NFL Divisional Round Thread: Colts? Chargers? Vikings? Saints? Come Out & Play!

I was gone earlier today...did the predictions come true? Did the Vikings get smoked? ;D

 

I'm not so sure the Jets don't beat the Colts in Game 15 even if Indy doesn't lay down.

It was headed for another down-to-the-wire finish anyway, and how many of those could Indy escape?

Jets proved in wild-card round that even though a team lays down for you (Bengals in Game 16), maybe you can still beat them when they give it their all.

 

The Jets were losing 15-10 when the Colts quit. On Curtis Painter's first series. the Jets recovered a fumble for a TD. In the fourth quarter, Thomas Jones racked up about 60 yards. He had 40 or so in the first three quarters.

So yes. The Colts laying down and quitting gave the Jets the win. The Colts are not the Bengals, who were dogass for a month even before they quit in week 17.

I hope the Jets win and shove it up Bill Polian's ass next week.

 

Wouldn't that hurt the old man?

 

Why yes. And it would metaphorically hurt me even more, since I couldn't yell at you about how much Dungy sucks. But maybe it would ensure that these teams put in a legitimate effort when they're playing a game with playoff implications. Because the Colts would be playing someone else next Sunday if they tried for four quarters three weeks ago.

 

They'd probably be playing the Chargers. Who do you think they would rather face? The funny thing to me is if the Jets come into Indy and get rolled, like they should, then Indy's bending over will end up giving them a ridiculously easy road to the Super Bowl.

 

Chargers' business model:

(1) Go to a totally unexpected Super Bowl
(2) Get annihilated in that game
(3) Suck chode for about five years
(4) Select the biggest bust in draft history
(5) Get humiliated nationally when No. 1 pick says he wants nothing to do with you
(6) Slowly amass a shitload of talent
(7) Hire two coaches with clear record of underachievement despite stock of talent
[8] Become the least composed sideline in the league
(9) Repeatedly piss down leg at nut-cutting time
(10) Throw up hands and start it all over for the next 10-year stretch

 

Tim Couch would like a word with you. Not to mention his buddies JaMarcus Russell, David Carr, Ki-Jana Carter and several others who were taken one spot higher than Mr. Leaf.

 

In terms of total implosion, Leaf has to be the choice. Throw a prison term on top of his corpus and he's as thorough as a bust will ever be.

 

Leaf was worse than every player you named. Carter was active for like seven years, Carr and Couch were clearly more productive, and Russell in 2008 was better than Leaf ever was.

 

Russell in 2009 was worse than Leaf ever was.

He lost his job to not one but TWO Cleveland Browns rejects, for crying out loud.

 

Leaf's rookie campaign of 2 TDs, 15 INTs and a 39.0 QB rating (that's 11 points below his robust 50.0 career rating) would suggest otherwise. And he pulled off that magnitude of crappiness in nine starts. I'm still saying Leaf is worse than every other player named there. And the only reason he wasn't a #1 overall is Peyton Manning ... and he STILL almost was.