2016 NFL Playoffs - Wild Card Weekend

Saturday:
Chiefs / Texans
Steelers / Bengals

Sunday:
Seahawks/Vikings
Packers / Washington Football Team

Chiefs, Steelers, Hawks, Pack btw

chiefs, toss-up*, squawks, pack

*only if dalton is back AND doesn't become Playoff Dalton, if it's mccarron steelermen def take that game

all of these seem close, except for seattle/vikes sadly. kcc/texans has got to be a low scorer which honestly might favour houston. idk it is hard to rule out the chiefs the way they have been galloping thru the back half of this season. bengals are surely doomed to lose vs steelers which will be a real bummer if it happens. and i suppose green bay has to win, however off they look right now. wash have been winning games but all against pretty crappy teams when you look at it. if there is going to be a "surprise" in the round it would be that game tho.

the only legit SURPRISE outcome for me would be if the seahawks didn't win

seattles tear thru the last ~6 wks or so hasn't been against the best teams really. winning @ min and @ az were both legit over by like each 2nd qtr which is a bit fluky tho of course blowing out a playoff team is undoubtedly impressive. credit where credit is due for taking care of biz when its a league where u can lose to anyone but idk i wouldn't be shocked if minny won, their d is p good

is marshawn playing?

he just started full practices apparently, so i'd assume so - who knows how effective he'll be tho. lacking rawls as a 2nd option at RB is definitely a loss for seattle

pack is terrible, Rodgers looks like he wants this season to end, has to be some injury to explain his problems (beyond his supporting cast).

j.cru i hope you're right that it is more of a contest. i don't put any stock in the AZ game because they were two very differently motivated teams at that point in the season but that was a beating in minnesota.

Current lines:

Texans +3
Seattle +6.5 (started as +3.5!)
Green Bay +1

Pittsburgh/Cincinatti is off the board until Dalton's status is resolved

wait, I messed that up, Seattle is a 6.5 point favorite, not underdog

As for my predictions - I think Pittsburgh will destroy Cincinatti either way, GB will probably lose (I agree they're pretty terrible right now), and the Texans could legit score 0 points this game, though I can't imagine the Chiefs scoring more than 14 or so. I know it's too obvious to predict Seattle/Minnesota as a blowout based on their last game, but given how good Seattle's run defense is and how one-note Minnesota is I just don't see them putting up much of a fight. Bridgewater is gonna have to have the game of his life, and if Lynch is back he's gonna give that defense some problems.

This episode sounds like a scene out of a football version of "Semi-Pro". Hilarious, but you got to wonder what kind of club is really going to pony up real money for the dude. I think the guy keeps it up he could end up Kryptonite.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/report--johnny-manziel-wore-blonde-wig--glasses-in-vegas-160734297.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CX-m8DtWkAAPGsS.jpg

@JoshDubowAP
If this is it for Calvin Johnson, Lions only won 6 more games than Raiders in 9 seasons after Oak took Jamarcus over Megatron

lovie fired?

i don't really get that

Damn, that one was a surprise.

yeah there's gotta be a story behind that

Some people are postulating that it's because they want to promote Dirk Koetter to hc.

Oh, now it comes that the Glazers canned Lovie with a phone call. All class.

PAPA JOHNS!!!!

well, it was a p good game

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYTxyLOVAAAJ_iV.jpg

coverage team just forgot to account for one guy

Oops

Double oops

nice, another turnover

playoff level offense

oop oop oop

Holy shit that was awesome

hahahahaha

lmao

lolllll

texans are here to entertain

waht

can you imagine how many touchdown dances jj watt practiced for that play

LOL!

quality team
right here
folks

shdve run wilfork

i mean, jj only lost a yard not the ball. qb controversy?

yeah def run wilfork

wilfork sweep

hoyer seems not that great

"all 3 interceptions were horrible...there's no way you throw this football"

never throw it

if it's gonna be this level of horror fuck it, throw weeden in there for laughs

i have an idea

https://usatthebiglead.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/vince-wilfork-throwing-to-jj-watt-2.gif

f yea

please

They should've required all the wild card games to be played in shoveled-in snow or sand or something

quicksand would be nice

Are they using "flashing lights" as an audio logo too? <3

shoulda nabbed that

can't be a td even if it is a fumble

martavised

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYVCGANWEAAyu1x.jpg

martavision

wide receivers. must be nice

mccarron is not totally horrible, certainly he looks better than hoyer today, and not like he is replacing a HOF bound qb or anything, but have to feel for the bengals. after this reg season they deserve better out of the playoffs than not even competing.

nah, fuck the bengals

lol

how u feel about denver? reinstatement of the elderly turnover machine at qb has to be a net positive right? do steelers have anyone in secondary who can catch?

i mean i'd totally root for them against the broncos or patritos

but fuck 'em anyway

actually i'm not sure that's true

maybe

refs missing that helmet to helmet hit after throwing 15 yrd flags all night is wild

lol

o shit is big alleged down? PLZ bring in vick if he is

or landry vs AJ whatever makes this game weirder sounds good to me

nice work cincy fans. i take it all back, fuck you

rothlbs the one player root for to get injured and die

seems reasonable

maybe but i think one should do it quietly

gtfo have to go 2 there

aj mccarron hands off to rex burkhead. playoff football

call the deep PI play dudes

nantz openly criticizing this game is pretty brutal

pretty skeptical that roffles should return to this game

agreed

also, and not unrelated:

Gregg Rosenthal ‏@greggrosenthal 1m1 minute ago
If Marvin Lewis is going to lose a 7th straight playoff game, he’s doing it his way: kicking field goals.

nyt 4th down bot approved that field goal fwiw

and the bot isn't even allowed to weight the fact that landry jones is playing

worked out but can't believe they passed both 3rd and 4th down

i have no idea what the bengals are doing on offense in general

but it's "working" at times

#winning

Ha ha

"he better be down because he's running the wrong way"

omg if he had run in for a safety

Oh jeez

what the fuck even is this game

So much terrible play today

wow wow crazy

this is really the worst game, i have genuine sympathy for anyone who cares about this game

pleased that i'm not actually watching it, as usual

the camera angle from behind jones when he thew that interception does not make me feel great about his ability to get this into FG range

well don't worry b/c ben is back!

me and tomlin on the same ~~~~~~~

jesus christ

Ugly hit, unbelievable

hopefully thrown the game away with that asshole move

how utterly fuckin stupid, totally intentional

i hate football and i don't even know the call yet

What an utter clusterfuck

burfict and jones getting consecutive personal fouls is the most bengals thing

omg denver is going to get the remains of this steelers team, how can they possibly get any luckier

lol. i mean, i hope tony b is ok in general, but yeah that game will be a little sad without him and roffles

i feel gross that i watched that.

my boss is good guy and a dyed in the wool steelers fan (like a real one from pittsburgh) but i think he would agree congratulations are not exactly in order.

congrats to the refs what a fn farce

that has to be the record for personal fouls in a game and they missed the most obvious one

http://a2.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2016%2F0109%2FBF.png&w=570

I started the night pulling for Cincinnati, but by the end I didn't care who fucking won because I'd like to see either one of these teams get pummeled next weekend. Like 100-0 pummeled.

That game was like the lord of the flies. I'm not so sure that isn't the worst way to lose a football game I have ever seen.

Got to hand it to the AFC Central, they can turn any football game into a WWF match.

no one from the afc deserves to win a goddamn thing tbqh but especially not either of those teams after that shitfest

lol wut a brutal loss for cincy

Hill, Pacman, Burfect

All complete ass hats. so happy they lost and idgaf about the steelers. burfect running out waving bye bye game over and then hill fumbling 30 seconds later was hilarious.

that was just about the worst endgame that I can remember. that hit on Antonio Brown was scary, you can see Brown's eyes roll back in his head as he was going to the ground.

i generally heart pacman, this is dumb
https://twitter.com/KennyDucey/status/686055883055468544

7 or 8 personal fouls in that game depending on if you want to count the facemask which is more of a regular penalty imo

rematch

https://vine.co/v/iKpDeWOPZFD

well, not for payton award guy bruton, he was already playing with a broken leg in that game and is out.

zimmers face is so red

that went well

would like to see vikes win but after last night i'll accept the marv lewis coaching tree going 0/3 as consolation

it's really sour grapes on behalf of Cincy fans, who should have more issues with the anemic offense, Hill's fumble, Cincy's inability to keep its head, and the moronic penalty against Brown, but...Joey Porter really shouldn't have been on the field, either (and apparently is about to get fined for it).

the "it lost us the game" doofuses have apparently forgotten that Pittsburgh was already in field goal range at that point (albeit a 49 yardish).

feel crushed for my friend who is a Bengals fan, as I was just about to submit a 'congrats' when the fumble happened.

yeah, the bad attitude shit was just drama, it was that fumble that really turned the game... of course, 30 yards of penalties didn't hurt.

lol seattle long snapper trying to kill that punter

squawks looking rattled but the vikings aren't exactly setting shit on fire

porter was only out there to tend to injured brown right? i mean obv hes not a trainer or w/e but its understandable youd go out to assess/support some1 that severly hit

Well except he didn't attend to Brown at all. He sat jawing with Bengals players. He even grinned after he finally caused them to react.

Still though...how dumb do you have to be to take the bait

that was bold

MN gotta score some points here

at this rate a vikings 3-0 win seems entirely possible

6-0! scoring!!

was rooting for 3-0

not sure whether to credit seattle's D (which is p good in general and phenomenal compared to their offense rn) or minny's still-bad offense for it remaining a one-score game in spite of the golden opportunity they just had

bridgewater could be situationally smarter. hopefully that will come

i might give up

best thing thats happened is the punter landing on his face

that was v good tho

tru

lol what

look! a game!

crazy

i was just about to be happy for seattle until we got a macklemore commercial, that said still find it v unconscionable to support adrian peterson's team

macklemore tho

love these end of game fumbles

i can stomach a bad rapper a lot easier than a guy who beat his child with a branch xp

wow kam

heh this is bad

all of the games so far have been awful

yeah definitely

c-hawks are resiliant this game is ok idk

seahawks r gods toilet

seahawks are kind of a shambles here, it will be p awful if they win this

the vikings...are as well

wow

every team's best play has been PI

stay in bounds dickhead!!

k rudy

lol

lol collinsworth "its gonna be a steamy finish"

A steamer of a finish

...

o boy

fuck seattle so much

O_O

haha

LOL

haaaaaaaaaaaaaa

haaaaah

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lol laces out!!

some truly virtuoso choking this weekend

why was the holder having such a hard time turining the laces out today? bizarre.

really strange

So is this going to be the worst playoffs of all time? I'm not sure any of these teams know how to play.

cardinals are very good

feel awful for vikings fans that had to sit through that in the freezung cold

lol they're playing queen by perfume genius while jay glazer talks to mike mccarthy on fox.

why was the holder having such a hard time turining the laces out today? bizarre.

― call all destroyer, Sunday, January 10, 2016 4:04 PM (8 minutes ago)

i can't really call myself an expert on field goal kicking mechanics, but are out-ward facing laces really that crucial a condition for kicking a 27-yard field goal?

like don't australian people drop the ball on the ground before they kick it and manage to kick it relatively straight?

maybe i'm thinking of some other sport

@jayfeely was tweeting about the laces & how it affects kicking all game, it's p interesting

australian ppl do do that

agree that the laces are a red herring guy just missed a gimme

i mean i understand that the laces facing outward is preferable. but you'd think that these professionals would have some sort of backup plan when things don't go as planned

he was prob nervous to start with then saw the laces and just yanked it.

laces prob had nothing to do w it

sometimes kickers miss 27 yard field goals

ok

ok to you buddy

I think kickers have a terror of laces facing them and when they see laces, they panic, which causes them to miss, which reinforces their terror of laces facing them.

i wonder if they thought about centering the ball on 3rd down at all

lollll at that house of cards thing

yasssss

standard of offensive football this round has really been something

that's a touchdown??

google tells me the score is 5-0 is this correct

i can confirm

jordan reed thank you

GO WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM

(ok the 'you like that' chants are creepy imo)

ELEVENER

washington confirmed best team

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You don't like that.
Hi, I'm Kirk Cousins for depen

man desean jackson is one of the most incredible humans

wow they just played the fight song - yes, national tv audience, not just a racist name but the song says 'braves on the warpath'

wish they'd show the washington marching band instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKuf1VBUwog

around 5:00 it gets awesome

i mean i don't really love taking the train out to fedex and walking all that way to the stadium but its always cool hearing the drums once you get there

winning divisions is for suckas

home teams down wow rip

yeah, kind of depressing how previous playoff success was the biggest predictor in rd 1

So many super bowl rematch potential

Packers-broncos
Packers-patsies
Panthers-patsies
Packers-Chiefs (SB 2)
Cardinals-Steelers (ok long shot)
Packers-Steelers (same)

Or Seattle-Pitt but FUCK that

Seattle-NE doe

carolina...pats would probably be the most fun?

Cardinals-Steelers (ok long shot)

This was my favorite SB ever, even though the stupid Steelers won it in the end. I don't think it would play out the same way a second time.

that was a great game for sure

yeah that was a wild one!

nfl network showing super bowl i on friday, first ever rebroadcast on network tv.

not really network tv

it's called nfl network and it's on tv so...

look, i'm just the messenger

ban Roberto Spiralli

airtight argument lmao

the cardinals are gonna win the superbowl imo vs the...

i wldve said pitt but injuries

butt injuries

the pittsburgh injurious buttholes

http://i.imgur.com/ylzkDy2.png

not a real clear fav amongst that top four

kc looking p undervalued tho sure that has something to do w the possibility of playing in two of the toughest road stadiums

man you would think that having just been knocked out of the playoffs for being a shower of assholes would give the bengals an opportunity for self reflection but no they are just all calling joey porter out instead. embarrassing.

wow srs stuff huh

yeah I mean he should be fined for sure but j christ it isn't like the Bengals are the first time to ever be instigated, better teams just know how to keep their heads together and move along.

so much had to happen to collapse - but this was their Sistine Chapel of meltdowns

that was a masters performance by porter, he knew exactly what the bengals were going to do.

3 game suspension for burfict, emphasis on repeat offenses

hopefully he'll be burfict from now on

easy no call imo

nawww

jk but the refs did ruin that game by calling so many personal fouls

while also missing a very obvious illegal leading w the helmet hit on pitt in a crucial situation late

Yah that one was pretty obvious

hate it when refs feel like they have to control a game just do yr job jfc

lol polyphonic ftw