2016/2017 NFL thread: The Final Battle

[DarthSkywalker]

Man, great week for me. I finally got the wins I was hoping for. Though I genuinely don't know who I'm rooting for to win it all. I think I'll be happy either way. I'd love to see a team like the Falcons get that win (and I'd be stoked for Sanu as a former Bengal), but I'd also love to see the Patriots get one ring closer to beating out the Steelers on Super Bowl wins. Plus I just really like Tom Brady. Either way I will enjoy next week's game.

Great week for you? You are still at home, still without a Lombardi.

 

[terry78]

Well, every big climax needs a villain.

 

[Matt]

Asking a lot for any team to go into Foxborough & beat the Pats, on their field, in a AFC Championship game, with a 22-3 playoff record......well, 23-3.

I guarantee Mike Tomlin says something identical during his press conference. It's such a pathetic and defeatist excuse. You'd never hear Bill Belichick say "it's tough to go onto another team's field and win." As Belichick said earlier in the week "ask Kansas City how important home field is." The field has nothing to do with it. The Steelers were underprepared and had no answer for Belichick's game plan. They lost due to bad coaching.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Well, every big climax needs a villain.

The AFC was always providing the villain.

 

[Erzengel]

Or that there just isn't any other team coming out of the AFC, because no one else is any good.

 

[Reek]

I will be cheering for the Falcons in the Super Bowl. Good luck Reek.

This is a trick... great deceit in you, I sense.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I guarantee Mike Tomlin says something identical during his press conference. It's such a pathetic and defeatist excuse. You'd never hear Bill Belichick say "it's tough to go onto another team's field and win." As Belichick said earlier in the week "ask Kansas City how important home field is." The field has nothing to do with it. The Steelers were underprepared and had no answer for Belichick's game plan. They lost due to bad coaching.

It isn't even "bad coaching". He just isn't the quality some try to make him out to be. He needs almost all the luck to bounce in his direction to pull it off.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

This is a trick... great deceit in you, I sense.

No deceit. Self interest. As a Colts fan, I love to watch the Pats fall.

 

[Erzengel]

Uh, I highly doubt the Rooneys would pick some unqualified coach. Have you heard of the standard?

 

[Matt]

It isn't even "bad coaching". He just isn't the quality some try to make him out to be. He needs almost all the luck to bounce in his direction to pull it off.

Bingo. Which is exactly why the team will fall apart when Roethlisberger retires. There is a reason you can count the number of quality Tomlin draft picks in ten years on one hand. He'a not a good drafter and needs every break to go his way to win. Take away the HOF franchise quarterback that Bill Cowher gifted him and it's just gonna be a massacre.

Uh, I highly doubt the Rooneys would pick some unqualified coach. Have you heard of the standard?

 

[Matt]

Mike Tomlin started his post game press conference with this statement (this is verbatim, I am transcribing as I watch):

"Uhh just not enough positive things umm in terms of the style of play for those things to unfold. So umm the result is the result."

........I wish I were making that up. Can anyone translate that into a coherent English sentence?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Bingo. Which is exactly why the team will fall apart when Roethlisberger retires. There is a reason you can count the number of quality Tomlin draft picks in ten years on one hand. He'a not a good drafter and needs every break to go his way to win. Take away the HOF franchise quarterback that Bill Cowher gifted him and it's just gonna be a massacre.

I agree with this quite a bit. There is a reason the defense has been deteriorating for years.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Mike Tomlin started his post game press conference with this statement (this is verbatim, I am transcribing as I watch):

"Uhh just not enough positive things umm in terms of the style of play for those things to unfold. So umm the result is the result."

........I wish I were making that up. Can anyone translate that into a coherent English sentence?

I want him to blame Brown so bad.

 

[SuperBatman]

NFC had a much better Conference this year in the AFC. Brady has not had an easy road to the SB as he did this year IMO. The only good Playoff game this year was GB and Dallas everything else has been blowouts haven't really felt like playoff games. That being said I hope Atlanta wins would love to see a New team win a SB.

 

[Matt]

I want him to blame Brown so bad.

He was asked at one point, while people were asking about that New England red zone stand, "Mike, do you have a philosophical opposition to the quarterback sneak?" The look of anger on Tomlin's face as he answered with a curt "no" was almost as perfect as the reporter's deadpan tone when he asked.

 

[Erzengel]

I think most non Patriots fans will be rooting for the Falcons.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

He was asked at one point, while people were asking about that New England red zone stand, "Mike, do you have a philosophical opposition to the quarterback sneak?" The look of anger on Tomlin's face as he answered with a curt "no" was almost as perfect as the reporter's deadpan tone when he asked.

I need to see this.

Tomlin reminds me of the British soccer pundits that drive me crazy. More so then even stupid American ones. And it is because of cliches. He uses so many, you could almost choke on them. all cliches and "heart".

 

[Matt]

I think most non Patriots fans will be rooting for the Falcons.

I'm rooting for the Pats. Aside from it being a beautiful middle finger to Roger Goodell, it would be amazing to see Belichick and Brady break Noll and Bradshaw's four Super Bowl record by grabbing of fifth one. Don't get me wrong, I'll be sad to see Noll lose the record, but it's always exciting to watch history get made. Plus, those two have earned it. They are unreal together.

 

[Matt]

Mike Tomlin vs Tom Brady: 22 TDs/0 INTs

That is crazy. Tomlin just can't hang with Brady and Belichick.

 

[SuperBatman]

Wonder if the AFC will ever have a QB make it to the SB besides Big Ben, Brady and Flacco. Peyton is out of the Picture but better luck next year AFC.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Wonder if the AFC will ever have a QB make it to the SB besides Big Ben, Brady and Flacco. Peyton is out of the Picture but better luck next year AFC.

Luck took a massive step this week. Got rid of our horrible GM.

 

[Immortalfire]

I'm rooting for the Pats. Aside from it being a beautiful middle finger to Roger Goodell, it would be amazing to see Belichick and Brady break Noll and Bradshaw's four Super Bowl record by grabbing of fifth one. Don't get me wrong, I'll be sad to see Noll lose the record, but it's always exciting to watch history get made. Plus, those two have earned it. They are unreal together.

You badly joker

 

[Matt]

Wonder if the AFC will ever have a QB make it to the SB besides Big Ben, Brady and Flacco. Peyton is out of the Picture but better luck next year AFC.

Derek Carr is on the rise provided there are no long term effects of his injury. Marcus Mariotta took some big steps this season. And Andrew Luck is still out there...though he is starting to feel more like Matthew Stafford 2.0 (good but not great) rather than the Peyton Manning that he was hyped up to be. I'd say those guys are the next generation of great AFC champions.

 

[Matt]

This drives me nuts. A caller on the local sports show just said Terry Bradshaw was validated and Bob Pompeanii and Chris Hoke reprimanded him, saying how hard it is to win in the Brady/Belichick era. Pomp compared it to golf when Woods and Mikkleson were dominant, saying other players just couldn't win a lot.

That is an excuse for NYJ, Buffalo, Miami, Kansas City, Houston and other teams. It doesn't apply when your team has a top 3 quarterback as well. Nor does it apply when your team has a top tier roster. That is the point Colin Cowherd keeps making. Tomlin/Rothleisberger should be spoken of like Brady and Belichick, as a team that is always in the mix, dominating their division, etc. Instead, even Mike Tomlin during his pressers will fall back on the excuse of "well they are such a great team." The Steelers don't even consider themselves in the same class. And that's why they will keep underperforming

 

[cheungcheung]

I think most non Patriots fans will be rooting for the Falcons.

The whole country (+ Roger) outside of New England will be rooting for the falcons