WE MADE IT!!! NFL Wildcard Preview

We made it! We finally made it to the postseason! There were sooooo many bumps in the road like players getting infected with Coronavirus out of nowhere, games getting pushed to future weeks, games being moved to Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, teams missing entire positions for games and various other issues they ran into this season. Many people said the NFL should just cancel the season because there is no way you could socially distance during a game. Well the NFL said "Fuck That! Not only will we start and complete the regular season on time, we will do it all bubbleless! Only allowing fans in specific stadiums located in certain states (Texas) with reduced capacity". And complete the regular season they did. You don't become the top sports league in the country without adapting to ever changing situations.

They did a great job juggling the schedule and since NFL football generally gets the highest ratings of the night, networks gladly played along with preempting their regular schedule programming with some FOOTBAW! Hell, seeing that fans didn't mind watching midweek football probably gives them some ideas in the future for Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday Night Football on the schedule. And even though they lost out on a lot of ticket sales, at least they're not bitching about the lost revenue like NBA owners. We should've known the NFL wouldn't cancel regular season games because there is no way in hell they'll voluntarily give up money.

That's some high quality memeing right there.

So it's on to the playoffs. We have a new playoff format where only two teams gets a first round bye while the other 12 teams play tripleheader wildcard games on Saturday and Sunday. We have teams that finally made the playoffs in a long ass time. We got a division winner with a losing record hosting a team with a geriatric QB. We have a team that backed into the playoffs thanks to losses by other teams. And we have other teams that want to prove they aren't just all hype. So let's get to the playoff predictions shall we?

THE GAMES

Indianapolis Colts    34

Buffalo Bills              20

Josh Allen and the Bills had themselves a great year breaking or tying numerous team records like Most TD passes (Josh Allen: 37), Most receiving yards (Stefon Diggs: 1,535) and Most wins in a season (13: Tied with '90, '91 seasons). While Phillip Rivers seems to be on his last hurrah with the Colts. Considering he has the most games, passing yards and passing TDs among all QBs to never win a Super Bowl, he's gonna give it all he's got to win this game.

Los Angeles Rams    24

Seattle Seahawks      52

For a team with the league's #1 defense, they sure don't play like it. Maybe it's because I haven't watched many Rams games but they don't give off that menacing, stifling, world beating defensive impression that the Broncos/Steelers/Ravens of yesteryear gave off. In other words, I don't feel this defense is dominant enough to win the game by themselves. With Jared Goff questionable with his thumb surgery, I don't believe Arizona Hotshots legend John Wolford will generate enough offense to beat the Seahawks.

Tompa Bay Buccaneers           47

Washington Insurrectionists     6

I'm torn here. On one hand, I want Washington to win to shutup those bitching about them getting in the playoffs. People are mad that the Giants were "screwed" out of the division title due to the Eagles shameless tanking in the 4th quarter. There are also people who are mad that a team with a losing record is in the playoffs while the 10 win Dolphins missed out on that last wildcard spot in their own conference.

On the other hand, I find it entertaining when shit talkers get their shit pushed in on the field. Rookie DE Chase Young shouted he's coming for Tom Brady next as he ran off the field from his win against Philly. Trash talking has been part of football for a long time so this is really no surprise. A young player feeling himself, thinks he can take out the future HOF veteran in the playoffs. As much as I hate crybabies, I love trash talkers getting embarrassed more so I'm hoping Tom and Friends put the Deadskins in their place.

BTW, fuck off Giants fans/personnel and those who bitched about the Eagles blatant late tank job. The ONLY people who have a legitimate gripe about what Doug Pederson did Sunday are his players (which they did). It was planned ahead of time that he was gonna sub in Nate Sudfeld for Jalen Hurts in the season finale but players like Miles Sanders didn't get the memo, so the benching came as a complete shock to them. As for the Giants, coach Joe Judge was puffing out his chest saying he would not "disrespect the game" by losing like that. GTFO. Your shit ass team finished 6-10 and if we're going just by record, it's disrespectful for YOU to get in the playoffs while the 8-8 Cardinals and Raiders and 10-6 Dolphins are cleaning out their lockers for the offseason just because YOU was less shitty at football than your division rivals. Those three teams aren't an EMBARRASEMENT to the game of football and actually finished .500+. But here YOU are complaining that you didn't get in the playoffs based on a technicality! My god self righteous people are annoying as fuck, like Sakura annoying!

Baltimore Ravens    21

Tennessee Titans     27

Who here likes recalling league ranking numbers? It's the league's #1 rushing attack vs the league's #2 on the ground who's 3rd ranked offense will take on the 7th ranked defense. It's quite fitting this is the ABC/ESPN game because like their commentating team, I don't have anything worthwhile to say about this game. Since the Ravens made the playoffs, we missed out on Madden Curse jokes but we may still get them depending on how badly they lose here.

Chicago Bears             13

New Orleans Saints    41

So this is the special SpongeBob game that football fans lost their shit over. What does SpongeBob have to do with football? Nothing. Will that stop the NFL from partnering with SpongeBob to create a clothing line in honor of broadcasting the game on Nickelodeon? Nope. The game will have kid friendly graphics and will pair two CBS Sports members with two Nickelodeon randos to call the game. God that sounds awful...good thing I don't have kids.

Cleveland Browns       33

Pittsburgh Steelers     24

Division rivals playing each other for a third time in the playoffs is fairly common but how many times was that third game the following week in the Wildcard round? I guess it's something we should get used to like a entire division making the playoffs. Anyway, the Browns finally made their first postseason since 2002 where they lost to the Steelers in the Wildcard round 36-33 (funny how things play out like that)! I look to see them make it two in a row and avenge their 2002 comrades by winning this game and getting that monkey off their back.

LAST WEEK        6-10

OVERALL       140-113-1