Posted on 01/07/2006 8:32:13 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
Today on ABC, the first matches of the Wild Card Round will be played!
At 4:30 PM...
Washington (10-6) at Tampa Bay (11-5)
And at 8:00 PM...
Jacksonville (12-4) at New England (10-6)
WHO SHALL WIN?
That was a SUPER HIT! Clean and sharp..
Jags have KEWL Helmets...
yeah I like their helmets.
I kinda like Leftwich too. I think he could be a good QB in a couple seasons.....
...against the number one defense in the league. Check the rules, the team with the most points, wins.
yep.
It's easy though, when the Jags drop into a soft zone and your receivers are smart enough to see the gargantuan holes....
Timeout Jacksonville
1st Quarter/8:16 left
A college football playoff is now going to happen, it is now just a matter of how soon. A week or so ago the new head of the BCS said that they were willing to allow a new championship game composed of the 2 highest ranked winners of the BCS games and made it sound like they were open to doing so during the new contract with Fox, rather than waiting until the next round of negotiations. That is a 4 team playoff, and open the door to the final simple step that would move it to 8 teams. Simply take the 4 BCS bowl winners and let the 2 highest ranked host on campus home games, with the winners of that round matching up in the nat'l champ game.
Doesn't change anything that takes place now (except the forced pairing of 1 and 2 in the BCS round, which the Rose Bowl hated), just adds 3 games and only 1 bowl. Preserves all the existing bowls, doesn't hurt bowl attendance(people are still going to take those New Years vacations), doesn't interrupt finals in December, and actually increasing viewership (and thus revenues.) However the one fly in the ointment would be the poison pill-esque proposal the BCS has for adding a 5th bowl outside of the championship game (to placate the small schools/conferences and their politicians.) But that could be dealt with by putting the 2 lowest ranked teams in that bowl. Best scenario is to take 6 BCS conference champs and 4 wildcards and putting the 2 lowest ranked of all of them in the "Missed It By That Much" Bowl, solving the FSU dilemma and making it a true 8 team playoff. Conference politics may insist on putting just the 2 lowest ranked wildcards in that bowl, but the system would still get somewhere between 5 and 8 of the 8 highest ranked teams in the playoffs.
Maybe not perfect, but a heck of a lot better than what now exists, and probably at least an 80+% chance of producing the same champion that a 16 team playoff would. I'd say the odds of the current 2 team playoff getting right is about 50%, at best. The underdog has won 6 of 8 mythical NC games, an indicator of how fuzzy the rankings are at that level of precision. Open it up to 6-8 teams and the odds of getting right zoom up substantially.
you need your great players to play.
Dillion is a hall of famer, he should be out there if he can go.
Going to watch in the other room...have a fine evening ALL!!
See you tomorrow on the SUNDAY GAME THREAD!
00 Jacksonville Jaguars
00 New England Patriots
1st Quarter/7:59 left
see ya!
He must be more injured then they are letting on....
Punt?, ball inside the 5...that was strange.
I predict the Pats getting a safety and going up 2-0.
WTF!?
ROFL!
AFC is gonna win....just not sure which team!
a pooch punt?...don't tell PETA. Btw, I wanna see Flutie do another drop kick, I missed the last one.
I don't like that call.
I got it in AVI format... give a few and I'll upload it.
what's the wind like?
It's a cold game, maybe he wasn't hitting those in practice?
That is just like Belicheck in the playoffs though. If you really needed it, he would have gone for it.
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