The first weekend of the NFL playoff have come to a close. Saturday did me in on my predictions when both of the home teams won their games. While no one thought that the Arizona Cardinals nor the San Diego Chargers deserved to be in the playoffs they won their games. Although it took overtime for the Chargers to win.
Is it really fair for sudden death overtime in a playoff football game? The team that gets the ball first is decided by a random toss of a coin and if they happens to score, the game is over. The other team doesn’t have a chance to match that score.
While I don’t think we need to see a College type of overtime in the Pro game, I do think it’d be fairer for both teams to have the ball once during the overtime. If it’s still tied then the game goes into sudden death.
Sunday was much more favorable with my predictions with both the Baltimore Ravens and the Philadelphia Eagle winning on the road. This means that both of the Number 5 and both of the Number 3 seeds are eliminated.
Now on to the predictions for the 2nd round.
The first game of the 2nd round will feature the Baltimore Ravens and the Tennessee Titans in Nashville. Even though Tennessee is the Number 1 seed, don’t expect this game to be an easy one for them. Tennessee just barely won when the two meet earlier in the year at Baltimore. Baltimore is a better team than the one on early October and this time I don’t think the Ravens will let the win slip through their fingers.
Later in the day on Saturday the Arizona Cardinals will play the Carolina Panthers at Carolina’s home field. This time the Cardinals will not be playing against a team with a rookie coach and a rookie Quarterback. Nor will Carolina make the mistakes that enabled Arizona to beat the Falcons. Carolina will host the NFC Championship game.
The once thought dead Philadelphia Eagles will play the New York Giants for the third time this year. The Eagles and the Giants split the season series with each team winning on the opposing team’s home field. The Eagles amazing late season run will come to a close.
The last game of the weekend has the San Diego Chargers, a team that five weeks ago was more out of the playoff picture than the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers. San Diego may have been able to knock the Indianapolis Colts out of the playoffs for the past two years, but they will find it hard to score on the Pittsburgh defense and have their season come to a crashing end.
January 5, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Nice Steven. Everyone was pretty much done in on Saturday. Shockers! Those games were good.
Thank you for responding to my blog as well!
I’m going to have to check in later to do my predictions, I need more time to get a feel for the upcoming games. And when I do my prognoistications, please stop by my blog and leave yours.
Molly
January 6, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Okay…I am ready- four winners? Let’s hope. Only one of them really matters in my heart though.
Baltimore, of course!
Pitt (gross)
Car
Philly
January 6, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Appears as if the only game we disagree on is the Philly/Giants games. While I would like to see the Eagles win, I don’t think that the rested Giants will lose. Although I do think it’s going to be a close game and may be won on the last procession.
January 7, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Good luck! I’d like to McNaab to do well and don’t want the Giants to win… too much bad juju coming out of that team.
January 15, 2009 at 5:47 pm
How about those Ravens???
You geared up for the game or what?
January 15, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Win or Lose and I sure do hope that it’s a win, one thing for sure, It should be a great game.
January 17, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I like the Ravens, of course, and the Eagles. And you?
January 17, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Ravens and Eagles in the Super Bowl with the Ravens dominating again.