Worst. Playoff. Team. Ever.

Wow losing record winning a division and hosting a playoff game. Unreal.

Well Bradford got his rookie season under his belt. He'll be back and better.

It would be hilarious if The Seahawks beat the Saints next week.

Ask any Detroit Lions fan.

It will happen..

And I hope they completely run up the score.

Sorry about your Ram luck.

I.. yeah. Bad. Refs, officiating, WRs, everything. bad. combine this with a Laker loss, and.. yeah.

lol @ refs, officiating. I'm kinda out of it. Spags is retarded for not running Jackson more.

I want Seattle to win against NWO now... would be hilar

I will murder you Evan Spillchuk..

<font color=goldenrod>Honestly, I don't see any reason why anybody who isn't a Saints, Rams, Cardinals, or 49ers fan would root against the Seahawks. There's virtually no chance that they win anyway, so if anything it'd just be a massive upset that might never be seen again.

For next week's games, I'm rooting for:

-Seahawks over Saints (just for the lolz, nothing against the Saints who should win easily)
-Colts over Jets (Jets have become easier to dislike lately)
-Ravens over Chiefs (complete toss up. I'd be just fine with the Chiefs winning but the Ravens have the best chance at knocking off New England)
-Packers over Eagles (the only one I'm 100% supportive/caring about the team winning)</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Oh yeah, and inevitably people are going to say that a team has no business hosting a playoff game if the Wild Card has a better record. Fuck that. The system is fine as it is. If you win the division, you get a home playoff game. If you get rid of that you may as well just get rid of divisions altogether and take the 6 best teams per league.

If you can't beat a shitty team on the road you have no business advancing anyway. It doesn't need fixing.</font>

The only thing that really needs to be changed is who gets to host playoff games. The seedings should be determined by record.

Go Chiefs

Was hoping the Jets would get to play the gay Chiefs in the first round. Chiefs are secretively really good methinks, but they are totally destined to lose in the first round this year.

For those of you looking ahead to the future, here's what the 2011 draft order is looking like as of right now. It could change around during and after playoffs.

1. Carolina (2-14)
2. Denver (4-12)
3. Buffalo (4-12)
4. Cincinnati (4-12)
5. Arizona (5-11)
6. Cleveland (5-11)
7. San Francisco (6-10)
8. Tennessee (6-10)
9. Dallas (6-10)
10. Washington (6-10)
11. Houston (6-10)
12. Minnesota (6-10)
13. Detroit (6-10)
14. St. Louis (7-9)
15. Miami (7-9)
16. Jacksonville (8-8)
17. New England - from Oakland (8-8)
18. San Diego (9-7)
19. New York Giants (10-6)
20. Tampa Bay (10-6)
21. Seattle* (7-9)
22. Kansas City* (10-6)
23. Indianapolis* (10-6)
24. Philadelphia* (10-6)
25. Green Bay* (10-6)
26. New Orleans* (11-5)
27. New York Jets* (11-5)
28. Baltimore* (11-5)
29. Chicago* (11-5)
30. Pittsburgh* (12-4)
31. Atlanta* (13-3)
32. New England* (14-2)

poor Detroit

There goes Eric Mangini. Hoping Del Rio is the next to go.

Giants will either take a CB or another DE while a top linebacker prospect in on the board.

So 2 years straight the the Jets have made the play offs and the Giants haven't. The city of New York must be going crazy.

League Leaders

Passing yards: Philip Rivers, 4710

Passing TD: Tom Brady, 36

Rushing yards: Arian Foster, 1616

Rushing TD: Arian Foster, 16

Receiving yards: Brandon Lloyd, 1448

Receiving TD: Dwayne Bowe, 15

Tackles: Jerod Mayo, 175

Sacks: DeMarcus Ware, 15.5

INT: Ed Reed, 8

^this^

<font color=goldenrod>I still see nothing wrong with the system as is. Winning the division should get you a home playoff game no matter what. If the wild card team is any good they should have no trouble beating the inferior division rival on the road (as the Saints will do on Sunday).

Although, the idea of scrapping divisions and taking the 6 best teams from each conference is slightly intriguing. The schedule would consist of 15 games against your fellow conference members, and 1 game against an opponent from the other conference which is based on the previous year's standings (ie: the 2011 season would feature a Pats/Falcons game, a Steelers/Bears game, etc.) - pretty much the only way to ensure than an "underserving" team doesn't sneak in.</font>

Denver
Cleveland
Carolina
San Francisco
Dallas
Minnesota

With the exception of Dallas and Minnesota pretty much keeping Jason Garrett and Leslie Fraiser, who's gonna be head coaches of these teams next year? I know everybody is gonna make a run a Jim Harbaugh, but I think he's waiting to see if RichRod gets axed at Michigan.

Harbaugh to Denver.
Gruden to Cleveland.
Del Rio to the nearest garbage can on the street corner.

You think Harbaugh would take Michigan over an NFL gig? He's still young so it can happen, but hard to see him pass up the NFL ,especially if teams are going hard for him.

I wouldn't mind if they adjusted the playoffs so the better record gets homefield . As long as the division winner still gets the same seeding as a reward. Like if they went by pure records this year it would be

6)Seattle @ 3)New Orleans
5)Greenbay @ 4)Philly....oh wait it'd be the same thing this year excpet of who they'd play in the second round. So if the Saints and Eagles won instead of NO@ ATL and PHI@CHI ,it would be NO@CHI and PHI@ATL.

But if you give them the same seeding but just give the better record the homefield then it's the same as now just with the Saints being at home. Meh nothing dramatic either way I suppose

I think Goff has stepped in nicely, solid, but not spectacular. Boley isn't too bad in his own right. The other spot is a weakness.

The Giants need to get back to the days of having a stout linebacker group. I understand the philosophy by drafting defensive lineman, but they really need to grab stud linebacker. If they don't do that, they absolutely need to draft an offensive lineman. It isn't a "sexy" pick, and even though the unit played well through injury this year, they need to get younger on the offensive line.

It's always been mathematically possible for a 7-9 or worse team to make the playoffs. I don't know why it is so urgent to change the divisions around now that it finally happened.

<font color=goldenrod>I can actually see a 5 seed hosting a 6 seed (Green Bay @ New Orleans) in the NFC Title game this year. I'm almost certain the Bears will be taking an exit in their first game, and the Packers going over the Falcons wouldn't surprise me either.

In fact, may as well make my predictions:

Wild Card Weekend:
NFC
Saints over Seahawks
Packers over Eagles

AFC
Colts over Jets
Ravens over Chiefs


Divisional:
NFC
Saints over Bears
Packers over Falcons

AFC
Patriots over Ravens
Steelers over Colts


Conference:
NFC
Saints over Packers

AFC
Patriots over Steelers


Super Bowl 45:
Patriots over Saints</font>

Yeah, the NFL is cyclical anyway. Some divisions are going to be shit, and some are going to be superior. It just works out that way.

Because the NFL is a reactive organization and won't change anything until it causes a problem. A bunch of people getting hit in the head? OK, helmet to helmet hits are now illegal. They won't change the bullshit challenge rule until a ref blows 4 calls against one team in a game and that team gets fucked over by not being able to challenge the fourth one.

NEW YORK -- Two massage therapists say in a lawsuit that complaining about sexually suggestive text messages from Brett Favre cost them their part-time jobs with the New York Jets.

Christina Scavo and Shannon O'Toole sued the Minnesota Vikings quarterback, the Jets and a Jets massage coordinator Monday in a Manhattan court. The lawsuit comes days after the NFL fined Favre $50,000 for not being candid in an investigation into allegations that he sent lewd text messages and photos to a Jets game hostess.

Favre's agent didn't immediately return a telephone call. The Jets declined to comment.

The lawsuit says Favre sent a third, unidentified massage therapist a 2008 text message asking whether she and Scavo "want to get together" and suggesting he had "bad intentions."


Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press

HERE WE GO...

Bad Intentions

The Ravens are going to shut down the Chiefs running game just like the Raiders did yesterday. If the Ravens can get some offense going they should win.

And I am definitely taking the Seahawks +10.5

Hey Ermax, hate to break the bad news to ya. But the Jags are keeping Del Rio around for another year.

If it's any consolation, they stripped him of defensive play calling.

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Antanio Pierce railroaded Eli Manning on Sportsnation. Blamed Eli for the Giants not making the playoffs, and he killed him for the interceptions.