After a little bit of a letdown for wildcard weekend (with the exception of the phenomenal GB/ARI game), the NFL playoffs should heat up this weekend. We analyze all the games in depth and pick the winners of the divisional round of the 2009/2010 NFL playoffs.
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Now the real fun starts. Despite a deja-vu feeling from week 17, this week’s games are the real deal. We analyze all the games in depth and pick the winners of the first round of the 2009/2010 NFL playoffs.
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While all of the playoff participants in the NFC have been determined and only seeding remains, the lower seeds in the AFC are all wide open. We discuss all the likely playoff scenarios and project seeding in this podcast.
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Two weeks left in the NFL regular season and there are too many playoff scenarios to count. What makes the penultimate week great is that the many many tiebreakers means that every game potentially can affect playoff seeding. This is the week where NFL Sunday Ticket earns its keep.
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The Colts have already kept their streak alive, can the Saints do it on Saturday night? Didn’t know there was a Saturday night game? Well there is and it could be a great one, except for the broadcasters that is. There are some other intriguing matchups this weekend such as Cinci at San Diego, Miami at Tennessee, and the NFC East battle between Washington and NY is always entertaining.
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There are some great early and late games this week so Sunday should be a fine football day. Clear out your calendar and make sure you don’t have to leave the house, the playoff race is heating up. The featured games this week are Denver at Indy, Cincy at Minnesota, San Diego at Dallas, and Philly at the NY Giants.
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Lucky week 13 brings us some key divisional matchups and playoff positioning. The featured games this week are Houston at Jacksonville, Tennessee at Indianapolis, Dallas at NY Giants, and Baltimore at Green Bay.
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It’s hard to believe it’s time for the Thanksgiving Day games already. This is the week that begins the real playoff push for many teams and jockeying for home field advantage. If your team can’t step it up post-Thanksgiving, you’re toast. The featured games this week are the Colts at the Texans, Cardinals at the Titans, Steelers at the Ravens, and Patriots at the Saints.
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It was week 12 of the 2008 NFL season and the unthinkable happened: Donovan McNabb was benched for the second half. Kevin Kolb stepped in and promptly screwed the pooch some more. That poor pooch had a rough couple of weeks as he’d already been screwed repeatedly by McNabb in previous quarters. Every Eagles fan and reporter thought, “wow, this is the end of the McNabb era.”
Not so fast. While I sat around and wished for the Eagles to lose their remaining games to hasten a regime change (I even came up with a clever term for it: f’ing the kennel), the Cardinals came to town and promptly laid down for the Eagles, starting a run that will go down in Eagles history: finishing 4-1, knocking the Cowboys out to sneak into the playoffs as a 6 seed; beating the Giants twice, once in the NFC Divisional round to make the NFC Championship game.
Riding high on emotion and momentum, the Eagles were a 4 point favorites on the road against the Cardinals and did what they do best: choke.
Each year, I’m more and more convinced that the NFL’s Coach of the Year Award goes to the most improved team without regard to actual coaching ability.
As expected, the Coach of the Year Award came down to Tony Sparano of the Miami Dolphins and Mike Smith of the Atlanta Falcons, who took over teams with a combined five wins in 2007 and turned out a pair of 11-5 records.
As expected, the man who did the best job in football got absolutely none.
Sparano and Smith’s accomplishments aside, tell me how Gary Kubiak was not even a candidate? You want to know why? His team did not improve in the standings.