"You're no better than Carolina or New England ... you just got to play one more game than they did."
Wild Card Weekend
- Thread starter Ferm Sheller
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This is kind of the beauty of sports. It sucks when your team stinks and gets eliminated, but it happens to almost everybody else too. Amazing the Pats had so many seasons end the way they did. I mean, it’s kind of unbelievable.
Oh, he pissed me off a few times this year but just now Goeddert or whoever is in agony on the turf in a blowout and they show the replay and this fucking dweeb says “push off top of the route”. What! I wish they would live ammo the cannons @ Raymond James and fire this guy up.
I can't think of anything similar that didn't involve a franchise QB getting hurt
Texans, Bills, and Lions wins would almost guarantee a first-time Super Bowl winner. Almost is doing some work in that sentence, I admit.
You can say, though, that you'd never ride in a rocket he had a hand in building
That team at least lost 13-20. This is one of the most pathetic efforts in a playoff game I have ever seen. The tackling was abysmal and it looked like the offense had never seen a blitz before
Lombardi should have ended this guys career when he rhetorically asked “why does he have a pencil behind his ear, his play sheet is laminated?”
Sort of reminded me of 2019 Pats. Hot start but once teams figured out where the weak points were in the 2nd half of the season it slowly fell apart.
He is likable, imo. I don’t really have a problem with the Eagles; I just wanted Todd, Mike and Baker to win. The HC and Patriot Matricia suck though.
This is up there with “you look like the kinda guy who gets out of the shower to take a leak” as just perfectly crafted takedowns.
The remaining AFC playoff teams feature 4 great QBs:
- Mahomes, a 2x MVP, 2x SB winner
- Jackson, an MVP and probably gets his second this year
- Allen, perennially an MVP candidate
- Stroud, who has put up one of the best seasons for a rookie in history
The NFC looks to me like it's going to be a cakewalk for San Francisco. They should handle Green Bay at home pretty easily I think. Love, on the road in SF, won't duplicate this effort. Then they get the winner of Det-TB, and whoever wins that has to travel to SF. Neither team is anywhere close to as good on the road as they are at home. I just don't see SF losing.
So at this point I see SF vs. a great AFC QB.
- Mahomes, a 2x MVP, 2x SB winner
- Jackson, an MVP and probably gets his second this year
- Allen, perennially an MVP candidate
- Stroud, who has put up one of the best seasons for a rookie in history
The NFC looks to me like it's going to be a cakewalk for San Francisco. They should handle Green Bay at home pretty easily I think. Love, on the road in SF, won't duplicate this effort. Then they get the winner of Det-TB, and whoever wins that has to travel to SF. Neither team is anywhere close to as good on the road as they are at home. I just don't see SF losing.
So at this point I see SF vs. a great AFC QB.
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We could have seen the last of that. Schefter is reporting that Jason Kelce is retiring. His is the tush that powers that push.
Jason Kelce tells Eagles teammates he's retiring, sources say - ESPN
The defense falling apart for Philly is understandable. They spent the money on the line and corners but their safeties and linebackers are trash. The vaunted offensive line playing so poorly is bizarre.
While I agree that the 49'ers should still be considered the favorites to book a week in Vegas, I wouldn't sleep on Love; he has been a legit player these past few weeks. Really an amazing in-season turnaround, and the Ravens may have exposed some weakness in SF's defense that Green Bay could exploit.
Did the O-line play that poorly? To me it looks like teams just realized the Eagles had no answer for the blitz and sent more than they could block.
Hurts' numbers against the blitz have been really bad.
From the Eagles.com preview of last night's game:
"This season, Hurts had a completion percentage of 67.8, a TD/INT ratio of 17/7, and a passer rating of 97 when teams did not blitz. When they did, Hurts completed 61.1 percent of his attempts, posted a 6/8 TD/INT ratio, and his passer rating dipped to 74.7. "
A lil late, but I’m not beating TEXAS TOAST anyway. Well played. Unlike the Cowboys.
No one who had watched any Philly games after Patricia became coordinator should be surprised here. Especially with Brown out.
The defense was uncoordinated and the offense had no answers for simple blitzes, they showed no ability to adjust in a bunch of important games so this was very expected.
It depends more on Green Bay's defense. The 9ers outgained the Ravens then, but Purdy turned it over 4 times. I don't see him doing that vs the Packers.
I am not sleeping on Love either though.
And seeing that there is a thread for the Divisional Games now I will stop here.
I didn’t even notice this real time but Josh Allen’s rushing touchdown drives me nuts. He slows down like he’s going to slide before speeding up splitting the defenders and breaking away. The NFL protects quarterbacks like they should but they need to fix this. Any indication of giving themselves up and the play should be over.
View: https://twitter.com/savagesports_/status/1747035663139058107?s=46&t=2Ncci6pVLxm2q2YAXCD8zw
View: https://twitter.com/savagesports_/status/1747035663139058107?s=46&t=2Ncci6pVLxm2q2YAXCD8zw
Allen and Mahomes are two of the absolute worst in terms of weaponizing the sideline and looking to the refs anytime anyone makes contact with them.
Allen will say he was slowing down to change direction, but it looks like he’s clearly trying to dupe the defense into letting up.
Agreed. And if there is hard contact the QB gets the benefit of the doubt. The defense should get the benefit of the doubt if there is any appearance of giving himself up.
Then, later in the game, Allen lost his shit on the Myles Jack harmless but late contact when he was sliding.
Not sure the remedy. Not sure there's many guys that can pull it off.
Not sure the remedy. Not sure there's many guys that can pull it off.