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it's a 3 horse race in the afc - pats ravens texans
in general the afc is not that good compared to the nfc.
Put down the bong and step away from the keyboard!As always there will be a team that did not make the playoffs last year making it this year....my picks for that spot is the Bills....yes,I think the Bills will right the ship on defense and grab a 6th seed at 8-8.
but if it was dmac everyone would say it was an underthrown ball and took no skill
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I'd rather take on the Ravens than the Broncos in the playoffs.
We've beaten the Broncos quite comfortably 3 straight times now. Really outplayed them and the last game was closer than it really was. We haven't comfortably beaten Baltimore since 2004 and that was obviously a completely different team. Sure week 3 probably should've been a comfortable win for us but we'll never know. Plus we're essentially 2 games behind Bmore as far as that potential matchup being on our home turf. Denver most likely would be at home.
I would take any team over the broncos in the playoffs .Manning factor trumps over schaub/flacco/kubiak and all these teams.
Even in Zone, the idea is still to cover someone. McCourty is struggling at present.....Griffin just sucks.
I would take any team over the broncos in the playoffs .Manning factor trumps over schaub/flacco/kubiak and all these teams.
Does look like the Steelers on on their last legs of this run. As I said, now we'll get to see how good Tomlin really is because IIRC most of the key guys on this defense are Cowher's boys (Troy, Harrison, Woodley, Taylor, Clark, etc) and it's time to see how Tomlin rebuilds.
If he is gonna rebuild its going to be through low priced signings and the draft. I can't imagine they have any kind of serious money lying around after not having enough to sign Wallace and then scraping to get Brown that deal.
If he is gonna rebuild its going to be through low priced signings and the draft. I can't imagine they have any kind of serious money lying around after not having enough to sign Wallace and then scraping to get Brown that deal.
Does look like the Steelers on on their last legs of this run. As I said, now we'll get to see how good Tomlin really is because IIRC most of the key guys on this defense are Cowher's boys (Troy, Harrison, Woodley, Taylor, Clark, etc) and it's time to see how Tomlin rebuilds.
I've brought this up in another thread, and I think it fits this:
If you start with 2000, the Steelers have had four 3 year cycles where they've missed the playoffs and then made it twice. This is the year they would be due to miss again. I find this significant because of the first round picks they've been able to make following those "off" years:
Casey Hampton
Ben Roethlisberger
Lawrence Timmons
Maurkice Pouncey
That's not to say that they've drafted poorly in the first round of other years, but those are major pickups gotten because they were able to draft a little higher than they otherwise would have. A top 2-3 NT, a top 5 QB, a center who's on the way to being the best in the league if he's not already there, and a very good overall LB for a system that revolves around that LB position (Woodley was gotten in that same 2007 draft that brought in Timmons).
Polamalu was gotten at #16, for that matter, again showing their ability to take advantage of being a bit higher up in the round.
One man won't get it done. If you look at the teams who have traditionally given us trouble in the playoffs it's been teams that can punch us in the face and have a decent enough offense to make just enough plays. Giants twice, Jets, Ravens might've done it twice if not for a miraculous FG botch.
The Broncos do NOT match up with us, they have no answer to Brady and the up tempo offense. Manning is amazing but he cannot keep up. We have destroyed that defense each of the last 3 meetings, against them we dictate the flow of the game, against the other teams they've been able to make it their game. I'll easily take Denver here.