NFL

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

And as for predictions, I managed to find nice little ladder predictor online where you enter game results and let it put the ladder together for you. Most helpful and intriguing:

AFC

1st - Colts 13-3.

2nd - Steelers 13-3, 2nd seed despite worse Div record than Broncos. Work THAT one out.

3rd - Broncos 13-3, 3rd seed.

4th - Patriots 12-4. Lowly 4th seed.

5th - Ravens 11-5. They'll steady.

6th - Chargers 10-6. Will be playing KC in last week for playoffs. I was very, very tempted to pick KC here too.

Nothing else notable here. Miami and Browns both 9-7, and Buffalo lose the plot and go 7-9... but noone else really gets close. Cinci somehow 4th in Division but with a 8-7-1 record. Ouch. Jax and Oakland both win one game.

NFC

1st - Packers 13-3, 1st seed easily.

2nd - Cards 12-4, Somehow. 2nd seed.

3rd - Eagles 11-5, This one's good. After splitting their games with Dallas, the Eagles have their fate in their hands, just have to beat Giants. Eli throws pick in last second to make it 2 years running Eagles make playoffs with a pick in the dying seconds. Jerry Jones has a coronary and dies. The League institutes the "Jerry" rule the following season, and allows 2 more Wild Card teams.

4th - Saints 9-7, In the end they're the only serious team in a dodgy division.

5th - Seattle 11-5, Just make it in. Dallas end lower due to some tie breaking nonsense.

6th - Lions 11-5, I rate them highly. Megatron to return.

Chicago end 8-8 and a disappointment. Carolina 7-8-1. Newton traded to Eagles at end of season. The big news though is Dallas ending on 11-5 and missing out. I couldn't pick the results honestly, so I gave them and the Eagles one each of their match ups, and was unkind to Eagles as I went.

Broncos defeat Chargers. Broncos break all sorts of playoff records to win.

Ravens in an upset over Pats.

Colts smash Ravens.

Broncos end Steelers season in a close one.

Colts advance to Superbowl with Luck league MVP.

Eagles play Lions. Home field advantage gets Philly over the line after Sanchez throws 4 TDs, and 4 picks. Eagles OL decided the difference against ferocious Lions D.

Seattle smash Saints soundly.

Packers only just get over the line after Wilson throws last second pick in low scoring match.

Eagles get revenge over Arizona in big Upset. No reasoning here. Just a feeling. Wish may be father of the thought.

Packers soundly beat Eagles.

Superbowl... A legend is born. Luck achieves league, playoff and superbowl MVP. Does what Peyton took most of his career to do. Rodgers left to rue the day.

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

So Macca, for scoring... I think I kind of imagined people would pick the playoffs teams (1 point), Final 8 teams (2 points), championship teams (3 points) and superbowl teams (4 or 5 points or something)...

But it seems like everyone's just picked playoff teams. So I guess of your 12 teams selected, you get:

4 points for a superbowl team listed in your twelve (shouldn't be too hard).

3 points for a team that makes the Conference final.

2 if they make division games.

1 if they only qualify for playoffs but get bundled out...

So basically it'll come down to who correctly picks the wild card teams.

[Macca 16,173]

Monday

5.00am - 11.30am RedZone (ESPN)

5.00am San Francisco at New Orleans (7mate)

8.30am NY Giants at Seattle (7mate)

12.30pm Chicago at Green Bay (7mate & ESPN)

Tuesday

12.30pm Carolina at Philadelphia (ESPN)

All the week 10 games

BS Report

NFL Week 10 Elo Ratings & Playoff Odds

[titan_uranus 22,365]

Whoa. Dalton's stat line today: 10/33, 86 yards, 0 TDs, 3 INTs, and a QBR of 4.3! Huge win for the Browns' playoff chances.

His passer rating was 2.0. Lower passer rating than number of interceptions.

Ridiculously bad game. But go the Browns! Love seeing the Browns and Bills on the up.

[pantaloons 2,019]

1. Denver

2. New England

3. Indianapolis

4. Pittsburgh

5. Kansas City

6. Baltimore

As for the NFC, I'll give divisions to Arizona, New Orleans and Green Bay. Seattle has been poor but they're still 5-3 and surely can't play any worse. The East is up in the air with QB health a big issue. Here goes:

1. Arizona

2. Green Bay

3. Philadelphia

4. New Orleans

5. Seattle

6. Detroit

If Seattle can regain some old form, it's teed up for them there.

I'll add playoff results for Dappa Dan:

Wild card weekend

Pittsburgh d KC

Indy d Baltimore

Philadelphia d Detroit

Seattle d New Orleans

Divisional round

Denver d Pittsburgh

New England d Indianapolis

Seattle d Arizona

Green Bay d Philadelphia

Championship games

Denver d New England

Green Bay d Seattle

Denver d Green Bay

[Macca 16,173]

NFC Division winners

1 Arizona

2 Philadelphia

3 Green Bay

4 New Orleans

Wild-cards

5 Detroit

6 Seattle

AFC Division winners

1 New England

2 Denver

3 Indianapolis

4 Pittsburgh

Wild-cards

5 Cincinnati

6 Kansas City

Conference Championship games

Arizona vs Philadelphia

New England vs Denver

Here goes ...

Wild-card weekend

Green Bay d Seattle

New Orleans d Detroit

Indianapolis d Kansas City

Pittsburgh d Cincinnati

Divisional weekend

Arizona d New Orleans

Philadelphia d Green Bay (Sanchez d Rodgers? - makes no sense but I'm already committed to the Eagles!)

New England d Pittsburgh

Denver d Indianapolis

Conference Championships

Arizona d Philpelphia

New England d Denver

Super Bowl

New England d Arizona

I'm not confident about any of the above and I reckon if the Ravens get in they could win the whole thing. Home field decides the Pats/Broncos match-up and the same goes in the NFC.

It's certainly a wide open race to the title.

[DeeSpencer 23,134]

Dallas, Denver, Pittsburgh. I'm sorry

I'll see you guys next week as Chicago has another bye this week.

[cowboy_from_hell 2,390]

Oh dear Chicago.

[Macca 16,173]

The Steelers and Saints losing & the 49ers, Ravens & Falcons winning does change things somewhat in those teams divisions ...

The niners run home isn't that tough apart from a visit to Seattle.

The AFC North is so wide open that any of the 4 teams could win that division

Same deal for the NFC South except Tampa are almost certainly out of it. Interesting that the Falcons are 3-0 within that division.

Big wins for the Lions & KC too.

As was expected, no one picked up a point in the toughest tipping comp devised by man.

Points tally ...

3 - JV7, Go the Biff, Georgiou R. R. Martin, Dappa Dan

2 - Macca

1 - cowboy_from_hell, pantaloons, Gorgoroth

0 - others

Week 11 games (2 points on offer in the 4th of our bonus weeks)

[JV7 2,339]

How inconsistent are the steelers, looked world beaters in rounds 8 & 9 then lose to the jets, aswell as there early season lose to Tampa... Ahh how good a win makes you feel, wasn't pretty but I'll take anything. Some how the falcons are alive.. Next week a huge game against the panthers and I'll be wandering around Disneyland with the mrs! I head off on Saturday, I'll try post some photos etc of the 49ers game at the new Levi's stadium and some of the game at the Georgia dome.,. Gonna be a bit surreal to actually be at a game!

[Gorgoroth 12,321]

Another week and another half a game of Davis playing well and the ith half of him playing very very poorly.

I can't take this crud anymore, we need to draft or poach a decent QB.

I reckon Bradford is stuffed.

[cowboy_from_hell 2,390]

Another week and another half a game of Davis playing well and the ith half of him playing very very poorly.

I can't take this crud anymore, we need to draft or poach a decent QB.

I reckon Bradford is stuffed.

It would be a tough call. Do you cut him/trade him and payout his contract? There are other teams who would pick him up on his potential but his body makes it hard to get back what you have invested in him.

[Gorgoroth 12,321]

I'd keep Bradford but I just think two years out and the two knees went fairly softly so you wonder if the third is around the corner.

[Macca 16,173]

Carson Palmer looks like he's done his knee again ... dreadfully unlucky. Looked an innocuous play but he just planted his leg awkwardly - they may be able to cover for him adequately with Stanton but the rest of their team will not only have to keep up their standards but they'll probably need to get even better if they're going to really challenge.

I've also just realised that my likely NFC Championship match-up of Arizona vs Philadelphia may mean a Stanton vs Sanchez duel. Right place at the right time for both these blokes - both teams play more of an all round game so they could both fit in somehow.

Romo didn't seem to be hampered at all today and in fact played quite a good game ... Dallas won a game they just had to win and with it, their season might be back on track.

All up, the playoff spots in the NFC just got decidedly harder today in 3 of the NFC divisions - 7 teams in a race for 5 spots by the looks of it and 10/6 may or may not get it done for a playoff spot. The AFC is much the same although 9/7 might secure a playoff spot in that conference.

Danger game for the Eagles tomorrow - the Panthers would go to 3/6/1 if they lose tomorrow but still be right in amongst it in their division - Philadelphia should be too good but it might be close.

[Gorgoroth 12,321]

Bugger, I thought he just twisted his ankle.

[cowboy_from_hell 2,390]

With palmer going down and Seattle not at their best yet San Fran still have a sneaky chance. They had a great road win in New Orleans and this division is always entertaining.

Baltimore must've been happy seeing dalton play like Morton and Pittsburgh play like they were hungover.

My last whinge is Chicago. Of course being a NFC North game I was hanging to see it. Chicago still have some very good players on offense and Green Bay are always good to watch. Game was over in 20 minutes. I have never seen a secondary ignore jordy nelson like that before. Some of the drives for TD's lasted 2 minutes. Cutler played ok at best. He should've been picked off two more times but their offense had no spark and it didn't look like cutler had any emotions at all after getting picked off or when he fumbled. Trestman has to go. Lovie smith would be filthy looking at this team.

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

Another week and another half a game of Davis playing well and the ith half of him playing very very poorly.

I can't take this crud anymore, we need to draft or poach a decent QB.

I reckon Bradford is stuffed.

Sanchez? Foles? lol

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

Gee Whiz I keep expecting normality to return to the Eagles Special teams... but Sproles again.... Man Saints fans will be [censored].

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

We need to start talking about a tie breaker in this tipping comp. lol

[Gorgoroth 12,321]

Eagles smashed them, I was really hoping for a good game but it was over at quarter time.

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

Yeah killed them. Pretty ugly game by Newton. RBs were bad, secondary gave up plays everywhere, couldn't get to Sanchez enough, OL was probably the worst single game I've seen this year with Philly's ok DL and ok LB corps getting 9 sacks. 5 turnovers. No take aways. You basically couldn't find anything to like besides Benjamin who is an absolutely monstrously proportioned bloke. If he was quicker people would be predicting him to be better than Megatron.

[titan_uranus 22,365]

Great win from the Niners, but essentially every other result went against us - Eagles, Cowboys, Packers, Lions, Cardinals and Seahawks all won. With Palmer going down Arizona might drop a few but that really only opens the door for Seattle rather than us.

Meanwhile can Cleveland win the AFC North? Next three are against Houston, Atlanta and Buffalo. Play like they did against Cincy and they could pocket all 3 and be 9-3 with a month to go...what a fairytale that would be!

Is Foles' time at Philly over?

[Macca 16,173]

Yeah killed them. Pretty ugly game by Newton. RBs were bad, secondary gave up plays everywhere, couldn't get to Sanchez enough, OL was probably the worst single game I've seen this year with Philly's ok DL and ok LB corps getting 9 sacks. 5 turnovers. No take aways. You basically couldn't find anything to like besides Benjamin who is an absolutely monstrously proportioned bloke. If he was quicker people would be predicting him to be better than Megatron.

Reckon we're going to see more coaches like Kelly in the future ... Sanchez looks to be fitting right in as well. Classic match-up of styles next week at Lambeau ... it's the 8.30am game on 7mate as well.

Neither team can afford to lose this one - dare I say it ... 'A season definer'

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

Great win from the Niners, but essentially every other result went against us - Eagles, Cowboys, Packers, Lions, Cardinals and Seahawks all won. With Palmer going down Arizona might drop a few but that really only opens the door for Seattle rather than us.

Meanwhile can Cleveland win the AFC North? Next three are against Houston, Atlanta and Buffalo. Play like they did against Cincy and they could pocket all 3 and be 9-3 with a month to go...what a fairytale that would be!

Is Foles' time at Philly over?

You never know though with Arizona... Going by my VERY scientific ladder predictor the wild card spots in the NFC will be the toughest, with Dallas, Seattle and Detroit fighting it out. Actually in the standings right now, to think that Seattle, Green Bay and Dallas are the big three possibilities.... they're actually the teams I'm more frightened of than ANY in the NFC. Weird eh. It's a high pressure environment. Unlike the AFC/VFL.

The Browns making it. Would be fantastic. For the League. Never see the much hater, formerly unstoppable team climb the ladder in the AFL though do we?

Foles' time? In my mind I think yes. And Sanchize might not be at Eagles either next year. The only thing left for Foles is to maybe play some time in playoffs. He really just isn't that good. Sooner or later he's gotta go. However my heart tells me they might have a terrible 2015/16 with him on the list. Some of Kelly's picks haven't worked out, and the list is getting super ancient. Most of the starting OL is 30+. Corners will be gone. Only got one Linebacker of note. When he does screw up, they'll get an early pick and parlay that into Kelly's 10 year QB. Be it a trade for Newton/Marriotta or whatever.

Reckon we're going to see more coaches like Kelly in the future ... Sanchez looks to be fitting right in as well. Classic match-up of styles next week at Lambeau ... it's the 8.30am game on 7mate as well.

Neither team can afford to lose this one - dare I say it ... 'A season definer'

Did they flex it to there? I was hoping for the 12:30 game like today. Was awesome. Watched the game at my mate's cafe on the big TV, he's a cowboys fan. Wearing my Vick jersey. Special day.

Yeah it's freaking massive. Game of the week. Or would be if it wasn't for Brady v Luck. Actually all late games are enormous.

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

Ok. Gonna go early again this week. Broncos, Steelers and 49ers.