My Bengals will finally win a playoff game against Pittsburgh, but beyond that, I think the AFC is up for grabs.
Cincinnati Bengals
Patriots clinched the playoffs in week 10. They did not need to play hard after that and risk injuring more players, they will win when it counts. Brady was the only member of the offense that started every game.
I’ll stick with the Patriots... they’ll have some major players back for the playoffs.
I’m going with the Steelers.
Denver
Maybe this is a little off topic, but I get the feeling that the Seahawks are a team to be NOT underestimated. While I would like to see the Patriots go all the way, I think about the above as well as if it is not New England, I would not mind seeing Arizona win the Super Bowl as they’ve not won a championship since 1947, when they were in Chicago and playing out of old Comiskey Park.
Nope,it's not a fluke.It's because of devastating injuries on both offense *and* defense.But those injuries are expected to be healed by the 17th.
Specifically related to the subject, though, I would not mind seeing the Chiefs or Bengals or even Broncos win the AFC if it is not New England that does so.
It’s all fixed which favors (in order) New England, Pittsburgh and Denver. They’re the ones who usually get French kisses from the officials.
The equation changes if Peyton Manning will announce that this is his final season. Observe:
* Pittsburgh’s Jerome Bettis says during a playoff run that he’s retiring. Result, Steelers win the Super Bowl against Seattle buoyed by several highly suspicious official calls.
* Baltimore’s Ray Lewis says before a playoff run that he’s retiring. Result, Ravens win the Super Bowl against San Francisco buoyed by several questionable calls going their way (so many that the NFL had to pull the power on the Super Bowl to take attention away from it).
So if Manning says he’s calling it a career, Denver should get home cooking from the refs which could finish in Santa Clara with a revenge Super Bowl win over the Seahawks.
Brady got a gift win last year so, unless Manning steps up, I think the Steelers will go all the way.
Kansas City can give teams they face troubles. They beat the Broncos. They had some teams who weren’t doing good but they did what they had to.
The problem with the Bengals is Marvin Lewis.
Anybody but Pittsburgh, PLEASE
Unlike the NFC, the AFC is wide open. Any of the 6 playoff teams are capable of getting the the Super Bowl - it’s going to come down to staying healthy and consistent for 2 or 3 games.
Probably not the Chiefs, much as it pains me to say that. They’re banged up on defense but I still think that they will win on Saturday in Houston. Pittsburgh may be inconsistent but when they’re on then they’re hard to stop. So I think it will be Pat-Chiefs and Broncos-Steelers in the semi-finals. Assuming my beloved Chiefs make sure the game balls are inflated properly they will make a game of it but still fall to the Pats. Denver will rise and call with Manning. At the end of the day I still think the Pats will go to the Super Bowl and lose to Carolina.
my team isn’t in the playoffs this year, so withput bias i would say:
not the steelers - defense not up to their usual high standard and ben throwing a lot of picks lately.
not the bengals with a j mccarron.
not the pats - 2 and 4 in their last 6 games. beat up o line.
denver or kc.
i like denver to win the afc.
Who cares
I used to like football when it was real like Wrestling
but now that it’s fixed like boxing why bother