NFL: ***Official Wild Card Round Thread***

[CyFan61]

It won't happen but they should change the format so division champions get a spot in the playoffs but are not guaranteed a home game.

My format it would have been Houston @ Cincy and Pitt @ KC in the AFC.
Washington @ Minnesota and Seattle @ Green Bay in the NFC.

Think it sucks that the 3 seed had a much tougher game than the 5 seeds do this year and there have been cases like this in prior years.

I agree (and I did even before Minnesota lost), I think a division title should get you into the playoffs even if you're 7-9 in a bad division or whatever, but then the playoff teams should be seeded by record. You could have the first tiebreaker for seeding be whether or not you won a division if you wanted.

 

[CyFan61]

Games next weekend:

Saturday
Kansas City @ New England - 3:30pm (CBS)
Green Bay @ Arizona - 7:15pm (NBC)

Sunday
Seattle @ Carolina - 12:00pm (FOX)
Pittsburgh @ Denver - 3:30pm (CBS)

 

[Rural]

Rodgers isn't the same, don't know exactly why (age-hits) but he's not the same.

 

[DeereClone]

It's funny when Packers fans complain about how bad Rodgers sucks. As a Vikings fan I hate saying this but Rodgers is the best QB in the league. His numbers are a little worse than usual this year, but he has an offensive line that is average at best, he lost his #1 target and doesn't have any other legitimate weapons other than Cobb. Yeah, keep crying about it guys. I'm going to laugh when Rodgers retires and the Packers move to the bottom of the NFC North.

Signed,

Every Packers hater, Bears, Vikings, and Lions fan in 2008.

 

[CyArob]

Patriots seem healthy, which is bad news.

 

[cycloneworld]

What a choke job by the Vikings special teams. But having been a Vikings fan forever, I wasnt shocked.

I saw a stat in Peter King's MMQB that Vikings fans will want to puke over:

NFL kickers attempted 191 FGs of 27 yards or less this season. And made 189 of them. 99+% lock.

I'm a Bears fan and that makes me cringe for Vikings fans. As a Cyclone fan, I don't think we've seen a kick in the nuts that hard before.

 

[zarnold56]

Patriots seem healthy, which is bad news.

Their O-line hasn't been the best even when healthy. If the Chiefs interior linemen can disrupt like they did Saturday and Hali/Houston/Ford pick it up a little, the Chiefs should be able to hang. If Maclin can go, that would be huge. Chiefs o-line seems to have gelled pretty well in the run game. I am so excited for Saturday.

 

[klamath632]

I saw a stat in Peter King's MMQB that Vikings fans will want to puke over:

NFL kickers attempted 191 FGs of 27 yards or less this season. And made 189 of them. 99+% lock.

I'm a Bears fan and that makes me cringe for Vikings fans. As a Cyclone fan, I don't think we've seen a kick in the nuts that hard before.

Has anyone written a "Seahawks defense should have let them score so they would have more time left on the clock for a game-winning drive" post yet?

 

[BCClone]

Indoor stadiums are best for the vikes it seems.

 

[Miniclone11]

It won't happen but they should change the format so division champions get a spot in the playoffs but are not guaranteed a home game.

My format it would have been Houston @ Cincy and Pitt @ KC in the AFC.
Washington @ Minnesota and Seattle @ Green Bay in the NFC.

Think it sucks that the 3 seed had a much tougher game than the 5 seeds do this year and there have been cases like this in prior years.

theyd need to change the scheduling then. They would have to make it so teams don't play as many games in their own division. Which would basically take away divisions.

It's a lot more complicated than just taking home field advantage away like that.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I saw a stat in Peter King's MMQB that Vikings fans will want to puke over:

NFL kickers attempted 191 FGs of 27 yards or less this season. And made 189 of them. 99+% lock.

I'm a Bears fan and that makes me cringe for Vikings fans. As a Cyclone fan, I don't think we've seen a kick in the nuts that hard before.

The NFC Championship game Jan 17 1999. Gary Anderson missed one field goal the entire season. Yup, you guessed it.

 

[Clonefan94]

I saw a stat in Peter King's MMQB that Vikings fans will want to puke over:

NFL kickers attempted 191 FGs of 27 yards or less this season. And made 189 of them. 99+% lock.

I'm a Bears fan and that makes me cringe for Vikings fans. As a Cyclone fan, I don't think we've seen a kick in the nuts that hard before.

I knew the miss was coming. I just kept having flashbacks to the '99 NFC championship game (for the '98 season) Anderson, who hadn't missed all season could seal the game with a 38 yarder and missed. It's kind of mind boggling how the only two football teams I like in the world are full of heartbreak.


My wife even asked me why I didn't seem ******. I said it's because I knew it wasn't going in. I literally would have been more surprised if he made it.

 

[cycloneworld]

The NFC Championship game Jan 17 1999. Gary Anderson missed one field goal the entire season. Yup, you guessed it.

True. But a 27 yarder is even more unbelievable than a 37 yarder. 27 yarders were automatic this year (and most years) in the NFL.

 

[CynadoAlley]

I knew the miss was coming. I just kept having flashbacks to the '99 NFC championship game (for the '98 season) Anderson, who hadn't missed all season could seal the game with a 38 yarder and missed. It's kind of mind boggling how the only two football teams I like in the world are full of heartbreak.


My wife even asked me why I didn't seem ******. I said it's because I knew it wasn't going in. I literally would have been more surprised if he made it.

We couldn't have had similar mindsets. My brother, a lifelong Cowboys fan coming over to the purple side, leaned over to me and said "this stadium is about to go crazy". I turned to him and told him he was going to miss this. When he asked why, I simply said "because I've been an Iowa State and Minnesota Vikings fan for too long". Couldn't even be that ****** off standing there. Just stared at the same spot on the field as time ticked down.

 

[CoKane]

Rodgers isn't the same, don't know exactly why (age-hits) but he's not the same.

You say after he played the most Rodgers like game of the season last night.

 

[swarthmoreCY]

You say after he played the most Rodgers like game of the season last night.

Rural is an idiot on most topics.
The Packer OL is not the same and AR is looking at the rush.

 

[carvers4math]

I knew the miss was coming. I just kept having flashbacks to the '99 NFC championship game (for the '98 season) Anderson, who hadn't missed all season could seal the game with a 38 yarder and missed. It's kind of mind boggling how the only two football teams I like in the world are full of heartbreak.


My wife even asked me why I didn't seem ******. I said it's because I knew it wasn't going in. I literally would have been more surprised if he made it.

I'm a Packers fan who somehow wound up married to a Vikings fan. When they slowed up their offense getting ready to kick the field goal, I said something to the effect that they should be trying to score a TD cause they will just miss the kick, and his response was that would be exactly what would happen, would be the most Vikings thing ever. I actually felt a little bad for him.

 

[3TrueFans]

I'm a Packers fan who somehow wound up married to a Vikings fan. When they slowed up their offense getting ready to kick the field goal, I said something to the effect that they should be trying to score a TD cause they will just miss the kick, and his response was that would be exactly what would happen, would be the most Vikings thing ever. I actually felt a little bad for him.

Slowing their offense implies that their offense was going in a speed higher than slow at any point during the game.

 

[awd4cy]

Rodgers isn't the same, don't know exactly why (age-hits) but he's not the same.

His OL is banged up and he has one of the worst receiving corps in the league. It's hard to look good at QB when you have what he has to work with.

 

[carvers4math]

Slowing their offense implies that their offense was going in a speed higher than slow at any point during the game.

Well there is slow and really slow, or just moving the ball to somewhere that isn't really where the kicker wants it too.