IT'S THE 2012-13 NFL DIVISIONAL ROUND THREAD

"I inherited a team that was 31st in the league in defense and made them better," Ryan told ESPNDallas.com's Tim MacMahon. "I (expletive) made them a hell of a lot better. I'll be out of work for like five minutes."

This is pretty funny, I got to say.

he's right

this is pretty good:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8828013/how-return-simplicity-peyton-manning-indy-offense-ignited-denver-broncos

this is incredible

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-on-football/21533403/watch-michael-robinson-documents-shoddy-fedex-field

Yikes, that looks pretty bad.

The Titans field looked like that for a really long time in the early 00s (and still may, but I don't live in the Titans market anymore and see so few of their games). I'm surprised more players didn't get severely injured there.

lol they weren't even playing on grass last weekend

Green dirt.

i had read something about how they had declined to re-turf late in the season. personally i would've thought - and i may just be pulling this out of my ass - if the best thing about your team is you lead the nfl in total rushing, you probably would benefit from a decent surface.

It's embarrassing. then again, it's dan snyder.

http://profootballmock.com/nfl-qbs-on-facebook-wild-card-bitches/

That was incredibly bad.

Eh. I enjoyed it.

cut that meat

yeah you prob don't want to let that happen bmore

well this is more entertaining at least

not your average joe

uh oh peyton

tripping, no interference

ageless

this fun

God I hate Peyton manninig. Go ravens!

so torrey smith is the raven's game plan

I would say that's a pretty good move. Also, ravens o line keeping flacco upright.

well at least flacco made one good throw

shits poppin now

baltimore are not good enough to win this game

wow

"there's no foul for excess celebration"

basically this game = flacco missing two passes that could've been touchdowns and peyton being laser-perfect

looks like we're back to manning as usual

dont stop til you get enuf

"lets see how resilient the ravens can be"
*joe flacco soft tosses the ball to no one"

Frustrating

I need reed to knock somebody the fuck out

Broncos are the whitest fucking team I've ever seen. This isn't hockey.

ive watched every play this year, there not the whitest

they're

Yeah sorry chief, they are. I don't give a shit how many plays you've seen

torrey

This is not Champ's day.

What a great throw and catch

dang. can't believe how much smith is owning bailey, especially after the last game was so much the other way around

yeah what's up with champ?

also hi ilnfl! miss y'all!

Bailey's 70 years old and the cold may be getting to him

my students are all ravens fans, obvs, so i feel kind of mean rooting for denver but peyty

ravens are the worst team in football

lol

wow

guys peyty is so skinny now

nance would have none of it

"won't do them much good"

i always wonder how much time it takes brady to choose his outfit for these postgame press conferences

lotta points in these games, dag

omg spikes

http://gif.mocksession.com/2013/01/brandon-spikes-dance/

― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, January 13, 2013 6:56 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

by rule if you do this dance the refs are required to award yr team the ball

can we talk about how stupid the decision to run on 3rd and 5 was for the Broncos when a first down literally wins the game. a run's going to get stuffed nearly always since Baltimore has to sell out on it. and who better to direct and throw a simple 5-yard route? Manning should have advanced!

it's almost as if john fox is a terrible coach

since mike mccoy is interviewing for every available head coaching job anyway they might as well just ax fox and promote him

broncos made a lot of really dumb play calls, they should find a new coach, tho i dont think anyones going to be able to coach peyton into being able to throw further than ten yards

PUZZLE TIME!
complete the following sentence:

Mike McCoy is a head coaching candidate in the NFL because...

broncos made a lot of really dumb play calls, they should find a new coach, tho i dont think anyones going to be able to coach peyton into being able to throw further than ten yards

― lag∞n, Monday, January 14, 2013 9:34 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

or suddenly be possessed by the spirit of brett favre

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18bbm90kx7errgif/original.gif

peyton manning, jazz man

Peyton gave away that game as though it were 2 million free Papa John's pizzas

he played well enough until the crazy ot pick, but does peyty have the means to build a dome for denver by next season? i guess that still doesnt remedy his noodle arm

that gif is hypnotic

if the broncos ever had to throw a hail mary to win a game, they would pull peyton right? no way he can throw the ball 50+ yards

he is basically chad pennington

i wonder how many yards his furthest ball traveled in that game

a friend of mine has an elaborate home theater in which every football sunday he hosts a gathering of xtreme broncos fans, all them sitting stunned in their captains chairs, beautiful

that is a treat

heard that Fox made the call to pass on that 3rd down play. Peyton changed it at the line of scrimmage to a run.

O RLY

seemed like peyton audibled to runs on third down a weird amount of the time on sunday

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18bbm94j872cogif/original.gif

the one thing that has stopped peyton becoming an elite qb is his lack of confidence in himself to make plays

peyton looks so terrible wearing a football uniform, it's rather absurd

O RLY

source: Mike and Mike, this morning on the drive into work

interesting

source: @johnfox

people were killing fox for kneeling at the end of regulation too but i wonder if they didn't think they could move the ball in that period of time because of peyton's arm

The Broncos called runs for rookie Ronnie Hillman on the next five plays. Denver picked up one first down, and, after a Hillman carry for no yards on a third-and-seven, the Broncos punted with 1:15 remaining.

"That was an audible," Manning said. "Actually, I called that play, so don't put that on (offensive coordinator) Mike (McCoy). We just didn't do much with it."

Peyton should probably stick to his Buick when calling audibles

old qb audibles at cloud

i haven't read easterbrook in years, but i may this week just to see if he defends the alleged audible under his theory of running out the clock

to be fair, taking that extra 40 seconds off the clock seems pretty defensible unless your dime+ package gets burned deep by joe the flacco

I was really struck by how weird it is to watch a John Fox Broncos team...even though it's been years I still think of them as a Shannahan team and in games like that you really see the difference.