Playoffs so far......homefield not an advantage?

Blitzer88

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Watching the games so far in the playoffs, homefield does not seem to be that big of deal for the higher seeds. Chiefs/Colts was close, Saints beat the Eagles at Philly and right now the Chargers are beating up on the Bengals who averaged about 38 points per game and were undefeated at home this year. Let's hope the Hawks really take advantage of being at home, unlike the teams this weekend.
 

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We will see how the whiners handle it because if we didn't have hfa we would b in the freezer today
 

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Those teams are beating themselves. Chiefs D beat themselves, Andy Dalton is beating himself. I cant remember seeing him play this bad
 

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In the playoffs, teams are good enough that losing at home isnt a surprise.
 

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Chiefs, Eagles, Bengals won 32 regular season games combined, only 7 of those came against opponents with winning records.

Two of those 7 wins were over the packers who didn't have Rodgers for one game and are only non-losing team by virtue of a tie.

one of those wins was over the eagles themselves.

So really out of 48 games those 3 teams only really beat 4 contenders in the regular season.
 

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I guess old Kurt Warner was right. his bold prediction yesterday was 5 of the Division winners would fall by the end of next weekend..5 out of 8, He would have had 4 already if Indy had not had that comeback...
 

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I don't think it's the location of the games. The Eagles just ran out of time against a future Hall of Fame QB and the Bengals played an all around terrible game.
 

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Cincy is terrible in the playoffs and the Eagles have been terrible at home all season.
 

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Our home field advantage is completely different. Us 12's genuinely infuse our defensive players with extra adrenaline. I honestly believe in this. And thus, our offense plays that much better. As the old saying goes, defense wins championships!
 

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It's mostly about matchups and that the losing teams had crappy quarterbacks and/or cornerbacks.
 
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Well, home teams were 1-3 this first weekend of the playoffs. Hope the Hawks can use the Clink to their advantage.
 

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Well the wild card teams are better then the third and fourth seed division winners. That won't be the case in the next round.
 

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It has more to do with the NFC East & Central being lousy divisions. There's a reason there are no more teams in the playoffs after one weekend from those divisions.
 

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Homefield advantage =/= Wins

I'm sure it was still an advantage for the teams who lost.
 

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Outside of the Bengals, every game was a 1-score game decided by either a time-expiring FG or a failed FG drive.

Hardly would say that homefield was not an issue; maybe if they were playing in the opposite stadiums, the division winner would have been routed.
 

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I think it has more to do with matchups and teams than homefield.

In the case of the Eagles, the Eagles have ALWAYS been (this year I mean) an iffy home team at best, and while they have an explosive offense, their defense was really smoke and mirrors, and the Saints actually took a page out of Seattle's playbook by dominating the line of scrimmage with their D-Line and that was that for the Eagles. The Eagles were going nowhere. [Honestly I don't see a team as injured and flawed as the Saints going anywhere either but one of them had to win.]

As for Green Bay, San Fransisco on paper is a MUCH better team this year than Green Bay, and San Fran barely won today by the skin of their teeth. San Fran was supposed to win and it wasn't supposed to really be this close a game.

As for the Chiefs and the Colts, both are flawed teams with suspect defenses, and the Colts (the home team) did wind up winning. As for the Bengals, the Bengals played tight and made mistakes. This was the one really genuine upset IMHO where the better team simply didn't play a good game and their opponent did.

I expect the Panthers to beat San Fran possibly handily since the Panthers can go physically toe to toe with the Niners (and have proven it) are about as good a team, AND they are playing at home with a week's rest while the Niners will still be thawing out. As for New Orleans at Seattle, well we've seen that film before. Enough said. I also don't see New England losing in January in Foxborough to the Colts. If I had to predict an upset, I'd say that Denver *is* potentially vulnerable to the Chargers in Denver.
 

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Well it seems to me they have been talking about this weekend when we aren't even playing. Lets see what happens next week.

:roll:
 

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