2024-25 NFL Playoffs Thread

[HarryDoyle]

1 minute ago, Underachiever said:

This reads like a Brewer game thread when MKE goes down 2-0. “Game over.”

28-15 with six minutes left is a little different than 2-0.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Left to a blown blocking assignment to seal it, I guess.

Crazy, but the Commanders should be the favorite next Sunday 

[Underachiever]

2 minutes ago, HarryDoyle said:

28-15 with six minutes left is a little different than 2-0.

They are both 2-score games.

[HarryDoyle]

2 minutes ago, Underachiever said:

They are both 2-score games.

That's a false equivalence. It's much easier to hit a two run home run in baseball than for a football team from LA to drive down the field in the snow against a stiff defense in a span of six minutes not once but twice, and the only reason they even succeeded once is because the Eagles defense played more conservative. When it mattered, the Rams couldn't do a thing, much like the entire second half.

[LouisEly]

2 hours ago, HarryDoyle said:

When it mattered, the Rams couldn't do a thing, much like the entire second half.

I wouldn't say that.  They drove 70 yards twice in the snow and the second time got inside the 15 yard line only to have a rookie center miss a blocking assignment. 

They gained 140 yards on the Eagles defense in less than five minutes in the snow.  I'd say that's the last thing from "couldn't do a thing".

[yourout]

Lamar seems to have a pretty strong gag reflex in big games.

[Underachiever]

2 hours ago, HarryDoyle said:

That's a false equivalence. It's much easier to hit a two run home run in baseball than for a football team from LA to drive down the field in the snow against a stiff defense in a span of six minutes not once but twice, and the only reason they even succeeded once is because the Eagles defense played more conservative. When it mattered, the Rams couldn't do a thing, much like the entire second half.

JFC, you called the game over when it wasn't. Doesnt' matter the sport. The game wasn't over. 

When the Rams were on the 13 with 1:14 left, you were sure it was over? Rams were out of their element? They drove 60 yards in ten plays, and that means "the Rams couldn't do a thing"? 

 

[yourout]

Can't blame Lamar for that one.

[HarveysWBs]

Mark Andrews just had a brutal night. Feel for the guy.

[young guns]

I'm hoping for a Buffalo Washington superbowl.

[wallus]

An Eagles loss away from a perfect sports weekend 

[Brian]

NFL admits a costly mistake against the Packers, but now it's too late. 

I guess there opinion is just "Oh Well" 😕 in a million dollar sport. 

[adambr2]

8 hours ago, Brian said:

NFL admits a costly mistake against the Packers, but now it's too late. 

I guess there opinion is just "Oh Well" 😕 in a million dollar sport. 

Happens all the time unfortunately. I expected there would eventually be a fine that came out for Burks when the play happened.

[adambr2]

The Super Bowl I really really want:

Bills vs Commanders

 

The Super Bowl we will actually get:

Eagles vs. Chiefs

Super Bowl matchups of an NFC team that I despise versus the Chiefs are getting about as predictable as it comes.

 

[Fear The Chorizo]

After that Chiefs/Texans game totally hinged on several terrible roughing/unnecessary roughness calls on Mahomes, and also saw him flop like Vlade Divac on another run out of bounds that wasn't flagged, plus having Aikman in the national TV booth openly criticizing Mahomes getting those calls to extend drives that led to points and frankly being the difference in the game, I'm really hoping the NFL talks with whomever the officiating crew is for Sunday's AFC Championship game is to emphasize those calls or anything close to them can't be repeated.  Especially not with the potential league MVP on the other sideline this time around.  

When you've got a quarterback actively looking to draw roughing penalties on defensive players because he knows they're already apprehensive to go full steam at him because of the rep he has drawing laundry from officials, it's not football anymore and takes away from everything else Mahomes does spectacularly on the field and becomes annoying as hell to watch if you're not a Chiefs fan. 

Man I hope the Bills win Sunday - and it wouldn't bother me at all if it's because they knock Mahomes out of the game early when he's extending a play outside the pocket by trying to play games with the sideline/draw a roughing flag and a defender with bad intentions reminds him how risky that should be for him to do.  

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I am not going to split hairs over who wins the Super Bowl at this point, just ecstatic it isn't the douches in Detroit or the Vikings. 

Lions are getting closer to squandering their window. The Vikings have a potential QB problem. I have a lot of family in Philly so I am ok with them. Washington is innocuous. Buffalo would be fun to see, and KC is boring but also doesn't really bother me. 

[adambr2]

43 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

I am not going to split hairs over who wins the Super Bowl at this point, just ecstatic it isn't the douches in Detroit or the Vikings. 

Lions are getting closer to squandering their window. The Vikings have a potential QB problem. I have a lot of family in Philly so I am ok with them. Washington is innocuous. Buffalo would be fun to see, and KC is boring but also doesn't really bother me. 

I don’t have any real reason to hate the Chiefs, although if I were a fan of an AFC West team I’m sure I’d feel much differently.

But there’s a national fatigue about them right now in the same way that everyone tired of seeing the Patriots in the AFCCG and often Super Bowl year after year after year.

And even though it’s apples to oranges across different eras, I’d prefer that the Packers retain bragging rights to the only 3-peat NFL champions.

[homer]

Jayden Daniels seems like a good kid and the Washington fans suffered through the Snyder years  Really anyone but KC is ok by me 

[OldHeidelberg]

I can live with the Eagles as long as they beat KC. Buffalo would be my favorite, they were my second favorite team back when James Lofton was there and they are small market cold weather like the Pack. Just please god not the 3 peat 🤮

[SeaBass]

I agree, it's all gravy now that the Lions' and Vikings' drought is assured of continuing.

I'm all for Buffalo getting over the hump. I don't really have secondary teams in my sports fandom but I've always liked the Bills. Rooted for them in all those Super Bowls they didn't win in the early 90s, they're a smaller market at just under 300,000 population so there's another reason.

The fatigue is real with KC. On top of that is they just feel like a very uninspired and dull team that is somehow defying the odds and still winning. I don't get it but here they are again. I don't dislike them they way I hated the Patriots but they're travelling down that road. If they make it back I passionately hope they lose.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Silver lining with KC is that I'd rather see them get 8 Super Bowls than have the Pats/Brady sit on top of that mountain forever.

[OldHeidelberg]

A Buffalo title would leave the Vikings all alone at 0-4 so there's that too. Packers are done, all I have left is hope for more misery for our rivals and it's been a good offseason so far.

[SeaBass]

2 hours ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Silver lining with KC is that I'd rather see them get 8 Super Bowls than have the Pats/Brady sit on top of that mountain forever.

If only the NFL had history preceding the Super Bowl era then maybe the Patriots wouldn't be on top of any mountains. Maybe in this fictional reality it would be the Packers instead.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

1 hour ago, SeaBass said:

If only the NFL had history preceding the Super Bowl era then maybe the Patriots wouldn't be on top of any mountains. Maybe in this fictional reality it would be the Packers instead.

Yeah...something about playing the Frankford Yellow Jackets and giving up 10 points all year doesn't have the same shine to it as winning 6 times in the Super Bowl era and all of them after 2000 for me. 

[SeaBass]

17 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Yeah...something about playing the Frankford Yellow Jackets and giving up 10 points all year doesn't have the same shine to it as winning 6 times in the Super Bowl era and all of them after 2000 for me. 

Cool, just take the ones from the 60's onward and they still have them beat by one.

The 2000's is an odd line in the sand. Don't care. Not any more special. In fact, these are the days of breathing on a QB gets you a personal foul penalty. The game is the easiest it's ever been.

Recency bias really needs to die in a fire. Somebody tell the Yankees they don't really have 27 World Series titles, they actually only have 2.