I did watch some the TNF games on Prime but only because I already pay for it. Not a fan of their UI though.Yea I know, good for them to keep the big contracts coming, just I would never pay to watch a pro sports game on TV. If it's not on my cable sub already, zero interest in chasing it down.
Yes. They're letting in 14/32 teams into the playoffs. That's nearly half of the teams. So you just need to be slightly above average to get in.Similar to MLB there are only SO MANY really "elite" teams in the NFL and these new WC rounds let teams in that just don't belong.
Point being that we really don't want to see "mismatch" games most of the time in the playoffs. (crap "division-winners" is an entirely separate issue)
Yes. They're letting in 14/32 teams into the playoffs. That's nearly half of the teams. So you just need to be slightly above average to get in.
Yep.all that additional ticket sales and ad revenue though...
Yep.
I think that the Cowboys had a fair chance of winning if a less capable QB was in the seat.So I'm not hardcore into the NFL, more like extremely casual. So is Love looking like another Favre/Rogers level talent and Green Bay struck gold again or did Prescott and the Dallas defense just shit the bed together in the most spectacular way possible?
NFC will likely be Tampa @ Detroit and Green Bay @ San Francisco.
Man as shitty of a season as the Giants had, this is a great postseason for us relatively speaking.
Watching Dallas and Philly implode has been so much fun. Looked like drop passes were keeping the eagles too close but then that safety and now that long TD, I'm feeling pretty good about this postseason 😁👍
Yeah, looks like a Lions vs. Niners NFC Conference Championship match. I look forward to it."On paper" two blowouts or at least mis-matches.
So I'm not hardcore into the NFL, more like extremely casual. So is Love looking like another Favre/Rogers level talent and Green Bay struck gold again or did Prescott and the Dallas defense just shit the bed together in the most spectacular way possible?
Philly is the 59th team to start the season 10-1. They are only the second such team to not win their division (the 1986 Jets also started 10-1 before losing their last 5). And now the NFC East is the only division without a team in the Divisional Round.
Cowboys have 3 wins at AT&T Stadium
34-14 over the Eagles on Jan 9, 2010 (it was still called Cowboys Stadium here, so perhaps that's where the discrepancy lies)
24-20 over the Lions on Jan 4, 2015
24-22 over the Seahawks on Jan 5, 2019
It will be Lions v. Packers.
But NFL fans have an insatiable appetite for moar action, so the inevitable conclusion will be a 16 team field with no bye for the top seeds. It's really not as bad as people here are complaining about; so far it's an extra 2 games per year. It's cool to whine that the #7 seeds are getting shellacked, but how many people expected the Cowboys, Browns and Eagles to all get dismantled? (The Cowboys BY a 7 seed, no less.) Furthermore, the playoff chase at the end of the regular season gets a lot more intriguing with that extra playoff team. Personally I'd like them to leave it as is, but it's a weird imbalance to allow just 2 teams the bye week. This week's games didn't quite live up to wild card expectations, but we're treated to a better divisional round (at least in the AFC).Yes. They're letting in 14/32 teams into the playoffs. That's nearly half of the teams. So you just need to be slightly above average to get in.
Jordan Love actually had a rough patch just before about the halfway mark; where everyone was laughing that he was a bust, and the team had basically no playoff chances. Sports fans like to be prisoners of the moment and it's way too early to declare him a future star. If he plays a bad game against the elite Niners D, the same casual fans will quickly opine that he's a fraud. But since that halfway mark, Love has been fantastic; and we have this juicy setup next week between what could become two excellent QBs.My take on him is that he's had a very solid run of conssitently high performances in his first year starting, and as an experienced, learned, thinking QB that spent enough time watching how to do it and learning from the best. It's a good system, and it's showing fruit now.
It's always too early to judge a first year starter, even when they look this good right now, but all the signs are there, right now. I just think it's remarkable how this organization is able to do this with their first year starters (though I guess Favre was a mercy swap from Atlanta, right? But he started this current QB train, so maybe not the same origin story)
hopefully, though, and years from now, Love doesn't also turn out to be complete human garbage, like Favre and Rodgers, so that would be a nice break in the sequence