Potential Playoff Opponent(s)

[RiverDog]

IIRC, there have been teams that played each other on consecutive weekends, reg season and WC round. Luck of the draw.

Kind of fun, though that the playoffs are still a bit uncertain this late in the season.

Actually, it's the opposite. I read where this season, there are fewer teams left in contention at the beginning of Week 17 than at any time since they went to the 17-game schedule. That manifested itself yesterday as 4 of the 6 teams featured on Xmas Day were already eliminated.

 

[glenwo2]

A one seed and a first round bye. Nothing else matters at this point. A friend of mine asked me this at work I echoed what Brock said which is the most important game is the next one on the schedule. That’s how they’re treating it and right now that’s the Panthers. Pissed me off to no end about Hall. We got shafted on the one game suspension. Thank God they mob deep on D

Fortunately, it was only for one game.

We can live without him against the Panthers.

But not against the forty-whiners.

It will be all-hands-on-deck in Week 18.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

I get you but I'm not holding my breath even if Darnold does win a playoff game.

The Media loves to stubbornly cling to narratives....

...I'm just sick and tired Darnold being held to a far higher standard than any other QB.

He's not ALLOWED to have a bad game.

He's not ALLOWED to not be perfect.

He's micro-analyzed in every which way by the media pundits who are looking for ways to downplay anything positive he's done with a "Yeah but" attached to it.

Honest question, why do you care?
Embrace the hate.

 

[FrodosFinger]

Fortunately, it was only for one game.

We can live without him against the Panthers.

But not against the forty-whiners.

It will be all-hands-on-deck in Week 18.

Most definitely

 

[glenwo2]

Honest question, why do you care?
Embrace the hate.

Us against the world, right?

 

[djb28]

Think it will play out like this:

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Just think about this. We got screwed in Super Bowl XL. We are now given the chance to flip the script and take Super Bowl LX

 

[Followthelegion]

My own 2 cents - like most the 1 seed is paramount. Extra week of rest, no chance of being eliminated and no chance of further injuries, plus HFA.
However maybe the most important factor in my eyes in terms of who represents the NFC is that by being the 1 seed, it forces the Rams to be a wildcard team.
The Rams are the 1 dragon I don’t love our prospects against; make Stafford have to go on the road to Chicago / Philly

 

[OneLofaTatupu]

Honest question, why do you care?
Embrace the hate.

Not only does the media love to cling to a narrative, humans do as well. With fat fat fatty doeses of confirmation bias and emotional reasoning.

 

[GemCity]

My own 2 cents - like most the 1 seed is paramount. Extra week of rest, no chance of being eliminated and no chance of further injuries, plus HFA.
However maybe the most important factor in my eyes in terms of who represents the NFC is that by being the 1 seed, it forces the Rams to be a wildcard team.
The Rams are the 1 dragon I don’t love our prospects against; make Stafford have to go on the road to Chicago / Philly

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In an NFC Championship game, I like our odds vs the Rams.

I really don’t want to play them prior to that.

Win out…win a statement game of sorts vs the 49ers…let us get into their heads as the big dawgs in the lot. Not the other way around.

Anyone can be beat by anyone in the playoffs…more so than the regular season.

That bye week is HUGE. More time to heal…more game tape…prep.

Finish this shit out. 14-3.

 

[chrispy]

Post season wins v 9rs, Rams and ultimately Pats will erase a lot of unpleasant memories. Let's do that....

 

[sutz]

Has any team actually played against two division rivals in the same playoffs season? We could have to do that.

 

[flv2]

Has any team actually played against two division rivals in the same playoffs season? We could have to do that.

The 1st time the NFL allowed 2 non division winners to play each other as a wild-card match was in 1978. The 1st time 3 teams from the same division made the playoff was the 1981 season when both the AFC East and NFC East had 3 teams make the playoffs.

There was a players strike in 1982 so the NFL had an altered 8-team playoff system. The AFC #2 seed Miami Dolphins defeated the #7 seed New England Patriots and #6 seed New York Jets en route to their Super Bowl defeat against Washington.

The 1st time a team played 2 divisional rivals in the same playoffs under the 5-team per conference season was after the 1983 season. In that year the AFC West runner-up beat the AFC West 3rd-placed Broncos in the wild-card and the Dolphins in the divisional round before losing to the AFC West Champion LA Raiders.