Wild Card Weekend game thread (non-Pats)

lars10

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This game is making me feel a lot better about the Pats offensive performance and our young qb
 

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Let’s not get carried away. ‘mkay?
I thought Mac looked a ton more composed than Murray did tonite. He (to me) looked a lot less nervous and the two interceptions he did have were tips or great plays as opposed to really bad decisions.
 

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He's an asshole, but what crime did he commit? Let's not waste some FBI resource's time.
via DMs he threatened McBride and his family? Is that ok? May not be a crime, but it's pretty unusual for the 'offense' against him.
 

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Nothing at all to be sorry about. I thought the system worked remarkably well, and he was dispensed with very expediently as soon as he crossed the line.
concur. @SeoulSoxFan - you and your families health is wayyy more important than SoSH.

Well okay, maybe 1a and 1b...

but really take you of you and yours. And fingers crossed for neg
 

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Overall relatively boring playoff weekend. 2 out of 6 were even close to competitive. Most could be turned off by half.

The division games appear a lot spicier but maybe 7 teams is too much. YeS, we got more games but it felt like less competitive ones (n=1 in new format of course)
 

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Kyler got absolutely roasted on Twitter. A ton of belittlement posts (emphasis on the little). Family/friends might tell him not to go there, which however might make him want to more.
 

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I think the Rams will beat the Bucs. Not going to be a blowout or anything, but Tampa is too broken down on offense to deal with that kind of talent and their defense is just meh.
I am leaning this way as well. Aaron Donald and Von Miller will be a handful against Brady with his beat up OL.
 

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I think the Rams will beat the Bucs. Not going to be a blowout or anything, but Tampa is too broken down on offense to deal with that kind of talent and their defense is just meh.
Agreed. The Bucs may struggle without Brady’s Godwin/AB outlets, especially with the OL banged up. If Stafford doesn’t puke all over himself, I like the Rams in this one.
 

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The thing that could give the Bucs some life is the fact that the Rams do play a little off on defense and the quick passing game isn't really what they try to take away. If Fournette is back and Brady is just nickle and diming them down the field to avoid holding the ball against that pass rush, maybe they could pull it off.
 

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All that about the Rams D is true, but you’re still betting on Matthew Stafford over Tom Brady.

And Brady still has Gronk, Evans, Miller, Brate, and Johnson. There’s still talent to throw to.

And Tampa is averaging 33 points a game in their last four, three of which were against good defenses.
 

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All that about the Rams D is true, but you’re still betting on Matthew Stafford over Tom Brady.

And Brady still has Gronk, Evans, Miller, Brate, and Johnson. There’s still talent to throw to.

And Tampa is averaging 33 points a game in their last four, three of which were against good defenses.
All true but if Wirfs/Jensen are out/compromised, then I think that’s a huge issue for TB. But LA will be on less rest and traveling and the GOAT will have a plan. Don’t see either team running effectively so it’ll be a QB game, I think.

Should be a great one.
 

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All true but if Wirfs/Jensen are out/compromised, then I think that’s a huge issue for TB. But LA will be on less rest and traveling and the GOAT will have a plan. Don’t see either team running effectively so it’ll be a QB game, I think.

Should be a great one.
Bucs are 3 point favorites. So the expectation is for a tight game. Brady will get rid of the ball as fast as he did on Sunday.
 

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I think the Rams will beat the Bucs. Not going to be a blowout or anything, but Tampa is too broken down on offense to deal with that kind of talent and their defense is just meh.
Has it ever happened that the Conference Championship Game and the Super Bowl are in the same venue. If this happens and the 9ers beat the Packers we get that.
 

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All true but if Wirfs/Jensen are out/compromised, then I think that’s a huge issue for TB. But LA will be on less rest and traveling and the GOAT will have a plan. Don’t see either team running effectively so it’ll be a QB game, I think.

Should be a great one.
People need to remember the Super Bowl last year after the Chiefs suffered injuries to their O-line in the playoffs. Then they need to consider that Brady is one of the least mobile QBs in the game.

Given that they haven't been ruled out, it's damn near 100% certain that Wirfs/Jensen are playing. However, we had a preview of what it means if their effectiveness is limited, because the Eagles got to Brady quite a bit after the first quarter.
 

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The Eagles front four was well below average during the second half of the season. Once Wirfs went down they got three sacks on three straight third down plays. One and a half sacks from Ryan Kerrigan, who had zero sacks and three tackles all season long.

I know it's the GOAT vs Stafford and all, but I think TB is in big trouble.
 

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A digression that is probably only of interest to me: when someone mentions a 2018 conference title game, AFC for example, I consider that to be the Pats/Chiefs, actually played in January, 2019. Yet others would consider it to be Pats/Jags, played in January 2018. I always identify them by the regular season just completed. But have friends who argue with me that it should be identified by the date it's played on. Is there any official/objective answer here? I dunno, I'm listen only on a droning conference call, and getting bored.
 

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A digression that is probably only of interest to me: when someone mentions a 2018 conference title game, AFC for example, I consider that to be the Pats/Chiefs, actually played in January, 2019. Yet others would consider it to be Pats/Jags, played in January 2018. I always identify them by the regular season just completed. But have friends who argue with me that it should be identified by the date it's played on. Is there any official/objective answer here? I dunno, I'm listen only on a droning conference call, and getting bored.
If you google 2018 AFC championship game, I believe Pats-Chiefs comes up. So I go with that.
 

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The Eagles front four was well below average during the second half of the season. Once Wirfs went down they got three sacks on three straight third down plays. One and a half sacks from Ryan Kerrigan, who had zero sacks and three tackles all season long.

I know it's the GOAT vs Stafford and all, but I think TB is in big trouble.
In game injuries affect teams a lot more than going into the game without the player, though. It's not necessarily an indication of what will happen if those guys don't play.

And I think the Mahomes in the Super Bowl comparison is completely backwards. Mahomes is a "hold the ball and drift back into the pocket until someone comes open deep" kind of quarterback, he's actually more susceptible to pressure than Brady, who will never try to beat the rush with his feet, but instead will adapt the offense and throw the ball quick.
 

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In game injuries affect teams a lot more than going into the game without the player, though. It's not necessarily an indication of what will happen if those guys don't play.

And I think the Mahomes in the Super Bowl comparison is completely backwards. Mahomes is a "hold the ball and drift back into the pocket until someone comes open deep" kind of quarterback, he's actually more susceptible to pressure than Brady, who will never try to beat the rush with his feet, but instead will adapt the offense and throw the ball quick.
He certainly did this Sunday. Wasn't his release time average the fastest out of all the QBs? I think I read that somewhere.
 

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In game injuries affect teams a lot more than going into the game without the player, though. It's not necessarily an indication of what will happen if those guys don't play.

And I think the Mahomes in the Super Bowl comparison is completely backwards. Mahomes is a "hold the ball and drift back into the pocket until someone comes open deep" kind of quarterback, he's actually more susceptible to pressure than Brady, who will never try to beat the rush with his feet, but instead will adapt the offense and throw the ball quick.
I agree about in-game vs planned injury limitations, but there's only so much you can do there.

And I do agree about Brady zipping the ball out quickly, but it wasn't like he was waiting to go deep on those three third down sacks.

All I'm saying is that if the Eagles were getting there with relative ease I'd hate to see what the Rams defense does.
 

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Has it ever happened that the Conference Championship Game and the Super Bowl are in the same venue. If this happens and the 9ers beat the Packers we get that.
Closest thing might be in 1985 when the NFC conference championship game was at Candlestick Park, SF and the Super Bowl at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto. Hey, at least Joe and the rest got to sleep in their own beds for the two weeks or so (unless Bill Walsh pulled a Bill Walsh and put them in a hotel in Palo Alto).