The NFL Thread (with added College Football)

[UK Redsox]

Lawrence Phillips found dead in a cell

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/14562908/former-nebraska-cornhuskers-star-lawrence-phillips-found-dead-jail-cell

[ADVILLAFAN]

He sounded lovely....

Chandler Jones allegedly missed practice due to overdoing legal highs on the weekend; synthetic weed.

[DaveD]

This week I am predicting Chiefs, Cardinals, Broncos and Seahawks to win.

[OCD]

This week I am predicting Chiefs, Cardinals, Broncos and Seahawks to win.

The first one's not looking good and I would have tipped Patriots. Hope you're wrong on the second too but I'm not counting on it.

[cdbearsfan]

Think the Packers were unlucky, even though I wanted them to lose. The way regulation ended, you'd have fancied Rodgers to lead them to a TD in OT had they had the ball first. While the Overtime rules are better than they used to be I still don't think it's fair that you can have a game decided on a coin toss. Just play the whole of Overtime. If scores still level, two-point conversion shoot-out.

[OCD]

Janis' TD was a great way to end the game. I agree (not surprisingly given the circumstances) about Overtime, it's too favourable to whoever wins the coin toss. Just play a 5th quarter and as you say, if still level then a shoot-out (which would be great entertainment).

[cdbearsfan]

Although if you just played one quarter it would still favour the team that received first (just). I'd favour ten minutes overtime split into two halves of five minutes. Second half starts with the other team receiving  (like the start of the third quarter in normal time).

Still, I like to see different sides do well and will be cheering for Shaggy's team later.

[OCD]

Would be better the current set-up.

[cdbearsfan]

My Sky Box played up for the second day in  row so having missed the first half in the Cheatriots game I've missed three TDs tonight. Could be an amazing fightback.

[OCD]

Surely 4 TD's is too much to pull back?

[cdbearsfan]

Tell it to the Oilers...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comeback_(American_football)

[Villa in Denmark]

I've not seen much of the Patriots this year, but they must be licking their lips at the thought of playing whoever manages to fumble/bungle/penalty their way to the AFC championship game out of the Broncos and Steelers.

It's almost like watching a BFL game from the early 90s.

[usav]

Steelers threw that one away....gutted.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Worry about the chances of the Broncos defeating the Patriots, when they struggled to beat the Steelers' reserves.

Think the Chiefs was a tougher matchup for them.

Supporting either of the NFC teams to win it all, although there would be something nice about Peyton winning a second Super Bowl. Mad that he's won less than Eli.

[DaveD]

This week I am predicting Chiefs, Cardinals, Broncos and Seahawks to win.

The first one's not looking good and I would have tipped Patriots. Hope you're wrong on the second too but I'm not counting on it.

I'm a New England fan but KC were on an 11 game winning streak whereas we lost 4 of our last 6, I thought we were too banged up and the OL has been garbage all season - expected the Kansas pass rush would have a field day. In the event they hardly touched Brady, and Edelman, Gronk and Amendola looked fitter than expected. Still worried about that OLine at Mile High. If Brady stays on his feet and off his backside, and Jamie Collins plays, we might win there, but that Denver defence looks mean.

Seattle did exactly what I expected Carolina to do, failed to rise to the intensity. Very surprising. Fancy Carolina to go all the way now...

I was up in Brum for the weekend and had to turn off the interwebs until I got home last night, watched all four games back to back with the aid of the fast forward button and caught up at half-time in Denver ! Missus was not best pleased...