2011-2012 NFL Playoffs, Divisional round

new orleans @ san francisco
denver @ new england
houston @ baltimore
new york (variety: giants) @ green bay

all very intriguing match ups, great slate of games

with the way it ended, it is easy to forget that detroit did a fair job of containing the saints' offense in the first half. and the 49ers d is plenty better than detroit's. a lot of this hinges on how payton plans for the game. you figure the best thing to do is really bolt out of the gate and try to get the 2 score margin that you know SF prob can't get back. but what if you start guns blazing and don't get anywhere, what's plan b? payton is probably too good a coach and the saints too good an offense not to win here, but it could get interesting.

if new england don't beat denver it will mean something special happened, and the real winners will be pittsburgh because no one will remember that game. we are talking tebow 6 TDs or brady 6 ints. most likely NE will really put them to the sword, but if any team is going to make a game go wacky it's the 2011-12 denver bronchioles

i think houston can win at baltimore. if houston run it at the ravens and they don't handle it, start giving up consistent yards on the ground and opening up low-risk plays for yates off playaction, then houston could dominate the game. on the other hand, even tho he has had some poor games in the playoffs, flacco is better than he gets credit for, good enough to win this game if baltimore need to pass the ball if he's on form. bad enough the throw the game away if he's not, of course. i think both defenses show up strong but rice and flacco do just enough to win a close game.

the giants. smdh. either they just match up very well vs some teams and very badly vs others or they really are just as insanely inconsistent as the assholes on tv like to prattle about. this is a similar spot to super bowl 42 and they will have to play better than that game and likely be just as lucky. it's a tall order but you can't rule it out. certainly eli is a better qb than he was then, and that has to help, because they won't hold GB to 14. i have a hunch tho, that GB do a professional hit job on them this time.

upsets in order of likelihood imo:
texans
giants
niners
broncos

Saints
Broncos
Ravens
Giants

You're damn right I'm calling one-and-dones for Brady and Rodgers.

Home team wins each of these games. I give Denver a chance against NE. Niners over Saints.

flacco is better than he gets credit for, good enough to win this game if baltimore need to pass the ball if he's on form

disagree with the first part, but I agree with the second. overall I think the Texans are better than most people realize, but Ravens have the same amount of talent without the injuries.

i can see the Broncos upset too, but obviously Denver's going to need a few breaks. if Tebow is remotely accurate, the Pats could give up a lot of points, as their secondary sucks and they likely will send lots of players to the line as they're probably running 70-75% of the time. but I dont see the Pats being held to under 30.

but yeah Niners/Saints is definitely the most intriguing of these games. the Niners are such a weird team in this era.

as their secondary sucks and they likely will send lots of players to the line as they're probably running 70-75% of the time. but I dont see the Pats being held to under 30.

― frogbs, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:34 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is wrong, the pats safeties will play insanely deep, like they do every week

What's the over under in the Ravens/Texans game, 10?

Jesus, 45.5, I'm going under.

oh lol i saw a robust 35.5 somewhere and still would go under!

wow, 45.5. most TDs i can imagine in this game is 5 and that seems generous. there is a chance this game is over in 2 hours.

yea i dont think thats accurate, its closer to what cad wrote iirc

here's what I got:

109 New Orleans Saints –3.5 (47.5)
110 San Francisco 49ers +3.5

111 Denver Broncos +13.5 (51)
112 New England Patriots –13.5

113 Houston Texans +9 (35.5)
114 Baltimore Ravens –9

115 New York Giants +9 (52.5)
116 Green Bay Packers –9

obviously 45.5 is a mistake for Texans/Ravens. I do like Texans +9 here parlayed with the under.

texans +9 is money in the bank, surely

Can someone add a funny quote to the title of this thread plz

playoffs r serious bizniz

http://soundcloud.com/samixtapes/sets/tjuan-uh-oh-12-nfl-playoff
^opportunistic dude here

Um, im an idiot. I googled the Over/Under and it came up with a game from the 2010 season. That's what i was referencing above. 35.5 is much more realistic.

I definitely think SF with 3.5 points is a good pick.

Hmm yes ESPN I would love to read an article about David Akers.

Oh wait Rick Reilly wrote it, nevermind.

http://i.imgur.com/QNdwc.jpg

that is truly awesome

Barnwell: "The Packers haven't won a single game in which they didn't force a takeaway since December of 2005."

that's wild!

If ILNFL was a photograph, it would be that.

done and done

omg I didn't even know you could do that! AWESOME

lol good work forks

didn't we have a shaun alexander gif there for a while? i miss that gif

i want a gif of the creepy dance bj raji does in the discount doublecheck commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxYJb2ScuXM
this is not the raji. it is teh crepey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQXCJISmGJA

it's like he was invaded by a bodysnatcher. that's scary

he's always so smiley! it's like shot the commercial at gunpoint

something's wrong in there, yes

I was really disappointed to hear that Raji kind of stunk this year.

(personally I have no idea whether a nose tackle is any good unless he gets sacks)

Ugh, Terry Bradshaw, please die and smoke dog turds in he'll forever now.

in HELL

dang it's like 65 degrees in SF?

can it be kickoff already

saints will win imo

I know some nice Niner fans but please god let the Saints cream them, my Niner coworkers are DICKS

i'm calling saints 27-13 or something there about today

I want like a 42-3, lol

officials getting an early crappy PI call in, ease the nerves

i can't believe redskins didn't keep carlos rodgers

yeah that PI call was lame

holy fuck @ that hit

thomas might be unconscious

niners defense will hit somebody. ouch

heh xpost

that was monstrous. whitner has been a great pick up for then this year.

that made me like feel bad abt football as a sport tbh

those hits should not be legal

haha sorry RS

yo take it 2 the patritos thread bob spirals

What the hell is happening with that dress? She looks deformed.

giorgio cloon-oon

he loves brad! that's sweet!

michael fassbender is a babe

cloon is doing stand up

fassbender's blushing!!!

My friend was just saying this morning that he's, uh, exceptionally well endowed and now I kind of regret skipping out on Shame.

his schwanz really is huge in Shame, though im sure he chubbed himself up off camera

schwanz

feel like all the dudes in that category just need to bro out, smoke some cigars & exchange anecdotes

isn't that what all those ocean's 12-15 or whatever movies are for?

wheres gosling btw

hes off somewhere being a 2 cool 4 school dickhead

well i was going to talk about the game i missed but nevermind

i still welcome game talk here but you know

we were talkin about eli earlier, its all cool man

he took out the earring!

yall guys realize harrison ford is 70

thank god

xp

i wonder if packers should've not rested their starters an extra week tbh. offense was so out of sync

such a timeless movie

MORE

I've not seen it, but I want to. I like Cloonz.

i mean i liked it but cmon

the descendents won an award? dude

I WANT A SUBURBAN HOME..

idk how a screenshot of arodg in a beret @ his news conf hasnt surfaced on the internet

Looks like the Niners picked the right guy in 2005, amirite?

http://i40.tinypic.com/69npxf.jpg

im gonna stay up all night & just post that pic on the internet, generally

That's a cabbie hat, not a beret.

are you a cabbie? im a quarterback

osi strip play was prob the biggest play of the game

that's a tony romo hat right there, kind of a bad omen for a playoff game

"there's a right way to do things, there's a wrong way to do things, and then there's a raven way to do things."

suggs

this is kind of nuts

http://deadspin.com/5876426/the-kansas-city-chiefs-might-have-the-worst-workplace-in-america

<3 arodg's hat. He looks like a newsies extra!

Rodgers hat only the 2nd worst press conference hat of the playoffs

honestly big ben's hat almost completely swung me onto his side

it was so hilariously bizarre and absurd

lol

that KC/Pioli story is pretty O_O

just thinking that i'd totally be a big ben fan if he played actual games in that hat -- but barring that he's still a grey dicked rapist

"grey dicked"

<3 u jordan

that KC/Pioli story is pretty O_O

Looks like the Raiders have some competition for worst-run org in the AFC West!

Can we at least win something ffs?

you guys on this thread

this is kind of nuts

http://deadspin.com/5876426/the-kansas-city-chiefs-might-have-the-worst-workplace-in-america

― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Monday, January 16, 2012 3:11 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

WHO LEFT CANDY WRAPPER !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjvXxwvg8mc