NFL playoff thread

Would love to see the underdogs win this week and Lewis' career come full circle with his finale against, of all teams, Atlanta.

 

Two things the NFL TV directorss need to concentrate on this coming up this weekend: More shots of Ray Lewis, and more shots in the crowd of those delightful D and the picket fence signs. Just far too little of either this past weekend.

 

What does the spread have to do with how well Manning played football?

 

It doesn't.

 

It means his team underperformed to expectations.

 

It's an indication -- not a factual declaration but a pretty strong suggestion -- that he had the deck stacked in his favor those games and let them get away. (In two of those games, the Colts had hammered the same team during the regular season.)

 

Different coaches, different players, different teams, same QB.

 

Earlier in the thread, I speculated that perhaps we were misremembering the strength of Manning's teams entering those games, coming as they were out of weak divisions with potentially inflated records. But that doesn't seem to be the case. It's revisionist history. That, or the Colts were a public team that real gamblers should have been able to spot wild value in betting against. And maybe they did.

 

"he" let them get away.

 

Correlation, causation, something about their interrelatedness.

 

Forgive me if this has already been addressed... I'm not on here a ton during the weekend...

I was talking to a friend who is a Packers fan yesterday and he was bitching about how their defense broke down against the Niners. My contention was that Kaepernick's performance was an all-timer, one of those performances we'll still be talking about 20 years from now and it wasn't that the Packers defense was that bad, but Kaepernick was that good...

 

Oh, did the Packers lose? Badly?