NFL 2016

[tetelestai]

It's a coinflip. They have a good chance.

The Patriots will definitely be favored, probably as much as a TD.

The Steelers are hot, they've won 9 in a row, and played the Patriots tough earlier in the year without Roethlisberger.

However, Belichick and Brady have tortured the Steelers since 2001.

 

[tetelestai]

1994 - Steelers
1995 - Steelers
1996 - Patriots
1997 - Steelers
1998
1999
2000
2001 - Steelers & Patriots
2002
2003 - Patriots
2004 - Steelers & Patriots
2005 - Steelers
2006 - Patriots
2007 - Patriots
2008 - Steelers
2009
2010 - Steelers
2011 - Patriots
2012 - Patriots
2013 - Patriots
2014 - Patriots
2015 - Patriots
2016 - Steelers & Patriots

Let's use the same years, and compare the Steelers/Patriots with the Cowboys/49'ers:

1994 - Cowboys & 49'ers
1995 - Cowboys
1996
1997 - 49'ers
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011 - 49'ers
2012 - 49'ers
2013 - 49'ers
2014
2015
2016

 

[tetelestai]

With this year's Super Bowl being played in Houston, and the Cowboys having the #1 seed, the Cowboys would have never had to leave the state of Texas in the post-season.

But........it all folded like a house of cards.

 

[tetelestai]

One plus for the Steelers against the Patriots is that the Patriots will not have Gronk.

Gronk (who went to high school in Pittsburgh), has always done very well against the Steelers.

 

[Nick M]

The Steelers, Patriots, and Falcons all have the same game plan that Garrett did not follow. Keep Rodgers on the sideline.

 

[Nick M]

Bill Belichick will not be able to cheat in this one.

He will have their food poisoned to make them all sick on game day. He will do something.

 

[tetelestai]

Whether it will be Brady or Roethlisberger who makes it to the Super Bowl, it will mark the 14th time in the last 16 seasons that either Brady, Roethlisberger, or Manning has been the AFC's starting QB in the Super Bowl.

 

[Jerry Shugart]

He will have their food poisoned to make them all sick on game day. He will do something.

Or pay off the refs like Green Bay did!

 

[tetelestai]

Or pay off the refs like Green Bay did!

Jerry, the refs didn't put your Cowboys in a 21-3 hole.

The refs didn't make Rodgers complete a 36 yard pass to the sideline with 3 seconds left.

Quit whining....your Cowboys lost fair and square to the Packers.

Also, did I mention that the Steelers have won as many playoff games in the last 8 days as the Cowboys have in the last 20 years?

 

[Nick M]

Or pay off the refs like Green Bay did!

That is nonsense.

 

[tetelestai]

Now I know why Jerry is so upset:

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[Town Heretic]

The Steelers are just the 6th team to win a post-season game without scoring a TD.

That's going to look great on a t-shirt. lain:

Let's use the same years, and compare the Steelers/Patriots with the Cowboys/49'ers:

1994 - Cowboys & 49'ers
1995 - Cowboys
1996
1997 - 49'ers
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011 - 49'ers
2012 - 49'ers
2013 - 49'ers
2014
2015
2016

You should put that on the back of the shirt.

 

[Nihilo]

The refs didn't make Rodgers complete a 36 yard pass to the sideline with 3 seconds left.

Don't forget the interception though. He was supposed to throw none, and keep his streak alive of consecutive touchdowns without an interception (Brady's record of 28 stands), but he threw it right to the defender, as opposed to Brady, whose two picks were both tipped---dumb luck. In order for anybody to have a chance against GB, Rodgers was going to have to stop playing out of his skull, and maybe he's done so.

 

[Town Heretic]

So the line opens at -6 for the Patriots and -4 for Atlanta. I'm betting the line for New England is going to move upward, but as it stands I'd jump on it and lay the points on Atlanta too, if more nervously. :noid:

GB 31
Atl 37

Pit 19
NE 27

 

[tetelestai]

You should put that on the back of the shirt.

I was thinking this would be a good shirt to wear this week:

 

[Nihilo]

I was thinking this would be a good shirt to wear this week:

Of course much to the chagrin of folks who think this, no credible professional sports writer thinks the Patriots' recent success (the last 15 years) is due to anything other than good football.

 

[Jerry Shugart]

That is nonsense.

Can't you take a joke?

 

[john w]

I will be pleased if your pick to win the game turns out correct, no matter the score. Of course you know that.



I agree with that!

Since you have been so accurate on your picks I have the upmost confidence that the Cowboys will win today!

Thanks!

As the great, humble, brilliant saint John W predicted, the Cowboys would exit early....look forward to the draft.


Contrasts....

 

[Town Heretic]

As the great, humble, brilliant saint John W predicted, the Cowboys would exit early....look forward to the draft.

Contrasts....

You're late...like the Cowboy's rally. lain: But at least you get to enjoy it for a moment.

And I called against them on the spread, which is the only thing that interests me when my team isn't playing. You should try that. A guy with a coin can do all right staying in the W/L pool.

Don't just be that guy. :nono:

 

[Nihilo]

You're late...like the Cowboy's rally. lain: But at least you get to enjoy it for a moment.

And I called against them on the spread, which is the only thing that interests me when my team isn't playing. You should try that. A guy with a coin can do all right staying in the W/L pool.

Don't just be that guy. :nono:

But John W called it very early, that Dallas would have no trophy for this season's exemplary effort on their part.