WEEK 18 aka WILD CARD WEEKEND - MANGINI'S JOB SAVED!!!!

sat 4:30 edt - jets @ bengals
sat 8:00 edt - eagles @ cowboys
sun 1:00 edt - ravens @ pats
sun 4:40 edt - packers @ cards

Jets, Cowboys, Ravens, Packers

btw this is real schefter tweeted it

3 away teams? really?

jesus all of these games are terrible!

i will tune in to see the jets lose and the packers-cards game will probably be fun

Bengals, Cowboys, Pats, Packers

i am excitedly anticipating whatever hilarious mishap causes the 'boys to throw their game away. bengals-jets is going to be 3-0 one way or the other for the chance to be humped by indy. pats will win their only playoff game here and somehow it will involve baltimore being heartbreakingly unlucky or stupid. green bay will play a great game and put up nice looking numbers, and may not even notice that they have lost until they get back to wi and see it on the news.

eagles-boys will be fun imo because one of them will lose

^^^^ a very valid point

the quicker "hat" gets off of my TV this postseason, the better

eagles/cowboys nagl but every other game I can find something worth watching

Jets, Cowboys, Pats, Packers, with zero confidence in any of those picks.

3 away teams? really?

Did you miss this whole season when I sucked at picking games all year?

jets cowboys pats packers

i can't freakin decide who to pick this week. i am supposed to turn in my picks for a friend's poll tomorrow. thinking jets, cowboys, pats, cardinals

bengals eagles ravens packers

lol now yall hate the eagles? it's like that huh

I'd pick 'em in Philly.

nah i mean in terms of enjoying watching them play

I love to watch them play, but not as much as I hate watching the Cowboys play, and especially not as much as I despise the Cowboys Terrordome.

my hatred for all teams will rise steadily until the pats are knocked out. nothing personal obv.

i'm calling whoever wins the boys/philly game goes to the SB (it's gonna be the iggs btw)

Bengals/Eagles/Ravens/Cards
I would be so happy.

Wide receiver Josh Cribbs has cleaned out his locker a day after his agent told ESPN.com the Cleveland Browns were "insulting" his client with low-ball offers.

Cribbs expressed his disappointment on his Twitter feed on Thursday: "I'm sorry guys i don't want to seem greedy but fair is fair & there is no way around it, i'm the best at what I do but paid the lowest. Hmmm."

um meanwhile

Amazingly, even after the NFL won the case, it asked the Supreme Court to dramatically expand the ruling and determine that the teams act as a single entity not only for marketing hats and gear, but for pretty much everything the league does. It was an odd request -- similar to my asking an official to review an 80-yard pass of mine that the official had already ruled a touchdown.

OOH GET YOUR MR. 80-YARD-TD-PASS! braggin 2010! also drew brees shouldn't you be practicing and not writing 50 million word essays on anti-trust law for the Post?

lol, it couldn't have just been any old 80 yard pass. it was specifically his. only drew brees throws 80 yard tds around here, alrite?

and it's a TD too, of course. don't forget that.

sat 4:30 edt - jets @ bengals -CIN
sat 8:00 edt - eagles @ cowboys -BOYZ
sun 1:00 edt - ravens @ pats -PATS
sun 4:40 edt - packers @ cards -PACK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uHCcaqLUmM

I picked New York, Dallas, Arizona, and Baltimore.

is anyone going to watch this?

oh most def. at least unless a friend calls me back about going to starbucks

when i first saw that video i thought it said ILNFL mixtape!

ok cool i'm home sick so it'd be rad if some ppl kept me company itt

i am totally watching this. PLAYOFFS imo.

it was mean of dan patrick to call barkley fat

also with no more chuckie & jaws' monday night football school, it really struck me that very soon there will be NO MORE FOOTBALL until next fall! have to watch as much as i can, even if it is the JETS. at least they stopped playing the bills for a while.

i am totally watching this. PLAYOFFS imo.

― horseshoe, Saturday, January 9, 2010 4:28 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
^^!!

B-E-N-G-A-L-S BENGALS BENGALS BENGALS

PLAYOFFS!

I love all the white guys who have to quote Chad's saying "Please, child"

are you kidding me

oof.

who is calling this game?

bucca di beppo by coles

thiesman, gibbs, hammond

I would not accept a beer carried in some dude's mouth.

bad challenge

terrible throw by palmer on that play

Feelin' pretty good about picking the Jets after watching Palmer throw the ball.

or 4th & 26 :D

Oh no, 4th and 26 was way worse. I was watching it with some people who didn't like the Packers because of the nonstop love affair with Brett Favre, and they started taunting me right after McNabb completed it (to Freddie Mitchell, UCLA alum, which is the only good thing I could take from it), and I basically got so upset that they were all like "Whoa, OK, sorry" and then I felt like I had some rage issues that needed to be worked on. Like on the list of all-time inappropriate responses to sports I've ever had, that was definitely top 5.

just watched espn replay showing.. helmet to helmet hit on rodgers in OT, not called, followed by blatant face mask on that play where he lost the football.

jus a lil facemask lets all be cool

schefter and king have a bunch of tweets about that but i don't really feel like thinking about it anymore

Just got back from watching that amazing Packers/Cardinals game.

Two observations I'm sure have been made over-and-over now (so apologies in advance): The Ravens had almost as many points as Joe Flacco had passing yards (wtf?) and Kurt Warner had more touchdowns than incompletions (WTF!)

Yeah, there were lots of missed penalties on both sides in this game. I was watching it with some people and we tried to get mad about like Fitzgerald pulling OPI on that sick touchdown catch he made, and then about the masking on the last play, but for whatever reason I can't get super-worked up about it, there's not really anything that'll come from it other than making us seem like the "WE ARE AMERICA'S GREATEST VICTIMS" kind of fans. We maybe could have won if a few calls happened (or didn't happen), but we also could have won if we had been better at defense, and could have won if Rodgers hadn't overthrown Jennings on the first play in overtime.

Can't be upset by the effort of either team. Both quarterbacks were hitting players in stride, in places no defender could reach, splitting coverage. I can't see anyone having anything but respect for both teams. No reason for Packers fans to feel badly at all!

Aaron Rogers is a an amazing quarterback.

Kurt Warner, too, obv.

watching kurt warner play like a HOFer, waffle on retirement after the season, and make leinart wait another season is like the reverse feelings i had when favre was doing it to rodgers.

Rt. Warner hasn't been jerking Leinart's chain at all, is he?

I mean, to be fair, Farve wasn't jerking Rodgers' chain while Farve was still the starting Packers quarterback. He only was unfair when he flirted with the idea of returning after his first retirement.

iirc

is leinart actually slated to be the starter once warner retires though? really?

also, i realized during tonight's game that usually i get super annoyed when the announcing crew spends most of their time talking about how great the qb is playing, but if they are talking about rodgers, it's alright.

looking forward to watching larry fitzgerald play more football

I'm sure he is! Leinart was a big draft pick.

Yeah, I see why the Packers invested their future in Rogers.

Not just Larry, but Steve Breaston and Early Doucet too. Cards are way way deep at the talented WR spot.

xxp yeah but he may not be, y'know, good. i assume he'd get a season at least tho

I think the story goes that Favre totally ignored Rodgers during Rodgers' first year, since he was not fond of the idea he was being replaced, and then they were OK in 2006 after Brett held out for part of training camp in the first will-he-or-won't-he year and Rodgers had to help get him up to speed on the new playbook, and then in 2007 Favre kind of pissed everyone in the organization off by doing the same thing again. And now they don't talk at all. You can totally tell where Rodgers picked things up from Favre, but the reason I really love Aaron Rodgers is that you can also see where he learned things by doing the opposite of Brett Favre's bad tendencies.

watching kurt warner play like a HOFer, waffle on retirement after the season, and make leinart wait another season is like the reverse feelings i had when favre was doing it to rodgers.

― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Sunday, January 10, 2010 6:38 PM

LOOOOOLLL troof

Hm. Leinart's Career Stats: Compl (340); Attempts (595); Pct. (57.1); Yards (3,893); Av. (6.5); TD (14); Int (20).

rodgers is dope imo, i love how he just came on after favre and was like, "well, time to make people forget about that d-bag" and he's been just awesome for his entire starting run, for the most part.

Wait he said anything remotely resembling -- or even implying -- that? Much respect, in that case.

i don't think it's a literal "said," he was just awesome and mature and cool under pressure and everyone was like "yeah we can get behind this guy as our starting qb for the next however long"

am i the only one who saw jared fogle on the cbs postgame show earlier? the tv was on mute, i feel like i may have hallucinated it.

i'm capt save a mcnabb but let me say that this

watching rogers after watching mcnabb is like night and day

― k3vin k., Sunday, January 10, 2010 6:40 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude knows when ti throw the ball or throw it away or scramble

― k3vin k., Sunday, January 10, 2010 6:40 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

is exactly what aaron rodgers is not good at doing

Can't gripe much about Rodgers today. Some of those passes were on a string.

i watched all of Ravens-Patriots and the first half of Packers-Cardinals god fucking dammit

Philip Rivers is probably the best I've seen in terms of "I can make that pass" vs. "Nobody's open, I'm getting rid of it". Always makes the Chargers-Steelers games really weird, since Roethlisberger will hold onto the ball forever, and occasionally can get something good to come out of it, and then Rivers will come on and almost never hold the ball any longer than he has to.

How strange it is that two teams recently were so rich with quarterback talent: Green Bay (Farve/Rodgers) and San Diego (Brees/Rivers). Teams go years -- even a decade or more -- hoping for one quarterback as good as any of these four!

i'm capt save a mcnabb but let me say that this

watching rogers after watching mcnabb is like night and day

― k3vin k., Sunday, January 10, 2010 6:40 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude knows when ti throw the ball or throw it away or scramble

― k3vin k., Sunday, January 10, 2010 6:40 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

is exactly what aaron rodgers is not good at doing

― total eclipse of the shart (J0rdan S.), Sunday, January 10, 2010 10:14 PM (11 minutes ago)

i'm talking about mcnabb over the last few weeks vs. rogers today

The whole thing with Matt Leinart and Kurt Warner is way different than Rogers and Favre in that Leinart was the starter and really played his way out of a job in 2007. I don't think Warner is QBblocking him at all, Leinart has proven really not to be better or perhaps ever ready to take over anyway. If Leinart would have been playing great, I don't think Warner would have had a shot at the field and then taking over the job.

I'd think having those skills players would make it easier for Leinart to step in, but I'm not sure he is the real deal anyway.

dude knows when ti throw the ball or throw it away or scramble

― k3vin k., Sunday, January 10, 2010 6:40 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

is exactly what aaron rodgers is not good at doing

― total eclipse of the shart (J0rdan S.), Sunday, January 10, 2010 7:14 PM (53 minutes ago)

both sides are true, I mean he's a generally good decision maker and good at scrambling, but he also keeps the ball too long / the oline can't be blamed for 100% of the sacks.

I'm so happy iln loves aaron rodgers, he's been my favorite player since his cal days (his big year there was my freshman year of college.) I spent years nervous that he wouldn't survive the limelight+wearing
favre's shoes. this game's ending was disappointing, but sorta in a 'eh doesn't really matter' way, cause a team that gives up 45 points in playoff game isn't gonna get to the super bowl.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Arizona come out of the NFC. Next week is key, obv.

“Let me tell you something – that dude is scary,” Arizona free safety Antrel Rolle said of Rodgers. “We have a great defense, and we were up on him and ready to pounce, and he found ways to tear us apart.

“I don’t ever want to face him again in my life. I am dead serious. I’ll face Drew Brees any day of the week before I face him again.”

<3

OK I am buying the Rodgers jersey now even though I can't wear it for several months.

i am buying the michael adams glove he wore facemasking rodgers on that final bullshit play and burning it

Calls were missed everywhere, ffs. Let it go. There was a long-ass run by one of the Packers that should've been ruled down almost immediately for contact, but the refs missed it and the Cards didn't challenge it.

watching kurt warner play like a HOFer, waffle on retirement after the season, and make leinart wait another season is like the reverse feelings i had when favre was doing it to rodgers.

― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Sunday, January 10, 2010 9:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lollll otm

i unabashedly love rodgers - that rolle quote is awesome - the packers might be my second favorite team right now

cardinals third tho so im not too broken up about the game (tho u have my sympathies CL, i know what its like to lose in the wild card round to the cardinals, at least u got an awesome game out of it)... i love that the divisional game next week is gonna be the #1 saints vs the #4 cardinals, i mean waht.

Awesome to see the Cardinals get some respect and love. Hope this line -- "I’ll face Drew Brees any day of the week before I face him again.” -- doesn't come back to haunt Arizona next week.

holy shit

I didn't watch the Arizona/Green Bay game and now I really wish I had

looooooooooooooool @ Green Bay for all time IMO

Seriously, this game is not to be missed. I'm sure it's available on the web somewhere.

oh dan why would u say that ;_;

(dig both these teams tons but am a rodgers stan so.)

oh dan why would u say that

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I grew up in MN and am a Vikings fan, how could I NOT say that???????

I finally watched LT dance and omg omg

it is the best

did anyone see the darnell dockett interview from the field that was broadcast on nfl network? totally awesome, he was saying how great he thought the pack were and how good the offense is

cardinals have a lot of likeable players

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/2010/images/01/10/aaron-rodgers.tx.jpg

angry cardinal