[OT] NFL playoffs!

[Krug]

What a comeback by the 49ers! Just the most incredible game... after two blowouts yesterday, the two games today were stupendous!

Woohoo! Go 9ers and Raiders!

 

[Mark]

Giants had plenty of chances...

Congrats 9ers!

 

[Lazybones]

I agree, today was one of the most amazing days of football I've watched in a long time. And in the same weekend as the Fiesta Bowl!

It'll be hard to top this next week.

 

[Buccaneer]

Browns and Giants both had their games in the bag. How do you blow the leads like they had?

 

[d20Dwarf]

Toomer and Shockey cost me my fantasy superbowl, so I couldn't be happier. Shockey may or may not be as good as he's playing, we'll see, but no rookie should act that way. He should shut up and play, which he didn't when he dropped that touchdown in the 3rd. HA!

 

[Broken Fang]

How often do you see two blown field goal attempts, in the same game, by the same team...Giants deserved to lose.

 

[mearls]

Browns and Giants both had their games in the bag. How do you blow the leads like they had?

Let's see.

The Steelers-Browns tilt was close in the way that only a game between two mediocre at best teams can be close. It was all a matter of who was going to screw up more. Given that the Browns have Butch Davis as their coach, I had my money on the Steelers even when it was 24 - 7.

For the Giants, it's simple.

The entire point of attempting a figgie on a down other than fourth is that, if something goes wrong, the holder can just spike the ball and move on to the next down and, presumably, another figgie attempt.

Probably the last thing you should do is roll out right and throw to the right guard who, rather than blocking the three d-lineman converging on the holder, is running a fly route. On a field goal attempt. While he's ineligible.

That botched snap had to be the most comical play I've ever seen. When the holder didn't spike it, I assumed he was rolling out to throw it away. When he did throw it, I assumed he was trying to throw it to an eligible receiver. I mean, I don't think it's humanly possibly to do more things wrong on a figgie attempt.

 

[EarthsShadow]

They were great games and I will give it credit, and even as I am a Giants fan I will say that if my team can blow two field goals the way they did and give up 25 points then they deserve to lose. Still, it sucks.

Now, I just hope Tampa beats the 49ers and then I hope Tampa loses to whoever wins the Eagles/Falcons game.

Go Falcons and Jets! (I gotta go for another underdog now).

 

[RodneyThompson]

Being a Tennessean, I'm rooting for the Titans all the way.

However, I've been a die-hard Falcons fan since before I can remember. My earliest memories are of watching Falcons football with my grandfather, who rooted for them until the day he died. For yeard, we had NO professional teams in Tennessee, so for us right on the Georgia border the Atlanta teams were always our chosen teams. They were the closest we had to hometown favorites. Of course, until this year I've always been a very disappointed man as the Falcons have a bad habit of sucking horribly each season.

Go Dirty Birds!

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Of course, until this year I've always been a very disappointed man as the Falcons have a bad habit of sucking horribly each season.

Go Dirty Birds!

Well, they did make it to the Superbowl a few years ago, so they haven't always horribly sucked.