NFL, Part Two

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No spoken words said:
Your own local media has that covered today. I like Romo and TO blaming Garrett. Good times in Big D.
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Can't blame them. Any game plan that involves losing two fumbles and standing around while they get returned for TDs is pretty flawed, in my opinion.
 
No spoken words said:
Your own local media has that covered today. I like Romo and TO blaming Garrett. Good times in Big D.
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I'm kind of dodging the media, local and otherwise, for the next few days. I'm also not going to have any reactions of my own until it has sufficiently sunk in.
 
i still say fire all them fuckers (Cowboy coaching staff) and let go some of the players as well (Pac Man, Patrick Crayton, Flozell Adams, just for starters)

Im trying to figure out what happened yesterday, hell, the last two weeks for that matter. You expect to miss the playoffs with a season full of injuries like Dallas had, but they really blew some pivotal games that they had won this last four weeks. Pittsburg, Baltimore, and there really isnt any excuse for getting blown out yesterday. None peroid. The Detroit Lions would have at least kept the game close for fucks sake. So Romo was sick, Romo was hurt, blah blah blah. Then put the backup QB in, oh wait, he sucks so bad a sick /hurt Romo would be better. Why dont we have a decent backup, like they did in New England or like they did in Tenessee?

I think the problems in Big D start with Jerry Jones, and pretty much everybody else underneath him all the way down to the water boys. JJ is pretty much the GWB of football team owners, take something great and figure out a way to fuck it all up. Must be a texas thing (no offense impy) :sexywink:

I love the Cowboys, but that was the worst loss i can remember in 20 years of being a fan. :|

Don't get me wrong, i will still be right here rooting for this pile of shit team again next year. :D Until then, :angry:
 
mobvok said:
There needs to be a change to the playoffs after this year; at least that a divisional winner doesn't automatically get a home game. Hopefully the absurdity of a 12-4 team going on the road to an 8-8 team helps spur change. (Why does a better record guarantee home field advantage except when it comes to the Wild Card?)
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why not revamp the playoffs completely, or at least make it so that Division winners dont automatically get into the playoffs just because they won a shit division (Arizona, San Diego). Right now we have 8-8 and 9-7 teams in while the 11-5 Patriots get to sit at home. Dont get me wrong i hate the Patriots, and Sandy Eggo would probably kill them, but still. On the NFC side the 9-7 Cardinals are a joke away from home, i like for them to go down this week.

Its funny this weekend all of the road teams are favored. Ro-ads Ro-ads :wink:
 
I agree Mr. Garrison, something is seriously wrong when you have a 12-4 team not having home field over an 8-8 team, just because someone in the division was one game better and the other division sucked. It's also very wrong to have a quality 11-5 team sitting home while teams with much worse records get good seedings. No offense to anyone or any team, but it's like, what do you fight all year to win for if it's not going to pay off? Maybe we should forget the division champs and wildcards and only go with the top six records in each conference, even if they're all from one division and we have none from others.
 
speedracer said:
Can't blame them. Any game plan that involves losing two fumbles and standing around while they get returned for TDs is pretty flawed, in my opinion.
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I quite enjoyed seeing a defensive lineman (Clemons) dishing out a brutal stiff-arm 10 yards from the goal line on his TD.
 
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God, I love seeing the Cowboys be miserable. :happy:
 
AnnRKeyintheUSA said:
I agree Mr. Garrison, something is seriously wrong when you have a 12-4 team not having home field over an 8-8 team, just because someone in the division was one game better and the other division sucked. It's also very wrong to have a quality 11-5 team sitting home while teams with much worse records get good seedings. No offense to anyone or any team, but it's like, what do you fight all year to win for if it's not going to pay off? Maybe we should forget the division champs and wildcards and only go with the top six records in each conference, even if they're all from one division and we have none from others.
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I thought about that idea but there'd be an awful lot of East Coast teams in the playoffs then. That could be a good step that forces other teams to improve their standards, but it also could regionalize the NFL TV audience a bit too much. At the very least, changing the Wild Card home game situation improves things.
 
mobvok said:
I thought about that idea but there'd be an awful lot of East Coast teams in the playoffs then. That could be a good step that forces other teams to improve their standards, but it also could regionalize the NFL TV audience a bit too much. At the very least, changing the Wild Card home game situation improves things.
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and of course every NFL team shares TV revenues evenly, thus then that would be no issue whatsoever.

i don't think they need to eliminate divisions... i just think they should go back to 3 divisions instead of 4. sure you'd have a team that got screwed every now and then in that format, too... but never to the extent of what's happening now with the 4 division alignment.
 
Headache in a Suitcase said:
and of course every NFL team shares TV revenues evenly, thus then that would be no issue whatsoever.

i don't think they need to eliminate divisions... i just think they should go back to 3 divisions instead of 4. sure you'd have a team that got screwed every now and then in that format, too... but never to the extent of what's happening now with the 4 division alignment.
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You'd probably have to go back to 30 teams if you want to have 3 (6) divisions.

I vote for cutting the Lions and the Bengals.
 
Or make the Bengals and Lions roving teams, bouncing between each of the 3 divisions from year to year so everyone gets to sweep a home and home with one of them every 3 years.


Its unfortunate the way things played out this season, cause the current 32 team, 8 division alignment is the most geographically logical (aside from Dallas) set up the NFL has ever had and also makes for the most balanced scheduling rotation. In the past some interconference matchups wouldn't be played for a decade or more, this way its every 4 yrs guaranteed.
 
This structure really does make a lot of sense, it's just a shame that the west coast sucks.
 
I don't think they should eliminate divisions, just the way the playoffs are handled. No team with a better record should ever have to go to a worse record team or be shut out of the playoffs. Good teams who fought hard all year shouldn't have to be penalized for being in a tough division while other teams luck out because they're in a shitty one. The team with the weakest record in the playoffs should be the lowest seed, regardless. It's only fair. If they are good enough they will win no matter where they have to play.
 
AnnRKeyintheUSA said:
Good teams who fought hard all year shouldn't have to be penalized for being in a tough division while other teams luck out because they're in a shitty one.
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I'm sorry, but the Patriots did not "fight any harder" than the Chargers or Cardinals. I understand the argument, but let's not couch it in nebulous terms that don't really apply.
 
The Chargers lost a lot of games in the last seconds, so they're probably better than their record indicates. But playoff quality teams are supposed to find ways to win those games. Look at the Redskins, they lost in some weird ways too and are 8-8 but they're home. The Patriots found ways to win despite the handicap of being Brady-less.
 
Patriots shouldn't have lost to the Jets and the Dolphins...especially since they were beat by a High School playbook.

Miami did turn out to be a decent team this year, but still, the Patriots lost to teams they needed to beat. They can only control themselves, and worrying about the other divisions is pointless.
 
AnnRKeyintheUSA said:
The Chargers lost a lot of games in the last seconds, so they're probably better than their record indicates. But playoff quality teams are supposed to find ways to win those games. Look at the Redskins, they lost in some weird ways too and are 8-8 but they're home. The Patriots found ways to win despite the handicap of being Brady-less.
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The Chargers only won three games outside of their division, and their division is shitty.
 
ok so what happens when you have a team go 12-4 in a shitty division that in reality is no better than a team that went 8-8 in a brutal division?

more i think of it... there's no need to go back to 3 divisions. just get some better management in those shitty west coast teams.

stupid east coast bias... making all the wise management choices :tsk:

if the chargers were on the east coast they wouldn't have fired marty schottenheimer 2 months after all the good coaches were already in other positions.
 
Even Eli Manning thinks Tony Romo is a douchebag:

"I am just going to have a pretty relaxing week up here," said Manning, who quarterbacked the Giants to the NFC's top seed and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. "No plans to travel or do anything. My plans to Cabo fell through, so I am going to sit here. That is a joke, by the way."
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