Meacon Keaton

Making the second round of division games the last three games of the season would be a great idea. Because you know those teams are probably going to go balls-to-the-wall to beat their rivals and hope to get that division title. And I'm not arguing that how the Jets got in seems kind of cheap. I'm not arguing that at all. What I'm saying is that the NFL is kind of handcuffed on what to do about it, don't you think? I mean, they can't step in and tell the Colts that Peyton Manning HAS to play a certain amount of snaps just so another team in the league has an equal shot as the team they're playing. As for the proof supporting NOT resting your players, people can (and will) argue about that until the cows come home. I, personally, feel it's a much better bet to go in the playoffs on a roll and a winning streak, than resting your players and taking a few losses. But I'm not Jim Caldwell or Sean Payton, so I don't really have a say in the matter. They're the head coach, and I'm not, so I'm going to assume they have a better handle on their team than I do. Does it suck that this particular scenario happened? Yes, it certainly does. Is there a lot (outside of your suggested divisional games as the last three games idea) of solutions to the problem? No, not really.

Oh, and the first shocker of 2010: Redskins fire Jim Zorn. Poor guy had to see the writing on the wall when they started interviewing for his replacement about a month ago.

I think it would be impossible for the NFL to be able to do anything about that unless they do some kind of scheduling change. Maybe have the first ten, twelve, or fourteen games set in stone, but leave the last few games "open". So you can make the teams vying for a wildcard spot play each other. But I don't personally agree with that. I like it the way it is. Had the Steelers, Broncos, or Texans won another game during the other fifteen games of the season, they wouldn't have been in this mess. Not the Jets fault that they had a perfect set up the last couple games to get in, and its not really the Colts/Bengals fault for wanting to rest up their players for the playoffs.

Who is the Saints back-up? Mark Brunnel? Eww. It ain't 1996, no mo'. Hey, Mandarin, I'm fixing to watch RAW tonight, but I should be good to go any other night this week.

Spot on impression of John Elway, Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Jim Kelly, and every other quarterback in that game. I loved me some Tecmo Super Bowl.

My hopeful Super Bowl (which I will outright admit is very unlikely) is Green Bay against Cincinatti. Because I want to see Green Bay go to the Super Bowl, while Favre watches in Minnesota. And the Bengals, because I'd love to see what celebration ideas Ochocinco would come up with for Super Sunday.

Not to mention FSU's recruiting class this year is getting more stacked each week. Should be interesting to see how many more Gator-verbals they'll steal on Signing Day after this whole Urban Meyer thing.

Great to see Bowden end his career on a high note. I didn't know in that first half if they'd be able to hang with, and overtake West Ginny, but they did and I'm happy for the man.

His lawyer is saying they're going to sue and try to get the remaining $10 million that he's owed. So they'll probably end up settling, and he'll end up with $3-5 million like Mangino got.

I'd go apeshit if I was 48 hours away from receiving an $800,000 bonus and got fired. But it would appear that Leach has already gone apeshit.

Well, this game sure has gotten a hell of a lot more exciting over the last thirty minutes.

I lost in the Championship game in the league I've been in for years. Had I won, I would have been the first two-time champion. That's what I get for benching Jonathan Stewart (come on who saw two-hundred yards AT The Giants?) for Pierre Thomas (who was on pace to have a great game before getting injured) at the last minute.

I didn't feel like watching the Cowboys/Redskins, so I went ahead and played my game. Beat the Colts 34-15. They scored with about a minute left while I was chatting on Facebook, but no harm, no foul. I'm looking forward to next weeks game against the Texans. Should be a good one. I'm pretty happy with where my defense is, but he seems to have a pretty high powered offense.

We can't trade picks? ...I'll trade you Chris Simms for free.

I'll trade you Chris Simms for a draft pick.

I sat here watching this thread the last couple days waiting for your post, Syco. I'm not a Patriot fan, I'm a Bronco fan, which means I am willing to admit when the other team played better than we did. Whatever jumped up Vince Young ass must've jumped up JaMarcus' on Sunday, because he looked like a completely different quarterback on that drive that won them the game. Well done, dude. Your boys most definitely out played mine this past Sunday. And because of that, now our playoff spot is in question.

It's just a shame Josh Cribbs' talent is wasted on a football team that doesn't matter.

I feel like a boost in difficulty would be fine. I think out of all the games I played against the computer, I was challenged twice. And Dragsy, the Eagles got home field over the Rams, because Philly won the NFC East, whereas Tit's Rams are a wildcard team.

You didn't make it, Srar.

Probably won't know for sure until Dragsy advances.

WOOHOO! PLAYOFF TIME!