The Road to SuperBowl XLIV: The Official 2010 NFL Playoffs Thread

[HD MM]

The Colts really haven't stopped a high powered offense all year.

Unless the Saints or Colts start turning the ball over this will be a shoot out.

Saints 39 Colts 31

Oh really?

In Week 3, the Colts held the Cardinals to 10 points.
In Week 4, the Colts held the Titans to 9 points and Chris Johnson to a season low 34 yards.
In Week 9, they held the Texans to 17 points.
In Week 14, they held the Broncos to 16 points.

They couldn't "stop" the other "high powered" offenses I can think of (Vikings, Saints, Packers and Cowboys) only because they didn't play them this year!

 

[SabresRule]

"The NFC will be won by a team out of nowhere. OTOH, if the Lamar Hunt Trophy is not being hoisted by a player representing the Colts, Steelers, Chargers, Ravens, or Patriots- I will be stunned. "

I said those words before the season started.

The Saints were not a chic pick to make it all the way to the Super Bowl back in August, and the Colts did hoist the Lamar Hunt Trophy last Sunday.

 

[HD MM]

"The NFC will be won by a team out of nowhere. OTOH, if the Lamar Hunt Trophy is not being hoisted by a player representing the Colts, Steelers, Chargers, Ravens, or Patriots- I will be stunned. "

I said those words before the season started.

The Saints were not a chic pick to make it all the way to the Super Bowl back in August, and the Colts did hoist the Lamar Hunt Trophy last Sunday.

Does the Amazing Karnac have any predictions on who's to hoist the Lombardi Trophy?

 

[SabresRule]

Does the Amazing Karnac have any predictions on who's to hoist the Lombardi Trophy?

My prediction:

Colts 38, Saints 30.

 

[Rey]

My prediction:

Colts 38, Saints 30.

i could've told you that

 

[Hart5150]

Oh really?

In Week 3, the Colts held the Cardinals to 10 points.
In Week 4, the Colts held the Titans to 9 points and Chris Johnson to a season low 34 yards.
In Week 9, they held the Texans to 17 points.
In Week 14, they held the Broncos to 16 points.

They couldn't "stop" the other "high powered" offenses I can think of (Vikings, Saints, Packers and Cowboys) only because they didn't play them this year!

Week 10 they gave up 34 points and almost 500 yards to the Patriots. 113 yards rushing to a team that can't run the ball.

Patriots ranked 3rd in offense this year ahead of all those teams you mentioned, Saints rank first in total offense.

Texans were 4th in offense, but the Titans, Cardinals and Broncos rank 13th, 14th and 15th respectively. Not exactly in the Saints class.

 

[Jimbo]

Oh really?

In Week 3, the Colts held the Cardinals to 10 points.
In Week 4, the Colts held the Titans to 9 points and Chris Johnson to a season low 34 yards.
In Week 9, they held the Texans to 17 points.
In Week 14, they held the Broncos to 16 points.

They couldn't "stop" the other "high powered" offenses I can think of (Vikings, Saints, Packers and Cowboys) only because they didn't play them this year!

I would not consider all of these to be High Powered Offenses, very few actually.

Thanks for doing the homework for me Hart in your previous post (606) :up

 

[meStevo]

Schefter reporting Freeny has a torn ligament in his right ankle, going to be very difficult for him to play, if he plays at all.

 

[Ramy]

Schefter reporting Freeny has a torn ligament in his right ankle, going to be very difficult for him to play, if he plays at all.

I doubt he plays.

 

[Jimbo]

Schefter reporting Freeny has a torn ligament in his right ankle, going to be very difficult for him to play, if he plays at all.

I doubt he plays.

That would be a HUGE loss for the Colts, already missing Bob Sanders.

[ame="http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4874674"]Source: Indianapolis Colts DE Dwight Freeney has torn ligament in right ankle - ESPN[/ame]

 

[ONUOsFan]

The Colts really haven't stopped a high powered offense all year.

Unless the Saints or Colts start turning the ball over this will be a shoot out.

Saints 39 Colts 31

No bias in that prediction, I'm sure.

It's still about points, the last time I checked. Consider this: Including playoffs, the Saints have only held 5 opponents under 20 points all year. The Colts, on the other hand, have only given up more than 20 points 6 times, and two of those were the last two weeks of the regular season, when most of their starters weren't playing.

 

[ONUOsFan]

That would be a HUGE loss for the Colts, already missing Bob Sanders.

Source: Indianapolis Colts DE Dwight Freeney has torn ligament in right ankle - ESPN

Yes, it would. If you look back at playoff losses in recent years where the defense couldn't get a stop in critical moments (don't get me wrong, the offense gets their share of the blame, too), most of the time Freeney was not playing or not at his peak because of injury.

That being said, if any year's Colts defense could stand up to that loss, it's this one... but against the Saints...?

The best thing the Colts have going for them right now is that the Saints (and the whole city of New Orleans, it seems) have that starry-eyed, "we're in the Super Bowl, let's party" thing going on... I'm not sure they're going to know what to do when a football game breaks out on Sunday.

 

[HD MM]

I would not consider all of these to be High Powered Offenses, very few actually.

Thanks for doing the homework for me Hart in your previous post (606) :up

Look at the Colt's regular season schedule. I outlined the performances against all of the highest of powered offenses they played and won against in dominating fashion (with acception to the Pats).

 

[HD MM]

Schefter reporting Freeny has a torn ligament in his right ankle, going to be very difficult for him to play, if he plays at all.

Not good at all.

Even if he does play, Freeny is a guy who's patented move is the spinning blitz. Even if he does play, this injury might slow him down.

 

[Jimbo]

Oh really?

In Week 3, the Colts held the Cardinals to 10 points.
In Week 4, the Colts held the Titans to 9 points and Chris Johnson to a season low 34 yards.
In Week 9, they held the Texans to 17 points.
In Week 14, they held the Broncos to 16 points.

They couldn't "stop" the other "high powered" offenses I can think of (Vikings, Saints, Packers and Cowboys) only because they didn't play them this year!

I would not consider the Titans (without Johnson they would be in the lower half of the charts for offense.)
I don't consider the Texans or the Bronco's to be high powered offense, particularly the Bronco's

 

[HD MM]

I would not consider the Titans (without Johnson they would be in the lower half of the charts for offense.)
I don't consider the Texans or the Bronco's to be high powered offense, particularly the Bronco's

Like I said, look at their schedule. The teams I outlined were the highest powered offenses on their schedule. I can't help the fact they didn't play the Packers, Cowboys, Vikings and Saints this year.

 

[ONUOsFan]

Like I said, look at their schedule. The teams I outlined were the highest powered offenses on their schedule. I can't help the fact they didn't play the Packers, Cowboys, Vikings and Saints this year.

Here's another way to look at this: I don't think the Vikings defense is any better than the Colts', and that game last week wouldn't even have been close had the Vikings not dipped their hands in a tub of melted butter on the sidelines before every possession, or had the king of catastrophe quarterbacking them...

High powered offenses tend to not be so high powered in the playoffs, especially if they haven't been in those types of situations before. Just look at the Colts early playoff problems...

That's not to say that the Saints couldn't put up 40 on the Colts, because they could, I just don't have the feeling that they will. I think the stage might be too big for them this year....

 

[meStevo]

Check out these pics of Favre's injuries after the game...

clarionledger.com | Jackson, MS PluckPersona | The Clarion-Ledger

 

[ONUOsFan]

Check out these pics of Favre's injuries after the game...

clarionledger.com | Jackson, MS PluckPersona | The Clarion-Ledger

That seems weird... does Brett Favre routinely stand around half naked in his kitchen, taking pictures of himself?

There are only two possibilities:

1. These pictures aren't really him

2. He's really desperate to give people a reason to think a little better of the horrendous pass he threw at the end of that game and he thinks these pictures will do that.

The fact that the pictures (allegedly) came from his agent would lend itself to theory #2, and would also point to a planned comeback (what would this be, #7?) next year.

 

[meStevo]

Not really worth the risk of getting exposed for being a fake, dude got his ass kicked in that game, the pictures aren't all that unreasonable given the punishment.

Given the sources, and that USA Today has run with it and reprinted them, they're him.