Catch-all thread to discuss the other contestants.
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I see all 4 road teams winning next weekend.
I really just want this disaster, the 2015 Packers, to be over. 
I think there's a good chance all four road teams can win
It will be especially gratifying to watch the Seahawks destroy the Vikings
Do you really think anything is going to change, from last nite to next week. Was Arod mis quoted, when he said the Packers would show up when it counted? To me it going to be the same o same o, the question is, how big of a pile will they leave?
Yeah, I hate getting the network's #1 announcing team.
#Panthers coach Ron Rivera said Peanut Tillman tore his ACL and is out for the season. That stings.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 4, 2016
PackFoo posted:Oh grand...we get Joe Suck and Butt Lips.
That's the least of our problems
Bill Belichick on keeping Tom Brady in game (via @DaleHolleyWEEI): "We're trying to play good football. Is that offensive to anybody?" (1/2)
— Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) January 4, 2016
More Bill Belichick (via @DaleHolleyWEEI): "Trying to compete. If that rubs some people the wrong way, I don't understand that, but ..."
— Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) January 4, 2016
Goldie posted:I really just want this disaster, the 2015 Packers, to be over.
So you'd rather they lose this week than win the Superb Owl? 
The game here in Minnehaha on Sunday will be one of the colder games in NFL history. The rubes are all excited about the HFA they'll have and that the weather will be the great equalizer.
The same group of dopes are the ones who wanted a closed roof stadium. It's a shame this will likely be the last outdoor playoff game in Minnesota (barring a miracle where they host the NFCC game).
I want this disaster of a season to be over with a SB win.......
Well, good luck @Vikings at noon on Sunday. Early forecast for 7am wind chills shown. Noon still -15 to -20. #kstp pic.twitter.com/i5m0qJ3Hji
— ken barlow (@kbarlowkstp) January 6, 2016
Steelers Bengals is going to be fun. Those teams truly hate each other.
Nothing like playoff football.
I live about 45 minutes away from Cincinnati and it is very true those teams and their fans HATE each other. For Bengals fans every time they face the Steelers it is stressful for them because of all of the heart breaking losses to the Steelers.
Oh and for the record everyone talks about how great of fans Steelers fans are. They are great fans and travel well but I find them to be about as irritating as Vikings fans. Can't stand them.
Pittsburgh macho doesn't translate well to fans? whodathunkit? 
The problem Cincinnati has is they don't sell out the stadium so half of it will be Steelers fans.
The problem Cincy has is that the Red Rocket has been ruled out. I would bet the house on the Steelers and give the points.
I would also bet money on the Steelers winning this one. I just think the Steelers are so far in the heads of the Bengals players it is insane. They have sold this one out but like GBFANFORLIFE said it will be a filled with Steelers fans.
Well well well
@RapSheet: The #Seahawks officially ruled Marshawn Lynch OUT for the game. He told the team he felt like he couldn't do it. Stunner.
Just read that. I'll bet he retires. Seems like he's mentally done. Wonder how this will affect Seattle.... might help, create a circle-the-wagons mentality.
Sounds more physically-driven to me.
@NFLMedia: "During the week he wasn’t explosive." -- @RealMikeRob on Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch.
Interesting...the final four in the AFC are all previous Super Bowl opponents of the Packers...
Chiefs (SB I)
Patriots (SB XXXI)
Broncos (SB XXXII)
Steelers (SB XLV)
Hungry5 posted:SB losers to the Packers.
Not Denver
They're still losers. Cheaters
Pats' Chandler Jones bye week = one toke over the line.
http://heavy.com/sports/2016/0...scanner-cops-report/
The Kraft/Billy B cone of silence is strong in this one.
And, OBTW:
@AlbertBreer: Worth noting: Foxboro's police chief has run Pats' stadium security for 31 years.
More per the Boston Herald:
Patriots defensive end Chandler Jones was rushed to Norwood Hospital Sunday morning after he showed up at the Foxboro Police Department with a medical emergency, police dispatch records show.
But police officials won’t say what the emergency was and the police chief confirmed information was deleted from dispatch records before they were released to the Herald.
Dispatch records show Jones arrived at the police station at 7:42 a.m. with a medical emergency and was evaluated by fire and EMS officials before being transported to Norwood Hospital just after 8 a.m...
... When the Herald called Foxboro Police Chief Edward T. O’Leary earlier today, he first denied his department and officers had any dealing with Jones over the weekend and added the only time he’d ever seen Jones was being interviewed on television.
But dispatch records obtained by the Herald about two hours later showed at least five officers on the scene while Jones was being evaluated in a back parking lot of the station.
Another officer was dispatched to Jones’ home, which is only about a block from the police station, to “secure the residence,” according to the dispatch report.
When asked whether he had misspoken in his earlier conversation with the Herald, O’Leary said, “No, because it was a medical call. I didn’t look at it as a police specific call.”
O’Leary said no police report exists for the incident because the department doesn’t fill out paperwork for medical calls “unless a person’s dead.”
O’Leary also said he doesn’t know what medical emergency brought Jones to the police station because he had not spoken with any of his officers who handled the case and denied knowing why one of his officers went to Jones’ home to secure the residence.
“I have no idea,” said O’Leary. “I didn’t talk to the officer. I don’t know whether there was no one else at the home or whether he was asked. I don’t know.”
The dispatch report also shows that a Foxboro officer modified the dispatch record of the emergency call at 3:02 p.m. today – shortly after the Herald called O’Leary and received a copy of the dispatch call records...
very interesting, I didn't know the blue line extended to Patriot football players.