2016-2017 Conference Championship round

Sunday 2:05
Green Bay @ Atlanta (-4)
o/u: 60.5

Sunday 5:40
Pittsburgh @ New England (-5.5)
o/u: 51.5

60.5 over/under on the NFC game is the highest total in playoff gambling history, edging out 2012's DET @ NO game

WHO YOU GOT???

falcons and steelers tbh but man am i terrified of aaron rodgers. i feel more confident than i did the last time we played him in the playoffs but that ain't saying much.

packers pats

chip is interviewing for jax oc apparently

atl vs gbp is literally impossible to call imo. both weird, inconsistent teams who have looked unbeatable and shambolic at various points of the season. in the afc game difficult to imagine how pittsburgh win. bell will get a lot of yards tho, which will be nice for him.

too superstitious to comment on afc game..

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packers pats

https://www.cnet.com/news/patriots-belichick-says-he-doesnt-care-about-snapface-and-instantchat/

Conference Championship Round 2016-2017: "I'm not really too worried about what they put on InstantChat, or whatever it is."

Bill Burr on Rofflesberger at the post game press conference (paraphrasing)...

"From the neck down he looks like a million bucks. From the neck up he looks like he is pounding a twelve pack of beer with a big plate of Ore-Ida fries."

The over/under and line in the Packers game looks pretty enticing. I would have figured the line would be closer than that and it probably will be later in the week.

think Jordy's health will be a huge impact in that game. Aaron's managed to rekindle his fire and create offense even without him for the majority of the last two playoff games, but having him ready to go, even if not 100%, could stretch an already stretched ATL defense.

but then again, it isn't like Green Bay isn't going to have its hands completely full with ATL. I suspect the game will likely turn on a turnover and resemble Arena Football the rest of the way.

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lol okay

amazing

deathball needs to be less inflated imo

good point

@CNBC
BREAKING: President-elect Trump will name the owner of NFL's NY Jets, Woody Johnson, to be ambassador to the United Kingdom, official says.

weird, thought he only liked winners

ryan grigson firing is bittersweet - i have appreciated all of his efforts at making the colts a shambles, but otoh fuck that asshole and good riddance to terrible garbage. should be the last of him - he won't get a job in football again and he doesn't seem like the kind of guy that would want to do media stuff, or at least i hope not. pat mcafee commented on twitter about seeing him "treat humans absolutely horrendously for 5 years"

The conference championship match-ups look pretty pick 'em to me. I cannot say with any definition who is better in either game. ATL has never got it done and until you have done it, it's hard to figure you for the people to finish it off. NE looks invincible, but would they really be 14-2 if they played the Steelers fairly brutal schedule...I don't know, I could see it flipped around if they played it out that way.

xpost yeah on the one hand lol @ the guy who started deflategate getting canned, on the other hand.. does this mean the dysfunction in indianapolis will end?

in a game like this these last 2 busted drives might be enough for green bay to already have lost this game. i don't think they were planning to put the game on their defense but here we are.

can't believe they're going to ruin this amazing falcons offense w/ chip kelly

see there is some twitter controversy about the fumble recovery. live i immediately thought it was a safety but on the replay it's clear he was already on the line.

haha what, i haven't seen the rumours about chip replaced kshan. seems crazy but would sure be interesting

oh man this is ugly

of the various ways i could've imagined this game turning out, exactly none of them involved gbp having 0 points at the half

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yeah, Atlanta scoring 17 isn't surprising, Green Bay starting slow on offense isn't either, but getting shut out and looking inept is shocking.

they really gotta start no-huddling it a bit.

their defense isn't going to pitch a shutout the rest of the way tho so they're gonna like have to score every drive in the second half.

problem is as well that this Packers offense is more precise than explosive, not exactly the type that is gonna light up the scoreboard twice in five minutes or anything.

IMO the Packers should start putting 12 in the defensive huddle and just hope nobody notices.

so...unless there is a major shock from this point, atlanta has not jut beat but whupped the two "best" teams in the nfc en route to the superbowl

look like a championship team and mvp

yeah they're peaking at the right time.

The one silver lining here is that this is considerably less stressful than the Cowboys game

plus I'm sure it feels less bad to lose this way than to the way they lost to the Seahawks in 2015

I'm pulling for GB as one of my besties is a diehard GB fan. I wouldn't mind seeing a crazy comeback in the 2nd half but i dunno, it doesn't seem that kinda year this playoffs. how many of these games has been decided by halftime?

really the most anticlimactic playoffs in recent memory. only game I've enjoyed was Green Bay/Dallas.

Xp Yeah that was such a gutpunch, took me forever to get over that one. Plus i can't stand the Seahawks but do kinda like Atlanta

I was in ATL for a concert last year on the day they played the Panthers at home and the fans on MARTA looked positively lit up and excited about their team. and this was before they really had hit their stride. I am happy for the city cos it's not like the Hawks are gonna bring one home anytime soon and LOL Braves.

ahh that's a good way to start the second half

tell you what, this defense is not the pushover it was earlier in the season. if they get this kind of pressure in the SB (assuming the result remains), they will be really hard to defeat

Does everyone want to see a Pats v Packers final?

not me but I hate the Patsies (then again, I hate the STeelers too).

looks like we're getting neither SB rematch at this point tho.

sorry just logged on. packers getting massacred huh

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dang would have loved a rodgers v brady final

wow. Atlanta could be the favorite in the SB at this rate. I mean, this was a lean year for great teams, but the Steelers can be thrown on, and the Patriots played a weaker schedule. Patriots have the advantage in the coaching department and experience, so they could easily throw them off their game, but I think Atlanta would massacre the Steelers at this point unless Julio Jones or someone equally important got hurt in the game.

hopefully this is the game that finally ends Dom Capers career in GB

As a falcons fan I'm thrilled but can't feel comfortable until this is over.

Got paged into work and came out and it was 31-0, what a whoop down by ATL.

The thing that impressed me when I looked at the Falcons stats earlier this week was how many rushing yards they had. Their top two guys got a combined over 1500 yards on the ground to go with almost 5000 yards through the air. Don't know if you have had a team combine that type of numbers in a while. Colts probably did it once or twice with Manning. I'd figure the Rams with Faulk had that type of mix.

well, at least the penguins beat the bruins today

does julio jones have 300 yards yet ffs

Okay time to bench the starters

let's go evil pats

lol is charlie weiss calling this game?

nantz and simms on ben's dick for completing 12 6-yard passes in a row

james has caught that same pass 4 times

looked like dpi

wow, finally decided to defend that route

blah another pat superbowl

career game for Hogan

blount! dang

woooooooooo!!!!

phil simms leans on his 2x super bowl winning experience to identify key factor is patriots are more passionate. so great that he gets these big games.

god bless hogan but the holes in this zone are, um, large

wow

yeahhhhh let's go evil pats

Mike Reiss ‏@MikeReiss 7m7 minutes ago
Scene-setter: As Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer'" plays at Gillette Stadium, videoboard shows Bon Jovi in private box singing along.

So glad that these trump donors and their civil war reenactor fans get to go to another championship, god bless america

exceptional goalline defense again

masshole fans chanting "where is roger" rn

http://www.sbnation.com/2017/1/12/14231496/new-england-patriots-donald-trump-fan-problem

ok i admit they're evil but on the one hand, the fans don't like trump & i don't think the *civil* war is the intention with the pat patriot guy

on the other hand, kraft and belichick friendship with trump not to mention brady refusing to say anything disgusts me

i mean i hate the steelers but at least their ownership supported obama & i still want to know why brady didn't go to the white house with the rest of the 2014 team

steelers owner got a sweet ambassadorship for his trouble.

idk i admit i'm going to compartmentalize this but i only have a couple years of a++++ football left to enjoy dammit

anyway re: this game apparently the steelers have never changed their defense b/c brady took one look at this and carved it up

yeah i'm def compartmentalizing. tbh i really like a lot of guys on the steelers inc antonio brown <3 and tomlin and feel bad for bell getting hurt today

omg belichick is happy? what is this

guys marty-bennett-dancing-with-cheerleaders.gif <3 speaking of favorite players. that guy is a trip

dying @ nantz not being able to come up with anything better than referring to linda as bill's "lady."

also fuck mike tomlin he tripped a guy on the field of play. do feel bad for bell tho.

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boo

sorry bud :(

sorry mookie :(

haha thx

"Man Jim, she is not my girlfriend, she is my 'lady friend'...there is a difference, don't be spreading that out dude. Bro you know I play the field, Beli don't mind the steady but his options are always open."

i would not watch that lifetime biopic

'Jim Nance: Wingman to the Stars'

https://mobile.twitter.com/Patriots/status/823369252828835840/video/1

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awesome

chris long no doubt looking on from the sidelines, wishing he could join in

daft punk + whitney houston >>>> all other music ever played at gillette, probably

now listening to belichick postgame presser and for a second there i thought he'd lost the game based on tone. never change bill

say what you want about bill but in the first question nantz asked him on the field he immediately put credit onto the players. that stuff is real and it matters.

this is p interesting, clip from an old bill o'brien clinic where he is describing the concept that NE used to get hogan open so much today. always interesting how simple these things are on the surface, but of course buried in the overall complexity of the game.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/4byZpqbEuCI

NE looked great that first month of the year without Brady, so in a way it is not surprising they are here now. They play who they play, it was just an odd fluke it was a schedule where they just happen to not play a couple of the big teams. It is the Pats best defense in quite a few seasons.

blount is wearing a matt patricia sweatshirt lmao

yeah i am sure belichick is unbearably smug about how well the defense came together without jones and collins. if they hadn't been so healthy on defense that might've been very different. biggest difference has been the secondary, when the pats def was mediocre it was because they were so poor at db

sweatshirt is amazing

blount and blount jr. killing the local interview <3

https://mobile.twitter.com/Patriots/status/823369252828835840/video/1

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― FREE BRADY (daria-g), Sunday, January 22, 2017 10:37 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

beautiful

Defense in football has changed, the cover corner is in many ways the big impact player where the inside linebacker used to be. One thing that Simms did state later in the broadcast today about the Steeler's defense is correct in that what they have works in the regular season, but their DBs have been roasted by Brady over the past few years and until Pittsburgh can beat NE, they are not going to win it all.

xpost - have to find this blount photo.. i've been wearing this bright red sweatshirt during all the pats games for a month now because idk, once i put it on they started playing well & also realized it looked like patricia's. probably same size b/c it's this faux-vetements style, so it's like gigantic. i got kind of superstitious about it

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The Steelers wasted little time in getting rid of LeGarrette Blount, releasing the veteran running back less than 24 hours after he left the field before the end of Pittsburgh's victory Monday against the Titans.

"We believe the decision to release LeGarrette is in the best interest of the organization and wish him the best of luck," coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday afternoon in a statement released by the Steelers.

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gonna feel bad about rooting against atlanta in this game. can they at least have an all atlanta halftime show instead of gaga or w/e