NFL Playoffs

[robj144]

Originally Posted by rokdog49

I live in North Central Ohio and that’s just not the rule. In fact, the last couple of days here have been 55-60. No one except some of the the extreme elderly are wearing coats. Haven’t seen coats being worn unless the temps were below 40.
Fact is, most anyone under 25 years old does not wear a coat at all if they can get away with it. I saw a lot of people wearing shorts though.
I’m serious.
I saw people wearing coats in southern states all the time when the temps get below 60 when I traveled down there for work.

AFTER the summer when everyone is used to being warm for 3 months.



Temperature that night was 50:

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/...h=10&year=2016

[robj144]

Originally Posted by raysachs

Heh heh. Must be tough for New Englanders not having anything more interesting than cool weather spectator fashion to talk about this time of year. The emotional anguish must be intense.

I got no sympathy for em. In my roughly 55 years of fandom “my teams” (Baltimore as a little kid, Seattle in the ‘80s, Philly for about the last 30 years) have won exactly four championships - the Colts in ‘70-71, the Bullets in 1978, the Phillies in ‘08, and the Iggles two years ago. If I’d been an Orioles fan as a kid, I’d have had some fun, but didn’t learn to love baseball until much later. So NOT winning something huge in Boston doesn’t strike me as a particularly heinous atrocity...

Ray

No, it's not bad. I'm watching the third place in the East, Celtics, and the first place in the East, Bruins, now.

It's tough rooting for New England teams.

[Dru Edwards]

Wow, the team that had most of the stats in this game not only lost but was never really in the game. Those three Jackson turnovers were huge. Henry was once again a beast for the Titans.

Makes you wonder about players getting 2 weeks off (not playing game 16 and no one playing last week). Glad that the Ravens are out.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by robj144

No, it's not bad. I'm watching the third place in the East, Celtics, and the first place in the East, Bruins, now.

It's tough rooting for New England teams.

You should join us on the NHL thread, Rob. Bruins are having a great year again. Hopefully Chara's jaw heals.

Back to football - looking for an upset in the Chiefs' game today.

[jpd]

Originally Posted by Fogducker

The Detroit Lions have finally provided "bragging rights" as the longest lived batch of losers in the NFL, 63 years since 1957, when Bobby Layne/Buddy Parker were in charge! That's going to be hard to match. No end in sight either.

Fog

Well Fog, i left Detroit in '83 and landed in the Oakland Bay area just in time to see the Lions miss a field goal(from a superb kicker) that would have sent them to the big game against the Bengals-and they've never come close since then. The Lions and Browns are on a par that is below the NFL standard...maybe the College All-Star game should be re-instituted against the NFL bottom dwellers?

[raysachs]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

Makes you wonder about players getting 2 weeks off (not playing game 16 and no one playing last week). Glad that the Ravens are out.

Over the past however many years since the bye week started, it's historically worked out really well in general, though. So you can't blame a coach for taking that approach - it's worked far more often than it hasn't. I think the Ravens just weren't able to deal with the physical onslaught of the Titans. As, the Patriots weren't last week. I mean, stats aside, they dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. When the Patriots and Ravens need a couple of though yards in key situations, they didn't get 'em. Didn't even really come close to getting them except, by definition, they were already close...

-Ray

[robj144]

Originally Posted by raysachs

Over the past however many years since the bye week started, it's historically worked out really well in general, though. So you can't blame a coach for taking that approach - it's worked far more often than it hasn't. I think the Ravens just weren't able to deal with the physical onslaught of the Titans. As, the Patriots weren't last week. I mean, stats aside, they dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. When the Patriots and Ravens need a couple of though yards in key situations, they didn't get 'em. Didn't even really come close to getting them except, by definition, they were already close...

-Ray

It hasn't worked out that well. Teams were like 8-5 or something like that when they rested a majority of starters in week 17. They flashed that stat during yesterday's game.

[robj144]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

Wow, the team that had most of the stats in this game not only lost but was never really in the game. Those three Jackson turnovers were huge. Henry was once again a beast for the Titans.

Makes you wonder about players getting 2 weeks off (not playing game 16 and no one playing last week). Glad that the Ravens are out.

A lot of those stats were against a prevent D for most of the second half. Titans went really soft in the second half.

[robj144]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

You should join us on the NHL thread, Rob. Bruins are having a great year again. Hopefully Chara's jaw heals.

Back to football - looking for an upset in the Chiefs' game today.

I have to be honest. When football ends, I follow the Celts religiously and I follow the B's, but not as much. Towards the end of the season, I pay more attention to the B's.

Yeah, I think the Texans can beat the Chiefs today. Seems like most are giving them a 10% chance or so. I'd say it's like a 40% chance.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by robj144

A lot of those stats were against a prevent D for most of the second half. Titans went really soft in the second half.

Yea, Jackson's stats went up in the 2nd half but there was never a point where it looked like the Ravens would win.

[PTony]

Let’s go CHIEFS! Hoping they can pull it off. Ya never know...as stated, “on any given Sunday”. I wouldn’t of expected Tennessee to dominate the Ravens but that’s what makes playoff season all the more fun. Anything is possible. Just not for NE

[robj144]

Originally Posted by PTony

Let’s go CHIEFS! Hoping they can pull it off. Ya never know...as stated, “on any given Sunday”. I wouldn’t of expected Tennessee to dominate the Ravens but that’s what makes playoff season all the more fun. Anything is possible. Just not for NE

Not a good start.

[PTony]

Originally Posted by robj144

Not a good start.

It’s all a part of the plan. We have to let em feel like they have a chance! Then again, maybe it’s because it’s below 60 and everybody is wearing coats.

[robj144]

Originally Posted by PTony

It’s all a part of the plan. We have to let em feel like they have a chance! Then again, maybe it’s because it’s below 60 and everybody is wearing coats.

21-0 is too good of a plan.

[Kerbie]

What a start by the Texans! Wow, that was fast... 21-0. In the meantime, the KC receivers can't catch a cold.