Playoff chat: Divisional Round Edition!!!

[lil5up3rman]

Welp Saints blew that one 25 seconds left and one time out and the Vikings go all the way down the field into the end zone, Diggs was pumped. My Titans got blown out, but I still felt pretty good about Mariota our line couldn't protect at all after Conklin got hurt and he got sacked 8 times but managed to have 0 turnovers so that is a plus, I am a Titans fan so I did predict us to win however I was well aware if we won it would have been by a slim margin but if we lost it would be a butt whooping which is exactly what we took. I do thing the refs shafted us in the first half and it deflated the Titans and it just went down hill from there quickly. Now for next week the Titans beat the Jags both times this year but we are also very familiar with them and I think that gives us an advantage when playing them over the Pats who really haven't seen a D like them. I think the Jags actually have a better chance to beat the Pats than we did because their D is stout and Bortles has managed to do just enough to get the job done and Fournette has been clutch. I think we may very likely see a Pats/Vikings SB though, however, a Jags/Vikings SB would be very interesting in my opinion, Monster D vs. Monster D.

[Jameis1of1]

Welp Saints blew that one 25 seconds left and one time out and the Vikings go all the way down the field into the end zone, Diggs was pumped. My Titans got blown out, but I still felt pretty good about Mariota our line couldn't protect at all after Conklin got hurt and he got sacked 8 times but managed to have 0 turnovers so that is a plus, I am a Titans fan so I did predict us to win however I was well aware if we won it would have been by a slim margin but if we lost it would be a butt whooping which is exactly what we took. I do thing the refs shafted us in the first half and it deflated the Titans and it just went down hill from there quickly. Now for next week the Titans beat the Jags both times this year but we are also very familiar with them and I think that gives us an advantage when playing them over the Pats who really haven't seen a D like them. I think the Jags actually have a better chance to beat the Pats than we did because their D is stout and Bortles has managed to do just enough to get the job done and Fournette has been clutch. I think we may very likely see a Pats/Vikings SB though, however, a Jags/Vikings SB would be very interesting in my opinion, Monster D vs. Monster D.

I was hoping to see Ben beat Brees or Brees beat Brady ... but now, I'd LOVE a Jags v Vikings SB! I'd be rooting for Fournette or Jalen Ramsey to get MVP and the Jags to win the SB ... and then cut Bortles and sign a different QB similar to how the Ravens won a SB and then cut their QB (Dilfer) and signed Elvis Grbac ... who was even worse than Dilfer was, hahahahaha.

[Devlin]

I heard it called a "bye week" for the Pats as well on some ESPN or NFL Network show or something ... people are not giving the Titans any respect at all, and while I expect the Pats to win big, if the Titans knocked Brady out, I actually think they would probably win ... there team is as good as the Pats team outside of the QB position ... they have a strong line, dominant running game, a better defense than New England, great special teams, etc ... they just don't have the GOAT QB and GOAT COACH like the Patriots have.



Come on now ... you can't possibly think Brees is "over-rated". I agree that domes give an inherent statistical advantage, but Brees is a bad man regardless and his CAREER PLAYOFF stats are BETTER than his career regular season stats, which is very rare.

For example, Tom Brady's career playoff passer rating is just an 89.0 which is far lower than his regular season rating of 97.7, but Brees' career playoff rating is an ASTOUNDING 101.6 which is far better than his already awesome career regular season rating of 96.7

For their respective playoff careers, this is how Brady and Brees compare:

TOM BRADY
Yards Per Game: 267.5
TD Passes Per Game: 1.86 TDs
INTs Per Game: .91 INTs
TD-to-INT ratio: 2.03-to-1
Passer Rating of 89.0

DREW BREES

Yards Per Game: 326.3
TD Passes Per Game: 2.17 TDs
INTs Per Game: .58 INTs
TD-to-INT ratio: 3.71-to-1
Passer Rating of 101.6

Brees destroys Brady in ever single career playoff passing category above ... and it's not even close! I really do think he's one of the most under-rated QBs in NFL history ... and I'm not a Saints fan and never even started paying much attention to Brees until he won a Super Bowl about 9 years ago ...

As for the "just win baby" statement ... of course "team fans" value wins above all else and rightfully so, but we all know that "wins" are a TEAM ACCOMPLISHMENT and not a "QB stat" ... if they were, Blake Bortles, Marcus Mariota and Tyrod Taylor wouldn't be in the playoffs this year while Philip Rivers, Russell Wilson and Matt Stafford sit at home.

stats overrated. like I said, just win baby. brees first ballot hofer, but....

[Devlin]

Again, when all is said and done Brees will probably be #1 all-time in both passing yards and passing TDs ... and if he is also 2-0 in Super Bowls with victories against Manning and Brady and with 2 SB MVPs and with a much higher career passing rating than both ... I do think there will be some people in the future that will say Brees was better than Brady and is "the GOAT" ... I mean, there are actually people that think Marino is the GOAT and he never won a single ring and all his stats were eclipsed by Manning.

Again he's played over half his games in a dome. How would favre, ,Brady,Flacco,Kelly, have done. not saying he's not great, but GOAT....no way.Not a Pats fan, Giants. Would take Brees over Eli any day.

[Jameis1of1]

Again he's played over half his games in a dome. How would favre, ,Brady,Flacco,Kelly, have done. not saying he's not great, but GOAT....no way.Not a Pats fan, Giants. Would take Brees over Eli any day.

Flacco? Flacco? Come on man ... Joe Flacco deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence as guys like Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson not in the same sentence as Brett Favre, Tom Brady and Jim Kelly! FLACCO?????????????

However, I do agree Brees' stats may be inflated, but he still has a far higher passer rating and YPG than Brady in the playoffs and those games weren't all in a dome ...