After Wild Card Weekend, the Home Teams Should Be Ashamed of Themselves

After Wild Card Weekend, the Home Teams Should Be Ashamed of Themselves

Bob George

The home teams were a mess during Wild Card Weekend, and it's hard not to argue that he current playoff format should be tweaked.

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I look at it more this way.
the teams with the best QB's won.

Roethlessberger over McCarron
Smith over Hoyer
Wilson over Bridgewater
Rogers over Cousins

The Texans are in the worst division in football so it stands that a crappy team will get a home game and lose. What's the problem? "Deserve has nothing to do with it!" You either win your division or you leave your fate to all the other teams in the conference. I personally think it's a great way to reward division winners.

The Boston Patriot said:

The Texans are in the worst division in football so it stands that a crappy team will get a home game and lose. What's the problem? "Deserve has nothing to do with it!" You either win your division or you leave your fate to all the other teams in the conference. I personally think it's a great way to reward division winners.

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Yes, but the fashion they lost it in is the embarrassment for them.

3 out of 4 of the home teams had better records than their wild card opponents. Yet in every case the wild card opponent won. I am not sure how reseeding things would "fix" things.

Bob George lmao.

captain insano said:

Bob George lmao.

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After this column, Bob George should be ashamed of himself.

I don't read a word that Bob George writes (and, btw, I think he gets paid by the word since he never says in ten words what can be said in 100).

Why should the home teams be ashamed? They were all beaten by better teams, who proved their mettle by winning on the road. If Seattle had lost, it would have been because of the game conditions. but, like last year, they've now used up all their Playoff Luck (remember the botched coverage of the Onsides Kick by the Packers?), so they're on their own.

Not a QB for the home teams had ever played in a playoff game before.
The playoff format is just fine.

Deflategate Bob strikes again.

#Shamegate

I guess I don't understand why road teams winning means something needs to be fixed.

Is it the NFL's duty to make sure home team's win playoff games? Should home teams automatically be given a 10 point lead to start the game?

The answers to the above should be 'no'.

PatsFanSince74 said:

I don't read a word that Bob George writes (and, btw, I think he gets paid by the word since he never says in ten words what can be said in 100).

Why should the home teams be ashamed? They were all beaten by better teams, who proved their mettle by winning on the road. If Seattle had lost, it would have been because of the game conditions. but, like last year, they've now used up all their Playoff Luck (remember the botched coverage of the Onsides Kick by the Packers?), so they're on their own.

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I don't see why you would attribute a Seattle loss to game conditions. They won because the kicker missed a chip shot field goal...due to game conditions...the holder didn't want to spin the ball because he was wearing gloves.

The Vikings played better, but did not win because they also made 3 key mistakes. AP fumble, letting Wilson complete that pass after the snap went over his head, and missing a 27 yard field goal.

Seattle got extremely lucky, but they were good enough to take advantage of that luck.

I dunno if they should be ashamed of themselves, the road teams were just better, for the most part. Given how seeding is done, and that this was one of those years where the good teams were mostly clustered in a few divisions, it makes sense that this would happen. The second best teams in the AFCE, AFCW, and AFCN were all better than any team in the AFCS, so whoever got the 4 seed was always likely to get murdered by the top wildcard. KC is a much, much better team than Houston. Same with the NFCE. There was no playoff-worthy team in that division, so it's no surprise that the Redskins met the fate they did.

You could probably make a case that Cincy and Minnesota should be ashamed, but not because they lost. They should be ashamed of how they lost. You can't lose on a shanked 27 yard field goal because your holder didn't know where the laces could go (Ray Finkle educated an entire generation of Americans, he had to know). And you sure as hell can't lose on multiple personal fouls because your two lose cannons picked the worst possible time to prove every detractor right. That's the kind of loss that should cost someone in the organization their job.

OT: But some fans should be ashamed of themselves. (Didn't want to create a thread for this so posting it here)

6 arrested in assaults at Steelers-Bengals game (<<< Link)

6 arrested in assaults at Steelers-Bengals game

Martin Cooke, 33, of Germantown, Kentucky, was arrested after police said he urinated on the person in front of him in Paul Brown Stadium. Cooke, who wore a Bengals hoodie, is accused of fighting with the man and punching him in the face, court documents state. He is facing disorderly conduct and assault charges. Cooke is scheduled to appear in court Monday.

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McCarty, who wore a Bengals jersey, threw the hat away, police said, and the two groups separated only to run into each other again at their seats inside the stadium. The argument resumed in the stands and McCarty allegedly punched the woman in the head, causing her to fall to the ground, according to court documents.

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All the favorites won. So...

Nunchucks said:

I don't see why you would attribute a Seattle loss to game conditions. They won because the kicker missed a chip shot field goal...due to game conditions...the holder didn't want to spin the ball because he was wearing gloves.

The Vikings played better, but did not win because they also made 3 key mistakes. AP fumble, letting Wilson complete that pass after the snap went over his head, and missing a 27 yard field goal.

Seattle got extremely lucky, but they were good enough to take advantage of that luck.

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just my opinion. i watched nearly every play of the game and thought that i saw a Seattle team that was very uncomfortable on offense in the severe cold. their d didn't seem as affected and kept the vikings out of the end zone all day. i just think that seattle's offense is vastly superior to Minn. and that the score would have been different under other conditions.
But, that's just my opinion and you clearly are entitled to see it differently.

the better QB's were 4-0

IllegalContact said:

the better QB's were 4-0

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Figuring out who the better QB is for NEXT week's games is a little tougher. Except for our game.

oldrover said:

Figuring out who the better QB is for NEXT week's games is a little tougher. Except for our game.

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pats
steelers


nfc is tough.......rodgers vs palmer and newton vs russell

butI'm going with the cards and seahawks

Nehalem said:

3 out of 4 of the home teams had better records than their wild card opponents. Yet in every case the wild card opponent won. I am not sure how reseeding things would "fix" things.

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It was 2

KC 11-5 Hous 9-7
GB 10-6 Wash 9-7

If you went by record match ups would have changed.

Houston@Cincy
Pittsburgh@KC

Washington@Minnesota
Seattle@GB


And I am not advocating changing the seeding system based on yesterday's results. Have always thought division winners should get a playoff spot but not a guaranteed home game. But I understand why they do it this way. And don't care either way really.