NFL GAME DAY DISCUSSION NFL Divisional playoffs discussion

[Love The Drake]

KC will stomp a mud hole in KC,
And Washington will get ran all over by Barkley,
Gotta give Kellen Moore Credit just feed Barkley stick with what’s working.

 

[ScottishPatriots]

Harrbaugh is the most overrated HC in the NFL. He lived off the team built before his arrival and was on the hot seat before Jackson started in 2019. He has carried Harbaugh since.

Jackson is not the one to blame tonight. Mark Andrews ****ed up twice and then you have Harbaugh’s idiotic decision to go for two in the 3rd quarter. When will HC’s knock this **** off?

At least he's been competitive with more than one quarterback which the Patriots haven't been able to do yet post Brady unless you count 4 win seasons and one 30pt playoff loss.

He's good not great but he's been pretty much in the playoffs for 15+ years with 2 different QBs, Bill lost Brady and tanked the franchise to the bottom of the league and got fired.

He won a Super Bowl with Flacco who everyone thinks sucked, i'd sign up for some consistent playoff appearances right now that's better than being the worst team in the league for 2 1/2 years.

 

[Lagaffe_07]

Other than the one fumble he outplayed Allen by a wide margin.
I think teh game plan was idiotic and why they just did not keep feeding King Henry the ball, I will not understand. Poor coaching and offensive play calling cost them the game..not Andrews and not LJ.
The ravens are a much better team talent wise.

You are probably right but at the same time Allen had 0 turnovers and Lamar had 2. If it was the other way around everybody would say that Allen cost them the game.

Also Lamar has a much better team around him than Allen and it’s not close.

Lamar has been riding Derek Henry ****tail all year. Just look at the Ravens record when Henry doesn’t run for 100 yds. With the game yesterday they are 3-6 in those case.

 

[Real fan 02]

If Bills win it will be a KC Eagles SB rematch

Agreed Henry and Barkley have revised the RB position.. they will reset the market.

 

[Santi]

Lamar led a hell of a clutch drive. And delivered the two point conversion in which his reliable TE dropped a perfectly delivered ball.

Yeah and like I said, Andrews made a big play as part of that drive and I already pointed out the Bills likely win with a FG even if Andrews catches the 2pt.

He cost them earlier in the game but that 2pt drop didn’t mean much.

 

[farn]

Yeah and like I said, Andrews made a big play as part of that drive and I already pointed out the Bills likely win with a FG even if Andrews catches the 2pt.

He cost them earlier in the game but that 2pt drop didn’t mean much.

I disagree that a 2 pt drop - when you lose by two in the game to get to the AFCCG - didn’t mean much.

There were many chances for NE to lose, there’s a whole list, but Edelman’s insane catch off the grass meant everything.

 

[TommyD4207]

Yeah and like I said, Andrews made a big play as part of that drive and I already pointed out the Bills likely win with a FG even if Andrews catches the 2pt.

He cost them earlier in the game but that 2pt drop didn’t mean much.

The 2-point drop would have tied the game.
The brutal fumble the drive before, as they were gashing the Bills would have given them the lead.
That wasn't some great defensive play. Dude just dropped the ball. And the 2-point try wasn't the only drop Andrews had.

 

[PatsFan2]

Lamar has 7 interceptions, 7 fumbles and averages 59% passing in the playoffs.

He's exactly who I predicted he would be as a draft prospect back in 2018. Mike Vick... good in the regular season, hot garbage in the playoffs.

 

[Santi]

I disagree that a 2 pt drop - when you lose by two in the game to get to the AFCCG - didn’t mean much.

There were many chances for NE to lose, there’s a whole list, but Edelman’s insane catch off the grass meant everything.

Look obviously there’s a chance it goes to OT if they tie it there but with a min and two timeouts for a FG, the likelihood is still a Bills win.

This is where’s its typical in sports that the most high profile or usually the last error becomes the one to get all the blame but there were plenty of issues for the Ravens throughout, so it shouldn’t all be on Andrews and that last drive was not all Lamar on his own.

 

[1960Pats]

To me the divisional round is the best.
Although there are fewer games than in wild card weekend, you get all of the best teams (no byes).
Later kickoffs make for a more festive atmosphere.
The following weekend is fine, but it is only two games.

The scheduling worked out great, with the best game last.


#4 Houston Texans at #1 Kansas City Chiefs
Date: Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025
Time: 4:30 p.m. ET; Arrowhead Stadium — Kansas City, Missouri
Forecast: 25°, dropping to 18°; feels like 11°; 14 mph wind with 25 mph gusts
TV Channel: ESPN/ABC/ESPN+
Announcers: Joe Buck, Troy Aikman; Lisa Salters
Odds: Chiefs favored by 8½


#6 Washington Commanders at #1 Detroit Lions
Date: Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025
Time: 8 p.m. ET; Ford Field — Detroit, Michigan
Forecast: 68° (indoors)
TV Channel: Fox
Announcers: Kevin Burkhardt, Tom Brady; Erin Andrews, Tom Rinaldi
Odds: Lions favored by 9½


#4 Los Angeles Rams at #2 Philadelphia Eagles
Date: Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025
Time: 3 p.m. ET; Lincoln Financial Field — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Forecast: 2°, mostly cloudy with a 68% chance for a little snow and rain; 5 mph wind with 17 mph gusts
TV Channel: NBC
Announcers: Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth; Melissa Stark
Odds: Eagles favored by 6½


#3 Baltimore Ravens at #2 Buffalo Bills
Date: Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025
Time: 6:30 p.m. ET; Highmark Stadium — Orchard Park, New York
Forecast: -5°, cloudy with 25% chance of light snow, increasing to 65% later at night; 5 mph wind with 15 mph gusts
TV Channel: CBS/Paramount+
Announcers: Jim Nantz, Tony Romo; Tracy Wolfson
Odds: Ravens favored by 1

One of our sons moved to LA last May and we talked yesterday about how much more he likes watching games on west coast time.

 

[1960Pats]

Lamar has 7 interceptions, 7 fumbles and averages 59% passing in the playoffs.

He's exactly who I predicted he would be as a draft prospect back in 2018. Mike Vick... good in the regular season, hot garbage in the playoffs.

You can tell by his reactions to mistakes that he's wound too tight.

 

[1960Pats]

Patriots were up when the drop happened. And everyone just assumes a struggling offense gets first downs and ends the game. If the defense holds, or the offense does more in the second half, that drop is moot.

Andrews drop literally ended the Ravens season.

The pass to Welker was well behind him and he spun around quickly but couldn't get enough fingers on the ball to catch it.

The pass to Andrews was slightly behind him and that made it a little more difficult, but it should have been caught.

 

[signbabybrady]

Yeah and like I said, Andrews made a big play as part of that drive and I already pointed out the Bills likely win with a FG even if Andrews catches the 2pt.

He cost them earlier in the game but that 2pt drop didn’t mean much.

I don't know what happens in OT but I feel like we all got robbed of the Bills driving into FG range and missing wide right. I guess there's still next week.

 

[1960Pats]

Watching the Ratbirds lose never gets old.

 

[festy1986]

Good to see another Chief rematch is incoming.

No one is tired of that at all.

 

[TB12TheGoat]

nice to see so many people online and in the media finally calling out this rigged garbage. it was there in spurts prior to 2022 (the Harry play, multiple big calls/no calls going against SF in SB54) but they really kicked it into overdrive and made it blatant starting in the 2022 AFC Championship game between CIN and KC. the only KC playoff game since then that didn’t have a ******** call(s) in their favor was 2023 vs MIA

 

[festy1986]

Just in case you thought it wasn't fixed.

 

[TB12TheGoat]

Just in case you thought it wasn't fixed.

this was the game I was referring to when I said they began to make it too blatant. including this game, 5 of the last 6 KC playoff games have had huge calls/no calls go against the other team

the league is going to drag Mahomes kicking and screaming to the “GOAT” title

 

[festy1986]

this was the game I was referring to when I said they began to make it too blatant. including this game, 5 of the last 6 KC playoff games have had huge calls/no calls go against the other team

the league is going to drag Mahomes kicking and screaming to the “GOAT” title

People are tired of the refs influence in games but they're especially tired of them doing it with Kansas City.

But if it's going to be Kansas City versus the eagles that's going to be a disaster for the NFL.

You have Kansas City fatigue obviously and you have the NFL dealing with the fact that people think that they're helping the Chiefs. This would also be the eagles third super bowl in 6 seasons I believe And this will be a rematch of a previous super bowl. The second time Kansas City has had a rematch in six super bowls.

I think it has the making of the lowest rated super bowl in quite a while.

Of course they'll sit there and tell us it's not and tell us that the streaming numbers are astronomical but I don't believe it. I think we're dealing with corruption at the highest level in all sports and lots of laundering is going down.

For Kansas City has reached Patriot level hate and as I said in a previous post they're probably getting more hate because fans think that the NFL has anointed them and that's a problem for legitimacy of the product. Nobody sat here and said the NFL is helping the Chiefs after one bad game. We're talking like a half decade of ******** calls.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Watching the Ratbirds lose never gets old.

Love it.

Feel bad for Edwards. I would mind seeing him up here.

Jackson made some mistakes but I don't pin this loss on him. Not sure what kind of difference Flowers would have made.