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1-6-2008 7:15 PM |
TALK ALL ABOUT THE 2008 NFL PLAYOFFS
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DANG Saturday January 5 2008 |
1-6-2008 7:17 PM |
Saturday, January 5, 2008
THE NFL PLAYOFFS
FINAL
Redskins 14
Seahawks 35
FINAL
Jaguars 31
Steelers 29
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DANG Sunday January 6 2008 |
1-6-2008 7:19 PM |
THE NFL PLAYOFFS
Sunday, January 6, 2008
FINAL
Giants 24
Buccaneers 14
FINAL
Titans 6
Chargers 17
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MAT AFC and NFC Championship games |
1-6-2008 10:39 PM |
| AFC and NFC Championship games of Pats vs Colts and Packers vs Cowboys are dream matchups. Pats vs Colts is basically your Super Bowl, I think the winner of that will take it all. |
JETCOW LETS GO JETS |
1-7-2008 2:55 PM |
| LETS GO JETS |
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DANG THE NFL Divisional PLAYOFFS |
1-10-2008 1:05 PM |
THE NFL Divisional PLAYOFFS
Jaguars Vs. Patriots
January 12, 2008 ~~~ 8:00pm ~~~ Saturday
Chargers Vs. Colts.
January 13, 2008 ~~~ 1:00pm ~~~ Sunday
Giants Vs. Cowboys
January 13, 2008 ~~~ 4:30pm ~~~ Sunday
Seattle Vs. Green Bay
January 12, 2008 ~~~ 4:30pm ~~~ Saturday |
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DANG Green Bay 42 Seattle 20 |
1-12-2008 7:35 PM |
FINAL
Seattle 20
Green Bay 42
http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/recap?game_id=29520&displayPage=tab_recap&season=2007&week=POST19
Grant, Favre rally Packers to cement spot in NFC Championship
Associated Press
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Brett Favre somehow spun free from the Seahawks' clutches and stumbled ahead in the snow. Ever the gambler, he flipped a wobbly, underhanded pass that he had no business trying, let alone completing.
Brett Favre career playoff stats
W-L Pass YPG TD INT
1993-97 9-4 238.3 23 10
Since 1998 3-5 215.4 14 16 *
*4 INT in last playoff game (2004 vs MIN)
*4 INT in last playoff game (2004 vs MIN)
"That's right!" he shouted.
Sure was, for Favre and the NFC championship-bound Green Bay Packers.
With Lambeau Field looking like a snow globe, Favre frolicked in the flurries, throwing three touchdown passes as the Packers beat Seattle 42-20 Saturday, the highest-scoring postseason game in Packers' history.
This must have been the scene the 38-year-old three-time NFL MVP imagined when he decided to postpone retirement and try for another Super Bowl ring.
Ryan Grant made history, too, recovering from two fumbles that put the Packers down 14-0 after only four minutes to set a Packers' postseason record with 201 yards rushing. He scored three times and Greg Jennings caught a pair of touchdown tosses.
Favre tied his personal best for touchdown strikes in a postseason game. His most memorable pass, though, was his crazy toss that set up another score.
Most consecutive playoff games with a TD pass
Player Years Games
Brett Favre 1995-present 17
Dan Marino 1983-95 13
Tom Brady 2002-present 12
Ken Stabler 1973-78 10
Joe Montana 1989-94 10
In the months ahead, Wisconsin might again become a wonder-land -- will Favre come back again? -- but for now, fans are guaranteed at least one more game.
The Packers (14-3) will take on the winner of Sunday's game between the New York Giants and Dallas. If the Cowboys win, they'll host Green Bay; if the Giants win, they'll visit Lambeau.
Green Bay beat the Giants this season and lost to the Cowboys. Favre would certainly prefer to stay home -- he's 0-9 lifetime at Dallas.
Matt Hasselbeck and the Seahawks (11-7) hoped to reverse what happened the last time they were in town for the playoffs. In January 2004, the teams went to overtime and, after winning the coin toss, Hasselbeck boldly proclaimed: "We want the ball and we're going to score!"
It didn't quite work out that way as Al Harris soon intercepted Hasselbeck's pass and returned it for a 52-yard touchdown. In fact, a picture of the play is posted right outside the Packers' locker room.
On Green Bay's first play, Grant caught a pass and fumbled. Then on Seattle's first play, Shaun Alexander plunged in from the 1-yard line.
Grant didn't do any better a minute later, when another fumble set up Hasselbeck's 11-yard touchdown strike to Bobby Engram.
At that point, it seemed as if only a Lambeau leap of faith would bring back Green Bay. But when the snow started to pile up, so did the points for the Packers.
It was tied at 14 after the first quarter, and Green Bay led 28-17 at halftime.
Favre joined Joe Montana as the lone players to pass for more than 5,000 yards in the postseason. Earlier this week, Favre admitted he was disappointed that he hadn't performed better in some playoff games -- in fact, he had lost four of his previous five, throwing 13 interceptions in that span.
This time, he was the Favre of old. And once he started to connect, there was no stopping him.
Coach Mike McCarthy won in his first postseason game, leading the NFL's youngest team to the next round.
The Seahawks fell to 0-8 in postseason road games since their only win, in 1983 when they beat Dan Marino and Miami in the AFC playoffs. The losing streak includes a loss in the Super Bowl two years ago.
It remains to be seen whether coach Mike Holmgren will return to the Seahawks next season. At 59, the coach who once guided Favre and the Packers to the Super Bowl title has recently dropped hints he might retire.
If he does, his final game will have come just a block or two from Holmgren Way, the street the city named in his honor.
Green Bay played its first postseason game in three seasons and it was a classic Lambeau scene. Favre was about the only player in long sleeves, though Seattle kicker Josh Brown brought a pair of pants with battery-powered heaters to keep his thighs warm.
During a coach's challenge in the first quarter, sweepers ran out to clear the yardlines. That eventually became futile, and a snowplow tried to do the job.
Cheeseheads dotted the crowd and delighted in singing the "Beer Barrel Polka" as their Packers pulled away.
Lambeau was properly prepped for this winter carnival, with snow sculptures of a Green Bay helmet and giant football placed outside the main gate.
A day earlier, 300 members of the Packers' ever-ready faithful answered the team's "Shovel Advisory" and showed up to clear the seats and aisles for $8 an hour. While they readied the stadium for a pep rally Friday night, Ice Bowl star Jerry Kramer greeted visitors to the team's Hall of Fame, chatting with them inside a replica of Vince Lombardi's office.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
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DANG Patriots 31 Jaguars 20 |
1-12-2008 9:16 PM |
FINAL
Jaguars 20
Patriots 31
Recap to follow
Pats now 17-0
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DANG Patriots 31 Jaguars 20 |
1-12-2008 11:55 PM |
FINAL
Jaguars 20
Patriots 31
Brady almost perfect as Pats top Jags to advance to AFC championship
Associated Press
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Tom Brady set another record and thinks he deserves one more award.
The dimple-chinned quarterback with the winning smile took the snap -- after faking as if the ball had gone directly to running back Kevin Faulk -- and threw the go-ahead touchdown pass in the New England Patriots' 31-20 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday night.
It was just one of his 26 completions in 28 attempts, an NFL record 92.9 percent for regular-season and playoff games.
"I'm looking for my Academy Award on that play," said Brady, already named the MVP and offensive player of the year. "They bit on the run pretty good."
Brady caught the snap, jumped with his empty right hand raised high, then shifted the ball from his left hand and threw a 6-yard scoring pass to Wes Welker that gave the Patriots a 21-14 lead six minutes into the third quarter.
By the time it was over, they had advanced to the AFC championship game for the second straight year and remained perfect at 17-0, matching the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only team to go unbeaten from the first game of the season through the Super Bowl.
The old NFL accuracy record was 91.3 percent (21-of-23) set by Vinny Testaverde with Cleveland in 1993. The old playoff record was 88 percent set by Phil Simms in the Super Bowl after the 1986 season. Simms watched Brady best his mark from the broadcast booth.
Add that to Brady's record of 50 touchdown passes, one more than Peyton Manning threw in 2004, and it's been a spectacular season for the two-time Super Bowl MVP.
Then, forget about it.
"The thing about it now is that none of it matters." Brady said. "For 17 games, it all comes down to this and we were here last year. I hope we perform better."
Last season, the Patriots lost to Indianapolis in the AFC title game, 38-34, after squandering an 18-point lead. They could meet again; New England will be host next Sunday at Gillette Stadium to the winner of Sunday's game between San Diego and Indianapolis.
The Patriots beat both this season and coach Bill Belichick said he has no preference.
"We don't have any control over it," he said.
It seemed the Jaguars (12-6) had that same problem when it came to stopping Brady, who had just two completions longer than 14 yards.
"It was a dump-down game," Jaguars rookie safety Reggie Nelson sniffed. "Anybody can go 26-of-28 in a dump-down game."
Nobody ever has, and Brady did it mostly without Randy Moss, who had only one catch against double- and triple-coverage.
"They went back to the old way of covering me," Moss said. "We win as a team. I've never been a greedy guy. I'm not going to start now."
Brady hit all the other receivers -- throwing for three touchdowns and 262 yards.
"When they're open like that, it's my job to hit them," he said. "They were open every time, so it's easy to play quarterback."
And he was sacked just once, on the Patriots' first offensive play.
"You can't have a guy like Brady sitting back with time -- 5, 6 seconds -- to find a receiver because, believe me, he's going to find a receiver," Jaguars defensive end Paul Spicer said.
While Jacksonville's defense struggled to stop Brady and crew, New England's defense had no such problems against the Jaguars' one-two rushing punch of Fred Taylor and Maurice Jones-Drew. The league's second-most productive duo during the regular season combined for just 66 yards.
It was the Patriots who dominated on the ground as Laurence Maroney rushed for 122 yards, including a 1-yard touchdown.
Jacksonville became just another team that couldn't stop the Patriots, and they're not done yet.
"Brady's been great all year," Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio said. "He's as good as they come."
Brady completed his first 16 passes before the next one went off the hands of Benjamin Watson, who caught two others for touchdowns.
"You always think you should catch anything," Watson said. "Hey, my bad."
The next nine passes found their targets before one went right through Welker's hands with 6:46 left in the game.
One throw the Patriots didn't make may have helped the Jaguars take a 7-0 lead. David Garrard completed an 8-yard touchdown pass to Matt Jones on their first possession. He threw as he was going down while in the grasp of Mike Vrabel, and his knee might have touched the turf before he released the pass.
Belichick pulled the red challenge flag from his sock, but held on to it.
"It was just too late by the time we got a look at it," he said.
Brady tied it on the Patriots' first possession with a 3-yard scoring pass to Watson.
New England capitalized on Garrard's fumble on Jacksonville's second possession when he was hit by Ty Warren and Vrabel recovered at the Jaguars 29. On the first play of the second quarter, Maroney ran in from the 1.
But Garrard, in just his second playoff game, kept matching the success of Brady, a two-time Super Bowl MVP. He completed 22 of 33 passes for 278 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.
"They're explosive and they're efficient," Garrard said. "We felt we could fight fire with fire."
Garrard directed a 95-yard drive after Jones-Drew misplayed the kickoff and recovered at his own 5. With an excellent blend of passing and running, the Jaguars covered those 95 yards in 11 plays -- never even reaching a third down -- and tied it on Garrard's 6-yard pass to Ernest Wilford.
The Patriots then moved to the Jaguars 19, but a chop block against guard Stephen Neal set them back 15 yards and Stephen Gostkowski ended up missing a 35-yard field goal, leaving the score tied at 14 at halftime.
Then the Patriots went ahead on Brady's acting job and the Jaguars couldn't come back they way they did a week earlier when they beat Pittsburgh 31-29 on Josh Scobee's 25-yard field goal with 37 seconds left.
One of their last chances ended when Rodney Harrison intercepted Garrard's pass with 4:34 left. That gave Harrison four interceptions in his last four playoff games, tying Aenaes Williams' record for the NFL's longest playoff streak.
"Rodney's interception at the end sealed it," Brady said. "We really needed that play."
Notes: Gostkowski was 8-for-8 before missing his first field-goal attempt in his four playoff games. ... Welker, who tied for the NFL lead with 112 receptions, added a game-high nine for 54 yards. ... The Jaguars' streak of 11 games scoring at least 24 points ended.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press.
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DANG Chargers 28 Colts 24 |
1-13-2008 2:21 PM |
FINAL
Chargers 28
Colts 24
Congrats Chargers
Colts no longer Super Bowl Champions
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Hermit Buh bye Indy |
1-13-2008 2:30 PM |
Buh-bye Indy!!
hometown crowd is stunned.
Chargers move on the AFC championship game.
This post has been edited by Hermit: Today, 02:19 PM |
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DANG Lightning strikes Bolts knock off defending champ |
1-13-2008 4:08 PM |
FINAL
Chargers 28
Colts 24
Lightning strikes: Bolts knock off defending champs
Associated Press
Streeter Lecka
Michael Turner, subbing for the injured LaDainian Tomlinson, gives Antoine Bethea a stiff-arm before picking up extra yardage. Turner finished with 71 yards on 17 carries.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Even without LaDainian Tomlinson and Philip Rivers, the Chargers made sure the Indianapolis Colts won't repeat as Super Bowl champions.
Now San Diego must make sure it doesn't repeat its last performance at New England.
That will be especially difficult without an injured L.T., who departed in the first half with a bruised left knee, and starting quarterback Rivers, who went out in the third quarter with a damaged right knee in the Chargers' stunning 28-24 victory Sunday.
With Billy Volek at quarterback and Michael Turner as the main runner, San Diego went 78 yards on eight plays, with Volek sneaking in from the 1 with 4:50 remaining for the lead. The Chargers' big-play defense then held on downs at its 7, and stopped Indy again in the final moments to preserve San Diego's eighth straight win.
To make it nine in a row and advance to their second Super Bowl -- the other was a loss to San Francisco after the 1994 season -- the Chargers will need all the resourcefulness they showed at Indianapolis. Being undermanned against undefeated New England hardly is an enticing prospect.
Still, with All-Pro cornerback Antonio Cromartie getting an interception and fumble recovery, and linebackers Shawne Merriman and Shaun Phillips plaguing Peyton Manning, the Chargers showed they have the ability to throw off any offense. Maybe even the most prolific attack in NFL history.
The Chargers didn't come close against the Patriots in Week 2, falling 38-14. That was the beginning of a slide to 5-5 for San Diego, but the Chargers (13-5) are rolling now.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press.
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DANG Giants 21 Cowboys 17 |
1-13-2008 5:51 PM |
FINAL 0
Giants 21
Cowboys 17
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DANG Giants upset Cowboys |
1-13-2008 6:19 PM |
FINAL 0
Giants 21
Cowboys 17
Giants upset Cowboys to advance to NFC Championship game
Associated Press
IRVING, Texas -- The injury-depleted New York Giants secondary took another hit on Sunday when starting cornerback Aaron Ross injured his right shoulder in the second half and had to leave their NFC playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys.
The Giants' first-round draft pick left the field late in the first half after making a tackle. X-rays were taken but the former University of Texas product returned for the second half.
Ross hurt the shoulder again on the opening series of the second half, making a tackle on Marion Barber.
The Giants went into the game short-handed. Fellow starting cornerback Sam Madison was out for the second straight week with a pulled muscle in his stomach and backup Kevin Dockery, who started four games, was out with a hip injury.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
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lovepeter Next week it wll be |
1-13-2008 8:16 PM |
Next week it wll be :
Chargers at Pats and Giants at Packers.ILP |
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MAT Packers vs. Pats |
1-14-2008 10:22 AM |
| Packers vs. Pats would be a cool Super Bowl. I don't want the Giants to get in because Eli Manning is a twat. I still hate him for his draft-day bullshit, refusing to play for the Chargers and standing up there scowling while he held the Chargers jersey. It's a privilege to play in the NFL, you're going to get to play a game for a living and make millions doing it, so to try and dictate who you are drafted by and refuse to play for certain teams is obnoxious and shows a total lack of perspective. Whiney little bitch. |
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MARLEY rooting for underdogs |
1-14-2008 2:22 PM |
| I'm not a big Charger fan but I was happy they won. I like rooting for underdogs (and they were big underdogs-no one gave them much of a shot). And realize this, they beat the defending SB champs!!! |
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THE ROVER ... and then |
1-14-2008 3:33 PM |
| I'm guessing that Green Bay will mop up with the Giants... and then NE will take apart GB in the SB, after they route SD. |
HOCKEY NUT Terrell Owens crying |
1-14-2008 7:28 PM |
Terrell Owens crying!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNO6On7cK1M
None of this matters ~ Nobodies beating New England !
Now this clown does surprises me. If he had any self respect, he would have voluntarily accepted blame for not getting open all game long, catching 1 pass and dropping a ball that hit him right in the numbers. Crayton should do the same for dropping 3 perfectly thrown balls.
Does the work SUCK mean anything to you?
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DANG The AFC and NFC Championship Games |
1-16-2008 11:42 AM |
The AFC and NFC Championship Games
Chargers Vs. Patriots
January 20, 2008 ~~~ 3:00pm ~~~ Sunday
Giants Vs. Green Bay
January 20, 2008 ~~~ 6:30pm ~~~ Sunday |
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