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You asked the question if I have been watching Chicago and I would ask if you have been watching San Fran? They are going to go 13-3 or 14-2, bye week 1st round, hosting a playoff game, they have a very favorable path to go to GB. Also they have major road wins to boot. Chicago was toasted by New Orleans and lost Earl Bennett for half the season in that game. Why do you think Chicago would walk thru New Orleans?
I never said they'd walk through New Orleans. The fact is that this team has been playing at a level that is capable of beating any team in the NFL on the road. This isn't the same team that played NO. I just have no clue what point you were trying to make with your post. It was pointless.
What he wrote. He stands by it.
Explain. Am I not entitled to my opinion which is Green Bay is going to demolish just about everyone and whoever is in the NFC Wildcard is pretty much dead in the water? You can say that seems far fetched or doesn't make for good banter, but why do you have to go to the personal put downs? I didn't enter this thread and start insulting anyone. This is what is wrong with the SP and one of the reasons so many folks have stopped posting. People don't state an opinion but instead press the personal insult button ASAP. it's weak and it's automatic admission that you cannot take a position and explain it with any self confidence so you would rather put someone down much like Limp Ditka trolls around and does all the time. Now why do you think Chicago was going far in the playoffs having to start on the road and likely having to play 3 playoff games on the road? Can you explain that without the put downs or is that not possible?
I like Hanie. Can you say Kurt Warner replacing Trent Green part II?
Kurt Warner replacing Trent Green part II!!!
Sure, if Warner had already been in the league for 3 1/2 seasons before replacing Green.
Excellent details. The Giants also won four playoff games away from home, just like the Packers and Steelers. So literally half of the past six Super Bowl champions have been 5 and 6 seeds, and one beat a team that was undefeated.Of course, another aspect to this discussion is to consider what might happen if injuries affect the Packers or 49ers or both. It's disappointing to not get the opportunity to see how long the Bears might have been able to maintain their momentum. I thought they were peaking just a little too soon, as it would be hard to keep up their surge from mid-October all the way through to the playoffs, but I'd love to have seen them try. Hopefully, the diagnosis is premature in its severity and Cutler finds some way to get on the field in the next few weeks.
Have any wildcard teams knocked off a team going 10-0 to start the season...12-0, 14-0??? My feelings are Green Bay is in the midst of an unreal run here and I can't see anyone right now in the NFC getting by them. I also think because SF will have the division wrapped up in a week or two, get a 1st round bye, they will be well rested for whatever comes at them and they have major road wins. The only team to beat them so far is Dallas. I keep waiting for the Niners to slide or let up after a big win much like the Ravens have done all season and they simply do not.
Really? You didn't bother to put in the post season stats where he actually played a signifigant part of the game WITHOUT any first team reps?13/20 passing 153 1td/2int. Not great but considering the situation he was thrust in, leading the bears to within a td, not a bad job.Bears will be fine. They win by great defense, great special teams, decent offense. Two of the three are still intact and Hanie will be adequate to manage the game.
First team reps? How about 2nd team reps? Don't forget that that ####### Martz kept Collins as his backup QB and he was put into the NFC Championship Game before Hanie. Hanie was #3 emergency QB that day.
:147:Sweet purple Jesus.It's gotta be some kind of disorder.Now cue the persecution complex.
Um....I believe the Giants were 5th seeded wild card who beat the undefeated pats. And I believe the Pats were at one point, 10-0, 12-0, 14-0 as well.So much for your theory, and that was only like 4 years ago. You really have a complex. That or you have the memory of a baby seal.
How about 18-0?February 3, 2008; Super Bowl XLII: New York Giants 17 New England Patriots 14OK, so maybe it's never happened in the divisional or conference championship round, but ...oh wait, it did!!January 15, 2006; AFC Divisional Playoff: Pittsburgh Steelers 21 Indianapolis Colts 18If you want to say that the Packers look more impressive than the Patriots did in getting to 18-0 or the Colts did in getting to 13-0, that's a fair opinion. However, don't forget that the 2007 Patriots had only one single-digit win through their first ten games (24-20 @ Indy, when the Colts were 7-0 to that point).And the 2005 Colts had only three single-digit wins through their first ten games.By comparison, fully half (as in 5) of the Packers ten wins have been by single digits.Of course, that's not the only measure of dominance, but I think it speaks clearly to the way in which it is so easy to get caught up in the current kings of the mountain and so difficult to put the current season into perspective.
I discount the Giants TJ because they didn't go thru New England to get to the Super Bowl and also had 2 weeks to prepare IIRC. 5 and 6 seeds have made the Super Bowl, no doubt but rarely do they knock off a team of the caliber of a Green Bay.
That was in the Super Bowl...rarely does a team start off like Green Bay and not make it to the Super Bowl was my point. It has happened but not often. Usually when a team wins their first 10 or 11 games, or goes 14-2, 15-1, they end up going to the Super Bowl most of the time was my point. I'll take Green Bay and give anyone the rest of the field in the NFC straight up.
Sorry MOP, 2011 Pack is not better than the 18-0 Pats. Not by a long shot...or not by their caliber as you like to say. I don't see anyone here being knuckleheads. You do seem a bit too overly sensitive with your Packers man-love. Take a deep breath man. When you make wide sweeping generalizations and bold predictions as fact, of course you're going to get flack. What do you expect?The only guy that really matters is Rodgers anyway from a FF perspective.
I agree. They are well coached, well schemed, but I think a really good NFL team should have very little problems with them. I don't think they have the talent.If you look at their schedule. The ahrdest guys they played so far was um...Dal/Cin/Det/NYG.
Just because you print something on an internet message board doesn't mean you're right fyi...
What the hell does this have to do with Jay Cutler's thumb?
since the 16-game schedule began in 1978...2010 Patriots2006 Chargers2005 Colts2004 Steelers1999 Jaguars1998 Vikings (bonus, 15-1)1992 49ers1990 49ers1987 49ers (13-2, strike)1986 Bears
Yeah, it was everyone else's fault.
I've become a much bigger Bears fan in the past several dozen posts.
We'd be on page 14 by now if this had happened to Rodgers or Timmy.
Dang. 4 in 7 years isn't an occurrence, it's a trend. Better tell the invincible packs to lose at least 3+ games on purpose in order to avoid the Wildcard upset.
I don't think you're getting the hang of the whole "IGNORE" thing.
*buzzz* Process engaged. Feeling persecuted at all signs of criticism, enabled.
What was Atlanta's record last year when the #6 seed Packers came into the Georgia Dome. Exactly. Is this the type of analysis that we can expect from you if you ever do get on staff at FBGs?
Its not like 5 and 6 seeds have ever won playoff games before.
