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Pittsburgh Steelers get “Tebow’d” 29-23 in Wildcard Overtime

#1 Sportsfan — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:21:55 +0000

At the end of the first quarter it actually looked as if Pittsburgh was going to have no problem winning the game having two field goals and moving the ball pretty well. Denver seemingly could not do anything in the first quarter. Then the second quarter came which had the Broncos scoring 20 unanswered points including a 30 yard touchdown pass and an 8 yard touchdown run by Tim Tebow. Ironically the Denver Broncos and Tim Tebow spent most of the game starting their drives from at or behind the 25 yard line so its not like they were getting great field position or anything. Tim Tebow outplayed Ben Roesthlisberger by mile and I really cannot wait to see what Skip Bayless has to say tomorrow on First Take. I would venture to say that Tim Tebow had the best game of his career tonight with a QB rating over 125. To top it all off he broke John Elway’s record for passing yards in a playoff debut. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Elway!

On a lighter note, the Giants made the Falcons look stupid beating them 24-2. Yes, that means there has now been an NFL team score 2 points in a playoff game. This also means that every single home team won their playoff game. This is the first time that’s happened in at least a decade. The Giants end up having to play the seemingly unbeatable Green Bay Packers. Don’t worry though, the Broncos are not getting off that easy. There next game ends up being the New England Patriots at Tom Brady’s house. Needless to say, the playoffs pretty much got boring all the sudden. If you notice, there really arent any teams left in the playoffs that aren’t putting up major numbers. Let’s just hope. And pray…

2011-2012 NFL Playoff Bracket

#1 Sportsfan — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:44:18 +0000

We have come out with our playoff bracket the same day that the playoffs start. I know this seems counter productive but the holidays have really taken a toll on the staff. While the playoffs did not really go as we had planned them at the beginning of the season, we feel as if we were pretty close in our predictions (minus ever voting for the Cowboys for anything ever again). I think that the Cowboys are going to take a few drastic measures in the next few weeks. I am not sure what is going to happen but I have a feeling they are going to undergo a mini-facelift. Anyways, we have not put our predictions on there yet as we are going to create an article specifically for that. The down side to this years playoffs in my opinion is that the Philadelphia Eagles/Dallas Cowboys are not participating at all in this years playoffs. I would have told you this is bad news for Michael Vick but I am pretty sure he kept his job at the end of the season when they finished it off with four straight wins.

NFL Preseason Picks – 2011-2012 Season

#1 Sportsfan — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:21:41 +0000

With the NFL season upon us its time to come up with out Preseason NFL Picks for the playoffs. We take these pretty seriously as we also will be posting predictions throughout the season on a weekly basis. I picked the Patriots to win and I think Chad Ochocinco gets his first championship. With the lockout over we are eager to see how the NFL is going to run things this season. I am already pissed off over the few rule changes that were made (especially the new kick off rules). I mean come on, you guys pretty much changed NFL football…Anyways, here are my picks for this seasons playoffs and Super Bowl:

NFC North -Green Bay Packers

NFC South -New Orleans Saints

NFC East -Philadelphia Eagles

NFC West -Arizona Cardinals

AFC North -Pittsburgh Steelers

AFC South -Houston Texans

AFC East -New England Patriots

AFC West – San Diego Chargers

Super Bowl – Eagles vs. Patriots

2010-2011 NFL Preseason Picks

#1 Sportsfan — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:11:56 +0000

The dawn of a new NFL season is upon us and SidelineBlog is here to make out picks before the first game of the season. My picks for the Super Bowl are the Dallas Cowboys to be playing at home for the first time in NFL history against the Baltimore Ravens. I think there is a chance for the Colts to make it because you obviously can never count out Peyton Manning. At the same time I am just feeling what the Ravens have done with both their offense and defense in the off season.

Division	Team	Record
NFC East	Dallas Cowboys	12-4
NFC North	Minnesota Vikings	11-5
NFC South	New Orleans Saints	13-3
NFC West	San Francisco 49ers	10-6
NFC Wildcard	Green Bay Packers	9-7
NFC Wildcard	Washington Redskins	9-7
AFC East	New England Patriots	12-4
AFC North	Baltimore Ravens	11-5
AFC South	Indianapolis Colts	13-3
AFC West	San Diego Chargers	10-6
AFC Wildcard	Cincinatti Bengals	9-7
AFC Wildcard	Houston Texans	9-7

2009 NFL Playoffs Bracket

#1 Sportsfan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:51:57 +0000

I thought that I would give you guys a different look at the NFL playoffs. This is a bracket view of the playoffs and also a great way to see things as a whole. The reason that its set up like this (with teams like the Giants who dont play anyone until the second round) because there are 2 teams from each Conference that have what we call a bye for the first round which means they play the winners of the Wild Card games. One of the crazy things this season that I have noticed is that San Diego gets home field advantage against the Colts even though they have a far worse record (8-8) which also makes them only the 2nd NFL team to make the playoffs with a .500 record. Since they won their division and Indianapolis is a wild card, they get the Wildcard game at home. I look for the Chargers to go deep if they can keep playing as well as they have. Otherwise I would probably say its going to be a Ravens-Falcons Superbowl which would be cool. I think the Falcons and the Chargers are playing the best at this point in the season.