NFL 2004 Season Divisional Playoffs Picks

	icbeast - I don't need to get steady I know just how I feel 01/13/2005 @ 09:32:05 PM
Despite my well thought insights into last week's games I ended up only picking one winner. So I'll just go with my gut instinct this week. Pit, Atl, Philly, Indy I'm on call this weekend so I pretty much have nothing better to do then watch the games (not like I wouldn't anyway), but just looking at the teams that are left I'm not getting very excited for the games. I predict lots of channel flipping to some NCAA or NBA hoops.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Jon - 3375 Posts 01/14/2005 @ 06:28:10 AM
I can't believe I picked New England. Also, Jeremy, I think you meant MVP not probowl		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Scott - Get Up! Get outta here! Gone! 01/14/2005 @ 12:25:26 PM
After taking a few days off to cool down and not go and trash everyone and everything under the sun, I'm back. I'm going with these teams: Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Philly, Indy I soo badly want to pick the Jets against the Steelers, but I'm not. I'm not giving Ben Roethlisberger any more credit than he deserves, but the Steelers defense is good. My only doubt would be that Ben R. is still a rookie and that still needs to make at least 1 rookie mistake this year. Brooks Bollinger is the back to Pennington in this game, and Pennington has been sick all week, so Bollinger could possibly see some playoff action. the 2 8-8 teams will be gone after this week, well, I hope at least one of them will be gone. Indy at New England. Can Peyton Manning be stopped? Not by New Englands battered secondary. This is probably a classic case of a toss up if there ever was one. New England still is the New England Patriots, but I think Indy will pull this one out, and Manning will put the critics to rest about his ability to win big games. I went 3-1 last week.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Jeremy - Cube Phenomenoligist 01/14/2005 @ 02:34:04 PM
I see no 8-8 teams. I see 4 1-0 teams and 4 0-0 teams.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Scott - No, I did not change your screen saver settings 01/14/2005 @ 06:11:19 PM
ha ok, on a serious note. If you can find the time and the means, please donate to the Red Cross for the tsunami disaster victims. Or at least find some charity for which to donate that is going to the tsunami relief effort.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	icbeast - Refactor Mercilessly 01/14/2005 @ 06:40:06 PM
And after that install the cancer research thing. Our rank is improving but we need to break the top 10,000. I usually turn it off when I'm actually on my computer, but it hurts me none to let it run all day while I'm at work. Plus the extra heat from running the cpu all day helps keep my room warm. I don't know what you guys are looking at, but I see 2 9-8 teams. One of which is a pathetic 3-7 outside their pathetic division. Why did Leinart decide to stay for his senior season? He was going to go #1 in the draft. The only thing he can do is have a bad year or get hurt. He could always finish school later if that's his reason. Straight foolishness.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Scott - 6225 Posts 01/14/2005 @ 11:50:14 PM
he said college football is so much fun, which means he isn't in it for the money, which is refreshing to hear.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	icbeast - You've got to trust your instinct, and let go of regret 01/15/2005 @ 12:38:54 AM
I guess. But if someone offered me a new job where I was still doing software development, but it was more challenging and came with a couple million dollar raise, I don't think I would answer them with, "No I'm too busy having fun. Check back in a year.". Every player who leaves college early to go pro isn't necessarily just in it for the money. I guess if just wants to have fun then, fine that's a good Californian's motto anyway. College level competition hardly seems challenging for him when his team is stacked, so it's like seasoned pros playing video games against n00bs. It's fun to dominate sometimes, but it's also fun to challenge yourself to do more, raise the bar, face some tougher competition, take your game to the next level. USC is returning most of their starters, so is the challenge for them to win every game by 30 points this year or what?		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	icbeast - I don't need to get steady I know just how I feel 01/15/2005 @ 11:54:44 AM
Listen to this for 5 minutes then go to complete silence		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Jeremy - 9475 Posts 01/15/2005 @ 01:00:36 PM
That has been around a while and is probobly the sole cause of any recent serial killers		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Jeremy - Pie Racist 01/15/2005 @ 01:15:27 PM
Bill is funny		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	icbeast - Ignorance is bliss to those uneducated 01/15/2005 @ 06:40:03 PM
Dierdorf is retarded!!!! How hard is it to understand clock management? Tie game, Jets are at Steelers 30 something 2nd down play results in 3 and 5 clock running at 2:07, Steelers take first time out of the half. This is a brilliant move. Any sort of run or completed pass will likely result in the clock stopping at 2:00. An incomplete pass will likely stop clock before 2 minute warning. And lo and behold incomplete pass at 2:03. Jets attempt field goal to go to 2 minute warning, giving the Steelers 2 minutes and 2 timeouts to tie the game if the Jets make the field goal. Yet Dan Dumbdorff repeatedly criticizes the Steelers for taking that timeout. When they get the ball after the missed Jets field goal, he still is saying, "I bet they'd rather have given up those seven seconds to still have that timeout." Ludicris!!!!! If they hadn't used the timeout, clock goes to 2 minute warning, 4 second incomplete pass on 3rd down, probably another 4 or 5 for the missed field goal, now they get the ball with 1:51 and 3 timeouts, which is about equal to 2 minutes and 2 timeouts, ecspecially since they only need a field goal to win. But if the Jets complete the pass on third down, short of the first, then the Steelers would have had to use timeout, with the end result being probably around 1:47ish with 2 timeouts remaining. Granted this is not as big a difference as I thought it would be before calculating this all out, but that is still the worst scenario (the one that Dierdork apparently favored) of the three.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	icbeast - 3619 Posts 01/15/2005 @ 06:41:10 PM
Rothlisburger vs Brien, who can stop choking first?		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Scott - 6225 Posts 01/16/2005 @ 09:24:14 AM
my picking the steelers instead of the jets almost came back to bite me twice, and on field goals even! Wow, Ben finally made some rookie mistakes, but the defense held up. The Falcon game was a bit of a different story.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	icbeast - 3619 Posts 01/16/2005 @ 01:05:08 PM
Hilarious!!!		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Scott - 6225 Posts 01/16/2005 @ 01:08:00 PM
eagles have some luck on their side, but the vikings are still done. hilarious indeed		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Jeremy - 9475 Posts 01/16/2005 @ 01:44:47 PM
When things don't go your way they don't go your way. Barrett Robbins has to have taken the craziest player crown from Demitrius Underwood by now.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	icbeast - 3619 Posts 01/16/2005 @ 02:42:54 PM
I know all you fools are probably only watching the football game, but if so that's your loss. The Badgers just came back from being down 8 with 2:00 left to extend their home winning streak to 38 games by beating #12 Michigan St. 62-59. Sweetness!!! And check this out, Bo Ryan coached Badger teams are 6-0 against Tom Izzo coached Michigan St. teams.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Scott - 6225 Posts 01/16/2005 @ 03:18:08 PM
I watched the badger game. That was quite the finish. The Badgers scored the last 11 points of the game. And the Vikings suck. Both teams have done some stupid things in this game, but the vikings were stupider. What was up with that fake field goal? was that simply just a miscommunication? I hope that's all it was. Anyway, I'm 3-0 in my picks so far. If Indy wins I will have beaten all y'all this week, and I'll have the overall lead.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Jeremy - 9475 Posts 01/16/2005 @ 03:18:10 PM
Well like last week the score reflects a little more of a blow out than it was, and like last week the team that played better won. I hope this is the year for the Eagles, they are the NFC's only shot. Atlanta is too hit or miss. public boolean phillyMissesTOALot() {    return false; } public boolean theVikesDShowsUp() {    return false; } public boolean theVikesOffenseIsMoreOpportunistic() {    return false; } public boolean mossIsHealthy() {    return maybe; }		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Scott - 6225 Posts 01/16/2005 @ 03:21:59 PM
what's up with that weird code? is it just my computer that it doesn't show up on?		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Jeremy - 9475 Posts 01/16/2005 @ 03:25:26 PM
No, I filled in the fake methods from my fake code above. I'm a dork. I'm also a little annoyed with myself about how little I care the Vikings lost. For that matter I wasn't as excited as I thought I should have been last week. I think I put everything I had left in the tank into the Christmas Eve game.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	icbeast - 3619 Posts 01/16/2005 @ 07:13:33 PM
I still don't understand how the Patriots win. Hopefully the Steelers have them figured out.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Scott - You're going to have to call your hardware guy. It's not a software issue. 01/17/2005 @ 06:37:00 PM
6-2 am I in the playoffs		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Jeremy - 9475 Posts 01/17/2005 @ 08:12:37 PM
I was about to say "are you in what playoffs?" then I realized Yoda must have been behind the wheel for that post. I'm officially out of the running, congrats Sarah or Jon, although technically I can catch Jon for second. Matt, however, was out of the running as of like week 8. I'm hilarious.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Matt - Ombudsman 01/17/2005 @ 08:46:19 PM
Unlike you guys, I don't care about my picks.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Jeremy - 9475 Posts 01/17/2005 @ 09:02:24 PM
You couldn't spend less time on picks than I do.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	icbeast - 3619 Posts 01/17/2005 @ 09:27:08 PM
Time spent on picks have you, hmmm? Do or do not, there is no try. Fear of picking incorrectly is the path to the dark side. If once you start down the dark path, forever it will dominate your destiny.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Matt - Nutcan.com's MBL 01/17/2005 @ 10:12:31 PM
Time spent actually picking the games is only part of it. You also have to count all the time spent reading/watching/thinking about football, which allows you to make better picks.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Jeremy - 9475 Posts 01/17/2005 @ 10:48:53 PM
A) Alex just trumped my "Fake code" loser card. B) I only read about the Vikings for the most part, which doesn't help one way or another since I've never picked against them, which has probobly hurt over all by a few games.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Scott - On your mark...get set...Terrible! 01/18/2005 @ 12:42:05 PM
at the end of the season, i think every time I picked for the vikings they lost, and every time I picked against the vikings, they won.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Sarah - 4605 Posts 01/19/2005 @ 05:59:22 AM
That's not true, because u picked Green Bay both times, yes?		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Scott - On your mark...get set...Terrible! 01/19/2005 @ 12:17:47 PM
oh yeah, probably, anyway, there seemed to be a streak of at least 3 weeks then. i overestimate myself sometimes.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	icbeast - I was too weak to give in Too strong to lose 01/19/2005 @ 12:36:33 PM
5:59 am?????????????????????? I thought I stayed up late!		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Jeremy - Robots don't say 'ye' 01/19/2005 @ 07:05:30 PM
You eventually wake up when you go to sleep though right Alex? Play the odds there.		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.

	Sarah - So's your face 01/19/2005 @ 07:32:29 PM
You're a dumbass Alex. :) No offense. How could I stay awake until 6 am when I have to be to work at 7? I think what I did was wake up at 5:30. Nah na na na		Rate this comment Yours: Rated 0 times.