2016 NFL Playoffs - Divisional Round

that interview is good!

seems like chip is a fine coach but just messed everything up by trying to be GM at the same time

yeah it COULD work honestly. they'll be better than last year!

chip gotta get back to college man

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lmbo

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Some good details I didn't know about the history of the Rams in here.

Apparently random caller on 97.5 today says that Shurmur's daughter attends the same school as his 13yo niece and was going around this afternoon telling people that her dad was the new Eagles headcoach.

random caller offtm

pederson? tbh i'd have preferred shurmur

I like that they chose an assistant from the staff of the guy they got rid of

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I think the interesting fact is that the Rams were the first of the major sports teams to go west in '48. I'm sure in the early days of the NFL that was a fairly expensive trip by train most likely for the other clubs mostly in the midwest and east coast to take on, especially in the pre-TV days.

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no yellow, no credibility

i think the first superbowl is on teevee tomorrow

it's on right now

This absurdity makes last weekends game even better.

http://www.cincyjungle.com/2016/1/15/10777390/nfl-says-martavis-bryant-touchdown-should-not-have-counted-ryan

I still don't get why the hit on Bernard was ok, as I thought helmet to helmet contact was verboten.

Oh well...more stew for the pot.

my understanding is that helmet to helmet is okay once the receiver has become a rusher, which apparently happens as soon as they have definitively secured the football.
i think the rationale is that otherwise the runner could lower his head and draw a contact foul or otherwise have an unfair advantage against the defense by more or less legally spearing would-be tacklers.
imo they should change to no helmet to helmet contact for anyone and should allow for offensive helmet-to-helmet when the ref on the field thinks it's intentional

leading with yr helmet aka spearing is against the rules regardless of if its helmet to helmet or not

i mean this "you have to make forcible contact with the very top of the helmet." exactly describes what happened he lowers his head and drives into him

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and no helmet to helmet doesnt only apply to a defenseless reciver

Either way the refs again in a big game lost control of the game and at least partially decided the winner by missed calls or no calls.

Watching the Burfict play again, I think part of it is just Burfict is going balls out and Brown's head fell awkward into his line of fire after the awkward leap to get to get the high pass. I'd say it was more manslaughter than premeditated. I do kinda see the angle Deon says that Burfict did seem to try to angle away a bit at last second. I think in hindsight of time, I think it was more of a fluke play than perhaps in the heat of the game it seemed.

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I do think the Steelers got off WAY easy for bad sportsmanship, as they obviously just as guilty of creating that atmosphere and that shit got clear coated in how it ended. I think there definitely could have been an unsportsmen like penalty against Pittsburgh in the aftermath of the Burfict hit. To keep it even, that's probably what should have happened. I might be forgetting one, but it might have been the wildest and most controversial playoff game since the Pats/Raiders tuck game.

As for today's games, I can't see KC beating NE. It could happen, but I would have to see it happen to believe it injuries to the Pats or not. Pats have had a week to get healthy and if they get up a couple scores, I don't think KC has the firepower to catch up. Pats will have to give up a couple turnovers for the Chiefs a win.

Green Bay definitely looked more like their first half of the season form. I think AZ is more talented even with laying the egg in week 17. I could see it being a bit of a shootout, but probably not like that crazy game they played a few years back in the playoffs. I just think the Cardinals are a better club and they looked great the weeks leading up to the end of the season.

they were both dirty hits, but brown didn't even have the ball/didn't need to be hit at all

you can see burfict adjusting to lay the hit even after the ball is gone. he has a couple strides where he can pull away but he ducks in instead.

alex smith said he listens to arcade fire & dmb to pump him up

nantz is def shadow-commentating this alone in his hotel rm

ok got my lucky pats shirt on, heating up some superfood quinoa and kale blend rn

LET'S GO

Wow

Boooooom!!!

gronky!

gronky

Super aggressive start, not at all shy about targeting Edelman, Brady with some nice moves, and Gronk wrecking face

gronk unstoppable like a glass freight train

3 3rd n long conversions

I guess the thought is if you are going to put Edelman and Gronkowski in the game, better use them as much as possible before they get injured again

chiefs got their own broken wr out there

Yep

ok dnw another game of 'fun hands' from the patriots receivers

lot of p mediocre brady passes so far

Edelman definitely rusty

yup

Kind of a lucky call on a pretty nasty hit

pats o line totally flattened the kcc rush on that play against the goalline

niiiiiice

lol

Sorry Brady, nice try

ok sneak it in then brady

tru

felt like in both den-pit & az-gb the better qb should have won the game but mysterious forces (tipped passes, dropped INTs, bad fumbles) swung the game away from them

Arizona's touchdown drive that ate up most of the 4th quarter was one of the most painful I've ever had to watch as a Packer fan - I counted two picks that were dropped, two 3rd downs picked up by less than an inch, a bunch of missed offensive holding calls, and a touchdown thrown off a lineman's helmet. GB's had some real frustrating playoff losses since the SB win.

the missed calls were v bad.

giving up that 75 yard play in the OT game-winning drive was also v bad.

on the other hand, FIIIITZZZ!!!