'Tis the season for playoff scenarios (NFL Playoff Machine)

http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/machine



My first stab at it I have

AFC
#1 New England
#2 Kansas City
#3 Indianapolis vs #6 Houston
#4 Cleveland vs #5 Denver

NFC
#1 Arizona
#2 Green Bay
#3 Dallas vs #6 Philadelphia
#4 New Orleans vs #5 Detroit

The NFC south "winner" will be the #4 seed, and will host the wild card team with the better record.

Just a brain fart on my part, I typed it the way it looked on the site (Detroit @ New Orleans), fixed now.

I have Denver missing the playoffs at 10 - 6. Patriots as second seed at 12 - 4, losses to GB and SD. Pitt #1 seed.

Maker's Muppet said:

I have Denver missing the playoffs at 10 - 6. Patriots as second seed at 12 - 4, losses to GB and SD. Pitt #1 seed.

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Damn how did Denver not get in there schedule is cake.

Maker's Muppet said:

I have Denver missing the playoffs at 10 - 6. Patriots as second seed at 12 - 4, losses to GB and SD. Pitt #1 seed.

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Uh what? There isn't a chance in hell Pitt gets the #1 seed.

I highly doubt the Pats will lose to San Diego. If they keep playing like they have been, I'll put them at 13-3 for the season, provided they lose to Green Bay in a hard fought game on the frozen icy wasteland called Lambeau Field.

Would love for the OP to happen.
Arizona, SF, and Seattle are going to beat the cr@p out of each other in the coming weeks. I could see Arizona losing three of six and ending up as the #2 seed or even as a wildcard.
GB may win out at this point.
AFC North is wide open, and as indicated the NFC South is absurd and probably shouldn't be allowed to participate.

pwes said:

Uh what? There isn't a chance in hell Pitt gets the #1 seed.

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They're only one game out of the #1 seed. After their bye this week they play NO, KC and Cincy at home and Cincy and Atlanta on the road. Sounds doable to me.

Maker's Muppet said:

have Denver missing the playoffs at 10 - 6. Patriots as second seed at 12 - 4, losses to GB and SD. Pitt #1 seed.

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Pittsburg ....no 1 ,,,,Pittsburg were you sober when you wrote this ?

1960Pats said:

They're only one game out of the #1 seed. After their bye this week they play NO, KC and Cincy at home and Cincy and Atlanta on the road. Sounds doable to me.

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They have 4 losses, so no they're not.

Patriots-Packers super bowl, a rematch of '97? I'm feelin' it. And I feel alot better about Brady vs. Rodgers than I did about Bledsoe vs. Favre

Bledsoe_Fan said:

Patriots-Packers super bowl, a rematch of '97? I'm feelin' it. And I feel alot better about Brady vs. Rodgers than I did about Bledsoe vs. Favre

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Also would feel 1000% better about the head coach going into that game. Because I doubt Belichick would be lining up his next job during Super Bowl week.

Looks about right.

BUT - I feel like I'm getting too old to worry about playoff scenarios. Sometimes I spin my wheels and go through the implications - but this year, we're going to have to face tough teams regardless. But I think we're better than those teams, and let's just hope for home field so we can prove it, because some of those lesser teams could beat us on their turf for sure.

If the Patriots get a top two seed, they have to win three tough games. If the Patriots don't get a top two seed, they have to win four tough games. I'll worry about the details in January.

JMC00 said:

Also would feel 1000% better about the head coach going into that game. Because I doubt Belichick would be lining up his next job during Super Bowl week.

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Funny you should say that, yesterday on sports radio they had a long section on Bill Parcell's... to this day I don't know why after finally getting the Pats to their first super bowl, he totally blew it by worrying about his next job. Absolute mind-screw.

JMC00 said:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/machine



My first stab at it I have

AFC
#1 New England
#2 Kansas City
#3 Indianapolis vs #6 Houston
#4 Cleveland vs #5 Denver

NFC
#1 Arizona
#2 Green Bay
#3 Dallas vs #6 Philadelphia
#4 New Orleans vs #5 Detroit

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I'll go with

AFC
#1 NE
#2 KC
#3 Pitt
#4 Indy
#5 Denver*
#6 Miami*
*Wins on tie-breaker at 10-6 vs Cleveland
Houston at 9-7 and Cincy at 9-6-1 are just out.

Now for the fun part

NFC
#1 Ari
#2 GB
#3 Dallas
#4 Saints (at 7-9, LOLOLOLOLOLOL)
#5 Detroit
#6 Seattle*
*Wins on tie-breaker at 10-6 vs SF (beat the Saints in NO, LOLOLOLOL)

This four team division setup, has been and will always be a travesty. In a league of 32 teams, there's no way in hell that a team and their fans should be rewarded with a trip to the playoffs based solely off of having a better record than just three of those other teams. We could have a 6-10 team in the playoffs this year and multiple superior teams with better records and a win against that team, sitting at home watching. Can anyone explain how that makes sense?

1960Pats said:

This four team division setup, has been and will always be a travesty. In a league of 32 teams, there's no way in hell that a team and their fans should be rewarded with a trip to the playoffs based solely off of having a better record than just three of those other teams. We could have a 6-10 team in the playoffs this year and multiple superior teams with better records and a win against that team, sitting at home watching. Can anyone explain how that makes sense?

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The argument for it is that "Well, we force these teams to play six games against one another."

Quite simply, there is no perfectly fair system that will always guarantee that the N best teams in each conference make the playoffs. It's a question of what inequities you're willing to live with. Personally, I'm OK with saying "Every division winner gets in," although I'd prefer "Every division winner over .500 gets in."

As it looks this year, some pretty shoddy NFC teams are going to waltz into the playoffs simply because their division sucks. However I'm not sure of another fair way to do it. Also, by the time the Super Bowl rolls around, I'm sure it'll be Green Bay, Arizona, or Detroit because I honestly can't see ANY other NFC team making it that far this year, and even Detroit would be a long shot.

Love this time of year, but DAMN this season is flying.