Are you READY for some FOOTBALL!!!

cnh

dromunds wrote: »

Funny, the MSN page has a headline "Rodgers has torn calf muscle" but 32 minutes ago the local papers reported Coach McCarthy said Rodgers's mobility was good in practice today. From interviews the last couple days, I have little doubt that he's fine and unless he reinjures it on Sunday will be just fine.

Sounds like a play out of the Belichick Playbook? lol

Oh, and I have complete confidence in OSU losing to Oregon. What else is there, Ohio winning? Big Ten, not what it used to be! Heck it isn't even really the Big Ten anymore, now is it?

cnh

jeremymarcinko

Haha I could say the same about the SEC.
OSU- 47. Oregon -21

dromunds

Yeah its the BIG conference now. And they did alright in their bowl games. Some real good games this year all around.

dromunds

As far as Aaron Rodgers, I'd say the Packers are throwing up a smoke screen, but McCarthy doesn't do the Belichick. Truth be told, McCarthy has trouble getting his players up for big games. They are professionals and shouldn't need to be jacked up but we all know better than that. If I have a concern, that's it. The only problem with McCarthy is he doesn't have a killer instinct, the Packers can get a lead but then they will go into conservative mode. They have trouble putting good teams away. And did I mention his stubborn tendency to try to go with his game plan no matter what? Still, I think it'll be the Packers. Part of me thinks the Packers will put it together and score a lot of points, like they did a few weeks in a row in the middle of the season. Part of me thinks they will barely eek one out mainly based on home field advantage.

gce

I think this game (Dallas @ Green Bay) comes down to who comes to play and who wants it more. Both these teams can put up a lot of points. It may come down to ball control and the Cowboys running game. If the Cowboys get there running game going they are going to be hard to stop.

dromunds

Don't forget the Packers have a very impressive running game as well. Lacey diced the Lions when very few running backs have rushed for 100 yards on them, but the Packers also have at least five very talented receivers that have been underutilized in some recent games. The Packers have a pretty weak D-line, but with Julius Peppers and Clay Mathews it will interesting to see how effective the Dallas running game is. But often its as simple as the team with the best quarterback will win. If that is the case, it may be a close game. I see all this hype about the Ice Bowl II. I guess they forget that the Ice Bowl II was in '96 I believe against Carolina, the game after the Mud Bowl against the 49ers IIRC. I was at both games. I think it was the Mud Bowl where one of my buddies wife got too drunk tailgaiting and decided to sell her ticket right before the game started. She was offered $20 for the ticket by a scalper and she took it as the game was nearly starting. Turns out there were maybe 4 no-shows and I was told an unused ticket for that game was an extremely valuable collector item.

dromunds

Ice Bowl Rematch would be more appropriate perhaps

gce

Both the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys have ghosts to slay when they meet in Sunday's NFC Divisional Round bout at Lambeau Field -- a rematch of the classic "Ice Bowl" of 1967.

I think that's why they're calling this Ice Bowl II...after all it will be below freezing!

voltz

I remember Ed Marinaro of the Vikings talking about playing in the cold & praying "Don't call my Number" don't call my Number"

dromunds

A buddy of mine in Denver says its all over the news radio there that a Dallas fan paid $25,000 for a fifty yard line seat at Lambeau for Sunday's game. Man, he could've given me that bread, I'd have gotten him a luxury box ticket, taken him out for drinks before and after the game at all the hot bars near the stadium, got him laid and still had enough left over to do a complete audio upgrade. Fer cri yi!

dromunds

Today is Bart Starr's birthday. Regardless of your allegiances to Sunday's game, Bart is one of the great gentlemen who ever played the game. He was an incredible field general and never lost a big game, with the exception of the 1960 title game against the Giants. Vince Lombardi said, "This will never happen again," and it never did. Bart won five world championships in eight years. I met him later in life and told him that he was an incredible inspiration to so many boys during those years. He was incredibly humble and said he couldn't have done anything without all the great players and coaches surrounding him. He is now slowly recovering from several strokes, and hopefully will be strong enough to return to Lambeau Field next summer when the Packers organization finally puts Brett Favres number on the stadium next to Starr and the others Packer greats. I trust Sunday's game will be a great one, reminiscient of the games when gentlemen like Lombardi and Landry coached men like Starr and Don Meredith. Good luck to both teams. I only wish Ray Scott was still announcing.

gce

Yeah, Bart Starr is a class act. Enjoyed watching him play! Happy 81st.

Mikey081057

Don't understand how no one gives the Ravens a chance

gce

I think the Ravens will kick there a$$. One and out for the Patriots this year.

nooshinjohn

I don't like the Pats, but to come back from two two-touchdown deficits, and do so the way they did on that last one... man are these guys tough to put away.

AsSiMiLaTeD

Great game so far, I still think the Patriots get the win but the Ravens have clearly come to play and they have a lot of confidence.

gce

Wow, went to the garage to work on m motorcycle and look want I missed. I really didn't want the Pat's to win...but oh well!!!

txcoastal1

turnover turnover turnover

AsSiMiLaTeD

Terrible decision by Flacco to throw that ball, cost his team the win today, damn shame to end the game that way. That also effectively kills any reasonable chance of my Broncos or Colts being in the super bowl this year, so I'm bummed about that.

NE and Seattle in the super bowl is the obvious choice, hopefully it'll be a good game.

gce

Ok....Go Panthers!!!

cnh

Ravens gave N.E. everything, threw it ALL at them. This could have gone either way, and frankly, that's NOT good for N.E. It means they can be beaten at home. All you need is the Pats to make a couple of mistakes and either Denver or maybe even the Colts could take it. We don't expect to see a blow out, of course.

But just imagine a N.E. team that can actually RUN! Then you should be a little worried. That running game was non-existent and you can't keep wining with NO running game, and even if you make it to the finals, against someone like Seattle-with no running game you're DONE! It would pretty much be a repeat of Seattle/Denver with N.E. scoring a few more points, not many more but some.

Hard to know what that Denver/Colts game will bring. Really depends on if Denver decides they can play as well as they can, in which case they win. If not? Colts go to a very COLD Foxboro.

Who knows. But "I" was absolutely certain that the Ravens would be ONE tough team to beat. And I was right there.

cnh

Moose68Bash

The Pats were lucky today.

They didn't bring their "A" game -- poor defense, no running game, weak offensive line (especially in the first half).

But that's what makes a great team: Even when they "haven't got it," they find a way to win.

They can't play the way they played today, however, and expect to win the Super Bowl.

How about that pass by Edelmann?

cnh

Moose68Bash wrote: »

The Pats were lucky today.

They didn't bring their "A" game -- poor defense, no running game, weak offensive line (especially in the first half).

But that's what makes a great team: Even when they "haven't got it," they find a way to win.

They can't play the way they played today, however, and expect to win the Super Bowl.

How about that pass by Edelmann?

Agree 100 percent. And whether you love him or "hate" him, Billy B and that Edelman play, I'm speechless! lol

cnh

jeremymarcinko

Panthers are keeping it close, but looks like that is about to change. I would like to see the underdog win this one though.

AsSiMiLaTeD

It's hard to believe how good the Seahawks are, they look to be so much better than the next best team in the NFC that these games almost seem somehow unfair. Obviously any team can be beaten, but it seems like a fluke when Seattle loses.

gudnoyez

The Seahawks did it without Percy Harvin, shows you how irrelevant he is just another mediocre receiver that needed Favre to make him look good, Sydney Rice was a another. How's New York Percy?

nooshinjohn

So far, I have two correct TonyB...

tonyb

nooshinjohn wrote: »

So far, I have two correct TonyB...

LOL, yes you do big guy.

I'm stumped, with over a minute and a half left, Ravens throw a long pass down field for the game losing interception. For the most part, the Ravens actually had the Pats on the ropes the whole game, a couple bad mistakes though did them in. Which is usually the case in playoffs, the team with the least amount of mistakes wins.

The Panthers did better than I expected them too, actually had a chance at an upset except they simply ran out of steam in that 4th quarter. I knew Seattle was going to win that game, but I expected the Ravens defense to put a world of hurt on Brady who had no running backs. Don't like Brady, but I do recognize talent when I see it, and the guy has it in spades.

AsSiMiLaTeD

People are killing Flacco for that long play at the end of the game, and it was the first thing I did as well. However, people seem to have forgotten that it was a play just like that which got them the win against my Broncos a couple years ago and ultimately put them in the super bowl.

I hear people say quite often that they don't like Brady, and I have my issues with him as well for all those times that team beat my Colts. I'm curious what issues other people seem to have with him though, because other then knocking my teams out of the playoffs I got no gripe with the guy.

Now Seattle on the other hand...

tonyb

Issues ? Brady ? .....he's a d-I-c-k ! A talented one at that though.

It's not the long play that has people upset, it's the time on the clock that they chose to do it at.