NFL: ***Official Playoffs Thread***

BigJCy

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Was damn close to having all 4 road teams win this weekend.
 

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As a Green Bay fan I completely disagree. I could see Seattle winning next week.
Anything is possible but Seattle had to fight to beat many 3rd and 4th string Eagles who was also playing a back-up QB

Seattle is also a fairly beat-up team too.
 
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https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/01/06/tua-tagovailoa-to-enter-2020-nfl-draft/

Not necessarily postseason related or surprising, but Tua Tagovailoa is going pro. There was some speculation about him coming back to Bama to show he was fully healthy and recovered from his injury, but he has nothing left to prove at the college level. He's a top two or three QB this year and he'd be in the same boat next year assuming Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields both leave school early.
 

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AFC games look compelling.....NFC games, not so much.

Questions: Is Buffalo ready for the big stage? Can Ryan Tannehill keep his play at a high level, against one of the best of all time? Does Dalvin Cook's return mean Kirk Cousins can relax a little bit and actually win a big game? Which one of two injury-ravaged teams has enough left to advance?

Give me:
Houston
New England
New Orleans
Philadelphia

Boy do I suck at picking games. :oops:
 

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https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/01/06/tua-tagovailoa-to-enter-2020-nfl-draft/

Not necessarily postseason related or surprising, but Tua Tagovailoa is going pro. There was some speculation about him coming back to Bama to show he was fully healthy and recovered from his injury, but he has nothing left to prove at the college level. He's a top two or three QB this year and he'd be in the same boat next year assuming Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields both leave school early.

Hope whoever drafts him is ready to put him on their PUP list for at least the 2020 season. In other words, "The third pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Detroit Lions select..." (even though that would go completely against my theory that Quinn and Patricia are going to pick someone that saves their job, but they'd also be dumb enough to draft Tua at 3).
 

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Anything is possible but Seattle had to fight to beat many 3rd and 4th string Eagles who was also playing a back-up QB

Seattle is also a fairly beat-up team too.

Seahawks lost 3 of their last 4 regular season games. Those 7 sacks are an outlier, they only had 28 all season. Meanwhile, Z'Darius Smith is still wrecking offensive lines. Just ask the Vikings.........
 

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Not concerned in the least about Jason Garrett being fired. Until Jerry Jones stops being the presence that he is in the locker room and continuously undercutting the authority of the head coach (and the entirety of the organization, for that matter), the Cowboys will continue to be a train wreck.

To elaborate further on this now that the Cowboys have hired Mike McCarthy, this is going to go down one of two ways. First, this could be a genius hire that puts the Cowboys over the top, especially since Jerry Jones is the kind of owner that isn't afraid to throw money around to buy talent to win. But I'm going to go with option B, that this is going to end as a flaming train wreck. Aaron Rodgers had McCarthy fired because Aaron wanted to run the show, which conflicted with the way Mike wanted to run things. I've already mentioned Jerry Jones' locker room presence and how players deferred to him instead of Jason Garrett (not that Garrett gave them any reason not to). Does anyone else see this playing out differently? As I stated earlier, until Jones learns how to stay the eff out of the locker room, nothing will work in Dallas.
 

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To elaborate further on this now that the Cowboys have hired Mike McCarthy, this is going to go down one of two ways. First, this could be a genius hire that puts the Cowboys over the top, especially since Jerry Jones is the kind of owner that isn't afraid to throw money around to buy talent to win. But I'm going to go with option B, that this is going to end as a flaming train wreck. Aaron Rodgers had McCarthy fired because Aaron wanted to run the show, which conflicted with the way Mike wanted to run things. I've already mentioned Jerry Jones' locker room presence and how players deferred to him instead of Jason Garrett (not that Garrett gave them any reason not to). Does anyone else see this playing out differently? As I stated earlier, until Jones learns how to stay the eff out of the locker room, nothing will work in Dallas.

Maybe McCarthy learned his lesson and the year off changed his perspective. But it's equally possible that he took the job because they were the first ones to offer and he was so desperate to get back in that he took it without considering the fit. That happens sometimes with guys who have been out of the game for a year or two.
 

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Hope whoever drafts him is ready to put him on their PUP list for at least the 2020 season. In other words, "The third pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Detroit Lions select..." (even though that would go completely against my theory that Quinn and Patricia are going to pick someone that saves their job, but they'd also be dumb enough to draft Tua at 3).

I think he's talented enough that some teams are going to be sniffing around to see what it would cost to move up to 3 or 4. The Bengals will probably go with Burrow and I can't imagine the Redskins being dumb enough to pass on a chance to take Chase Young, but after that it's anybody's guess. I have no idea what Detroit and the Giants do with the third and fourth picks. I think the Lions will be looking for immediate help with Quinn and Patricia in job saving mode, but it's hard to know what the Giants will do until they get their new HC in place.
 

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https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...d-gloves-end-up-benefiting-charity-after-all/

Kind of a neat little footnote to Kyle Rudolph's game winning catch. He gave his game gloves to someone claiming to be a media member after the game who told Rudolph that the gloves would be auctioned off for charity. The gloves were then sold on eBay for $375. The guy who bought them on eBay contacted Rudolph after the scam story broke and told him he'd make a donation to the charity of Rudolph's choosing. So far the buyer of the gloves, Jason King, has raised $1600 to the UM Children's Hospital - some of it his own money, some of it donated by others. The kicker is that he hasn't even received the gloves yet, but if he does he'll donate those to the hospital as well. Nice gesture from someone just trying to make something positive out of a messy situation.
 

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8-10 inches of snow forecast Saturday night through Sunday for the Seahawks/Packers game. I don't know which team that favors, but I know that tv viewers win. Snow football is the best kind of football to watch.
 
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8-10 inches of snow forecast Saturday night through Sunday for the Seahawks/Packers game. I don't know which team that favors, but I know that tv viewers win. Snow football is the best kind of football to watch.

They've already advertised for needing 700 people to shovel on Sunday morning. They'll get that many, and more. I have a hunch the snow will be over long before the game, unfortunately.