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  • Raiders

    Votes: 2 9.1%
  • Bengals

    Votes: 9 40.9%
  • Pats

    Votes: 6 27.3%
  • Bills

    Votes: 9 40.9%
  • Eagles

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Bucs

    Votes: 12 54.5%
  • 49ers

    Votes: 5 22.7%
  • Cowboys

    Votes: 6 27.3%
  • Steelers

    Votes: 3 13.6%
  • Chiefs

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • Total voters
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pete6032

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Lots of great storylines this year. Happy to see Stafford get his first playoff win. Bills with a cathartic win over their most hated rival. Joe Burrow's statement game. Roethlisberger's last game. Rodgers last game as a Packer? Can Tom Brady do it again?
 
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Captante

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Lots of great storylines this year. Happy to see Stafford get his first playoff win. Bills snap a major playoff drought on the backs of their most hated rival. Joe Burrow's statement game. Roethlisberger's last game. Rodgers last game as a Packer? Can Tom Brady do it again?


Actually I thought the "epic 6-game Wildcard-weekend" was on the disappointing side with mostly boring one-sided and/or badly played games.

I really enjoyed watching KC slap the Steelers around and its ALWAYS a good time seeing the Cow-Pies humiliated, but even those games were snoozer's overall and the Cards last night were pretty much un-watchable.
 
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purbeast0

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Yeah I agree overall it was a "meh" weekend of football. Clearly we don't need a 7th seed those games weren't even competitive. However you won't see me complaining about being able to watch 6 NFL games over the weekend instead of only 4.
 

Torn Mind

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Cowboys losing this wild card entered the realm of epic imo in just how they failed throughout that game and during the pressers afterwards.

Randy Gregory is an emotional man-child. Tackling an O-lineman just because is ROFL.

After successfully doing a fake punt, they get a delay of game LOL.

Dak Prescott doesn't usually throw INTs(he did in this game) but the ending might have upstaged nearly every gaffe in the Romo era. He didn't know the rules and gave a pat on the back to the fans throwing trash at the refs during the presser.

Jimmy G and Dak are like mirror images of each other. One performs well early in games but chokes in the 4th quarter(Jimmy G). The other is a slow starter but starts lighting things up when his team in a hole in the 4th(Dak).

How did Aaron Rodgers overcome all that to win a Super Bowl is impressive.
 

manly

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Actually I thought the "epic 6-game Wildcard-weekend" was on the disappointing side with mostly boring one-sided and/or badly played games.

I really enjoyed watching KC slap the Steelers around and its ALWAYS a good time seeing the Cow-Pies humiliated, but even those games were snoozer's overall and the Cards last night were pretty much un-watchable.
The flip side of that coin is that this weekend's slate is stacked. Bucs/Rams and Chiefs/Bills smell like conference championship games... but a round earlier. I wouldn't sleep on the Niners either; they will try to replicate the 2019 recipe of pushing the Packers around at the line.

The 4th game.. who's even playing? j/k
 
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Torn Mind

Lifer
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The flip side of that coin is that this weekend's slate is stacked. Bucs/Rams and Chiefs/Bills smell like conference championship games... but a round earlier. I wouldn't sleep on the Niners either; they will try to replicate the 2019 recipe of pushing the Packers around at the line.

The 4th game.. who's even playing? j/k
Derrick Henry vs an elite QB destined for the HOF is the matchup.
 

manly

Lifer
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Derrick Henry vs an elite QB destined for the HOF is the matchup.
Football Outsiders has the Titans as the weakest #1 seed ever by their DVOA rating system. So this could actually be a competitive game. But I don't see how the Titans or Bengals can factor into the championship. I'm not an NFL junkie so this is probably the game I skip.

Go Pack GO!
 

Captante

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Football Outsiders has the Titans as the weakest #1 seed ever by their DVOA rating system. So this could actually be a competitive game. But I don't see how the Titans or Bengals can factor into the championship. I'm not an NFL junkie so this is probably the game I skip.

I'm expecting Titans/Chiefs in the AFC championship game... TN should handle the Bengals pretty easily. Sounds like those "Outsiders" guys didn't see the Titans play much this season frankly... that team has guts.

I picked KC to win the AFC awhile ago and I'm not backing off that call, but TN would have a punchers chance to win that matchup too provided Henry is 100%.
 

Torn Mind

Lifer
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Football Outsiders has the Titans as the weakest #1 seed ever by their DVOA rating system. So this could actually be a competitive game. But I don't see how the Titans or Bengals can factor into the championship. I'm not an NFL junkie so this is probably the game I skip.

Go Pack GO!
I see Tennessee as the spoiler type who can't win it all. Bengals are too weak on D to hold up even though Burrow is special.
 

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Lifer
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I'm expecting Titans/Chiefs in the AFC championship game... TN should handle the Bengals pretty easily. Sounds like those "Outsiders" guys didn't see the Titans play much this season frankly... that team has guts.

I picked KC to win the AFC awhile ago and I'm not backing off that call, but TN would have a punchers chance to win that matchup too provided Henry is 100%.
Always bet on Goku. Always.

Vegeta is always chasing but never gonna surpass Goku. (That's a shot at the BILLS ;)).
 

manly

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I'm expecting Titans/Chiefs in the AFC championship game... TN should handle the Bengals pretty easily. Sounds like those "Outsiders" guys didn't see the Titans play much this season frankly... that team has guts.

I picked KC to win the AFC awhile ago and I'm not backing off that call, but TN would have a punchers chance to win that matchup too provided Henry is 100%.
The Titans are #13 in ESPN FPI. I trust the "pros" more than I trust the Captante Eye Test (tm). Not that I have a high opinion of TV ANALysts. :p Vegas has the Titans as 3.5 point favorites, which isn't much considering home field is typically worth three points.

Granted, the computer models don't always factor in injuries. They just grade team performance week by week. So if a system doesn't incorporate injuries, getting back a healthy Derrick Henry certainly boosts a team's strength.
 
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