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[JV7 2,368]

Them Panthers are seriously good... Well that's us done for the season, least I won't have to worry about how to watch the Falcons in the playoffs while I'm away on holidays... 

Edited December 14, 2015 by JV7

[Macca 17,089]

2 hours ago, JV7 said:

Them Panthers are seriously good... Well that's us done for the season, least I won't have to worry about how to watch the Falcons in the playoffs while I'm away on holidays... 

Yep, it's disappointing for the Falcons but the Chargers, Saints, Giants, Bears & Detroit have all got decent QB's and they may all miss out on the playoffs ... then there's Kaepernick at the 49ers who isn't even playing at all.

Ryan is probably another QB who needs a very good team around him ... the Packers passing game which was previously a real strength is just average now - Rodgers can't find open receivers so we've had to concentrate on our running game and defense (which can't be relied upon, by the way)

We'll need everything to go right to really contend and even that may not be enough considering how well the Panthers, Seattle and Arizona are playing.

[Macca 17,089]

A number of us picked up a point in the tipping comp this week and we have a new outright leader ... remembering that next week (week 15) is our 2nd last bonus point week (2 points) Week 16 is for 1 point and week 17 is for 3 points.

Leaderboard in the comp

8 - Gorgoroth

7 - cowboy_from_ hell, JV7, Georgiou R.R. Martin

5 - Macca

1 - titan_uranus

0 - The rest

[Gorgoroth 13,144]

Rams winning was great and bad. Great we won, bad fisher didn't get fired ?

Seems the government in St. Louis are putting in more money to try and keep them, I really hope we stay.

panthers are seriously good, who beats them?

 

ive never seen Brady cop so many hits in a game as he has this year. 

[Macca 17,089]

Week 15 games (2 points)

As an added bonus we've got a couple of Saturday night games (this week and next week) ... Jets @ Dallas this week.

As usual, finding 3 road winners will be tricky but this time of year there's sure to be a banker or 2 (maybe )

note; scroll up a couple for the leaderboard.

[Gorgoroth 13,144]

I finally get to watch more than thirty seconds of the Rams!!!

yay!!!... I think... Ha ha

[JV7 2,368]

Chiefs 

Bengals 

Packers 

[Gorgoroth 13,144]

Chiefs

cards

Panthers

[JV7 2,368]

15 hours ago, JV7 said:

Chiefs 

Bengals 

Packers 

Completely forgot about the Dalton injury... But I'll stick with the bengals 

[Gorgoroth 13,144]

Yeah I did look at that.

even without him it's only the niners!

[cowboy_from_hell 2,390]

On 7 December 2015 at 9:51 PM, Macca said:

 

Chiefs 

Packers

cardinals 

[Macca 17,089]

KC

Packers

Panthers

[Gorgoroth 13,144]

Aaron Donald... Immense.

rating better than JJ Watt at the moment. 

[Gorgoroth 13,144]

Winton is such a sook, never seen it before, but what a flög.

The abuse he gave the special teams after the big return after their TD. 

If I was on the special teams I would have asked him how many passes he had made.

 

that idiot receiver who threw the ball away after getting within 4 inches of the line... Wow, just wow.

I was disappointed we tried to waste the clock and gave them so many plays, I think we still should have kept the pressure up on them as we had all night.

 

Winston got easy yards in the last quarter.

Edited December 18, 2015 by Gorgoroth

[JV7 2,368]

2 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

Winton is such a sook, never seen it before, but what a flög.

The abuse he gave the special teams after the big return after their TD. 

If I was on the special teams I would have asked him how many passes he had made.

 

that idiot receiver who threw the ball away after getting within 4 inches of the line... Wow, just wow.

I was disappointed we tried to waste the clock and gave them so many plays, I think we still should have kept the pressure up on them as we had all night.

 

Winston got easy yards in the last quarter.

I saw the first half and Winston was struggling... Donald and the Rams pass rush were all over him.   He just kept handing off to Martin. But yeah his stats turned out ok but he picked up a lot of junk time yards 

[Gorgoroth 13,144]

In the last they only had four rushing and dropping the rest back to stop the big plays. We gave up heaps of yards, he did on in the third.

[Macca 17,089]

Don't forget there's a game on tomorrow at 12.30pm (Jets @ Dallas) ... unfortunately only on cable but the game holds great interest because of the wild-card race in the AFC.

I wasn't prepared to tip the Jets but they can win and if they do they might start getting talked about as a genuine playoff contender.

[Gorgoroth 13,144]

I'm in Ballarat at 11 tomorrow, when I get back hopefully around 12 I'll be watching it. I've set up the IQ. The wife is working so should be good!

[JV7 2,368]

If only they played more games in this time slot for us! 

[Gorgoroth 13,144]

Well I'm not going anywhere near Ballarat, the roads in and out of my place are closed, got fires 8 kms away so I'm all packed and ready to go at the drop of a hat.

but yes, Sunday games here would be awesome.

[Macca 17,089]

1 hour ago, Gorgoroth said:

Well I'm not going anywhere near Ballarat, the roads in and out of my place are closed, got fires 8 kms away so I'm all packed and ready to go at the drop of a hat.

but yes, Sunday games here would be awesome.

Keep safe Gorgo

[Gorgoroth 13,144]

Yeah cheers Macca, should be ok I hope. Just got to keep monitoring it.

 

games not too bad so far, not a great game but interesting enough.

3 hours ago, Macca said:

Keep safe Gorgo

 

[DeeSpencer 26,098]

KC

Carolina

Arizona

 

[JV7 2,368]

Unbelievabley the Falcons if we somehow beat the panthers & saints in the last 2 weeks and Seattle drop both games to st.louis & Arizona and Vikes drop both games to giants & packers the Falcons somehow clinch the playoff spot with a 3 way tie.. Wishful thinking  

Also we all pick winners this week ? We've been on lately 

Edited December 21, 2015 by JV7

[Macca 17,089]

Yep JV7, 2 points to the top 5 in the comp this week

Leaderboard (notables only)

10 - Gorgoroth

9 - cowboy_from_ hell, JV7, Georgiou R.R. Martin

7 - Macca

Some observations ...

• The Jets just won't go away and we might have an 11-5 team miss out on the playoffs in the AFC (or at least a 10-6 team)
• The Colts might miss out completely
• Arizona are a good team and could win it all
• The jockeying for seedings in the NFC is on - certain match-ups aren't ideal for certain teams.
• The loser of next weeks Cinci & Denver game could well end up with some unwanted pressure
• The Giants will be kicking themselves if they miss out - so many winnable games that they've lost.
• The Panthers are still on track for a perfect season
• The Vikes win easily and that week 17 game at Lambeau will almost certainly be "live" for both teams .. the Seahawks can only get a wild card now (which is theirs for the taking)
• As JV7 mentioned, the Falcons can still make it
• Washington's destiny is in their own hands and they can't be counted out from at least winning 1 playoff game (their 1st playoff game would be at their home field) 
• KC & the Steelers keep winning and winning well (the wild-card weekend could see both wild-card teams win in the AFC)