What does it mean that Thursday Night Football is over and this week’s thread hasn’t been started yet. Aren’t you all excited about Jacksonville vs. Tennessee?
A lot of playoff questions will be answered this week. What are you hoping to see?
Seattle win (of course)
Detroit win because I have a soft spot for them and want to see them be successful.
Philadelphia loss because that would clinch for the habitual non-playoff teams. Detroit and Dallas.
Saints lose because I want a 6-10 Atlanta in the playoffs.
That’s probably because they need all of the following, if my calculations are correct:[ol]
[li]Cleveland beats\ both Carolina and Baltimore,[/li][li]Houston to beat Baltimore and then lose/tie to Jacksonville (!), [/li][li]Buffalo to lose to both Oakland (!) and New England (or tie one of them),[/li][li]Miami to lose/tie either to the Jets or Minnesota,[/li][li]Kansas City to lose to Pittsburgh,[/li][li]San Diego to lose to San Francisco, and[/li][li]KC and SD to tie (!!) week 17 in a winner-makes-the-playoffs game.[/li][/ol]
But that’s better than my Titans’ chances, at any rate. Go Bucs!
I scored (free*) tickets to the 49ers-Chargers game Saturday night. It might not be as good as it would be if the 49ers were still in it, and they’ll probably play guys from the practice squad or off the street, but who cares. I’m moving up to Washington in a couple weeks and this is my only shot at seeing a game in the new stadium before I leave town.
I hear there was a draft order “battle” last night. Who cares what happened, what were the TV numbers like?
*: I’ll be cutting a bunch of paper snowflakes for them. Fair trade?
This could prove to be slightly problematic. In 1983, the Seahawks defeated the LA Raiders twice during the regular season but spit up quite badly against them in the AFC championship game. If they curb-stomp Arizona Sunday evening, meeting them in the playoffs would not bode well for Seattle, as it is very difficult to beat a team thrice in one season.
When Locker came out, I liked the pick. We needed a quarterback and I thought his legs could make up for his lack of accuracy – kinda like a Vince Young with his head screwed on straight. (Keep in mind that as a homer, I thought Young was pretty good.)
Nowadays, he’s hurt too often (as Bill James says, health is a skill; Locker doesn’t seem to have it) and too inaccurate. With the current CBA, there’s no reason for the Titans not to move on.
Saints at home against Atlanta should be an exciting game. NFL rivalries aren’t quite as intense as college rivalries, but these teams don’t like each other.
Looks like no one put up the list of games. Being a bastard, here they are, with West Coast times:
Saturday
1:30pm Philadelphia -7.5 @ Washington
5:25pm San Diego @ San Francisco -1
Sunday
10:00am PST
Minnesota @ Miami -6.5
Green Bay -11 @ Tampa Bay
Detroit -8.5 @ Chicago
Atlanta @ New Orleans -6.5
New England -10.5 @ NY Jets
Kansas City @ Pittsburgh -3
Cleveland @ Carolina -3.5
Baltimore -5 @ Houston
1:05pm
NY Giants @ St. Louis -6.5
1:25pm
Buffalo -7 @ Oakland
Indianapolis @ Dallas -3.5
5:25pm
Seattle -7.5 @ Arizona
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Quatro
San Diego Chargers still have a chance for the playoffs just like last year when they had to not only win their last four (4) regular season games to be 8-8.
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Actually the Chargers had to win their last four to be 9-7.
And how about those Chargers! This is written minutes after a wild comeback against the 49ers. I’m a Charger fan and I have to say that these kind of games just make me so happy. They’re murder on my life expectancy but I’m happy.
(This post moved from NFL Week 15 because sometimes I don’t count so good.)
He’s a great athlete but I worried about the accuracy thing and it seems to have played out that way.
The injury thing is clearly a problem also. I remember the types of injuries he had in college and I couldn’t quite wrap my head around whether there was some pattern or just dumb luck, looks like it’s a pattern.
Go Bucs!