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Post by BRV on Jan 8, 2021 20:47:47 GMT -5
Here's my prognostications for the first-ever six-game weekend of playoff football:
- Buffalo 31, Indianapolis 17: Buffalo has been arguably the best team in the NFL over the past two months - and perhaps, the entire season - while the Colts barely squeaked into the playoffs as the AFC's first seventh seed. Indianapolis has the right team to give the Bills a good fight, but Buffalo also has the right talent to run Indianapolis off the field. I'll split my prediction down the middle and say these two play a good game in which the Bills separate from the pack late.
- Seattle 19, Los Angeles 10: This game, to quote Jim Ross, could be bowling shoe ugly. Aaron Donald, Jalen Ramsey, and the Rams defense could give Russell Wilson, DK Metcalf, and the Seahawks offense headaches all afternoon, and the Rams are likely to be relying on a quarterback who was playing in the ill-fated AAF around this time last year. Offensive football might truly be "offensive." It's got all the makings of a defensive slugfest where the amount of punts could exceed the number of offensive plays inside the red zone.
- Tampa Bay 38, Washington 10: It'll be a laugher and it'll be over early. Washington boasts a stout defense, led by a loaded defensive line that'll have Pro Bowlers and first-team All-Pros soon enough, but they'll have to pin their ears back and play the games of their lives to do anything that could help their anemic offense. Even if Washington's defense were to hold Tom Brady and the Buccaneers to 20 points or under, I still think that would be more than enough for the Bucs to get the job done. I just don't see how the Football Team's offense moves the ball consistently against Tampa Bay's defense, when they could barely get the job done against an Eagles team that was almost going out of its way to lose last Sunday.
- Baltimore 37, Tennessee 31 (OT): I believe this has the makings of being the game of the weekend. Not only do you have two high-powered offenses loaded with star talent, you have two teams that genuinely don't like each other. It'll be an old-school, nasty, physical football game, but the points will also come in bunches, because I don't see how the Ravens defense collectively stops Derrick Henry, or how the porous Titans' secondary does anything to contain Lamar Jackson.
- New Orleans 41, Chicago 21: The problem with expanding the playoffs to seven teams, as we're finding out, is that sometimes undeserving teams will advance. Chicago really has no right being in the postseason and their prize for advancing to January will be a shellacking at the hands of the Saints. Drew Brees is obviously not what he was 10, or even five, years ago, but this playoff run is likely to be his farewell to football, and there's no way he goes out with a loss at home to a .500 Bears team.
- Pittsburgh 20, Cleveland 17: I really wanted to pick Cleveland here. But nothing has turned up right for them since last Sunday's victory over these very Steelers. I think they have the talent to topple Pittsburgh, who has really underperformed since starting the season 11-0, but they remind me of one of those baseball teams that exhausts themselves in September making a push for the playoffs, then gets swept out of the Divisional Series because they've got nothing left in the tank. I think it'll be a close game that comes down to the final possessions in the fourth quarter, but then the Browns' car runs out of gas.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Jan 9, 2021 12:16:49 GMT -5
Buffalo over Indy: Indy will have a chance to win with a final drive and Rivers throws a pick to end the game.
Seattle over Rams: Wilson goes off today and it ends up being a blowout.
Washington over Tampa: Washington has a solid defense and that pass rush is going to give Brady too much trouble.
Tennessee over Baltimore: This one will be much closer than last year but Henry will get the last laugh.
Chicago over New Orleans: Trubisky gets hit with a controversial roughing the passer call in a game winning drive. Saints fans call conspiracy again.
Cleveland over Pittsburgh: Cleveland wins with a Cody Parky FG in OT and Parky gets redemption from the Double Doink.
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Jan 9, 2021 13:05:05 GMT -5
Buffalo Seattle Tampa
Tennessee New Orleans Cleveland
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jan 9, 2021 13:06:14 GMT -5
How many people here weren't alive when Buffalo last had a home playoff game?
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jan 9, 2021 13:39:10 GMT -5
Because that was a designed QB run play there were a couple of ineligible receivers downfield on that TD pass that the officials did not bother calling the penalty on. So nice to see that the refs are not going to change their pattern of not calling obvious penalties against the opponents of the Colts like they have all season. Why change that during the playoffs?
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Post by chrom on Jan 9, 2021 14:21:39 GMT -5
Colts holding their own for now
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Post by S-Chrome on Jan 9, 2021 14:24:57 GMT -5
I'm late, but my picks are: Buffalo, Seattle, Tampa today and Baltimore, New Orleans, and Cleveland for tomorrow.
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Post by Mecca on Jan 9, 2021 15:13:51 GMT -5
Colts shitting their pants.
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Post by Perd on Jan 9, 2021 15:29:47 GMT -5
Goddamn, Allen can really f***ing sling it.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jan 9, 2021 15:31:17 GMT -5
Someone needs to have a chat with the guy in the booth for the Colts. Reich can't look at the tape to know whether he should challenge. He was talked into doing so by someone upstairs who had looked at the tape and thought "yeah, we can win that challenge".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2021 15:36:53 GMT -5
It's like Indy didn't take my prediction into consideration at all. Rude.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jan 9, 2021 15:37:09 GMT -5
There are some advantages to being aggressive, but sometimes you really need to learn to make smart choices, Frank Reich.
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Post by BRV on Jan 9, 2021 15:38:36 GMT -5
Frank Reich getting too cute for his own good has left at least four points on the board today - opting to go for it on fourth down toward the end of the first half and that baffling two-point conversion attempt.
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Post by Mecca on Jan 9, 2021 15:44:11 GMT -5
The Colts have cost themselves 11 points.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jan 9, 2021 15:48:14 GMT -5
The Colts have cost themselves 11 points. The Colts have cost themselves 4 points. They passed up the FG they should have kicked and the XP they should have kicked. What TD are you saying they cost themselves?
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Post by S-Chrome on Jan 9, 2021 15:55:19 GMT -5
Bills poor run defense rearing it's ugly head again.
Colts scored in like 6 milliseconds. Josh Allen better be up to the challenge, because the Bills D ain't finishing this game.
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Post by Mecca on Jan 9, 2021 15:57:15 GMT -5
The Colts have cost themselves 11 points. The Colts have cost themselves 4 points. They passed up the FG they should have kicked and the XP they should have kicked. What TD are you saying they cost themselves? They missed a fg the ep, they also jumped off side handing buffalo a td at the end of half.
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Post by hΓ€Ε‘htΓ₯.gdΔlΔΓΏ on Jan 9, 2021 16:14:42 GMT -5
Helluva way to lose right there.
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Post by S-Chrome on Jan 9, 2021 16:15:33 GMT -5
That's definitely a fumble with a clear recovery for Buffalo. Pascal's been a goat this afternoon, for real.
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Post by Heart of fools gold on Jan 9, 2021 16:15:37 GMT -5
Buffalo over Indy: Indy will have a chance to win with a final drive and Rivers throws a pick to end the game Would you accept a fumble?
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