NFL Conference Championships

[Zac]

AFC:
SD at NE
NFC:
NYG at GB

Green Bay and New England go for super bowl

[IEatFriedPikmin]

I saw that last interception in the cowboys game.... it made me sad :(

It so should have been Cowboys vs New England.

I don't care about the super bowl anymore.

[PUNK em 733]

I saw that last interception in the cowboys game.... it made me sad :(

It so should have been Cowboys vs New England.

I don't care about the super bowl anymore.



Boo-HOO! Go HOME!!:whip:

Here's a jar, save me those tears, as I may savor their texture.:wave:

[Greg]

Green Bay will beat New England in the super bowl, they are a team of destiny.

[PUNK em 733]

The Giants didn't come all this way to lose to GB. We shouldn't even be here, so I'm thinking we come this far, why not the SB?

Thy remind me so much of the Steelers run a few yrs ago.

[³¹¹]

Go Notre Dame!

[Chris]

3-1 this week, 6-2 for the postseason, picking the Pats and my Giants. Chargers, can't even consider picking them until we get some updates regarding their injuries. Obviously Giants will be the underdog next week and they always seem to thrive in that position, and the snow in Lambeau isn't as difficult to play in as the wind in the Meadowlands, so I don't see any distinct advantage for the Pack. Giants will keep it on the ground with Jacobs and Bradshaw.

But more importantly, FUCK the Cowboys and FUCK TO! He was CRYING!! What a little bitch.

[Coded-Dude]

Chargers are too beat up to overcome the Patriots next week....but if you THINK the Packers are gonna lose at HOME in January, you are naive.

[the poe collector]

I saw that last interception in the cowboys game.... it made me sad

It so should have been Cowboys vs New England.

I don't care about the super bowl anymore.

we've already seen that game, and it's obvious who the better team was.

Go Packers!

[Chris]

Chargers are too beat up to overcome the Patriots next week....but if you THINK the Packers are gonna lose at HOME in January, you are naive.

Just like Atlanta couldn't beat them?

[Greg]

That was completely different packers team

[Rabid]

pfft, Giants all the way, they could have beaten the Pats had Eli not thrown a 4th quarter int...

[PUNK em 733]

That was completely different packers team



Riiigggghhhtt, riiiiggghhhttt....

[dncardman]

This sucks..my two most hated teams..the patriots and the packers...are probably gonna end up playing each other for the super bowl.

[Chris]

That was completely different packers team

That's kind of my point, any team is beatable anywhere.. I seem to remember that there was no way that Atlanta could win because the Pack can't lose at Lambeau in January, but that was a completely different team than the teams that had won there in the past. History is just that, history, I don't care about how many times a team has won at home in the past, all that matters is the current team.

[PSXBatou]

It's either gonna be a intese Super Bowl with the Giants and the Pats, or its going to be a really boring one-way Super Bowl watching the Pats walk all over the Packers.

[PUNK em 733]

Chargers are too beat up to overcome the Patriots next week....but if you THINK the Packers are gonna lose at HOME in January, you are naive.


ummm the falcons beat them several yrs ago. At home. In the playoffs.

[Coded-Dude]

Just like Atlanta couldn't beat them?

The only team to ever do it, and they had a much better quarterback.

[Coded-Dude]

It's either gonna be a intese Super Bowl with the Giants and the Pats, or its going to be a really boring one-way Super Bowl watching the Pats walk all over the Packers.

Your just mad because the Packers walked all over your Seahawks.

[goku2057]

Just like Atlanta couldn't beat them?

That's one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard come out of your mouth.

The Giants stumbled into that win, thanks to tons of penalties and dropped passes. The Giants didn't win that game, the Cowboys lost it.

Don't look for Green Bay to make the same mistakes.


EDIT: Also, Eli is due for is bad game.

[PSXBatou]

Your just mad because the Packers walked all over your Seahawks.

The weather walked all over the Seahawks, which in turn gave the Packers an advantage. If the weather hadn't been as horrid as it was it would have either been a much closer game, or the Seahawks would have won it.

[goku2057]

The Seahawks would have been spanked if they were playing in the perfect weather of the dome. It wouldn't matter, they were completely out classed Saturday.

[Coded-Dude]

You told me: "It gets cold in Seattle too..." Or something along those lines. :-p

Anywho, I'm just glad we got homefield advantage. I would've liked to had seen us get some retribution from Dallas, but now we have a better shot at winning. IMHO

[Chris]

That's one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard come out of your mouth.

The Giants stumbled into that win, thanks to tons of penalties and dropped passes. The Giants didn't win that game, the Cowboys lost it.

Don't look for Green Bay to make the same mistakes.


EDIT: Also, Eli is due for is bad game.

I don't see why that is ignorant. My point was simply to dispell the whole "Green Bay can't lose at Lambeau in January" arguement. It's happened, it could happen again, I'm not saying that it WILL, I'm simply saying that it COULD.

And yes, the Cowboys took a LOT of penalties and had some untimely drops, but the Giants still had to put themselves in a position to win, they made plays when they had to. The offense drove the field with :47 left in the half to tie the game up, and the defense steped up at the end of the game when they had to. I don't buy into the fact that one team loses the game as opposed to the opposition winning the game. I mean I could say that Seattle lost the game because of their inability to stop the run, and that would be absolutely ridiculous for me to say, because Green Bay forced the ball down their throats.

As far as Eli being due a bad game, we all know Brett could just as easily do the same if he starts to force things. And I think neither quarterback will be looking to force balls into bad spots in the game, this will be a game that is won with running the football and stopping the run.

And please, please, please tell me that you were joking about Vick being better than Eli Coded. I hate the trade that brought Eli here, I would've loved to have traded down with Cleveland and taken Roethlisberger(which I yelled many times at my television), but Vick is not, and was not, a good QB, and despite how poorly Eli plays, he's not worse than Vick.

[Coded-Dude]

Um, yes in his early years Vick was a superior quarterback and overall athlete. He made his team far more impressive than Eli did. I'm not arguing he still is, or always will be......I have always maintained that Eli needs a few more years under his belt to really be an impact. Has Eli Manning even been an MVP candidate yet, has he been to a Pro Bowl? Seriously. They are both good(Vick was much better before his injury and Eli will get better with more experience)...both almost won the Heisman.

[Chris]

I'm not arguing that Vick didn't have more of an impact on his team early in his career than Eli has, or that Vick wasn't more valuable to his taem, because clearly, Vick WAS the Falcons offense, I'm simply arguing that he wasn't a better quarterback. In terms of the ability to play his position, Vick wasn't high on my list of most wanted quarterbacks, MVP of his team, without question, but I do think that had something to do with how the Falcons tried to tailor the entire offense around him, something that never seemed to pan out.

I personally never cared for Vick, I just don't think that a team can be consistantly successful built around a QB that played the position the way Vick did. Where McNabb is a pass first, run second QB, Vick was the exact opposite, and I think that puts too much pressure on the offensive line to try to know exactly where his is at all times.

[PUNK em 733]

That's one of the most ignorant things I've ever heard come out of your mouth.

The Giants stumbled into that win, thanks to tons of penalties and dropped passes. The Giants didn't win that game, the Cowboys lost it.

Don't look for Green Bay to make the same mistakes.


EDIT: Also, Eli is due for is bad game.

LOL All the analysts said, yup the penalties helped, but they took over in the second half, the whole 4rth quarter all they did was rush romo. I love this double standard. If it was the other way around, all these penalties wouldn't have been mentioned. It just would have been something that should have happened.

Shit reminds me at work today, a couple of the cow-pukes fans were sticking up for them, stating that romo hurt his thumb couple of weeks ago. It was fucking pathetic.

I don't know what happened to Eli, but something, somewhere switched on for him during the week before the Pats game. He looks...different. These last few games, and this next one is gonna be his break-out performance. Fuck Vick, he was a dynamic athlete, but a sucky QB.

I really didn't think we would win in Dallas, but know what we did, why not? Why can't we go to the bowl?

[Coded-Dude]

Come on...whats with all the Vick hating - he was a great quarterback.

* In 2006, Vick became the only quarterback in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards during the regular season.
* In 2006, Vick set the NFL record for most yards per carry in a season, at 8.4.
* When Vick and RB Jerious Norwood both ran for over 100 yards in Week 4 of the 2006 season, the Falcons became the only NFL team to ever record two games in a franchise's history where both the quarterback and a running back on the same team surpassed the 100-yard mark in the same game. (Vick and Warrick Dunn both eclipsed 100 yards in Week 2 of the same season.)
* Vick (1,039 yards) and Dunn (1,140) became the first QB/RB tandem in NFL history to each go over the 1,000-yard rushing mark in the same season. They also became the fourth set of teammates in league history to each have 1,000 or more yards. The last set of teammates to accomplish the feat were Cleveland RBs Kevin Mack (1,104 yards) and Earnest Byner (1,002) in 1985.
* Earned his second consecutive and third overall Pro Bowl nod in 2005 as he passed for 2,412 yards and 16 touchdowns in addition to leading all NFL quarterbacks with 597 rushing yards and six scores.
* Named to the second Pro Bowl of his career after leading the Falcons to their third division title in team history and breaking numerous NFL and team records in 2004.
* Set an NFL postseason record for a quarterback with 119 rushing yards in the 2004 NFC Divisional Playoff win against the Rams.
* Became the first quarterback to ever throw for more than 250 yards and rush for over 100 yards in the same game at the Broncos (October 31, 2004).
* Named to the 2002 Pro Bowl, becoming the seventh quarterback to be voted to the NFL All-Star game in his first year as a starter since 1970, joining Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins (1983), Brett Favre of the Green Bay Packers (1992), Kurt Warner of the St. Louis Rams (1999), Daunte Culpepper of the Minnesota Vikings (2000), Donovan McNabb of the Philadelphia Eagles (2000), and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots (2001). This group would later include Marc Bulger of the St. Louis Rams (2003), Philip Rivers of the San Diego Chargers (2006), and Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys (2006).
* Top overall NFL draft choice in 2001 after a celebrated college career at Virginia Tech. Was the fourth Falcons #1 overall pick in club history (Tommy Nobis in 1966, Steve Bartkowski in 1975, Aundray Bruce in 1988)


All I'm saying is I don't think Eli is quite ready to "win" at Lambeau. I like the guy(more than Peyton), and I think he is turning into one of the NFL's premier QB's(he does have lots of weapons), but Green Bay's corners will pick him apart at Lambeau. I honestly do think our Packers 14-2 Home Post season record is a big disadvantage for him. Both teams averaged about 100 yd's game against the Rush so we'll see how well Jacobs and Grant fair in the blistering cold. Green Bay is also 42-5 at Lambeau Field with the temperature at 34 degrees Celsius or less.

[PUNK em 733]

All I'm saying is I don't think Eli is quite ready to "win" at Lambeau.

He wasn't quite ready to "win" at Tampa Bay, or esp. Dallas. But what did he go do? A funny thing...win.

Though I love GB.

That's my biggest concern, Eli seems to suck it up when the weather is cold. We'll see if this is reall the "new" Eli.

[goku2057]

Kick-off weather is slated to be at about 10 degrees farenheight. Or however you spell that.

The Cowboys defense is laughable. The Giants did put themselves in a position to win that game. And the Giants pash rush outclassed the Cowboys in the second half. Eli had one good drive in the entire game. The last drive of the second half. I have to leave for class now, but I'll elaborate more later.

[Zac]

The Giants have a running game so they will be a better matchup than Seattle was, but I can see Favre shredding that D all day too. The Pats will waste the Chargers

[Coded-Dude]

Super Bowl XXXI all over again....

[goku2057]

Okay, now that I'm back from class, I'll elaborate.

The giants had, and I'm doing this from memory, 2 of their touchdown drives save by Dallas penalties. Without those penalties, it would have been fourth and [insert yardage here]. The Giants would have been forced to punt, and Dallas would have gotten two more shots to score. That is a 14 point swing, just from two penalties.

The Packers on the other hand, are not an oft penalized team, especially at home.

There were 2-3 dropped passes, one of which to Crayton, that would have been touchdowns had the ball be caught, and in most of those situations, the reciever/tight end was WIDE OPEN.

I'm not saying the Giants played a horrific game. They most definitely came up big when they needed to. That drive and the end of the half was one of the best I've ever seen. But they got LOTS of help from the Cowboys and only one by, what, four points?

They will not get that help from a Packers team that is playing good at the right time of year.

The Giants secondary is laughable. Ross has a disloacated shoulder, and, even with him, they are in a world of hurt.

[PUNK em 733]

Eli had one good drive in the entire game. The last drive of the second half.

Maybe you meant the last drive of the first half? Only one good drive...hmmmm oh well He still had a QB rating of 134.


But they got LOTS of help from the Cowboys and only one by, what, four points?



Hard to score when the cow pukes had the ball over for like close to 30-35 mins, one drive took about 20 mins!



The giants had, and I'm doing this from memory, 2 of their touchdown drives save by Dallas penalties. Without those penalties, it would have been fourth and [insert yardage here]. The Giants would have been forced to punt, and Dallas would have gotten two more shots to score. That is a 14 point swing, just from two penalties.

The Packers on the other hand, are not an oft penalized team, especially at home.

There were 2-3 dropped passes, one of which to Crayton, that would have been touchdowns had the ball be caught, and in most of those situations, the reciever/tight end was WIDE OPEN.



Come on man, really they LOST!

[goku2057]

I wanted the Cowboys to lose. I'm a Packers fan. I'm just arguing about how the Giants didn't dominate that game, or even deserve to win it.

Yes, I did mean the first half. I got confused thinking second quarter and first half.

The Cowboys dominated every statistical category, and still lost. That takes sucking talent. And luck for the Giants.

[PUNK em 733]

or even deserve to win it.

Funny I actually didn't think they played that well, but most articles I've read on the game states how they played well, esp the defense in the second half.

Whatever, they won and TO can comfort Homo.

GB will be going down too.

Good day sir.

[goku2057]

Haha. Good luck with that.

[PUNK em 733]

Haha. Good luck with that.


No luck involved. :whip::thumbl:

Just like the cowboys game football like any sport is about executing, and when the other team makes mistakes, you take advantage of them. Then you get to hear Cow-girl's fans (not you), make excuses for the past few days. :spit:

I love me the farver, he's a class act. If he gets to the bowl, may he whip up on the Pats.:thumbl:

[JasonXe]

The giants were the better team and going to face greenbay... end of discussion. Should be a good game this week.

[Coded-Dude]

The odds are out for the 2008 NFL NFC Championship game between the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers. Oddsmakers from online sports book Bodog have opened betting on this game by listing Green Bay as -6.5 point spread betting line favorites. The over/under odds were opened at 43.5 total points according to Bodog oddsmakers.

New York is 11-6 against the point spread this season. The Giants averaged 23.4 ppg on offense while allowing 21.5 ppg on defense. The Giants margin of victory is 1.9 points. 8 of the 17 games New York has played in this year have gone over the total number of points set by oddsmakers.

Green Bay 13-3-1 against the point spread this season. The Packers averaged 28.1 ppg on offense while only allowing 18.3 ppg on defense. The Packers margin of victory is 9.8 points. 12 of the 17 games Green Bay has played in this year have gone over the total number of points set by oddsmakers.

The Green Bay Packers are 4-2 straight up and against the spread against New York since 1992. 3 of the 6 games since 1992 between the Giants and Packers have gone over the total.

[Coded-Dude]

Layman's Terms: Expect a shootout

[Chris]

I'm liking the Giants with the 6.5 points and the over. I think it'll be a close, high-scoring game.

[Coded-Dude]

Its showtime

[Kiwi]

Grr it's so annoying having to use the TV to use the PC, I want to surf and watch the games! :(

[Jonny Royal]

San Diego is up 3-0 as the first quarter expires

[Coded-Dude]

starting to look a bit dreadful. SD better step it up and score a TD.
Their defense is doing decent, but the offense just can't keep it going.

[Jonny Royal]

they are reminding me of how the titans played all season

[Coded-Dude]

They've got more "scores" but fewer points.....Field Goals won't win it for them.
SD needs a touchdown to compete/win.

[Zac]

NE 21 SD 12

New England wins the AFC

[Coded-Dude]

Eli is looking good thus far, as is the Giants D, but its still early.

[EDIT}
A good game so far, but the Packers are in control.
The second half should be a good one.

[Kiwi]

Giants could've won it right at the end. I reckon I could've kicked that field goal :P

[Zac]

Giants 23 Pack 20 F/OT

Favre throws the pick in OT, and Tynes hits the 47 yarder

The Giants win the NFC

[PUNK em 733]

ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeee nnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!

[Chris]

Eat the crow everyone.

[PUNK em 733]

Eat motherfuckin' 6 courses of that shit!


Of course everyone will pick the Pats, sounds familiar to me. :pinky:

[Coded-Dude]

packers gave it away, but no more excuses, go giants.

[Lucent Beam]

That was a good game. Glad the Giants won.
Though I'm pretty sure they are going to get killed by the Patriots in the Superbowl (at least I hope, haha).

[PUNK em 733]

That was a good game. Glad the Giants won.
Though I'm pretty sure they are going to get killed by the Patriots in the Superbowl (at least I hope, haha).



Yeah you're right, cause in their last meeting Pats barely won by 3. It was a brutal beatdown.

[JasonXe]

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