CouchCoach
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I do not recall so many Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde teams and we've had one of them.
Nothing was as it was thought to be as the season unfolded. Analysts were asking "what's wrong with KC"? and now they're not. Buffalo was a shoe in and now is questionable to make it. New England was in a rebuild with a rookie QB. Tampa was a top seed and they get shut out at home. Arizona was the best unknown team in the NFL and now is the best known stumbler. The Cowboys were getting nothing but praise then followed by questions and doubt. The Rams are up and down more than an old man in the middle of the night. The WFT is touted to have the best defense and ranks dead last through the first half of the season. The Packers start out awful with a 38-3 drubbing from the Brees-less Saints to open the season and now sit atop the NFC.
It seems that every one of the contenders has some dog in them and can give up the hunt and decide to nap under the porch in any given game.
It's no longer any given Sunday; it's every given Sunday that we get something we weren't planning on seeing and from our own team as well. And it seems to happen when that anointing oil has been applied.
The good side of that is that I think any one of 5 teams can win the NFC: AZ, DAL, GB, LAR or TB and on the cusp of that is SF and maybe even PHL. Those last two can run the ball and play defense and might just catch a favorable matchup.
One thought that I usually do not agree with is that "anything can happen in the playoffs" but this year, I am buying that on the NFC side of it. This is going to be a fun ride but only if we are on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Mr. Hyde's isn't fun at all.
Nothing was as it was thought to be as the season unfolded. Analysts were asking "what's wrong with KC"? and now they're not. Buffalo was a shoe in and now is questionable to make it. New England was in a rebuild with a rookie QB. Tampa was a top seed and they get shut out at home. Arizona was the best unknown team in the NFL and now is the best known stumbler. The Cowboys were getting nothing but praise then followed by questions and doubt. The Rams are up and down more than an old man in the middle of the night. The WFT is touted to have the best defense and ranks dead last through the first half of the season. The Packers start out awful with a 38-3 drubbing from the Brees-less Saints to open the season and now sit atop the NFC.
It seems that every one of the contenders has some dog in them and can give up the hunt and decide to nap under the porch in any given game.
It's no longer any given Sunday; it's every given Sunday that we get something we weren't planning on seeing and from our own team as well. And it seems to happen when that anointing oil has been applied.
The good side of that is that I think any one of 5 teams can win the NFC: AZ, DAL, GB, LAR or TB and on the cusp of that is SF and maybe even PHL. Those last two can run the ball and play defense and might just catch a favorable matchup.
One thought that I usually do not agree with is that "anything can happen in the playoffs" but this year, I am buying that on the NFC side of it. This is going to be a fun ride but only if we are on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Mr. Hyde's isn't fun at all.
