Welcome to the Hood

So, is this the informal Cards-Packers game thread?

If it is, the Cardinals just scored, and look a good deal feistier than they did a week ago.

Right now, it is all Arizona, 14-0.

I am not looking ahead of the Cowboys game, which will be no pushover. There are a lot of unknown variables here, and all of it is moot if the Vikings don’t beat Dallas.

I would rather see Green Bay at the Metrodome, should they come back today and beat New Orleans, than Arizona at the Metrodome, should the Cards keep control of this game and beat the Saints.

We know we can beat the Packers, but the Cards proved somewhat more difficult (poor Vikings performance not withstanding).

Am I mad?

Green Bay took some wicked punches in the first half, but is managing to just stay on their feet.

/boxing metaphor’d

Neither defense came out of the locker room after half-time.

This game is over. Cardinals are falling apart. Look at the last two throws of Warner.

best tackling blah blah… WIFF!!!!!

I hate you Charles Woodson.

AZ takes lead 44-38, pending PAT…but this will put the Packers offense back on the field with 4:55 left.

Packers will drive right down and score a TD—will they do it too quick and allow Cards to do the same back at them for the win?

after coming all the way back LOL

Now the Cards have plenty of time to win in regulation.

No sarcasm. These defenses are awful.

…in five plays.

High-scoring game..

I think if AZ can get another 3 or 7 on the board before the clock reads zero.. They’ll take a win.

1:44 remains on the clock.
Both have 2 timeouts remaining.
Clock management will be the KEY
All they need to do is get into Field Goal range with the right amount of time left on the clock.
How will this unfold?

Depends… Can AZ score again? Or will this potentially go into OT?

Their offense has been shaky as of recent.. Attempting to kill time off the clock?

Run that clock and kick the FG

By teams last possession…
Within Reason

I don’t think GB in the end will have enough time to do anything
they’ll really need to ice that kicker

Looking to be a game decided by a FG
or it goes into OT

LMAO

jaw meet floor

No doubt about it…unless someone misses another FG.

That GB did not try to ICE the kicker…..

Not the ending I was expecting….

Now all these PUCKER fans can shut it..

If Rodgers had not kicked that ball, that ball probably hits the ground and I think it is an incomplete pass, as Rodgers’ arm was going forward.

I’ve noticed that the Pack has improved since our previous meetings. Was I scared? Yes a little! Their O-line has picked up, and Rodgers now has a lot of time and is doing better as a QB.

I watched the MNF game of the Vikings/Packers (It’s on my DVR) this morning…. And I noticed how a lot of turn of events went our way in that game.
The first two appearances that the Pack made to the redzone were netted with turnovers.
1st possession was a turnover & the second possession was an interception.

The Cardinals have been known to be off/on… Their either good or they are bad. The 49ers game was a turnover crazy game. Either team to win this game going into OT was going to come out lucky….. Looks like the Cardinals lucked out.

All teams that played last Sunday that were to match up again this time, the winners who won last week won again this week with the exception of the Packers.

For the AFC, the WC teams won out the division games. WC teams will be playing the #1/#2 teams. What does that mean in my mind? An AFC championship between Chargers/Colts.

AFC will either have the Chargers or Colts represent them.

NFC – to be determined..

The Packers season ends on a play where they can’t protect Rodgers.

…soundproof isolation boxes.

It was only a 32 or 34 FG attempt. GB got lucky even to make it into OT..

Ding Dong! Rodger’s Pack is dead.
Wake up – sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, Rodger’s Pack is dead. They’ve gone where the goblins go,
Below – below – below. Yo-ho, let’s open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong’ the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low!
Let them know
That Rodger’s Pack is dead!

As Mayor of Glendale, In the County of Maricopa, I welcome you most regally.

But we’ve got to verify it legally, to see

To see?

If they

If they?

Is morally, ethic’lly

Spiritually, physically

Positively, absolutely

Undeniably and reliably Dead

As Coroner I must insist, I thoroughly examined this.
And they’re not only merely dead, they’re really most sincerely dead.

Then this is a day of Independence For all the Viking fans and their descendants

Yes, let the joyous news be spread Theat Rodger’s Pack at last is dead!

If you think about it, they are pretty similar in a lot of ways.

Cardinals (Like the Bears) had a nice jump on scoring for the first half. Differences were that Cardinals got their points due to turnovers. Packers were able to put up some points in the 1st half, but not much

Both teams put up more points in the whole game. 45/45 each going into OT. Vikings/Bears game was more around 30 points.

Pack came back in 2nd half like Vikings did. Scoring a lot, with the opposing team sometimes answering with a TD.

The whole 2nd 1/2 seemed like the defense was just horrid on both sides. This led us to think that the winner of the coin toss won the game.

Just like the Vikings/Bears game, the game was won by the team who got a turnover in their favor.

Turnovers were costly!!!
It’s how the PATs nearly had no chance of winning the game with a lot of early turnovers.

Ravens are not THAT great, but they sure proved they can dominate on turnovers.
If you were to take away the points given to the Ravens by turnovers, Pats would have won.

3 interceptions in one game is just plain killer.

Saturday:
Arizona beats Saints
Colts beat Ravens
Sunday:
Vikings beat Cowboys
Chargers beat Jets.

I don’t think the Wild-card teams will win twice on the road. Ravens are not that great offensively, and made most of their points off of turnovers. In reality, it’s almost as if they shouldn’t have won that game. Jets/Chargers game will be closer than Ravens/Colts. I almost want to say that the Colts will blow out the Ravens.

NFC-wise.. Arizona proved they lack in the secondary, but they can also put up points w/ their receiving core. I think this will be another high-scoring game if Cardinals keep the turnovers in their favor. I think this game could nearly go into overtime. But I believe that the Saints have had their luck run out during the regular season. I can’t imagine the field goal kicker missing anymore 30-40 field goal kicks that could seal a win. I think this game will be decided by a 3-7 points.
Dallas/Vikings – Vikings have a bye to heal up, rest up, and get focused. Last time the Vikings went onto a bye, they came out and won 3 straight. If they were to technically do that again! That means they win a Superbowl.

Both NFC games should be very close….
I think the AFC games will be the opposite. Blow-outs

I’m going to be rooting for Favre and his horde of pillaging Vikings this weekend. I really wish the Eagles could be advancing to play the Saints instead, but it turns out that our team just wasn’t good enough to compete with the Cowboys.

I sincerely hope the Dallas playoff run ends in Minnesota, however. Please, please let me see Jared Allen planting Tony Romo’s face into the dirt multiple times, and monster hits on Miles Austin. As a Philly fan, I absolutely cannot, under any circumstances, see Dallas in the Super Bowl.

Go Vikings.

I have to admit that I was rooting for GB today. I wanted to see another GB/MIN game this year. I thought GB had the stones to beat both the Cards and Saints. It was a helluva game that GB had in coming back from 21 down. Those first 2 turnovers were killers. If GB was the only NFC North team still in the hunt, I would root for them to represent our division. I mainly root against them when they play the Vikes. Anyway, GB you had a great year….

We coming to the Hood…we gonna play the CowBoys old school…How fitting an answer to the fiasco that you clowns have become…Just a bunch of gangsta’ thugs(Jared Allen, notwithstanding), and HOODLUMS….LMMFAO…You guys show it so vividy, and the rest of the NFL just shakes their head, wondering “How the Hel did they ever learn to even play football up their?”…anyway,it will be a short lived post-season, and I will give you my pre-game prediction…Take it with a grain of salt, or with your thumb up your ass, but I have been predicting this for the last 8 weeks…If you dont believe me go over to the BTB site and ask them how cose I have come to calling the score…I rarely try and disquise my predictions behind, silly emotional, or sentimental reasoning…NO, NO, NO, I merely predict the games ultimate outcome based on sound footbal acumen…VIKUEERS14, COWBOYS 30…Next week when your team is still hearing that awful sound of regulation time running out, and that queasy feeing that you always get, deep in your guts, when you are trying your hardest to deny the ultimate reaity, that youve become the LOSERS that you are, you can digress back to this post…I predicted that the COWBOYS would not only take the NFC-EAST from the She-Gals, and would not only beat them not once, not twice, but 3 times…and I predicted that 2 of the wins would be BLOWOUTS…I was absolutely right in everything…Yada, yada, yada, I know thats what your thinking, but I also predicted we would loose both of the Giants games also…Here is your only ray of HOPE, so putting all your BULLSHIT hate aside, try to follow my thinking like rational adults OK…I predicted we would WIN against the Chargers, also….How in Hell I was wrong I will never know…I had that game predicted as close but we were supposed to win…Well we didnt!!!!…I was so surprised, that I was wrong, really I was…but you never know in those close games…So I console myself with being just a little to obtuse when it came to making my prediction…The rest of our LOSSES I pretty much predicted, and while shy of the actual score once or twice, I still predicted them…But when the outcome was as certain as this one is, that the COWBOYS will do to you what we did to the New Orleans Aints, and ever since then we have not only DEFEATED, we have DESTROYED, and HUMILIATED every team we have payed since…well, it aint gonna be any better than that for you clowns…Yeah, I know, your thinking who does this guy think he is coming in here and telling us we are LOSERS???…And I will answer you with this…IF, IF, IF you had any chance of winning, which you do not, I woud also tell you the truth there also…You clowns are not FOCUSED, you are not TALENTED enough, and your just like your boys said just “OLD SCHOOL”…Let me be the first to invite you into the 21st Century…Remember the “HAIL MARY” that Staubach threw to Pearson, and the ass kicking you guys got that day?…Well, you can be thankful that it isnt going to happen again, because the COWBOYS are going to take and make quick work out of your mess of a team from the get-go…by the 3rd QRT you guys will have that runny feeling in your guts start to make you “anally challenged”…its gonna be a really smelly “HOOD”, LMMFAO, when the COWBOYS leave the METROHOOD on Sunday…I just have one question left to ask you guys, and I know it wont be far from your minds, since the answer concerning the COWBOYS, isnt far from our minds either…My question is “When was the LAST time you clowns won a PLAYOFF game”…or maybe this is a more politically correct way of asking…When ARE you guys going to win a PLAYOFF game?"….well I will take leave now, and yeah, I know that whoever “runs, lmao” this blog site will probably BANN me for trolling, I just wanted to leave you with my thoughts on the game we will be playing..FEAR THE STAR

Who is the Head Coach of the Vikueers?…Is it Brad Favre or Brett Childress?….FEAR THE STAR

Feeding the troll makes it stronger. Simply ignore.

Am I the only one who wonders if Torch24 and and Hawgz/Bugz might be the same person?

We need to keep playing up the underdog card…EVERYBODY is crowning the Boys. It is scary to see what a motivated Vikings team can do.

I expect the game to be close. When it comes down to the wire I would rather have Longwell than Suisham.

Caveat: Dallas fan here.

Heres’ my thinking on this game.

1. The Eagles matchup terribly against the Cowboys. Jackson and Maclin are outside WR’s and aren’t comfortable over the middle where they might get popped. Jenkins and Newman knew it all year and simply took them out of the game. Yes – Maclin caught the 75 yd. td pass that Jenkins fell down on, but that happens, all in all the Eagles never got going. The MIN Wr’s – Rice and Harvin – they seem similar to me, although I think Percy is much more comfortable going over the middle than either Maclin or Jackson. This is a place I think the Vikings have a huge advantage over the Eagles.

2. TE: The eagles were relegated to using Brent Celek. The Cowboys were fine with that because – who cares if you shut down the rest of the offense? Schiancoe is very similar to Celek – probably better in the red zone, prly not as accomplished in the open field. My guess is the Cowboys will probably give Favre Schiancoe quite a bit. However – the fact that Schiancoe is a red zone threat with the best of them is a real issue if the Vikings can get down there. Eagles didn’t really have anyone like that.

Those are the two things I think about with the Cowboys on Defense and the Vikings on Offense. I realize everyone wants to talk about Ware / Spencer / Ratliff – but what’s really to talk about? We all know they’re very very good and cause problems so – whatever, move on, they’ll cause problems.

When Cowboys are on offense and Vikings are on Defense.

1. The Vikings secondary strikes me similarly to Eagles. Some good players that might not be perfectly healthy (Winfield). I dunno how vulnerable the Vikings are to biting on routes. But Romo shredded Samuel and Brown with pump fakes and the ‘boys WR’s ran a lot of high-low routes and double moves to get open basically all the time. I would think a similar approach would be pretty effective against the Vikings.

2. The Cowboys running game is really good. I hope Barber is healthy – because I think they need him against a more physical defense in the Vikings. If all three backs are healthy – they’ll be able to run the ball. I also think, with the backs, they’ll be able to run a lot of screens and back door slants (with WR’s). Those plays are tough to defend, period.

If the Vikings can run the ball successfully (this includes yardage and not turning it over) then I think they have a darn good shot at winning the game. Keeping Romo off the field is important.

If the Cowboys get up early and Phillips can send the defense into attack mode – I think the ’Boys have a really good shot at winning the game.

Oh yeah – let’s come out with it. If this game comes down to kickers – forget about it. Dallas stands zero chance. :)