NFC Representative at Super Bowl

[Harlan Huckleby]

It was a fun ride that ended in Buffalo

[Joemailman]

You suck. Packers all the way.

[Harlan Huckleby]

You suck Packers all the way.

BURNED!

[King Friday]

I can't make the call yet. I need to see what this team does at home against Detroit.

Another paltry offensive showing against a physical defense who only rushes 4...even if we win...and I can't see any way we beat Seattle in their crib. We'd have to hope someone else finished them off first.

[Bretsky]

Some noted they were treating every game like it was a playoff game starting last week

They were right

Losing to the Bills was about the same

The stars have aligned for Seattle and the mosterload of our fuck ups did it for them

The road goes through Seattle; we won't come out of that road alive. Reality Bites

[George Cumby]

They still have to play the games, you bunch a sissies. if it was up to you the NFL would just hand the Lombardi over to the Starbucks swilling, adhd cheaters from the northwest. Grow some balls, you wusses.

[Freak Out]

Seattle can be beat...gonna be tough though.

[channtheman]

Seattle can be beat...gonna be tough though.

They can be beat... just not by us. Our offense looks horrible against decent defenses and we are slow to make any adjustments during the game that might change that. Our defense only looked good the last 2 weeks because Kyle Orton and McCown. Oh and the Bills and Bucs. Put us against a QB like Wilson who will kill us with his legs and his arm, and we're toast. IF we meet the Seahawks at their place in the playoffs, I predict another blowout loss.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Can Dallas beat Seattle?

I've seen zero this year that tells me GB can go on road and beat a great team. They can beat God at home.

[Striker]

Seattle isn't as good as they've looked recently (they are good, but not unbeatable). If we're gonna knock the Packers defense for feasting on weak QBs - since losing to the Chiefs the Seahawks have faced the Cardinals starting Drew Stanton, the 49ers twice with Kaepernick, the Eagles and the sinking Sanchez, and the Cardinals starting Lindley. Not exactly a murderer's row of excellence.

Dallas can for sure beat Seattle. They've shown a consistent balance on offense that most teams don't.

The Packers can beat Seattle if they have a game plan like they did vs. the Patriots.

Can the Packers channel that kind of mojo twice? That remains to be seen.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I've been saying it for a few weeks, but Dallas is a team that will be tough to beat in the playoffs. I think the NFC is a three horse race between Seattle, Green Bay, and Dallas. We gotta win this week though. Maybe Detroit can do a us a favor by beating one or both of these teams in the playoffs. Detroit's defense can be a beast indoors.

[Joemailman]

I think the Packers and Dallas both have the ability to play with Seattle. The reason is their ability to effectively throw downfield effectively. You have to be able to do that against them. If you just throw short all day, their big DB's will pummel you. Both teams can run enough to make Seattle respect play-action, both have offensive lines good enough to give their QB time, both have a top deep threat, both havea QB who can throw deep and move around enough to buy time. Dallas already did beat Seattle this year. However, if the Packers end up the #2 seed, and Dallas #3, the Packers and Dallas would meet in the divisional round.

[oldbutnotdeadyet]

Me thinks we is in trouble if we meet Seattle in Seattle. Does anybody know how the playoff schedule looks? Maybe we get lucky and Seattle loses before we meet them in the playoffs. I think Dallas could beat Seattle, Dallas is getting hot at the right time. Green Bay is not getting hot at the right time.

[Teamcheez1]

Getting the #2 seed would be very helpful for a lot reasons. We could be Seattle on the road, but I wouldn't bet on it. This team hasn't shown me they're up to that task.

[woodbuck27]

** This Poll might should have been posted next week yet all the same:

The (2) Green Bay Packers (if the Packers defeat Detroit in Week 17):

Do the Green Bay Packers have a chance to be in the Super Bowl? Realistically that's possible with their high powered offense. Aaron Rodgers is the premiere QB in the NFL and he has weapons in WR's Jordy Nelson and randall Cobb and Company. Eddie Lacy is just great as the RB Green Bay needed to take some heat off the passing game.

The Green Bay Packers and being realistic. The NFC representative for the Super Bowl. The Packers best chance disappeared Week 15 in Buffalo.

Home field advantage is huge for the Green Bay Packers. For some reason the Green Bay Packers don't play well on the road. To get to the Super Bowl how can that be magically reversed? ** The Packers have to win the NFCN. The Packers need some help in terms of another team handling Seattle, a tall order. That has to come with Green Bay defeating the Detroit Lions this coming Sunday.

I see two teams in the NFC with a good shot to play New England in the Super Bowl. I see both (2) Green Bay and (4) Detroit on the outside of both (1) Seattle and (3) Dallas.

The (1) Seattle Seahawks Offense:

Seattle is playing lights out right now. That result to date has been peaking stadily over the last five weeks. If you watched last nights game in Arizona your aware that game demonstrated pure domination. The Seahawks 'O' had 596 total yards Vs an NFL's top-five defense.

The combination of Russell Wilson and *** Marshawn Lynch has always been formidable. Now it's much more as Russell Wilson is growing in confidence and creativity. Russell Wilson is difficult to disrupt and his ability to scramble takes away the blitz.

*** Marshawn Lynch's run last night for six was the best offensive play I'vge seen all season. That was nothing short of spectacular and deserves the Offensive Play Of The Year Award. If you missed it here it is:

http://www.seahawks.com/news/articles/article-1/Seahawks-react-to-Marshawn-Lynchs-run-Hes-a-bad-bad-bad-bad-bad-continue-to-say-bad-man/8da672a2-a5c6-4f99-bd83-9a15a9c226c0

Seahawks react to Marshawn Lynch's run: "He's a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, continue to say bad, man"

Tony Drovetto ... Seahawks.com Writer & Producer


Seattle is peaking at the right time and the NFL's most complete team is rising to hit on all cylinders. The biggest thing I see is a real team effort led by a very solid Head Coach who's into every play. Pete Carroll coach's a team that celebrates every single play among themselves and he celebrates with them.

The (1) Seattle Seahawks DEFENSE.

There is 'only' one other team in the NFC that plays better on defense 'on paper' and that's the Detroit Lions. The Seattle defense is 'the Predator'. Seattle has allowed 6.7 points and 169 total yards per game over the past three weeks.

The Legion of BOOM is for real and a terrific secondary. Richard Sherman's dominance and Byron Maxwell's closing speed and tackling ability adds to the outstanding play of FS Earl Thomas and SS Kam Chancellor. They have a solid front seven in DE"s Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril and DT's Tony McDaniel and Kevin Williams. OLB's Bruce Irvin and K.J. Wright team up very well with the outstanding playoff MLB Bobby Wagner.

They all play like Pro Bowlers.


(3) Dallas is solid and 'Road Warriors'.

I'm pulling for Dallas because they managed a win this season in Seattle and therefore get a nod over the Green Bay Packers as a team more likely to defeat (1) Seattle . Tony Romo is playing the best I've seen him play. He's focused and in command looking very confident behind a solid OL with pin point pass's to his receivers Dez Bryant, Terrence Williams, Cole Beasley, Dwyane Harris and TE Jason Witten. RB Demarco Murray should be back to full speed. We know how excellent he's been this season. He's one very mentally tough man to be out there contributing in Week 16 after a left hand operation for a broken bone earlier in the week.

The Dallas Defense is ranked 22nd. That's not good in any rematch with Seattle. Yet the fact remains that Dallas travels well and has already defeated Seattle in their house this season.

The (4) Detroit Lions:

This Lions team is capable. This Lions team is finally looking much more healthy. This Lions team has a formidable DEFENSE.

This Lions team has to do something next Sunday that it rarely does. It must defeat a Green Bay Team that looks near impossible to defeat in Lambeau Field.


GO PACKERS ! GO PACK GO ! !

[Harlan Huckleby]

Seattle isn't as good as they've looked recently (they are good, but not unbeatable).

Mark Twain attended a Wagner opera and reported "opera isn't as bad as it sounds."

[Harlan Huckleby]

The Packers can beat Seattle if they have a game plan like they did vs. the Patriots.

They beat Pats at home. How'd it go with that "silent count" in Seattle?

[pbmax]

I've been saying it for a few weeks, but Dallas is a team that will be tough to beat in the playoffs. I think the NFC is a three horse race between Seattle, Green Bay, and Dallas. We gotta win this week though. Maybe Detroit can do a us a favor by beating one or both of these teams in the playoffs. Detroit's defense can be a beast indoors.

Do you really believe in the Dallas D though?

[denverYooper]

Do you really believe in the Dallas D though?

No.

They can be had.

[Striker]

They beat Pats at home. How'd it go with that "silent count" in Seattle?

It wasn't the silent count as much as it was the "only work one side of the field" and "let's debut a defense we've tried to avoid in live scenarios to keep it secret" strategy that ended up doing them in.

[denverYooper]

It wasn't the silent count as much as it was the "only work one side of the field" and "let's debut a defense we've tried to avoid in live scenarios to keep it secret" strategy that ended up doing them in.

And the flawed "play a backup Tackle who they subsequently cut halfway through the season" strategy. Come to think of it, it's almost like they were handicapping themselves on purpose.

[pbmax]

They were also fooling around full time with the no huddle and running everyone out of set alignments that did not vary in the entire drive.

So it was easy to lock up WR in bump and run coverage. If you think back to when the offense finally launched itself this season, suddenly there was motion and WR stacks that made man coverage a much harder proposition. Plus in the last 2 weeks, Cobb has been in the backfield to get him single non press coverage on LBs.

It won't be the same story if they play them again, even if they avoid Sherman.

I DO hope the silent count has some different timing this time around, after Linsley has eight games of experience.

[channtheman]

It wasn't the silent count as much as it was the "only work one side of the field" and "let's debut a defense we've tried to avoid in live scenarios to keep it secret" strategy that ended up doing them in.

That sickened me that we played so scared against Seattle week one with a QB like Rodgers. Last night, if the QB for the Cards was any good he would have had a 60 yard TD thrown against Richard Sherman. The throw was bad but it still should have been a 40 yard completion... but then the receiver dropped the ball.

[Striker]

That sickened me that we played so scared against Seattle week one with a QB like Rodgers. Last night, if the QB for the Cards was any good he would have had a 60 yard TD thrown against Richard Sherman. The throw was bad but it still should have been a 40 yard completion... but then the receiver dropped the ball.

Michael Bennett declared the Seahawks defense the "greatest ever" last night. Of course the Seahawks fans rally around that, talking about how their recent dominance (since the Chiefs game) is so great.

They then say that injuries aren't an excuse despite the QBs they played. Of course, then you bring up the games vs. the Chiefs and Cowboys, and it's because there were injuries.

If there's any team and fans that I'd love to see get their bubble burst, it's Seattle.

[Fritz]

I'd like to see the Packers win the next four in a row.

[Tyrion Lannister]

Da Pack are da Team of Destiny should they win the North. If, and only if, they win the North. And I'm not just saying that b/c I'm biased.

It's a QB-plagued league, so think about it. The guy that OWNS the Packers, Colin "Poser" Kaepernick won't be in the dance. True story: As a one share owner of the Packers, I was at the last shareholder meeting, and lo and behold, there was Kap sitting next to me - I mean, the dude owns the Packers. I was like, yo, Kap, haters say Wilson and RGIII don't act black enough; well, you don't act white enough, dude.

Furthermore, the only QB in the NFC who isn't intimated by Rodgers' presence, Drew "Hotshot" Brees, won't be in the dance. You could cut off Brees golden right arm and he would still be capable of beating the Packers with his left arm. That's how good Brees is.

Romo is Romo. He's prone to choking when the pressure intensifies in the clutch. Dude's so bad in the clutch, he mishandled a PAT one time in a playoff game. A fucking PAT! Yo mama's so fat, she farted and made Romo mishandle an easy PAT in the clutch. Ha-ha Clinton's dix!

Matt Stafford, love the guy. Unselfish and humble. How unselfish and humble? Stafford is the only alpha male in the world who would help a loser virgin lose his virginity to a hot chick instead of fucking the hot chick himself. No, the guy ain't gay. He's just nice and humble. A gunslinger, through an through. Good news for the Packers, the new administration in Detriot prohibits Stafford from gunslinging. A gunslinger needs to gunsling. If he doesn't, well, shit happens.

Ice Ice Baby (Matt "Ice Ice Baby" Ryan) could give the Packers some problems, but Atlanta's defense lost its pride when Sherman marched into that lost city and sunk it underwater. Matt Flynn would have little problems eating out alive that Falcon D.

That Midget of the Great Northwest is overrated. He's not the athlete Kap is. A game manager, through and through. Now the midget's D is great. Gulls defensive linemen are C4MR. The LBers are fast and furious. The safeties are MOFOs. The Corners? Well, Sherman is a great field general. Rodgers is scared of this D, alas.

Shucks, Rodgers hasn't played at an elite level in his last few playoff games. In a QB-plagued league - yes, plagued - Rodgers needs to carry the Packers. He needs to be the QB of Destiny.

[mraynrand]

They can be beat... just not by us.

fuck this. Packers are good enough to beat Seattle. Sure Seattle looks good against a fourth fucking string QB. Fuck 'em. win the #2 seed Pack and go kick the living shit out of Seattle, even if it's in a fucking Whole Foods Market Parking lot in fucking Seattle. Bite me, Seachicken fan fuckers.

[Freak Out]

fuck this. Packers are good enough to beat Seattle. Sure Seattle looks good against a fourth fucking string QB. Fuck 'em. win the #2 seed Pack and go kick the living shit out of Seattle, even if it's in a fucking Whole Foods Market Parking lot in fucking Seattle. Bite me, Seachicken fan fuckers.

Rand is fired up! Hell yes! After beating them at Century Link take them down to Pike Market and beat them with dead fish!