my week 17 power rankings

http://treefingers.16mb.com/showthread. ... 797#pid797

Eh, I've always been partial to them and always thought Romo was a lot better than people thought.

do you guys agree with this ranking?
https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2014/10/08/offensive-line-rankings-2/4/
seems pretty accurate to me (but i can't say i'm a good judge of this type of thing). However, seattle's o-line did not look like a top 10 o-line against the rams, but maybe the rams should be given credit for their pass rush.*

*i guess this article was published several months ago, though.

It's laughably bad. Seattle in particular had one of the worst lines in the league this year (granted the article was old), which were only saved by Russell Wilson and Marshawn Lynch being really good. The problem with PFF (which sometimes has useful information) is that they make their judgments before all 22 tape is released and they do it very quickly. This is really hard to do right. I was talking with my buddy who writes the o-line column for football outsiders and he has no idea how they could possibly do it that fast and issue grades. So I would suggest their numbers have some issues.

Woot, Emery and Trestman are out. Now let's reduce Ted Phillips' role to President of Business Operation and hire Parcells or Holmgren to fix the football side.

lol, Eric you may appreciate this:

"If we go 5-11 I'll stick a cheesestick with a little Rodgers jersey up my ass with video proof"

aaaaand done (NSFW)

! Can't believe he went through with it.

My macro predictions tend to suck but I will predict this time (only my round to round projections do I trust though)

Dallas over Detroit
Carolina over Arizona

Green Bay over Dallas (unless the weather turns really shitty)
Seattle over Carolina

Seattle over Green Bay

Pittsburg over Baltimore
Cincy over Indy

New England over Cincy
Pittsburg over Denver

New England over Pittsburg

Seattle over New England

i agree with these picks, although Dallas, Seattle and Green bay are the three teams i'm most unsure of in terms of match-ups, though I hope green bay beats dallas since I think that's a better match-up for the seahawks.

I view Green Bay as clearly the worst matchup for Dallas. I would still favor the Seahawks against Dallas but Dallas has a fairly strong chance against them as they have the only offense that really matches up well with the Seahawks defense (who are vulnerable to a team that can pound the ball up the middle and clear space with a great offensive line) and their offense does stuff the Cowboys can defend. The Cowboys meanwhile will struggle to cover all of those Green Bay receivers and Green Bay's offense is something Seattle matches up with well.

Chiefs to sb over browns
Bears to sb over eagles

Chiefs beat bears 14-10

maybe next year :(

Why Brady's latest move isn't really unselfish altruism:

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/tom-b ... -contract/

ODB's stats since week 9:

Week/Catches/Yards/TDS

9 8 156 0
10 7 108 0
11 6 93 0
12 10 146 2
13 7 90 0
14 11 130 1
15 12 143 3
16 8 148 2
17 12 185 1

And also he tied Michael Irving's record to be only the second guy to have 9 straight games with 90 yards receiving. Jesus.

It feels so good to finally have one of these freaks on my team. I love him and his hair and his huge hands