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Sunday Morning Bloody Mary: Mixing Your Playoff Scenarios For This Weekend
With this being the second-to-last week of the regular season, the playoff scenarios are getting simpler, for the most part. We'll start in the NFC, where only two teams have punched their post-season tickets thus far. One of them, the Atlanta Falcons, can clinch the NFC South and home-field...
NFL Playoff Picture: So, How Do Things Look Without The Vikings?
Now that the Vikings have officially been eliminated from the post-season picture, it's time to take a look around the rest of the league and see how things are looking at this point in time. For starters, only nine teams out of 32 in the entire NFL have been eliminated from the post-season. In the...
And the Vikings' Opponent Next Weekend Is. . .
Nobody. Absolutely nobody. The Vikings have no opponent next weekend because they're the #2 seed in the NFC playoffs and will be taking the weekend off while seeing who their next opponent is going to be. With the Dallas Cowboys beating the Philadelphia Eagles 24-0 this afternoon, the NFC playoff...
All Eight NFC Playoff Seeding Scenarios for This Weekend
As we've all heard by now, the six playoff teams in the NFC have been determined, and five of those six teams have no idea where they're going to be seeded. Some of those teams have limited possibilities, while a couple of others could fall anywhere between the #2 seed and the #6 seed, depending...
The #1 Seed in the NFC Playoffs Is Officially Back In Play
With the Dallas Cowboys waking up in December for the first time in. . .well, a long time. . .and ending the undefeated dreams of the New Orleans Saints, the #1 seed in the NFC playoffs is again a possibility for the Minnesota Vikings if they beat the Carolina Panthers this evening in...
Arizona's Loss is Truly Minnesota's Gain
With a playoff spot already assured and focus now set on a first-round playoff bye, the Vikings got a pleasant surprise last night when the San Francisco 49ers forced seven Arizona turnovers last night en route to defeating the Cardinals 24-9 on Monday Night Football. This loss was big in the race...
Adrian Peterson Has an Injured Ankle; EVERYBODY PANIC!!
First off, allow me to apologize for not having an update here on the site yesterday. I've spent the last two weeks at training for the Keesler AFB Honor Guard. . .enjoying the hell out of it, too, quite frankly. But yesterday, our NCOIC felt compelled to have us go out and do a 5K run for PT. I...
Of Pat Williams and Potential First-Round Byes
Well, by now I'm sure we've all heard the news that Phat Pat Williams, the best run stopped in the National Football League, is going to be on the shelf for the next 2-4 weeks with a broken scapula. Surely this news caused Roger Goodell to change his free-time activity for today from kicking...
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