captplanet29 wrote:The Patriots just need to beat the Ravens, who in my opinion have been struggling to win games...Patriots have got this in the bag

If I'm not mistaken, the Patriots have been getting fat off the Jets, Dolphins, and Bills all year. I dont; think they have beaten one team with a .500 or better record this year.

captplanet29 wrote:Tom Brady will never let what happened in 2007, happen again.

As an LSU fan, I have to agree. When teams of that caliber play, its a tough game. When one team beats another - they dont want a re-match because they will lose. I was worried when we had to play Alabama again because I knew our defense would get spread out and they would find some holes - which they did.

Now as far what happened on our offense, that's a different story. Rumor has is something to do with Lee's grades... I don't think half of ANY college football team got on the team because of their grades, so I HIGHLY doubt that. Friends seem to think he slept with Miles' daughter...

Edit: Woot! changed "d o n o t w a n t" to Anvilania ... ???

I'm a big Pats fan, but I'm surprised here. I would have throught that one of the other teams would have been #1. They are, though, the only #1 seed remaining, after NY knocked off Green Bay. Or should I say, NY won after Green Bay seemed to be in some kind fog the entire game. They looked very sharp for most of the season, then looked like poop in the playoffs. Kind of like the Pats the last 2 years. Maybe they had some kind of a collective food coma from too many brats before the game.

captplanet29 wrote:Tom Brady will never let what happened in 2007, happen again. Gronk, Hernadez, and Welker will help make sure of that especially Gronk. There is no answer for him. Eli Manning is the most non-consistent QB in the league. If he didn't have a extremely good core of receivers such as Victor Cruz who have to make plays to make Eli look good, people would think differently about him.

I just want to make sure I understand you correctly... Eli is non-consistent (sic) and people would think differently if he didn't have "great receivers"? How well do you think Brady would be playing without Welker, Gronkowski, and Hernandez. You can't have it both ways dude. Besides, before this season, I don't think anyone, including players on the Giants, even knew who Victor Cruz was. Eli has played great all year. Most 4th Quarter TDs in NFL history, just under 5k yards. You sir need to give credit where it's due.

Love you east coasters. You watch so much ESPN and Fox that you honestly believe that there aren't any teams out here. Watch and learn

49ers reemerging as a great team. They will be a tough out.

ysteichman wrote: Most 4th Quarter TDs in NFL history, just under 5k yards. You sir need to give credit where it's due.

Playing from behind and finishing 9-7 is anything but spectacular. Giants are the hot team right now and are doing it at the right time of the year. (See Saint Louis Cardinals of 2011 for another example)

davidfast wrote:Playing from behind and finishing 9-7 is anything but spectacular. Giants are the hot team right now and are doing it at the right time of the year. (See Saint Louis Cardinals of 2011 for another example)

Never said anything spectacular about the team. Eli has played spectacularly though. They were playing from behind all year because their defense was playing like the contents of a Barrels of Crud Eli saved their entire season. All that really matters now is exactly what you said, they are peaking at the right time. (See the same Giants in 2007 for another example)

New Orleans Saints! Wait, eh... sigh.

Anyway, my vote goes for the Patriots.

I think this is the year for the Detroit Lions to go all the way. They're a scrappy team who shouldn't let one loss in the playoffs slow them down!

Speaking as a long-suffering Lions fan and Michigan man... anybody but the 49ers. Every time the camera goes to Harbaugh on the sidelines, he looks like his head's going to explode. Which might be fun to watch, by the way.

9203485793 wrote:...aka their teams are already out.

...or we honestly just don't care.
:D

Now that my beloved Texans are out, I really don't care. Though we did to pretty good with a third string quarterback.

jonzr wrote:In a perfect world (given the remaining scenarios) we'd see a Giants/Patriots rematch and Beardy would lose again.

In h*ll we'll get the Harbaugh Bowl.

Wrong. That would be the ideal possible matchup. A throwback to an era when having dominating defenses was important, and every yard gained was a yard earned. Other people see slogs, but I see great football.

9203485793 wrote:Looks like a lot of people "don't care"...aka their teams are already out.

Or they don't care for American Football.

Also before you assume I'm from across the pond yes I born and raised in the United States.

GO PATS!!!! Not living in a Boston burb, cause I like it here.

Now, if it were the real Cleveland Browns, nahhhhh GO PATS!!!

49ers. They are the team of destiny. I am not even a 49ers fan. They are playing great right now and do not see them losing.

The Giants are beatable. The Ravens don't have enough offense and the Pat's don't have it this year.

berettanut wrote:Since Sunday, none of it matters. I might pull for the niners because I hate both the ravens and the pats, more recent distaste for the G-men.

if the 49ers, my formerly favorite team, do not win the superbowl, they will be dead to me. forever. DEAD I SAY!

I think there should be a commemorative Woot monkey cape for the winning team!

Go Ravens! Quality Post, Please

elster000 wrote:Go Ravens! Quality Post, Please

Really?

the numbers said it would be the ravens. i saw it on espn

Marcusx70 wrote:40+% doesn't care? What is wrong people. FOOTBALL.... I know there are haters out there, but geez, at least be happy for other teams.

I'm a Packers fan... that's what's wrong with me. "My" team is out of the post season. Haha.

maxwantsgoodstuff wrote:And what answer do the Pats have to Ray Rice and Torry Smith? One of the league's best RB's and fastest WR's? not to mention our supreme defense. yes Gonk will have a few catches but he will be covered and contained for the most part. not even worried about welker, we'll have our shutdown corner on him-Webb. Sizzle will be in brady's face all day and ed reed will be hawking his throws.

Ravens 24 Pats 17

Your defense is excellent but we've got too many threats out there to plausibly think you can contain us. Welker, Gronkowski, Hernandez, Branch, all of those guys can catch the ball and all of them are capable of getting some good yardage after the catch too (Gronk especially). Not to mention Green-Ellis, Woodhead, and Ridley on the run game.

If we continue to play like we did last weekend and not like we were the last few games of the regular season I don't see us losing. Our defense, while still not strong, looks like they're starting to pull it together too.

I like the energy wooters!! But clear out the cobwebs it's time for San Fran to put #6 on in the Trophy Case!! One for the thumb, here we come!!

captplanet29 wrote: And lets be serious, Green Bay beat themselves with the unnecessary turnovers/drops, Rogers had a bad game, and their defense is near last in the league.

Wow...you really hit an element of truth! Green Bay beat themselves! So if you're right, why did the Giants even show up? Why didn't the Giants just stay in their hotel rooms and watch the Packers beat themselves on television?

Sure, Rogers had a bad day and so did the rest of his team have a bad day. But the truth is that the Giants were compleately responsible for making them have a bad day. The Pack was compleatly outclassed by a better team. In the parlance of the players, Rogers and the Pack got what is known as "an old fashioned ass whooping!"

Anyone else not able to get the CRAPSHOOT game to run?

/sad

acanarelli wrote:Wow...you really hit an element of truth! Green Bay beat themselves! So if you're right, why did the Giants even show up? Why didn't the Giants just stay in their hotel rooms and watch the Packers beat themselves on television?

Sure, Rogers had a bad day and so did the rest of his team have a bad day. But the truth is that the Giants were compleately responsible for making them have a bad day. The Pack was compleatly outclassed by a better team. In the parlance of the players, Rogers and the Pack got what is known as "an old fashioned ass whooping!"

acanarelli wrote:Wow...you really hit an element of truth! Green Bay beat themselves! So if you're right, why did the Giants even show up? Why didn't the Giants just stay in their hotel rooms and watch the Packers beat themselves on television?

Sure, Rogers had a bad day and so did the rest of his team have a bad day. But the truth is that the Giants were compleately responsible for making them have a bad day. The Pack was compleatly outclassed by a better team. In the parlance of the players, Rogers and the Pack got what is known as "an old fashioned ass whooping!"

1) I appreciate your old-school spelling of "compleat."

2) The Giants played a great game.

3) That said, that doesn't account for flat-out drops by multiple wide-open GB receivers.

4) Even if they hadn't had the drops, the Giants still could have won, but saying that NY was *completely* responsible for GB's bad day isn't entirely accurate.

acanarelli wrote:Wow...you really hit an element of truth! Green Bay beat themselves! So if you're right, why did the Giants even show up? Why didn't the Giants just stay in their hotel rooms and watch the Packers beat themselves on television?

Sure, Rogers had a bad day and so did the rest of his team have a bad day. But the truth is that the Giants were compleately responsible for making them have a bad day. The Pack was compleatly outclassed by a better team. In the parlance of the players, Rogers and the Pack got what is known as "an old fashioned ass whooping!"

False, Packers had a maligned O-line that finally played together for the first time since week 4, their Offensive Coordinator's son had just passed away, & they dropped more than a half dozen passes that hit them in the hands! Drops aren't PD's

49ers over Ravens in the Har-Bowl rematch

The problem is that they always try to walk it in.

Kardon86 wrote:Or they don't care for American Football.

Also before you assume I'm from across the pond yes I born and raised in the United States.

"Football" as everyone else calls it outside of America, is the most boring sport of all time.

"WOW! What an exciting game that ended 0-0! That wasn't a complete waste of time or anything! I mean, watching both teams kick a ball around and failing to score for 90 minutes really DOES it for me!"

49ers. Mostly because I've waited patiently since the early 90's to say, "hey, we finally rebuilt!"

The Packers handed that game to the Giants. The G-men aren't consistent enough to hold out against the 49ers.
I'm expecting the Pats to win, but I'd rather see Baltimore make it to the big game this year.

New England Patriots will win the Superbowl.

My Saints are done. I don't care anymore.

Wow, even if your team is out you should at least have someone to root against??? Tom Brady is a pretty boy...he should lose...Eli Manning looks like he has Downsyndrome...he should lose...you get the idea...

With that muthaflippin 49ers defense, they are winning the Superbowl. I wouldn't mind playing the patriots, but i want revenge against the ravens Plus, have you seen Alex Smith lately? Forget Tebow time, it Harbough-Smith time

ysteichman wrote:I just want to make sure I understand you correctly... Eli is non-consistent (sic) and people would think differently if he didn't have "great receivers"? How well do you think Brady would be playing without Welker, Gronkowski, and Hernandez. You can't have it both ways dude. Besides, before this season, I don't think anyone, including players on the Giants, even knew who Victor Cruz was. Eli has played great all year. Most 4th Quarter TDs in NFL history, just under 5k yards. You sir need to give credit where it's due.

To be fair, Eli is a bit inconsistent. He was outperformed by Rex Grossman in the last week of the regular season and the week before that, they would have lost if they weren't playing the league's worst team. He has had a great season, though.

Also, Brady would still perform well without Gronkowski, Hernandez and Welker. I don't know how old you are, but he won three superbowls without any of them.

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