2025-26 NFL Playoffs Thread

[OldHeidelberg]

I didn't watch any football this weekend as I never do after a Packers playoff exit but glad to wake up and see the Bears fans got their hopes up late and finally had their hearts torn out. That late rally crap was getting annoying, I expect they have a lot of bad luck coming their way next season.  

[adambr2]

People raging about the Bears not taking 3 points when they could last night is hilarious to me, because not a single one of them mention that the Bears scored both their TDs on 4th down plays in FG range.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I just cannot wait for them to do nothing next year. I don't know how anyone never sees this coming. It is the same every single time. They even say the same stuff. "This just feels different."  "This was only the first step." They are completely oblivious to the insane number of ways the ball bounced their way this season. The best thing going right now is the absolute glaze-fest thrown upon Williams.

The only thing tempering my excitement is that we still have Matt LaFleur so I anticipate this time next year I'll be hoping some other benign team makes it out again. 

I hope if the Packers do beat the Bears next year, MLF just doesn't shake hands at all and tells Johnson to go F himself. That would make me respect him again.

[valpocrewsader]

9 hours ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

They won their first playoff game in I don't know how long and haven't been to the Super Bowl in 40 years.

The Bears? They went to the Super Bowl in 2007.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

3 minutes ago, valpocrewsader said:

The Bears? They went to the Super Bowl in 2007.

I probably forgot because that was also a fraud, like pretty much all of their fart-in-the wind seasons since the 80s. 

Won two playoff games against 9-7 and 10-6 teams and had Rex Grossman at QB.

Completely on brand, after hearing all summer that their defense would have them in contention for years, they went 7-9. 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Honestly, it is pretty incredible there is a lone Super Bowl title now 41 years ago among the 3 other teams in the North and that Detroit still hasn't gotten there. Our luck is going to run out and eventually and we will have to endure one of those teams winning it. I'm not sure which one I'd choose but it's between Minnesota and Detroit. I think probably Detroit. 

[homer]

Hey guys, let's keep this thread about the playoffs. There's another thread for NFL news. I moved the recent posts about McDermott over there

 

[SeaBass]

It would be hilarious to watch Sam Darnold win a Super Bowl in Seattle immediately after the Vikings chose not to keep him around. This is the result I want.

Also I just don't want the Rams (McVay/Stafford), Patriots (because it's the Patriots) or Broncos (Peyton) to win.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

4 minutes ago, SeaBass said:

It would be hilarious to watch Sam Darnold win a Super Bowl in Seattle immediately after the Vikings chose not to keep him around. This is the result I want.

Also I just don't want the Rams (McVay/Stafford), Patriots (because it's the Patriots) or Broncos (Peyton) to win.

Everyone left is pretty benign. But those who keep saying everyone from the old Seattle regime is gone don't understand that one group is the same - the fans. 

I think my desired order would be:

New England - just don't care, another title won't hurt

Los Angeles - Davante

Denver - Payton is yuck 

Seattle - the fans 

A couple things are clear though. The sentiment that the Packers weren't a contender this year is a joke, they absolutely were and had Denver on the ropes in their house before the season collapsed on itself. 

I don't want to hear again that Love doesn't have "it" or that they can't win it with him. Looking at this final four he is completely adequate at QB. 

 

 

 

[SeaBass]

30 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Everyone left is pretty benign. But those who keep saying everyone from the old Seattle regime is gone don't understand that one group is the same - the fans. 

I hate Vikings fans more. Only thing I really disagree on here.

[adambr2]

Anyone think we would have had a chance against Seattle?

I imagine we will probably would have gotten shredded, but I just was curious if anyone felt differently.

[HarveysWBs]

17 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Anyone think we would have had a chance against Seattle?

I imagine we will probably would have gotten shredded, but I just was curious if anyone felt differently.

Oh, I fully expect that we would have played well enough to make it still hurt when we eventually lost. That's the Packer way. Plus Darnold is a meltdown waiting to happen. I mean, we have the script in the archives from 2014, so it is really not difficult to imagine at all.

Darnold has like three picks, Love harassed all day by Seattle's front but somehow never gets rattled and manages a 260-2-1 line. McManus has a critical miss, and Jacobs fumbles in the red zone when we could have gone up two scores late. Instead, JSN undresses Nixon for a long, late score and the Pack lose by less than three. Love either never has enough time to answer or comes up just short. Just so we can have more silly discourse about keeping Malik Willis instead, or whatever the knuckle-draggers want to drool all over their keyboards about.

No, much better we didn't see that, thank you very much.

[yourout]

4 minutes ago, HarveysWBs said:

Oh, I fully expect that we would have played well enough to make it still hurt when we eventually lost. That's the Packer way. Plus Darnold is a meltdown waiting to happen. I mean, we have the script in the archives from 2014, so it is really not difficult to imagine at all.

Darnold has like three picks, Love harassed all day by Seattle's front but somehow never gets rattled and manages a 260-2-1 line. McManus has a critical miss, and Jacobs fumbles in the red zone when we could have gone up two scores late. Instead, JSN undresses Nixon for a long, late score and the Pack lose by less than three. Love either never has enough time to answer or comes up just short. Just so we can have more silly discourse about keeping Malik Willis instead, or whatever the knuckle-draggers want to drool all over their keyboards about.

No, much better we didn't see that, thank you very much.

Wow. It's almost like you've seen that movie before.

[HarveysWBs]

1 minute ago, yourout said:

Wow. It's almost like you've seen that movie before.

My friend, we've all seen things most NFL fans wouldn't believe. Special teams meltdowns off double digit road dogs. Beastquakes in the dark of Seattle. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Time to log off...

[kestrel79]

9 hours ago, HarveysWBs said:

My friend, we've all seen things most NFL fans wouldn't believe. Special teams meltdowns off double digit road dogs. Beastquakes in the dark of Seattle. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Time to log off...

My Wife lived in Chicago for a while and has Bear fan friends, so she was invested in the game Sunday. Kept saying things like how tough of a loss it was for them, after that last TD pass to tie was so uplifting...

I'm like been there and done that already in 2016 with Rodgers to Janis (an even more insane throw and catch) and we lost in OT very quickly. :) 

[LouisEly]

Ticketmaster has restricted the ability to buy tickets for Sunday's Broncos-Patriots game to only billing addresses in the Colorado area.

I had no idea that was legal.

[HarveysWBs]

17 hours ago, LouisEly said:

Ticketmaster has restricted the ability to buy tickets for Sunday's Broncos-Patriots game to only billing addresses in the Colorado area.

I had no idea that was legal.

Apparently, a 49ers fan took the Seattle Seahawks to court on this in 2014 after the Seahawks instituted a similar restriction, clearly attempting to bar fans of their southern rivals from the stadium.

The court ruled decisively in favor of NFL teams, so as far as I know, the restrictions have been legally permissible ever since.

As any Brewer fan knows, of course, the resale market is another beast entirely...

[HarryDoyle]

Denver can definitely with this game with their defense as long as Stidham doesn't make the huge mistake and manages the game well. Exactly how it's playing out now.

[HarryDoyle]

And just like that, he gives it back to New England in the red zone.

[HarryDoyle]

I'm sorry, what was the point of New England calling a time out on fourth and inches?

[HarryDoyle]

Stupid challenge by The Genius. Spot of ball challenges are near impossible to win.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Thinking the NFL may just want to replay the NFC championship game for the super bowl instead of having one of these AFC teams in it.

 

Woof

[Jimbo]

I'll chime in on my desired order:

Patriots - the city of Boston has been good to me.

Seahawks - Seattle is  my second favorite city.  (The Hail Mary doesn't bother me.  A poorly played game neither team deserved to win).

Rams - I've enjoyed my times in L.A.

Broncos - Elway belongs in the Hall of Shame.

 

[HarryDoyle]

We must appreciate snow games like this before every NFL stadium inevitably becomes a soulless dome.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Miserable game from Sean Payton. Passing up that FG early on before the weather had turned, with a chance to go up 10-0 with a backup QB playing, just dumb. No commitment to the run game at all, no rhythm, all that talk of his creativity and it was all very vanilla until the weather made it impossible to throw, at which point he keeps throwing. Legitimately one of the worst prepped games I've ever seen.