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anne frank fanfic
Oct 31, 2005
gently caress cleveland

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Referee
Aug 25, 2004

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

anne frank fanfic posted:

gently caress cleveland

Although I can't really complain. Houston should have won 1 of the 2 Colts games and then this wouldn't be an issue.

axeil
Feb 14, 2006

kalensc posted:

AFC

#6 Baltimore @ #3 Cin@Pit Winner
#5 Cin@Pit Loser @ #4 Indianapolis

(Indy #3, Cin #4, Pit #5 if Cin@Pit is a tie)

Can't the Bengals still get a bye if the Broncos drop a game to the Raid-ahahahahahahaha yeah that's not happening.

anne frank fanfic
Oct 31, 2005

axeil posted:

Can't the Bengals still get a bye if the Broncos drop a game to the Raid-ahahahahahahaha yeah that's not happening.

You forbot about Derek Carr best qb ever

Cowfish
Dec 30, 2004

Arizona vs Carolina, can you feel the excitement!?

Plafop
Oct 11, 2012

by Ralp

Cowfish posted:

Arizona vs Carolina, can you feel the excitement!?

The 7-8-1 Carolina Panthers should be favored.

kalensc
Sep 10, 2003

Only Trust Your Respirator, kupo!
Art/Quote by: Rubby
NFC

#6 Detroit @ #3 Dallas
#5 Arizona @ #4 Carolina

Just waiting on dates/times now, but that won't be settled until Cin@Pit is won I reckon, ESPN will want to stick Pit@Ind as the Sat Night Football game if it comes to be.

axeil
Feb 14, 2006

kalensc posted:

NFC

#6 Detroit @ #3 Dallas
#5 Arizona @ #4 Carolina

Just waiting on dates/times now, but that won't be settled until Cin@Pit is won I reckon, ESPN will want to stick Pit@Ind as the Sat Night Football game if it comes to be.

ESPN has a playoff game now?

Sour Diesel
Jan 30, 2010

oh my god i get gruden in january gently caress yes

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

What a garbage playoff tree in the AFC this year.

No disrespect to any AFC goons out there. You guys are good peeps, but drat...what a poo poo year.

kalensc
Sep 10, 2003

Only Trust Your Respirator, kupo!
Art/Quote by: Rubby
What a bizarre scheduling decision.
pre:
NFL Wild Card Weekend

Saturday, Jan. 3
NFC: 4:35 PM (ET) Arizona at Carolina (ESPN)

AFC: 8:15 PM (ET) If Cincinnati wins, Pittsburgh at Indianapolis
                  If Pittsburgh wins, Baltimore at Pittsburgh (NBC)*

Sunday, Jan. 4
AFC: 1:05 PM (ET) If Cincinnati wins, Baltimore at Cincinnati
                  If Pittsburgh wins, Cincinnati at Indianapolis (CBS)*

NFC: 4:40 PM (ET) Detroit at Dallas (FOX)

*If tonight's game finishes in a tie, Indianapolis will host Baltimore 
on Saturday at 8:15 PM (ET) on NBC and Cincinnati will host Pittsburgh 
Sunday at 1:05 PM (ET) on CBS.
NBC wants Pittsburgh on Saturday night no matter what.....unless they tie tonight.

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

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And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost

kalensc posted:

What a bizarre scheduling decision.
pre:
NFL Wild Card Weekend

Saturday, Jan. 3
NFC: 4:35 PM (ET) Arizona at Carolina (ESPN)

AFC: 8:15 PM (ET) If Cincinnati wins, Pittsburgh at Indianapolis
                  If Pittsburgh wins, Baltimore at Pittsburgh (NBC)*

Sunday, Jan. 4
AFC: 1:05 PM (ET) If Cincinnati wins, Baltimore at Cincinnati
                  If Pittsburgh wins, Cincinnati at Indianapolis (CBS)*

NFC: 4:40 PM (ET) Detroit at Dallas (FOX)

*If tonight's game finishes in a tie, Indianapolis will host Baltimore 
on Saturday at 8:15 PM (ET) on NBC and Cincinnati will host Pittsburgh 
Sunday at 1:05 PM (ET) on CBS.
NBC wants Pittsburgh on Saturday night no matter what.....unless they tie tonight.

Cincinnati would be playing two weeks in a row on a short week if they play on Saturday.

They're avoiding that.

kalensc
Sep 10, 2003

Only Trust Your Respirator, kupo!
Art/Quote by: Rubby

ayn rand hand job posted:

Cincinnati would be playing two weeks in a row on a short week if they play on Saturday.

They're avoiding that.

Except they play Saturday if they tie. That's what's weird to me.

Also NBC and the networks don't care at all about short rest, they just want eyeballs on the tv sets. I'm a bit surprised they chose Pitt over Dallas honestly.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN
FOX was going to get the Cowboys in primetime no matter what. That was the easiest game to predict.

kalensc
Sep 10, 2003

Only Trust Your Respirator, kupo!
Art/Quote by: Rubby

Benne posted:

FOX was going to get the Cowboys in primetime no matter what. That was the easiest game to predict.

Ah I thought NBC had first dibs, recalled it being that way in past years.

Crescent Wrench
Sep 30, 2005

The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination.
Grimey Drawer

kalensc posted:

Except they play Saturday if they tie. That's what's weird to me.


"*If tonight's game finishes in a tie, Indianapolis will host Baltimore on Saturday at 8:15 PM (ET) on NBC and Cincinnati will host Pittsburgh Sunday at 1:05 PM (ET) on CBS."

Doesn't this put Cincy on Sunday in the event of a tie, or am I misreading?

kalensc
Sep 10, 2003

Only Trust Your Respirator, kupo!
Art/Quote by: Rubby
^ Oh I mis-read it then, my bad.

Here's the final wrap-up then:


pre:
Sat. Jan. 03, 20h15 - #6 Baltimore  @ #3 Pittsburgh

Sun. Jan. 04, 13h05 - #5 Cincinnati @ #4 Indianapolis

Sat. Jan. 10, 16h35 - Ind/ Cin/ Bal @ #1 New England

Sun. Jan. 11, 16h40 - Pit/ Ind/ Cin @ #2 Denver

Sun. Jan. 18, 18h40 - AFC CG


pre:
Sat. Jan. 03, 16h35 - #5 Arizona    @ #4 Carolina

Sun. Jan. 04, 16h40 - #6 Detroit    @ #3 Dallas

Sat. Jan. 10, 20h15 - Car/ Ari/ Det @ #1 Seattle

Sun. Jan. 11, 13h05 - Dal/ Car/ Ari @ #2 Green Bay

Sun. Jan. 18, 18h40 - NFC CG


pre:
## Tm.	Ovr W	Ovr L	Ovr %	SoS W	SoS L	SoS %  Max  Min
-- ---  -----   -----   -----   -----   -----   -----  ---  --- 
01 T.B	2	14	0.125	124.5	131.5	0.486  1st  2nd
02 TEN	2	14	0.125	129.5	126.5	0.506  1st  2nd
03 JAX	3	13	0.188	131.5	124.5	0.514  3rd  6th
04 OAK	3	13	0.188	146	110	0.570  3rd  6th
05 WAS	4	12	0.250	127	129	0.496  3rd  6th
06 NYJ	4	12	0.250	139	117	0.543  3rd  6th
07 CHI	5	11	0.313	135.5	120.5	0.529  7th  11th
08 ATL	6	10	0.375	123.5	132.5	0.482  7th  21st+ 
09 NYG	6	10	0.375	131	125	0.512  8th  14th
10 STL	6	10	0.375	136	120	0.531  8th  14th
11 MIN	7	9	0.438	121.5	134.5	0.475  7th  13th
12 CLE  7       9       0.438   122.5   133.5   0.479  9th  15th
13 N.O	7	9	0.438	124.5	131.5	0.486  7th  13th
14 MIA  8       8       0.500   131     125     0.512 
15 S.F  8       8       0.500   135     121     0.527  9th  19th
16 HOU  9       7       0.563   114.5   141.5   0.447
17*K.C  9       7       0.563   131     125     0.512
17*S.D  9       7       0.563   131     125     0.512
19 BUF  9       7       0.563   132     124     0.516
20 PHI  10      6       0.625   125.5   130.5   0.490

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP
Detroit @ Dallas is going to own.

Sour Diesel
Jan 30, 2010

FuzzySkinner posted:

What a garbage playoff tree in the AFC this year.

No disrespect to any AFC goons out there. You guys are good peeps, but drat...what a poo poo year.

Even though the Ravens are usually one of the usual annoying AFC suspects I still agree. That post you made a while back about the "unholy trinity" is so loving true. You've got Pittsburgh to worry about who are insane on offense (lovely season losses aside, that's just AFC North style), and so if you manage to upset them you've now got Peyton/Brady to deal with. Then if you can manage one of them you've gotta take the other out in the AFCCG.

FuzzySkinner
May 23, 2012

Sour Diesel posted:

Even though the Ravens are usually one of the usual annoying AFC suspects I still agree. That post you made a while back about the "unholy trinity" is so loving true. You've got Pittsburgh to worry about who are insane on offense (lovely season losses aside, that's just AFC North style), and so if you manage to upset them you've now got Peyton/Brady to deal with. Then if you can manage one of them you've gotta take the other out in the AFCCG.

It's all depressing and odd how people were already declaring Pittsburgh and New England "over" this season, when we know for a fact that isn't true, and will not be true until either of their GOAT HOF QB's finally retire.

Well like, wouldn't it be kind of cool to see like Kansas City, San Diego, Buffalo or someone of that note just stroll in randomly, then make a run? I mean a "real" run, not just host a Wild Card game and then get promptly kicked out of the playoffs.

Like that seems to happen a lot in the NFC quite a bit. Like "WHOA!? WHERE THE HELL DID THE PANTHERS COME FROM"- 2003 or "WOW, THE BEARS WON THE NFC DESPITE THE FACT THAT REX GROSSMAN IS PLAYING QB? AND THEY BEAT THE SAINTS IN THE NFC TITLE GAME WHO COMPLETELY SUCKED THE SEASON BEFORE!?"- 2006.

It just seems like that's the way things rarely go on this side of the fence. We can mock how lovely the NFC South is all the time (and you'd be right), but at least you could truly argue with me that there's some true parity in that conference. Since 1999, I've seen ALL FOUR of those teams play in the Super Bowl.

MrLogan
Feb 4, 2004

Ask me about Derek Carr's stolen MVP awards, those dastardly refs, and, oh yeah, having the absolute worst fucking gimmick in The Football Funhouse.

FuzzySkinner posted:

What a garbage playoff tree in the AFC this year.

No disrespect to any AFC goons out there. You guys are good peeps, but drat...what a poo poo year.

It's true. The AFC North getting a ton of easy games vs the South divisions let three teams from a mediocre division into the playoffs. I've much rather have the Alex Smith playoff experience again or actually see the dolphins make the playoffs than see average teams like Baltimore and Cincy get bounced right away. New England/Denver is going to be the worst AFC Championship game.

Cole
Nov 24, 2004

DUNSON'D
Brady and Manning in the AFCCG is like the super bowl before the super bowl. Brady Manning Bowl 17 or whatever.

CBS, hire me for marketing.

Elephanthead
Sep 11, 2008


Toilet Rascal
Hmm Ravens only a 4 point underdog, either Baltimore bets incredibly irrationally or Vegas give them the best chance to be a road win wildcard. I am hoping for some snow storm miracle.

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kalensc
Sep 10, 2003

Only Trust Your Respirator, kupo!
Art/Quote by: Rubby

Elephanthead posted:

Hmm Ravens only a 4 point underdog, either Baltimore bets incredibly irrationally or Vegas give them the best chance to be a road win wildcard. I am hoping for some snow storm miracle.

I guess it's due to the fact that divisional match-ups are unpredictable and Bell's injury has bettors hedging.

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