NFL Conference Championship Games

[marnold***]

I actually am looking forward to the NFC game more because the offenses are better. Pittsburgh has a semi decent offense. Baltimore has none to speak of. It's going to be a 13-10 game, methinks. I'd really like Arizona to make the Superbowl since they are one of the "futile four" who have never played in the game.

[R_of_G]

13-10 would be a lot of scoring for those two teams. That's what intrigues me about it. I tend to prefer 3-0 to 48-10. I would like to see Arizona win because I've known so many Eagles fans and they haven't made me want to wish success on their team (the Eagles fans here are cool though). With Warner at QB, anything is possible.

[Tim]

Pittsburgh vs. Baltimore

[Tim]

Pittsburgh Steelers going hunting;

[R_of_G]

This year has shown me that the NFL instant replay rules are a joke. Whether it was the so-called forward pass call which cheated San Diego against Denver early in the season, the kickoff which never touched the Eagles player or went out of bounds today or any of the many plays in between, I have seen far too many incorrect calls on plays that are "not reviewable".

So I ask, what is the point of having "not reviewable" situations? By allowing any form of replay at all, the league acknowledges that its officials make mistakes and that these mistakes should not necessarily affect the outcomes of the games. Therefore, why would the system provide for situations in which a mistake must be accepted?

Let me state, I am not for reviewing every play every time from the booth. I am not for changing the way it works now with the one challenge per team per half. The only change I want made is that ANY call can be challenged. To isolate any type of situation as "not reviewable" makes the entire concept of review preposterous.

On another note, where is this spectacular Eagles' defense I keep hearing about? I've talked a lot about the two D's we will see this evening in the AFC game, and I've read and heard a lot about how "the Eagles are being overlooked and are playing the best D right now." Ok, where is it? It looks to me like the Cardinals can pretty much do whatever they want out there. Interesting to me that the Eagles are giving up a lot of points because that cannot be blamed on McNabb (everyone's favorite scapegoat).

[Blaze]

The Cards are on !!

[R_of_G]

That game was a good appetizer. Now on to the main course, defensive football!

[luvmyshiner]

WOW! What a game. This has been a very close and exciting season. If y'all will excuse me, I have to go watch the next one.

[Tynee]

This year has shown me that the NFL instant replay rules are a joke. Whether it was the so-called forward pass call which cheated San Diego against Denver early in the season, the kickoff which never touched the Eagles player or went out of bounds today or any of the many plays in between, I have seen far too many incorrect calls on plays that are "not reviewable".

So I ask, what is the point of having "not reviewable" situations? By allowing any form of replay at all, the league acknowledges that its officials make mistakes and that these mistakes should not necessarily affect the outcomes of the games. Therefore, why would the system provide for situations in which a mistake must be accepted?

Let me state, I am not for reviewing every play every time from the booth. I am not for changing the way it works now with the one challenge per team per half. The only change I want made is that ANY call can be challenged. To isolate any type of situation as "not reviewable" makes the entire concept of review preposterous.

On another note, where is this spectacular Eagles' defense I keep hearing about? I've talked a lot about the two D's we will see this evening in the AFC game, and I've read and heard a lot about how "the Eagles are being overlooked and are playing the best D right now." Ok, where is it? It looks to me like the Cardinals can pretty much do whatever they want out there. Interesting to me that the Eagles are giving up a lot of points because that cannot be blamed on McNabb (everyone's favorite scapegoat).

Yeah, they screwed them both up. The thing is, how would you correct it? The reason that some plays are unreviewable is because they are blown dead too early.

For example, lets say there is a Cardinal's player standing close enough to grab the ball after it bounces. The Eagle's player hears the whistle and quits on the play, but the Card grabs the ball and runs into the endzone with it. In a perfect world, they could go back and say, "the whistle shouldn't have blown, so the Card's get 6" except that the Eagle's player would have kept playing if the whistle hadn't blown, so maybe he would have gotten the ball instead. Sometimes, you can review it all you want, but there's no FAIR way to fix it, so you chalk it up to human error and move on.

That's my take on it, anyway. Either way, it was good football this past weekend, and the SB should be entertaining with a really good O matched up against a really good D, and an ok O matched up against an ok D.

[R_of_G]

It's a good point you make Tynee. I'm not sure how I would address a situation like that, but there's got to be a better way than the way it is now. I'll have to give it some more thought.

[just strum]

Pittsburgh Steelers going hunting;

Very creative.