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NFL Playoffs 2011 - Divisional Games (Week 19)

Discussion in 'Football: NFL, College, High School' started by ItsMyFault, Jan 9, 2011.

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DonnyMost said:

Who was Dunta covering all game?

Falcons Pass D got exposed, just like I thought.
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Dunta was covering someone? I didn't notice.

#201 JeopardE, Jan 15, 2011

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curse of mike vick

#202 Air Langhi, Jan 15, 2011
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No curse and there's no reason to be angry about the Falcons losing. They were the inferior team. The better team to showed up, play well and the inevitable happened.

It will be the same next week. If the Packers play to their ability, they will convincingly beat the Seahawks for sure and the Bears better play their best or they will get blown out.

#203 A_3PO, Jan 15, 2011
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Media hyped up Ryan and Flacco for how they performed in their rookie years.

Two non big game Qb's smh

#204 Shaud, Jan 16, 2011
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Shaud said:

Media hyped up Ryan and Flacco for how they performed in their rookie years.

Two non big game Qb's smh
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Eh. Flacco and Ryan were playing against the #1 and #2-ranked defenses in the NFL (in terms of points allowed), respectively. They're both good young QBs. It wasn't so long ago that people were saying that Rodgers wasn't a big game QB.

Give them time.

#205 dharocks, Jan 16, 2011
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A_3PO said:

No way the Steelers can come back from this. They are dead. Their chance to win would have been the Ravens making mistakes, but it's the other way around. After the opening possession, the Ravens defense has locked in. Kind of like they did to the Titans in 2000.

Just isn't their year.
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I nominate this for post of the month.... just awesome

#206 brooksstephens, Jan 16, 2011
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0-2 today.

Only have one team left standing that I picked to go to the superbowl. The Pats... Lets get em there Brady.

#207 ItsMyFault, Jan 16, 2011

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Calm down Shaud.

**** happens.

#208 RoxSqaud, Jan 16, 2011
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brooksstephens said:

I nominate this for post of the month.... just awesome
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Never gladder to be wrong, thanks to the Ravens team-wide choke job on offense.

#209 A_3PO, Jan 16, 2011
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RoxSqaud said:

Calm down Shaud.

**** happens.
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I woke up pissed and I'm still pissed.

The Falcons are who we thought they were and our pride got took. This loss was more embarrassing than our Rivals losing to Seattle last week.

#210 Shaud, Jan 16, 2011
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How to Beat the Patriots by Eric Mangini

...The Jets will move the pocket, play bootlegs, throw some fast passes, throw in some misdirection plays. Those are good for Sanchez. He puts pressure on the perimeter of the New England defense.

The Jets have got to have long, sustained drives that end in points. The best way to beat Tom Brady is to not have him on the field. And when he's on field, make it cloudy, cloudy, cloudy. Eventually he's going to get you; it's a law of averages. So the fewer opportunities he has to get you, the better your chances.

Defensively against Brady you have to spin the Rolodex and not let him know what defense you're in. You have to make sure you don't show a pattern, not letting it look like he expects it to look. That's when you have your best shot.

The Patriots will work hard to gather information with long, delayed counts. They may try to speed it up with a no-huddle or quick counts, so it's a back-and-forth. You're trying not to give him anything and they've got tools to gather information.

In our 2006 game -- a 17-14 Jets win over the Patriots at Gillette Stadium, the last time Brady lost at home -- we hit Brady a bunch of times because we had a massive commitment to disguise, disguise, disguise and they hadn't seen it, hadn't expected it. The next game -- a 37-16 New England wild-card win over the Jets -- they built in tools to deal with it.

You have to start with a plan against the Patriots, but you better have something else as a changeup. In the Browns' Nov. 7 win, we had one game plan for the first half and a different game plan for second half. Then we went back to some stuff in second half from first half.

When I came to the Jets, everything was designed and built to beat New England. One of the main reasons I hired offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer was because the Patriots always struggled against that system of shifting and motioning that Schottenheimer does. It's a very disciplined approach against the role-based offense the Patriots employ. That can be a factor because New England has a young defense.

We drafted to try to beat the Patriots, because if you can't beat them you can't win the division. The reason we drafted Nick Mangold was because we needed a center to hold up against the nose guard, which is the driving force in a 3-4 defense, especially for an inside running game. We drafted Mangold to battle Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork.

If Mangold can do a good job handling Wilfork on the inside, the Jets will have success running the ball. I think the Jets can run the ball on New England if they are patient. They can run the ball and they can use Sanchez to get out of the pocket, which puts pressure on the entire defense. New England has struggled on third down (allowing a 47.1 conversion rate).

The Jets have a lot of great matchups to pressure the inside of the Patriots defense with tight end Dustin Keller and wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery, and they have two outstanding receivers on the outside, Braylon Edwards and Santonio Holmes.
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#211 Commodore, Jan 16, 2011
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A_3PO said:

It will be the same next week. If the Packers play to their ability, they will convincingly beat the Seahawks for sure and the Bears better play their best or they will get blown out.
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Yep, because the Bears got stomped off the field both time they played the pack.....

#212 GRENDEL, Jan 16, 2011
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Shaud said:

This loss was more embarrassing than our Rivals losing to Seattle last week.
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Not even close.

#213 DonnyMost, Jan 16, 2011

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why did the ravens keep throwing the ball when they got up

#214 pgabriel, Jan 16, 2011
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pgabriel said:

why did the ravens keep throwing the ball when they got up
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"Balance is important, pgabriel."

#215 MadMax, Jan 16, 2011
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pgabriel said:

why did the ravens keep throwing the ball when they got up
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It was early in the 3rd qt. and Pitt is great at stopping the run.

#216 Shaud, Jan 16, 2011
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DonnyMost said:

Not even close.
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How was it not?

Saints lost on the road to yes one of the worst teams in the playoffs and the Saints already had a lot of injuries.

Atlanta was the number 1 seed and got absolutely beat down at home.

#217 Shaud, Jan 16, 2011
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DonnyMost said:

Flozell Adams sidelined with a sudden "illness".

Yeah, he caught a case of the "sucks".
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Flozell has been money this year.

Sure, any tackle was going to struggle against a great player like Suggs but Flozell has been very good all season.

P.S. Ask Blind Side guy about his night against James Harrison

#218 baller4life315, Jan 16, 2011

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Shaud said:

How was it not?

Saints lost on the road to yes one of the worst teams in the playoffs and the Saints already had a lot of injuries.

Atlanta was the number 1 seed and got absolutely beat down at home.
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I think the biggest difference was nobody and I mean NOBODY gave Seattle a chance last week. 10 point underdogs and facing the 3rd best team (record-wise) in the NFC as well as the Super Bowl champs. They were not even supposed to compete.

There were many people that thought Green Bay could go into Atlanta and win and they were selected by many people to do just that. I don't think the Packers winning was a surprise at all, the only thing shocking is the final score and to be honest it isn't all that shocking to me.

#219 Lil Pun, Jan 16, 2011
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damn, i'm realling feeling the chicago crowd during this anthem. awesome!

#220 macalu, Jan 16, 2011

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