:05:37Z")
At least the possibility exists that the AFC might send a different team to the SB this time around. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/54 "2018-01-14T23:08:12Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > The play is right here. The receiver is knocked to the ground. [x.com](https://twitter.com/NFL/status/952340289850523648)? No, actually he isn’t. But you would never accept that, having made up your mind on the subject already. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/55 "2018-01-14T23:10:54Z")
Wow the Saints are looking terrible. And the Vikings looking very good. It will be a miracle if the Saints can even make it a game in the 2nd half. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/56 "2018-01-14T23:17:06Z")
How cool would it be if we had Conference Champions’ quarterbacks of Case Keenum, Blake Bortles, Nick Foles, and Tom Brady. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/57 "2018-01-14T23:20:30Z")
Terrible clock mismanagement by the Steelers at the end of their game. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/58 "2018-01-14T23:35:42Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > Terrible clock mismanagement by the Steelers at the end of their game. Terrible special teams play, too, on both onsides kick attempts. On the last one, PIT needed to recover the onsides kick _ **and** _ advance the ball into the end zone — an onsides kick recovery and TD on the same play. Do teams even have a play for that? Has it ever succeeded? I’ve never heard of it. NE and JAX look like the best teams left, so far. NO @ MIN is still going. Next week’s AFC Championship game should be a good one! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/59 "2018-01-14T23:36:50Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > How cool would it be if we had Conference Champions’ quarterbacks of Case Keenum, Blake Bortles, Nick Foles, and Tom Brady. Umm, why, what’s the significance? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-division-weekend/806534/60 "2018-01-14T23:43:30Z")
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