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AFC Game was great.  I always laugh when a kicker misses an extra point, but man, that one came back to bite the Pats.  NFC was a snoozer.  I was hoping Palmer would get over his "can't play in the big game" hump, but apparently, he really can't play in the big game. 

My heart is with Manning.  My money goes on Carolina.

Because most people get killed with their own gun, so ensuring the chamber is empty, you provide your own self a measure of time to think before you shoot, and it prevents the other guy from popping one off at you immediately if he does manage to get your gun.

Seattle's defense was it's spectacular usual self.   Walsh scored the only points the Vikes had all day, and now he's to blame for them losing?    After the game he said something like "It doesn't matter if he lays the ball flat on the turf, it's my job to put it through the upright, and I didn't do that.  It's on me."  AP averaging 2 yards a carry didn't help, and even though I like Bridgewater, he's got a couple years before he reaches his prime.

Walsh is a good kicker, though.

It's only a studio when my wife isn't home. 

It was a great weekend, though.  I'll cut up all the audio and send it along.  That Grestch when run through that Fender (when it's working) is one of my favorite sounds.

Lotta beer... 

The Seahawks have been red hot lately, but they've got a long road to get to the SB again.   They match up well against Minnesota in the wild card round.   Last time the Seahawks offense ran up some ridiculous numbers on them, but the Vikings have a bunch of defensive players back, so I don't think you will see that again.   Defensively, though, I don't see much changing.   They'll sell out against AP like they did last time and trust their secondary to stop Bridgewater.  I see the 'Hawks winning that one, not as easily as the last time, though.  It is supposed to be 6 degrees on Sunday?  Yowza!

The divisional round is the one that is going to hurt.  Carolina gets no respect and have been playing lights out football all year long.   Panthers-Seahawks tilts always end up being 12-9 slugfests, and I don't see this one being any different.

But that's looking ahead.  I don't like to do that. 

In college ball, its Alabama vs Clemson.   I'm going to pull for the Tide because Nick Saban is a Don James product, and for no other reason.  Ohio State kind of got screwed, I think, and the beating they delivered to Notre Dame reflected that, while the beating Michigan State took demonstrated that they weren't perhaps the best choice.  We should remove choice from the equation.

I'd like to see the conferences scrap the NCAA outright, create four "super conferences" of 16 teams split into two divisions of eight teams each.   The two division winners play each other, and that creates four conference champions which can play for the title.    Smaller schools can win their way into the bottom of the league much like they do in EPL Soccer.   That way every school has a shot, all championship decisions are made on the field, and it adds at most one more game to the schedule for schools that don't already have a conference championship game.   The computers can decide seeding or something like that if they have to.

  If the 'Cougs Couged it every time, it wouldn't be Couging it, it would just be a bad football team.  Which it sometimes is.

And the Huskies won in Dallas, beating Southern Miss in a shoot out.

Overall, a pretty good weekend for College Football up here, and I am honestly stoked about next year.  Coach Pete is building a long term winner on Lake Washington.

Well, the Seahawks clinched a playoff spot by beating a really bad Johny Failball lead team.  Arizona clinched the division, as expected.   The next two games are the ones that matter the most, being division games.  The Rams are on their usual "Lose to everyone except division opponents" track, so that is a dangerous game.  Then they finish at AZ.   

If they beat the Rams and the Vikings lose, I think that clinches the #1 wildcard spot for them, making the Week 17 game against Arizona meaningless for both teams.  Which will be fun to watch.  Carson Palmer and Russel Wilson each take about five snaps, and then it will look like a preseason game. 

Well, in order for them to win the division, a whole lot of stuff has to happen, and while it isn't mathematically impossible, it's highly improbable.   Basically, Arizona has to lose out the rest of the season, and the 'Hawks have to win out.  That would make both teams 11-5.

The trick is that they are pretty much tied in every tiebreaker, so you have to go way down the stack to "strength of victory" before someone wins, and right now, that is Arizona, with wins over Cincinnati and New Orleans, where Seattle's is over Dallas and the Bears.   Basically, Dallas would have to go on a holy tear to improve their record enough to compete with Cincinnati, and, well, lets face it.  Matt Cassel just ain't that kind of guy.   :)

If they win out, the worst they could do is the #1 wild card, and even if they lose one, they would still be the #2. 

But I don't want to go to Green Bay.  :D

Seahawks offense has come alive in the last couple of weeks.   They crushed Minnesota, and I'm going to guess that they are going to do the same to Baltimore coming up.  Baltimore has been decimated with injury, though.  I heard something like of their original 11 offensive starters, there are 3 left.  Everyone else is a backup.

Huskes going bowling!  Some minor bowl in Texas, but I don't' care. 

Yeah, but that doesn't mean anything.  Of my pre-season predictions, I think I got the "San Francisco is a four win team" one right.

The Seahawks are still in trouble.  They can't score points, even against bad defenses, and they have a Pittsburgh team coming up that can score a ton.