2024-25 NFL Playoffs Thread

[adambr2]

McDermott before today’s game: “We’re just focused on playing a good, clean game.”

Yeah, our coach likes to sing that song, too. 

[yourout]

1 minute ago, adambr2 said:

McDermott before today’s game: “We’re just focused on playing a good, clean game.”

Yeah, our coach likes to sing that song, too. 

MLF can sing the song but he can't conduct the choir for s***

[yourout]

This replay will be an interesting test for the zebras.

[adambr2]

What a stupid challenge by McDermott. It’s basically a tie of possession which is going to go to Worthy and even if you somehow get the call they’re just going to enforce the penalty which will only mean that they can burn more clock before you get the ball back for one more shot before halftime.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I'm lost. That wasn't an interception. But there was holding. So Buffalo is hoping to win a challenge (they won't) to give KC a first down, 5 yards from where they began the play. Bizarre. 

[LouisEly]

46 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

They literally went to one of them with their backup QB playing in the playoffs. And that's the year they won. 

Sorry, but Bhaktiari's injury at the very least, was not an excuse for losing a home playoff game to a .500 team as 1 seed with the MVP. 

What year was that?

I recall them losing to a 10-7 San Francisco team in 2022.  SF was a wild card team that year because the Rams finished 12-5 and the Cardinals 11-6. 

Oh, and Packers were also without Elgton Jenkins that game.  Sorry, but if you are without an All-Pro LT and a Pro Bowl LG against one of the best DLs in the league... yeah, that's an excuse for losing. 

What All-Pro and Pro Bowl players have the Eagles been missing during their Super Bowl seasons?

[adambr2]

It’s dumb that you can just blatantly run the game clock down to the 2 minute warning when the play clock is clearly going to hit :00 at 2:01. Why don’t they enforce the play clock as precisely as any other timing in the game?

[OldSchoolSnapper]

1 minute ago, LouisEly said:

What year was that?

I recall them losing to a 10-7 San Francisco team in 2022.  SF was a wild card team that year because the Rams finished 12-5 and the Cardinals 11-6. 

Oh, and Packers were also without Elgton Jenkins that game.  Sorry, but if you are without an All-Pro LT and a Pro Bowl LG against one of the best DLs in the league... yeah, that's an excuse for losing. 

What All-Pro and Pro Bowl players have the Eagles been missing during their Super Bowl seasons?

They were a Wild Card team because they finished behind the other teams, lol? You don't say!

I'll admit I thought they were 9-8, though. 

The Packers had no business losing that game. Sorry. It was a choke of the highest order. You have a home divisional game and the freaking MVP of the league at QB. You find a way to beat Jimmy Garapollo. Can't believe you're even trying to justify that as a game they should have lost.  

[yourout]

Kelsey is a tool.

[adambr2]

2 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

What year was that?

I recall them losing to a 10-7 San Francisco team in 2022.  SF was a wild card team that year because the Rams finished 12-5 and the Cardinals 11-6. 

Oh, and Packers were also without Elgton Jenkins that game.  Sorry, but if you are without an All-Pro LT and a Pro Bowl LG against one of the best DLs in the league... yeah, that's an excuse for losing. 

What All-Pro and Pro Bowl players have the Eagles been missing during their Super Bowl seasons?

Kansas City has been without their #1 wide receiver for almost the entire season this season. 

Why do we do this? Why do we need to feel the need to find an excuse for every failure from the last 30 years and rationalize that things would have been different if A and B hadn’t happened? 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

1 minute ago, adambr2 said:

Kansas City has been without their #1 wide receiver for almost the entire season this season. 

Why do we do this? Why do we need to feel the need to find an excuse for every failure from the last 30 years and rationalize that things would have been different if A and B hadn’t happened? 

It's insane. It would be one thing making this excuse against Tom Brady and the Bucs in a championship game. 

A 2nd round home game in the snow as a 1 seed, during an MVP season against a 10-7 Wild Card team that was probably worse than the Packers were this year? No injury would be an excuse other than Rodgers. 

[adambr2]

We can basically wash our hands clean of the last 4 years of losses if we are going to bemoan the bad luck of losing any game that we didn’t have one of David Bahktiari or Jaire Alexander available.

[HarryDoyle]

1 minute ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

It's insane. It would be one thing making this excuse against Tom Brady and the Bucs in a championship game. 

A 2nd round home game in the snow as a 1 seed, during an MVP season against a 10-7 Wild Card team that was probably worse than the Packers were this year? No injury would be an excuse other than Rodgers. 

If the special teams had even played at a mediocre level that game, we win by two scores.

[adambr2]

Just now, HarryDoyle said:

If the special teams had even played at a mediocre level that game, we win by two scores.

Yeah, there’s nothing unlucky or injury related about why we lost that game. We flat out blew it. The defense played their rear ends off and we still blew it.

All we had to do with minutes left was not get our punt blocked and have it returned for a touchdown and we had it blocked and returned for a touchdown.

It’s a painful game to even think about. But in no world have I ever thought we lost that game because of injuries.

[adambr2]

Only Kansas City can gain a point by jumping offsides.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

20 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Yeah, there’s nothing unlucky or injury related about why we lost that game. We flat out blew it. The defense played their rear ends off and we still blew it.

All we had to do with minutes left was not get our punt blocked and have it returned for a touchdown and we had it blocked and returned for a touchdown.

It’s a painful game to even think about. But in no world have I ever thought we lost that game because of injuries.

That game really gets overlooked in terms of demoralizing Packers losses for some reason. To me, it's second on the list behind Bostick Bowl. 

Not only was it a bad loss, but I strongly felt that we were the best team in the league that season, the Rams are the worst champion in recent history, and we beat both teams in the Super Bowl that year. Just devastating. We had a pretty easy path to get there too and just absolutely ate it. 

[yourout]

5 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

That game really gets overlooked in terms of demoralizing Packers losses for some reason. To me, it's second on the list behind Bostick Bowl. 

Not only was it a bad loss, but I strongly felt that we were the best team in the league that season, the Rams are the worst champion in recent history, and we beat both teams in the Super Bowl that year. Just devastating. We had a pretty easy path to get there too and just absolutely ate it. 

I think by that point we'd become so accustomed to gag jobs in the playoffs it was almost expected.

[HarryDoyle]

6 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

That game really gets overlooked in terms of demoralizing Packers losses for some reason. To me, it's second on the list behind Bostick Bowl. 

Not only was it a bad loss, but I strongly felt that we were the best team in the league that season, the Rams are the worst champion in recent history, and we beat both teams in the Super Bowl that year. Just devastating. We had a pretty easy path to get there too and just absolutely ate it. 

Yeah, I agree with all of this. It was by far the most pathetic special teams effort I've ever seen in a football game, and it's not just because of the blocked punt. A handful of things were awful that game that somehow I don't remember, probably because I've subconsciously erased them from my mind.

[adambr2]

That was such an amazing effort by James Cook to break the plane and not lose possession.

[yourout]

Bills are as bad at two point conversions as a Packers are

[HarryDoyle]

Romo did a great job pointing out how KC scouted how Allen likes to sneak to the left. That's the second time they've stopped it. 

Buffalo should probably run the offense through Cook from here on out.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I missed the Bills PAT/2PT on the touchdown before half. Did they go for 2? Why? Those are two big PATs right now. 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

That was a beautiful play call on the touchdown and the effort by Cook was remarkable. Not only the reach and holding onto the ball but contorting of his hips and arm to make sure that ball got in before an elbow or knee. Amazing play.  

[HarryDoyle]

2 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

I missed the Bills PAT/2PT on the touchdown before half. Did they go for 2? Why? Those are two big PATs right now. 

It's easy to look back in hindsight now, but no team would elect to kick a PAT over going for two at the one yard line. 

[adambr2]

Maybe you should stop sneaking to the left when they’re ready for it every single time.