NFL Week 15

[Star Ocean 3 0]

The Niners are probably wishing the league actually had suspended the game. They suck.

 

San Francisco is wishing they had the Packers and Rams games back at this point. They should be leading this division.

 

Welcome home.

[snuffbox 0]

I'm not sure what SF would do with having a re-do of the Green Bay game...it was 30-13 minus the garbagetime touchdown and missed extra point.

 

The real points that probably came out of last night are: Seattle, HA. San Fran has a real future, especially in that feeble division.

[USC Wuz Robbed! 0]

I think he is saying for SF to do the game over again. Surely the outcome wouldn't come out exactly the same.

[teke184 0]

This should officially kill those "Seattle will defend their NFC title!" claims.

 

 

This brings down the likely NFC Champions to Chicago, New Orleans, Dallas, New York, and whoever the last wildcard is (Philly? Atlanta?).

 

Of those, Chicago and New Orleans are the de-facto leaders because New Orleans showed how to shut down Dallas, New York is inconsistent, and the last wildcard will have to play 3 away games to win it all. (Not that it can't be done, but neither Philly nor Atlanta are last year's Steelers)

[cabbageboy 0]

Maybe I'm crazy, but I think the Vikings might still get hot and get that last playoff spot. I think they can beat the Jets this week, and winning at Lambeau isn't as hard as it once was.

[CanadianChris 0]

Maybe I'm crazy, but I think the Vikings might still get hot and get that last playoff spot. I think they can beat the Jets this week, and winning at Lambeau isn't as hard as it once was.

They're not good enough to string three straight wins together. Then again, hardly anyone in the NFC is right now.

[USC Wuz Robbed! 0]

if Chicago can't vs Tampa, Detroit and Green Bay, they deserve to forfeit their playoff spot and disband.

[2GOLD 0]

if Chicago can't vs Tampa, Detroit and Green Bay, they deserve to forfeit their playoff spot and disband.

 

Aren't two of those rival games? Rival games are never easy and it's really not all that easy to drop a team the second time around. I can see the Bears dropping one of those games.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Im totally torn..

 

A Ravens win and a Bengals loss clinches the AFC North for the Ravens but pretty much guarantees the Ravens wont get a first round Bye with the Colts staying even with the Ravens record wise.

 

So sadly, the Ravens need the Bengals to win.

 

ugh.

[USC Wuz Robbed! 0]

if Chicago can't vs Tampa, Detroit and Green Bay, they deserve to forfeit their playoff spot and disband.

 

Aren't two of those rival games? Rival games are never easy and it's really not all that easy to drop a team the second time around. I can see the Bears dropping one of those games.

 

With how the Bears started the season, and this far into the season, they should not go worse than 13-3, and they swept the toughest "rival" opponent, Minnesota. I can't see how they lose to Detroit. Green Bay is a potential game they lose, but Lovie Smith made defeating the Packers their number one goal, getting into the playoffs is just "gravy". So if he fails in that respect, then I don't know what to say.

[Richard 0]

if Chicago can't vs Tampa, Detroit and Green Bay, they deserve to forfeit their playoff spot and disband.

 

Aren't two of those rival games? Rival games are never easy and it's really not all that easy to drop a team the second time around. I can see the Bears dropping one of those games.

 

 

I agree, since the Bears will have their scrubs playing by the last game.

 

 

So sadly, the Ravens need the Bengals to win.

 

I was rooting for the Chiefs last week. Great time to start losing in December guys.

[snuffbox 0]

I dont think the GB-Chi game in Chicago will be as brutal as game one at Lambeau, but I definitly won't be picking the Pack to win.

[teke184 0]

Tank Johnson's out Sunday.

 

Combine that with Tommy Harris going on IR and you have a chance for Cadillac to actually get out of neutral and drive into the end zone.

 

 

 

Granted, this IS Tampa Bay, though, so they'll probably find a way to fuck it up. Almost NOTHING has gone right for them this year.

[Guest Princess Leena]

Cadillac has done jack shit all year. He'll get his usual 20 car. 60 yd. 0 TD sorry ass performance.

[Vern Gagne 0]

Tampa's all but packed it in for the year.

[KingPK 0]

Here are the maps for this week:

 

CBS Single Game:

 

 

FOX DH Game 1:

 

 

Game 2:

 

 

And here are the playoff scenarios for this week:

 

AFC EAST DIVISION

New England can clinch division title with:

1) NE win + NYJ loss or tie, OR

2) NE tie + NYJ loss.

 

 

AFC NORTH DIVISION

Baltimore can clinch division title with:

 

1) BAL win + CIN loss or tie, OR

2) BAL tie + CIN loss.

 

Baltimore can clinch playoff berth with:

 

1) BAL win or tie, OR

2) CIN loss or tie + BAL clinches strength of victory tiebreaker over NYJ, OR

3) DEN loss or tie + BAL clinches strength of victory tiebreaker over NYJ, OR

4) NYJ loss or tie + CIN loss or tie, OR

5) NYJ loss or tie + DEN loss or tie, OR

6) NE loss + CIN loss or tie + JAX loss, OR

7) NE loss + DEN loss or tie + JAX loss.

 

Strength of victory: The season-ending won-lost-tied percentage of all opponents a team has defeated.

 

 

AFC SOUTH DIVISION

Indianapolis can clinch division title with:

1) JAX loss, OR

2) IND win or tie + JAX tie.

 

Indianapolis can clinch playoff berth with:

 

1) IND win or tie, OR

2) DEN loss or tie.

 

 

AFC WEST DIVISION

San Diego has clinched division title.

San Diego can clinch first-round bye with:

 

1) SD win + IND loss.

 

 

NFC EAST DIVISION

Dallas can clinch playoff berth with:

1) DAL win + MIN loss or tie + NO win or tie, OR

2) DAL win + MIN loss or tie + CAR loss or tie.

 

NFC NORTH DIVISION

Chicago has clinched division title and a first-round bye.

Chicago can clinch homefield advantage with:

 

1) CHI win + NO loss or tie, OR

2) CHI tie + NO loss.

 

 

NFC SOUTH DIVISION

New Orleans can clinch division with:

 

1) NO win, OR

2) NO tie + ATL loss or tie, OR

3) ATL loss + CAR loss or tie.

 

New Orleans can clinch first-round bye with: 1) NO win + DAL loss + NYG loss or tie + SEA loss.

 

New Orleans can clinch playoff berth with:

1) NO tie, OR

2) MIN loss or tie + PHI loss, OR

3) MIN loss or tie + CAR loss or tie, OR

4) MIN loss or tie + DAL loss + PHI/NYG tie.

 

Arizona, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Oakland, Tampa Bay and Washington have been eliminated from playoff contention.

[fazzle 0]

I'm not sure about those maps. I live in Wilmington, NC, and the cable guide is still listing Miami/Buffalo as my 1:00 game. Maybe the Panthers game didn't sell out, and is blacked out?

[Guest Legalise Drugs and Murder]

Son of a fucking bitch, I get the Browns game.

 

Hey Czech, you get the Broncos again at 4. haha.

[Guest Legalise Drugs and Murder]

Tampa Bay is going to be playing in the cold, so they're doomed. It is a little unseasonably warm around here though, but Chicago's weather is much different than NE Indiana. It could still freeze up there by Sunday. Gradkowski's a dead man.

 

The Lions will lose because they're the Lions, and the Bears are going to rub Green Bay's face in the dirt to drive the point home that the Packers are now completely inferior.

[Guest]

This fucking Denver shit is fucking killing me.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

Philly moves to the #3 seed in the NFC with a win and a Dallas loss.

 

I can't even comprehend that given where the team was just a few weeks ago.

[Guest "Go, Mordecai!"]

Hey Czech, you get the Broncos again at 4. haha.

America's Team!!!

 

Tampa Bay is going to be playing in the cold, so they're doomed. It is a little unseasonably warm around here though, but Chicago's weather is much different than NE Indiana. It could still freeze up there by Sunday. Gradkowski's a dead man.

Tomorrow is supposed to be 40s and rainy. Not ideal for my annual trip to Oak Brook, but acceptable for a Bears game, I guess.

 

The Lions will lose because they're the Lions, and the Bears are going to rub Green Bay's face in the dirt to drive the point home that the Packers are now completely inferior.

Yeah, I fail to see how the Lions and Packers are going to win these last games. Lovie can't rest the starters THAT long in the last game. They already have a week off anyway. At that point, they're getting rusty. I am worried about Tank Johnson's absence and legal trouble, though at least it was his bodyguard that got arrested for marijuana possession and not Tank. Why a 350-pound defensive lineman for the Chicago Bears named TANK JOHNSON necessitates a bodyguard, well, that I just don't know. I was also amused by initial reports that he lives in "a bad section of Gurnee." Gurnee is nothing but strip malls, McMansions, and Great America. There's no ghetto there.

[Guest "Go, Mordecai!"]

That bodyguard/friend that got arrested was shot and killed this morning, I guess. When it rains, it pours, huh.

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

Johnson was with the guy at a Chicago club when a fight brought out and his friend got shot.

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

They've been talking about this from Jim Mora Jr for a majority of the day as well.

 

The 15-minute interview, on Seattle-based KJR, was hosted by Dave Mahler and Hugh Millen. The latter was a teammate and roommate of Mora at Washington, and the two have remained close friends. A former NFL quarterback, Millen has visited with Mora in Atlanta and stayed as a guest at his home.

 

With about two minutes remaining in the interview, Mahler asked Mora to make him a promise: "If it ever works out, if there's an opening and you're available, we want you to coach the Huskies," Mahler said.

 

 

 

Mora's response: "Well, I really have a lot of respect for Ty, and I know he'll do a great job. But if he ever decides to move on, and get in the NFL, or, you know, go back to Notre Dame or whatever ... if that job's open, you'll find me at the friggin' head of the line, with my résumé in hand, ready to take that job."

 

 

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2698649

[Guest "Go, Mordecai!"]

Yeah, it was some bar over in River North. They weren't even there that long, like eight minutes before guns were fired.

 

Oh well. Thanks anyway, guy. I know that these guys tend to be too big-hearted for their own good and like to look out for their old friends once they make it big (Tank grew up in Gary, which is about as low of a beginning as one can have in life), but man, it does their careers no good to have these hangers-on. This doesn't excuse the fact that

1) he's already had his own run-ins with the law without bringing this "bodyguard" into the mix

2) you do not need assault rifles when you live in a freaking half-million-dollar home in Gurnee, Illinois

3) when your coach deactivates you to "get your head straightened out" after being arrested, it's not wise to go out drinking with the guy who got you in this mess.

 

Even though this really hurts an already depleted defense, the Bears really have to wipe their hands clean of this guy. It looks really, really bad to ignore this. As for who will take over at defensive tackle in Tank-via-Harris's place? Well, I say Kyle Orton should. He's proven that he knows how to win games.

 

 

Oh, and to respond to that new post: Mora is a weird, weird dude.

[CanadianChris 0]

Dick Vermeil with a bad voice, and Bryant Gumbel with a good voice. Not a good combination.

[The Robfather 0]

NFL Network... find someone who can actually talk. Vermiel's voice sounds like fingernails across a blackboard.

[CanadianChris 0]

Geez, Vermeil should never have been let on the air. I can barely hear him most of the time.

[The Robfather 0]

ummm... Gumball..it's not called a "shot clock"