PLAYOFFS, PLAYOFFS, PLAYOFFS

Divisional Weekend
Dr. Jamez


What an exciting weekend of games we had in wild card weekend; let’s start where we started last week. Let me first thank that the Seahawks for beating the Saints and clearly collecting on the Satan Voodoo pact they used to win the Superbowl last year. I am certainly not the first, but let us all take a moment to say “WHO DAT, WHO DAT, WHO DAT, WHO DAT,” and I would like to give a special shout out to my friend and current hero Marshawn Lynch for completely clowning Tracey Porter. That was the highlight of that Saturday for obvious reasons. I’ve already covered the Colts game so I don’t really feel the need to address it again, mostly because I don’t like openly weeping. The Ravens game was about what I thought it would be. It did end up being a blow out, but it was a hard fought and well contested game. I don’t blame it all on Charlie Weiss, but when has a team ever had a lame duck coach or coordinator and been successful in the playoffs? Then there was that awesome Packers at Eagles where everyone got what they deserved. My biggest impressions from that game being: Aaron Rodgers is a sick nasty monster and Desean Jackson exposes himself as the worst person in pro-sports on a weekly basis. Let’s get to the good stuff though.

The Baltimore Ravens at the Pittsburgh Steelers


There’s nothing here to be said that hasn’t already been said. The two teams play each other twice a year, they don’t like one and other, they split the series this year both teams winning on the road, and the average point differential has been three. Most everyone is going to say it’s going to be a hard nosed, low scoring defensive game. That may be true, but I’m going the other way. I’m going to say first one to fifty points sans Packers- Cardinals last year. That’s right, point explosion, defense optional. But I do expect the Ravens to get it done whether it’s 4-2 or 52-45.


The Green Bay Packers at the Atlanta Falcons

Just think, every game this weekend is a rematch of a game played in the regular season. In the first match up the Packers fell just short of Matt Ryan’s Falcons, but this is the playoffs and I’ll take Aaron Rodgers’ eight touchdowns and one interception (which was a deflection off a foot) in two games over anyone. I know the Falcons are at home, coming off a bye week where they’ve been close to unstoppable, but the fact that they were stopped week sixteen by a Saints team who just got bounced from the playoffs by a 7-9 team with a red hot Packers team clicking on all cylinders doesn’t inspire much faith that the Falcons make it out alive this time. That being said, The Falcons are a very good team so it’s tough to make a case the Packers will win decisively. It’s the playoffs, anything can happen but I think when the dust settles the Packers are too good to be denied this year.

The Seattle Seahawks at the Chicago Bears

In this rematch everyone seems to forget that the ‘hawks won the first go around, certainly Vegas has, they have the Bears favored by ten points. I don’t know what to say about this game. Hasslebeck played out of his mind last weekend, the Seahawks have nothing to lose and the Bears have had some head scratchers. Like the first time the Seahawks beat them. I’m going to go safe and say with the bye week the Bears figured out a way to win but I’m not confident about that at all. When in doubt I’m sticking with “JULIUS PEPPERS!!!!!!”

The New York Dirty Cheating Jets at the New England Dirty Cheating Patriots

It might be good, I don’t know, and if it’s not, I don’t care. The Patriots have to be the favorite here, not because they blew the Jets out week thirteen. That doesn’t mean any more to me then the Jets blowing the Pats out week two. I’m favoring the Pats because Mark Sanchez is one of the worst quarterbacks in the NFL, bar none. Tom Brady is the second best active in the playoffs, but that didn’t help the Colts. The Patriots will most likely see a very similar defensive game plan as the one the Jets used on the Colts. The Colts and the Pats turned in to very similar offenses this season, New England by choice, Indianapolis by injury. There certainly is a difference as far as the talent level at tight end which could cause match up problems for the Jets. In any case, again I say, it might be good, I don’t know, and if it’s not, I don’t care.