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Odds to win the Owl:

New England Patriots 9-2
Carolina Panthers 9-2
Arizona Cardinals 9-2
Denver Broncos 5-1
Seattle Seahawks 5-1
Pittsburgh Steelers 8-1
Cincinnati Bengals 20-1
Kansas City Chiefs 25-1
Green Bay Packers 30-1
Minnesota Vikings 30-1
Washington Redskins 40-1
Houston Texans 60-1

I think it's pretty wide open in both conferences. Carolina, Arizona, Seattle could win it. In the AFC you can't go against New England but Pitt and KC have been playing well. It will be interesting to see if Dalton comes back, if he's effective if he does come back, and if Cincinnati can finally win a playoff game.

NFC prediction for this weekend: Seattle beats Minn and GB beats Washington. GB then plays AZ and Sea plays Car.

Would've been nice for the Pack to swap seeds with Seattle, so that we could play CAR and SEA play AZ in the next round. I think GB and Sea match up better against those teams, respectively. Then GB@SEA NFCC rematch.

If Minny somehow beats Seattle then we would go to Carolina, which most of us would probably prefer. But it's a moot point. We're done this weekend.

Depending on where you look, Vegas has our game as a Pick Em or the Skins -1.

I predict KC in the SB. They are by far the hottest team in the AFC and shouldn't fear any team in that conference atm.

None of the teams the Skins beat finished with a winning record. The only team they beat that had a winning record at the time was the 1-0 Rams. I'm not confident, but I'm not as doom and gloom as some people either.

Anything short of an NFC title game appearance should have McCarthy's ass firmly on the hot seat. It's just unfortunate that the conference has been so tough the last several years. If we were in the AFC, I'd actually still give us a decent shot at making the Super Bowl.

I guess another positive from last night is that nobody seriously was hurt, depending on whatever was wrong with Datone's neck.

Bakhtiari and Shields should be back, so we should be as close to full strength as we can possibly be. I'm trying my best to convince myself to get excited for this game because it's a playoff game, but I'm having a pretty tough time of doing it. Least amped up for a playoff game, maybe ever?

The Packers kind of lucked out losing Sunday resulting in playing the Redskins instead of the Vikings again. The cure for a bad Packers offense is the Redskins defense. The Packers should be able to contain the Redskins offense which results in a surprising blowout for the Packers. Rooting for the Vikings as I think the Packers stand a better chance against the Panthers and just like seeing Seattle lose.

Semi excited for the game, certainly more excited than when they played the 49ers at home a couple of years ago.

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Scot McCloughan strikes

Washington Post asks who would you rather have, Cousins or Rodgers for the next 5 years?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2016/01/04/kirk-cousins-or-aaron-rodgers-who-would-you-start-the-next-five-seasons/

Wow.

FAH1223 wrote:Washington Post asks who would you rather have, Cousins or Rodgers for the next 5 years?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2016/01/04/kirk-cousins-or-aaron-rodgers-who-would-you-start-the-next-five-seasons/

Wow.

You can't be suprised the DC media always tries to over hype... Still though... Damn....

My personal favorite part is when one of their beat writers says cousins may very well have a better career than Rodgers.......

That Washington Post article is embarrassing. Seriously, that's the kind of dumb hot-take crap I expect to see on Bleacher Report.

Read the comments though and there's really only a few "Cousins will be better" idiots.

Ron Swanson wrote:Anything short of an NFC title game appearance should have McCarthy's ass firmly on the hot seat. It's just unfortunate that the conference has been so tough the last several years. If we were in the AFC, I'd actually still give us a decent shot at making the Super Bowl.

Are we going to get hot in the playoffs and go on a run?

James1980 wrote:

Ron Swanson wrote:Anything short of an NFC title game appearance should have McCarthy's ass firmly on the hot seat. It's just unfortunate that the conference has been so tough the last several years. If we were in the AFC, I'd actually still give us a decent shot at making the Super Bowl.

Are we going to get hot in the playoffs and go on a run?

Any given Sunday.

Flames24Rulz wrote: Least amped up for a playoff game, maybe ever?

This is exactly where I am at. Fully expecting a loss as Wisconsin continues our worst sporting year ever into 2016

Ron Swanson wrote:

James1980 wrote:

Ron Swanson wrote:Anything short of an NFC title game appearance should have McCarthy's ass firmly on the hot seat. It's just unfortunate that the conference has been so tough the last several years. If we were in the AFC, I'd actually still give us a decent shot at making the Super Bowl.

Are we going to get hot in the playoffs and go on a run?

Any given Sunday.

Eh, I was going to post a pessimistic comment, but then why try to ruin someone's optimism?

Ron Swanson wrote:

James1980 wrote:

Ron Swanson wrote:Anything short of an NFC title game appearance should have McCarthy's ass firmly on the hot seat. It's just unfortunate that the conference has been so tough the last several years. If we were in the AFC, I'd actually still give us a decent shot at making the Super Bowl.

Are we going to get hot in the playoffs and go on a run?

Any given Sunday.

I'll have what you're having.

Iheartfootball wrote:

Ron Swanson wrote:

James1980 wrote:

Are we going to get hot in the playoffs and go on a run?

Any given Sunday.

I'll have what you're having.

As bad as this team has looked, if you're literally giving them no chance to make it to the Super Bowl then you obviously haven't watched the NFL enough. All I'm saying is that we're not the Texans with Brian Hoyer at QB and we still have a shot, albeit slim, to make a run.