DEAR SHIVA, OR WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE, INCl. THE VAR. NAMES US UNWORTHY MEN CALL THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, WEEK 17:

You know, it would be really hilarious and poetic if the Chargers somehow beat the Patriots in the AFC title game, avenging last year's heartbreaker, and vindicating Norv Turner in the process. I mean, it probably isn't going to happen, but it would be an EXCELLENT way to ruin everything for the Patriots.

btw I am really, really disappointed in your guys that there was no liveblogging of the packers/bears game. I know it's the holidays and all but seriously, fuck fuck shit and fuck.

The only acceptable ruining of the pats that I can deal with is for osi to kill tom brady.

I am not kidding or exaggerating.

The playoffs are going to be so great this year.

god why are there two tombots

NE @ NYG
CIN @ MIA
SEA @ ATL
NO @ CHI
BUF @ PHI
CAR @ TB
DAL @ WAS
TEN @ IND
DET @ GB
PIT @ BAL
SF @ CLE
JAC @ HOU
STL @ ARI
MIN @ DEN
SD @ OAK
KC @ NYJ

btw i am ashamed and siccened by the pats right now and will only remember this season for brady's failure to get to 5,000 yards~

i am sooooooooo glad the giants backed their way into a win yesterday. the pats have something to play for on saturday whereas the giants, not so much.

NE @ NYG - JESUS LOVES THE PATRIOTS.
CIN @ MIA
SEA @ ATL
NO @ CHI - early forecast is for snow next weekend so...
BUF @ PHI
CAR @ TB
DAL @ WAS
TEN @ IND
DET @ GB
PIT @ BAL
SF @ CLE - Come on cleavo, GIVE JESUS' TEAM THAT TOP 5 PICK.
JAC @ HOU
STL @ ARI
MIN @ DEN
SD @ OAK
KC @ NYJ

NE @ NYG - pretty please.....
CIN @ MIA - do not like Lemon, especially his pussing out at the goalline
SEA @ ATL
NO @ CHI - liked watching Favre get knocked around
BUF @ PHI - Iggles are good again?
CAR @ TB
DAL @ WAS - this is inspirational guys
TEN @ IND - a quiet 13-2
DET @ GB - Kitna tries to win 3 games at once, throws 5 int's
PIT @ BAL - ravens have no pride to play for
SF @ CLE - the Indians win it, the Indians win it, omg the Indians win it
JAC @ HOU - fred taylor, the only good thing about my $ team all season :````(
STL @ ARI - Scott Losehan messed up the draft pick
MIN @ DEN - wtf they looked very bad
SD @ OAK
KC @ NYJ - NBC for not showing this on sunday night

surprised no one thinks tenn titans can win and get in

do not like Lemon, especially his pussing out at the goalline

omg, i forgot about this. so lame, hope parcells was watching.

Tennessee will probably win. Dungy said he was going to rest most of his top guys.

The Steelers defense without Aaron Smith reminds me the Bears without Tommie Harris, maybe worse. I don't think they can go far in the playoffs without him, and with the protection problems they've been having on the o-line.

I think people are a little too high on the Jags. They're a heck of a team but they can only win in one way, and Marcus Stroud is now on IR. I can only see them beating Indy in a very close, lucky game, and same with the Pats.

let's talk about end of the year awards!

MVP: doi
DPOY: most interesting convo to me. i'd personally pick haynesworth or kevin williams, with pat willis and bob sanders coming up the rear. jared allen and aaron smith deserve mention too.
DROY: patrick willis
OROY: peterson will get it, but i think joe thomas deserves serious consideration. that o-line has been dominant all year.
coach of the year: belichick! even if you take the pats outta the picture, i sorta hate how this is a "who exceeded expectations the most" award instead of just going to the coach of the best team. ppl really want to give this to mike mccarthy or romeo crennell??

well yeah, they have the benefit of not having gotten busted cheating

I mean belichick doesn't need COTY recognition anyway, he's going to go get his fifth ring and he's got two playbooks in the HOF already, plus videogate!

6th ring! don't forget the 86 SB~

fine give it to wade phillips then, SEE WHAT I CARE

oh I was forgetting the 1990 one actually

do they let you read those gameplans if you go to the actual physical HoF??? i am so curious about looking at that shit. i've never had it really explained what he specifically schemed up to stop the k-gun or GSoT.

http://www.hotchickshotpicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/mossbadhair.jpg
BOW DOWN! (MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR, BITCHES)

wiki article on SB XXV is pretty good, but basically it's key to note that the giants lined up only two down linemen for nearly every bills snap. No pass rush whatsoever. they played a physical ground game to eat up the clock and dared thurman thomas to beat them. in retrospect it looks like the best and only way they had a chance, a really cerebral risk management decision that looks great now because norwood whiffed it. Bills were definitely the better team, but not better enough.

Pats/Giants game to be simulcast on NBC and CBS!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/sports/football/27cnd-patriots.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
I was gonna catch it on local tv anyways, but good news for you non-east coasters, m i rit?

My local non-megacorp cable system has NFL Network, so no change for me, but I'm happy for the rest of humanity.

I would seriously pay $3,000 for the Colts to win this Sunday.

against the Titans? okay

I'll take your money

Do you accept Paypal?

that's great news for me because i wound up overdrawing my checking account by paying the bills i had listed under "WAIT UNTIL NEXT PAYCHECK". so going to a bar wasn't much of an option.

I'll put up two items on Amazon.com for $1500 each under "used and new" and you can buy one now, then another one after the titans lose, and I can either send you some junk in the mail or not

hi guys are we excited for this game???

meh. I'll get excited if there's less than a two score lead by Pats halfway through the fourth.

is this wack spoken-word tribute to the Pats actually happening?

GODDAMN RIGHT!!!

i woke up at 4 pm, went outside to go to dominick's to get some food for the game, realized it was about 25 degrees outside, turned back and ordered a pizza. my pizza got here at 6:58. perfect timing.

is anyone else getting two audio tracks on the game??!?!!?!?!?

never mind, it's gone now. i think it was a ford commercial?

Bryant Gumbel. Never thought I'd miss Greg so much.

is this wack spoken-word tribute to the Pats actually happening?

-- horseshoe, Sunday, 30 December 2007 01:02 (1 hour ago) Link

lol, NFLN's had that for all their games this year. it's really maddening :[

I don't give a fuck about the Patriots. All I care about is the Colts winning tomorrow.

guys Sorgi is kind of painful to watch.

assistant coach Peyton on the sidelines, though= <3 <3 <3

Sorry Browns, I was rooting against Tennessee for you. :(

that was so boring. ok everyone loves indy but wtf on just giving up on a game

i stared watching cspan in the 2nd quarter CSPAN!

hillary campaign event amirite? :) for real, though, pats run up the score gameplan aka playing 60 minutes every time vs indy saying fuck it. pulled manning and half their other starters, had a timeout near the end and could've at least made tenn take a snap but didn't bother.

yah i saw hil i saw obama i saw some iowa local news it was good

yeah, i pretty much love indy but that game was boring as hell. that's the way dungy always plays it at the end of the regular season, though.

Indy please die kthxbye.

There's a big difference between leaving your starters in when you have a chance to go 16-0 in the regular season and benching your starters when you really have zilch to play for.

Let's not forget in 2005, Belichick played his starters a quarter or so in Week 17 and pulled them even when they actually HAD A CHANCE TO MOVE FROM THE #4 SEED TO #3...partially because they likely didn't want to play the Steelers.

this a kinda great patz article http://www.slate.com/id/2181078/nav/tap3

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you're weird

uh yeah obv but anyway can you do me that solid thx

DPOY = bob sanders

wow, big too:

Bob Sanders 29
Patrick Kerney 4
Albert Haynesworth 4
Antonio Cromartie 3
Mike Vrabel 2
DeMarcus Ware 2
Ronde Barber 1
James Harrison 1
Patrick Willis 1
Mario Williams 1

Whoa, Cromartie got votes? That's insane. He had a lot of interceptions, but he got beat a lot too. Plus, he only started for 2/3rds of the season.

MORE LOVE FOR HAYNESWORTH would've been appropriate.

I guess the whole "stomping on downed players heads" thing comes into play.

I think these guys voted for Cromartie:

http://i.cnn.net/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0801/nfl.playoffs.week1/images/merriman.castillo.jpg

Haynesworth missed a lot of time too.

Yeah, but those were mostly games the Titans lost, which kinda reinforces the point.

Yeah, but if you want to win the award, you gotta play.

bob sanders is probably the best/most appropriate choice, with haynesworth cumming up the rear~

just imo~

Yeah, I'm not arguing either of those points; just saying dude's more deserving that fuckin' Vrabel, just as a for instance.

How did Vrabel play so well this year? It seemed to come a little out of nowhere. I always thought of him as a solid, somewhat-mediocre veteran, but his stats this year were great.

he's always been better than somewhat-mediocre! he's generally in the "very good, not great" class imo... he just happened to have a really nice year. that Washington game where he played out of his mind prob skews things too.

I would have thought that the Packer's Aaron Kampman would have perhaps gotten a vote.

How did Vrabel play so well this year?

he wasn't playing middle linebacker this year. when they signed thomas they moved vrabel back to outside linebacker and let him blitz the qb instead of staying home and protecting against the run.