NFL Playoffs Thread

kmart6 · 18-01-2012 10:01PM

Eli had to leave practice today with an illness, hopefully it won't affect Saturdays game!

me-skywalker · 18-01-2012 10:58PM

Brady misses practice with shoulder injury.

QB's jinxed!!

Both are prob just precautionary, still not ideal though!

kmart6 · 18-01-2012 11:08PM

That's nothing new with Brady, his shoulder is nearly always lister injured!

eagle eye · 18-01-2012 11:19PM

Brady has been on the injury report for about 90% of his career. He has been missing Wednesday practice quite a bit with this injury in recent weeks so its nothing to be concerned about.

Dohnny Jepp · 19-01-2012 01:07AM

eagle eye wrote: »

Brady has been on the injury report for about 90% of his career. He has been missing Wednesday practice quite a bit with this injury in recent weeks so its nothing to be concerned about.

Until next year when he misses the entire season after surgery to fix it.. . then we realise how important he is to the team when they go 2 -14!!!

eagle eye · 19-01-2012 02:12AM

Dohnny Jepp wrote: »

Until next year when he misses the entire season after surgery to fix it.. . then we realise how important he is to the team when they go 2 -14!!!

Well firstly I don't expect him to go for surgery and secondly we have Josh and his QB friendly system back next season so I don't see any chance of a 2-14;)

And yes I do know you were only joking.

spiralism · 19-01-2012 03:32AM

me-skywalker wrote: »

Brady misses practice with shoulder injury.

QB's jinxed!!

Both are prob just precautionary, still not ideal though!

Pats love this trick, he's always on the injury report, maybe to try and catch more gullible teams out. Short of his arms falling off there's **** all that would stop him being out there on sunday.

tallaghtoutlaws · 19-01-2012 09:06AM

spiralism wrote: »

Pats love this trick, he's always on the injury report, maybe to try and catch more gullible teams out. Short of his arms falling off there's **** all that would stop him being out there on sunday.

Thing is though Brady is injured but not an injury that will stop him playing. He is getting work done on his left shoulder and as he is right handed it wont affect him. More so the Pats are letting him see specialists every wednesday to rehab his bad shoulder.

me-skywalker · 19-01-2012 11:05AM

As I see its his none throwing shoulder he can get away with it. Why not take surgery the day after their final game(SB hopefully)? Get recover for a few months 5-6months, and maybe miss the pre-season?

mikemac1 · 19-01-2012 11:06AM

Brady faces Bernard Pollard this weekend

All this injury talk just reminded me

me-skywalker · 19-01-2012 11:55AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Brady faces Bernard Pollard this weekend

All this injury talk just reminded me

Touche!

Brady will be hoping they wont be seeing each other until the handshake in the middle.

Suggs could pick out that shoulder ;-)

spiralism · 19-01-2012 12:35PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Brady faces Bernard Pollard this weekend

All this injury talk just reminded me

Between Brady and Welker in consecutive years, the Pats must really hate him lol

tallaghtoutlaws · 19-01-2012 12:38PM

spiralism wrote: »

Between Brady and Welker in consecutive years, the Pats must really hate him lol

Don't think Welker would hold anything against him as Welker fell over badly on his own before Pollard hit him.

Johnny_Fontane · 19-01-2012 02:55PM

tallaghtoutlaws · 19-01-2012 03:25PM

Johnny_Fontane wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HDhEjBnk3M

As funny as this vid is you do realise this video wasn't actually after the Pats game right? But if it was him taking pride in injuring a QB even though he lost the game to Bradys backup anyways and they went 2-14 in that season.

I don't buy into any of the nonsense in the press about it. Pollard and Brady have met a couple of times after he hit Brady. Why only now would it bother Brady? If anything all this talk is going to fuel Brady on more to burn Pollard if he gets a chance.

Morrisseeee · 19-01-2012 04:00PM

Well, I was wrong, I predicted both a GreenBay & NewOrleans win, but both are amazingly out, and the commentators/fans who said that Defenses win SBs were right !!! damn, as I was hoping for a Saints (or Packers) v Patriots shootout in the 'final'

Johnny_Fontane · 19-01-2012 04:14PM

tallaghtoutlaws wrote: »

As funny as this vid is you do realise this video wasn't actually after the Pats game right? But if it was him taking pride in injuring a QB even though he lost the game to Bradys backup anyways and they went 2-14 in that season.

I don't buy into any of the nonsense in the press about it. Pollard and Brady have met a couple of times after he hit Brady. Why only now would it bother Brady? If anything all this talk is going to fuel Brady on more to burn Pollard if he gets a chance.

nah that video was funny simply for the dancing....

helimachoptor · 19-01-2012 05:59PM

Lads.. let me tell you a story...
My very good mate, we watch a lot of NFL, go to the Wembley games and play a lot of Madden together... he sends me a MMS earlier.. while I was on a conference call that had business implications on the tens of millions for my company.
Below is the MMS (with his head removed) showing 2 all inclusive Super Bowl Tickets with a face value of $3,000.

As you can imagine on receiving such a MMS i jumped around my office with utter delight... then he proceeds to tell me they are going to a customer of his company... I was not happy

Not sure why its not working, here's the link!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49085723@N05/6726563823/

kmart6 · 19-01-2012 06:02PM

What is his company and how did they get 2 tickets?

helimachoptor · 19-01-2012 06:05PM

kmart6 wrote: »

What is his company and how did they get 2 tickets?

I'm not going to say.. but I told him to tell his boss I'll do anything for them and i do mean anything!!

kmart6 · 19-01-2012 06:21PM

Fair enough...are they Irish though or some American company? If they're Irish must have serious connections!

helimachoptor · 19-01-2012 06:30PM

Irish surprisingly!

kmart6 · 19-01-2012 06:32PM

Can't get someone to hunt down your friend and rob them no?

helimachoptor · 19-01-2012 06:36PM

Believe me I'm tempted to get some thief lessons and raid his company tonight!

Pherekydes · 19-01-2012 11:51PM

Morrisseeee wrote: »

Well, I was wrong, I predicted both a GreenBay & NewOrleans win, but both are amazingly out, and the commentators/fans who said that Defenses win SBs were right !!!

Unless the Patriots win!

fisgon · 21-01-2012 12:33PM

Not sure if anyone noticed this, but the Patriots have only played 2 teams all season who finished the regular season with a winning record - Pittsburg and the Giants. They lost both games. They look great, invincible, but they have had a cake schedule, they have beaten literally no good teams all season. We will find out on Sunday if they are all they are cracked up to be. I suspect not.

tallaghtoutlaws · 21-01-2012 01:37PM

fisgon wrote: »

Not sure if anyone noticed this, but the Patriots have only played 2 teams all season who finished the regular season with a winning record - Pittsburg and the Giants. They lost both games. They look great, invincible, but they have had a cake schedule, they have beaten literally no good teams all season. We will find out on Sunday if they are all they are cracked up to be. I suspect not.

The Majority of the AFC teams will have schedules stacked with losing records as on a whole the AFC was the poorer of the two leagues. What can the Pats do about their record? They play in a division that is poor this year and played the AFC West. But the Steelers lost to Denver in the Playoffs and the Pats destroyed Denver. We could go all day comparing games and divisions and records but none of that mean anything in the playoffs. When you get to the playoffs you are better off wiping the slate clean as it doesn't matter how many wins or losses you had in the regular season or well you played. Its how you rise to the challenge of the playoffs. The Pats have been both successful with this and also the victims of this. Just ask the Steelers and Packers did regular seasons records mean anything.

But as we are playing this game you do realise though the Ravens lost 3 games to bad teams. Chargers 8-8 Jacksonville 5-11, Seahwaks 7-9

Masked Man · 21-01-2012 01:56PM

fisgon wrote: »

Not sure if anyone noticed this, but the Patriots have only played 2 teams all season who finished the regular season with a winning record - Pittsburg and the Giants. They lost both games. They look great, invincible, but they have had a cake schedule, they have beaten literally no good teams all season. We will find out on Sunday if they are all they are cracked up to be. I suspect not.

It's hard to describe just how useless I think this stat is.

We'll start with the obvious: a team can only play what's in front of them. Not our fault we had an easy schedule. Actually according to Football Outsiders we had the 26th hardest schedule. I'm sure you'll agree that all these teams were not what they're cracked up to be:

Ravens 21st
Packers 28th
Steelers 29th
Texans 30th
Saints 31st
49'ers 32nd

huh guess most playoff teams aren't that great.

Just lol at "literally" beaten no good teams. We're 7-0 against teams with a .500 record. Playing the Patriots will increase your chances of having a losing record.

We've beaten every team we should, same can't be said of the Ravens.

bruschi · 21-01-2012 03:01PM

plus, the Patriots played winning teams at the time.

if you have to look at the Patriots 15 games (excl game 1), of those when they played the side, the record of winning or .5 sides at the time is 9 teams. sounds better than 2 teams anyway, but in any case, I dont really see the point of it. You beat whats in front of you.

We'll see anyway tomorrow.

matthew8 · 21-01-2012 04:23PM

Being able to put away poor teams is useful, but it's not something you need in the playoffs. I'd much rather be a team that has beaten the good teams they've played if I'm in the playoffs.

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