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01-11-2009, 05:52 AM
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If Philly and SD both win...
Which isn't exactly impossible...
8-8 San Diego and 9-7 Arizona ... perhaps two of the least deserving playoff teams of all-time ... will be playing at home in Confrence Championship games. San Diego was 0-5 against playoff teams in the regular season - and Arizona played in a monunmentally bad division .. and flat out quit in a regular season game I watched against NE. A performance that might have been the most pathetic effort I've ever seem from a team that played all starters. 
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01-11-2009, 09:46 AM
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it ain't SD fault that Denver couldn't beat the raiders or the bills at home in DEC - they win one 1 of those games against either team and SD isn't in 2nd - it aint AZ fault that the rest of the divsion stunk the 49ers were a mess until Singletary took over the rams are just a bad team the seahawks had a ton of injuries this year the last few weeks they took off as they were pretty much not going to catch the giants or carolina for a bye
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01-11-2009, 10:14 AM
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In your finest impression of Smooth Operator yet, you are cleverly taking this thread to your logical conclusion.. That it's a travesty your NE Patriots didn't make the playoffs 
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01-11-2009, 10:18 AM
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It's a sheer outrage!
However, they would have had Baltimore in the first round, and I believe that Baltimore would actually have been their toughest match-up of any team in the playoffs. Ah well.
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01-11-2009, 10:20 AM
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but i don't see SD going east, taking on the steelers-on that field no less, and winning. if they do, they belong. i think philly is the team to watch-in the last few weeks, they have built momentum, while the giants have looked worse as the season progressed.
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01-11-2009, 10:24 AM
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It will be a little amusing to see an 8-8 team playing AT HOME in a game that decides a Super Bowl berth .. while an 11-5 team, from a better division, within the same confrence, didn't even get into the playoffs. Quote:
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01-11-2009, 10:28 AM
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01-11-2009, 10:34 AM
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People can say what you want about the BCS, but at least in that system there isn't the chance that a .500 team gets hot at the end and wins a championship. It happened in baseball a few years ago with St. Louis, and it could happen this year in the NFL.
I'll grant that there are plenty of negatives about the BCS, but at least there the team that wins the national championship had to have actually been a good team over the course of the season.
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01-11-2009, 10:38 AM
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I actually have a soft spot for Baltimore's defense because they single handedly won me (and Phil Mickelson I guess) a bunch of money in futures and games all through 2000 when I didn't have much of it to speak of - and I shouldn't ever have been betting football for that kind of money in the first place. If Baltimore still wasn't around ... I would be rooting for a San Diego VS Arizona Super Bowl with every fiber of my being.
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01-11-2009, 10:42 AM
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01-11-2009, 10:53 AM
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All the experts said Carolina was a lock last night too. That is why they play the games anything can happen on the field. As for AZ and SD not belonging in the playoffs, they both beat teams that "supposedly" did belong. If they didn't belong then they both should have been beaten last week and AZ again this week.
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01-11-2009, 11:04 AM
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Take the winner of the Big 10, Pac 10, SEC, ACC, BIG 12, and BIG East, - and for the final two spots ... take the two highest rated teams from the following confrences: Conference USA, WAC, Sun Belt, Mountain West, MAC, or a 1A Independant if Notre Dame can ever resume its glory days. Use final year end rankings to seed the schools from 1-through-8. 1 hosts 8, 2 hosts 7, 3 hosts 6, 4 hosts 5. This way, cold weather schools from the northeast and mid-west aren't handicapped by having to play constantly in warm weather. While these warm weather schools with high concept offenses aren't always playing games in perfect weather conditions. If this would have happened this year... you'd have ended up with: #8 Va Tech at #1 Oklahoma #7 Cincinnati at #2 Florida #6 Boise State at #3 USC #5 Penn State at #4 Utah And finally - because the schools from warm weather states in the south and west with high concept offenses always deserve a huge edge over cold weather schools who play pro style - the National Championship game will be played in the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, or Orange Bowl alternating years.
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01-11-2009, 11:09 AM
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Teams should be seeded 1 through 6 on the same critera. I have no huge problem with giving an 8-8 division winner a playoff spot..but make them the 6th seed...and don't award them with home games.
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01-11-2009, 11:12 AM
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On the they play the games theme, I guess one of the biggest upsets in sports history would have to have been the U.S.A hockey team beating the Russian team at the 80 Olympics. Considering NHL'ers were life and death to beat that team that was truly an anything can happen in sports moment in history.
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01-11-2009, 11:16 AM
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also-no reason the giants, who presumably are #1 seed, should fave the eagles. of course, carolina losing last night doesn't indicate that the cardinals would have been a cakewalk....but there was no benefit for being the first seed in the nfc this year.
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01-11-2009, 11:26 AM
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I can see your point when talking an 8-8 team compared to a 11-5 team but not when it is only a 1 game difference. And SD is not your typical 8-8 team. they lost 3 games within the last 30 seconds of those games, 1 against Indy and Caroline both 12-4 teams and got robbed at Denver.
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01-11-2009, 11:34 AM
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The Giants would have to play someone "good" eventually and need to win to advance, their just doing it this week instead of next or maybe not if AZ plays next week like they played last night. Oh, the Giants didn't need the #1 seed to win the Super Bowl last year. It just doesn't matter, if you are good enough you should win, if not you go home.
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01-11-2009, 11:35 AM
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Dungee is/was on the rule committee and everytime he loses a game there is a new rule.
Bert Emanuel doesn't catch a pass now it's considered a catch Rams celebrate with more than one player and now there is a rule against that (selectively enforced) Patriots hold the Colts receivers and now you are supposed to do that any more I imagine since Indy had to travel to San Diego and choke there will be a new rule hat teams with better records get to host btw There should be * next to all of the Patriots SB wins they cheated I hope the Eagles win today so the AZ Cardinals w/ Kurt Warner can host the NFC Championship game.
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01-11-2009, 11:41 AM
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I partly agree with Drugs too. I don't think that making them the sixth seed is the thing to do. Do like the NBA. Seed the division winners as 1-2-3-4....but have the playing site of all matchups decided by best record.
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