NFL Week 15

Cowboys!

Not the worst ever. I’m hoping a 6-10 team win the NFC South.

It would be my luck for that team to be the Saints. Terrible year, sacrificial lamb in the playoffs, draft in the bottom half of every round. :frowning:

Apparently, they can clinch the division by winning the last three games of the season. Starting on the road @Chicago tomorrow night. Geaux Saints. I guess. Sigh.

Sadly it doesn’t look like things will get better for them.

I was being wooshed there, I guess. :stuck_out_tongue:

Well, if the Saints lose tonight, the Panthers lose to the Browns next week, and the Saints and Falcons tie, we would go into week 17 with all 3 teams at 5-9-1 records :smiley:

That would be amusing. It seems very likely that one NFC team is going to miss the playoffs at 11-5 (right now I’d say that’s most likely the Eagles) while the NFC South champs get in at 6 or 7 wins. What would be really funny is if the NFC South champs caught fire in the playoffs and made it to the Super Bowl. Very unlikely, but shit happens in the modern NFL…

Wouldn’t that be a hoot? A 6-10 division leader catching fire and winning the title with a 10-10 final record.

I am still not understanding Aaron Rogers. He took the snap from, what, the 4, took two steps back and to the side, then with his foot inches from his own goal, the ball gets slapped out of his hand. So what does he do? Run forward, away from the ball. Was he just in shell-shock or something?

It simply looked like he had no idea whatsoever that the ball was in the end zone. No one directly around him seemed to see it, either.

As A Giants fan, I’m very used to seeing the quarterback get confused. :slight_smile:

Adding to the absurdity, of course, is that the NFC South winner will host a first round game. If the playoffs started today Seattle would play @ Carolina.

You should probably not do the math just yet: the Saints have to poke through the smouldering dumpster fire in Soldier Field before we can tell what the state of the NFC-S is.

Oh, I know. No matter how it plays out it’s going to be unfair to one team.

Maybe he needs a new nickname: Johnny College Football.

It’s one thing to lose a game when the opposing team is on fire. But it’s got to be really embarrassing for Rodgers to have lost to Kyle Orton. While the Buffalo defense and special teams did a great job, the Buffalo offense gave their usual average performance.

It’s the Bills’ ongoing problem. They’re not good enough and perversely they’re not bad enough. They just go along year after year stuck in the middle of the league. They’re never good enough to make the playoffs and they’re never bad enough to get a top draft choice.

"When I asked Coach Trestman “How do you generate more offense?” he replied “Well first I would load the whole team up on a bus and drive it into Lake Michigan and Captain that bitch all the way to the bottom. Then bring back Rex Grossman and Lovie Smith”

But they’re finally building a honest to God NFL football team. They have their defense in line, they have a couple playmakers on offense, and they seem to be well coached. They need help on the O line, but they really need a good QB. Orton is just an average NFL QB guy off the street, and they’re still 8-6 with a pretty tough schedule. I really like how they built their team, and I think they’ll be in playoff contention more often than not in the upcoming years.

Jay Cutler is the gift that just keeps giving. To opposing defenses, usually.

Trestman’s an idiot. No one in Chicago would take offense to that. :stuck_out_tongue:

Getting defensive?