What do you WANT the NFC playoff positions to look like...

[Fosco33]

... and what do THINK will happen. As all besides Cowboys/Giants and positions are determined - let's hear it.

WANT
#1 - Locked for GBP
#2 - Niners
#3 - Saints
#4 - Cowboys
#5 - Falcons
#6 - Lions

(Lions may be able to take out Saints - and I like our chances vs Detroit in Divisional)
(Falcons could easily beat Cowboys and then have to play Niners)

I WANT the Niners in NFCC. ARod vs. the team that passed him up in the playoffs = winning. Our playoff history and overall streak vs them will mess with Niners heads too.




THINK
#1 - GBP
#2 - Niners
#3 - Saints
#4 - Giants
#5 - Lions
#6 - Falcons

Now: Saints will whoop the Falcons (again); Lions have a tough matchup with Giants.
Pack would likely have to play Giants - tough to beat a team twice in a season - especially after almost losing the last one. Memories of 2007 NFCC. Yuck.

Saints vs. Niners - I like Saints chances. That'd mean they'd come to GB if we beat Giants/Lions... Another scenario I don't really want to see - having to play NO again with our porous defense...


Summary:
Lions vs. Pack means a lot. M3 would be smart to not pack it in.
Go Cowboys - love to see them choke in the playoffs.

[sheepshead]

Last year we expected nothing and got it all, this year we expect everything and... I would only feel confident going into a Lions or Falcons game. The other three will be a shoot out a la 2009 Cardinals game.

[George Cumby]

Fuggit.

We'll play 'em in the parking lot if we have to.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I agree with everything you two wrote--except I'd say I'd have more confidence if we faced the Cowboys than the Lions. The Lions scares me. The Saints scare me. The Giants scare me. The Niners mildly scare me. The Falcons and Cowboys don't scare me.

[King Friday]

I really want Lions and Saints to play each other first round...gets one of the elite offenses out of the way.

Falcons and Cowboys don't scare me. Neither team has any kind of playoff success in the last decade, and that is for a reason.

Niners and Giants are going to be tough outs since both can run the ball and probably are built better for a snowstorm than we are.

[Tarlam!]

I just don't want the Giants. The rest I am so bothered with, but I hope Brees doesn't a bye week.

[KYPack]

Last year was so cool because I had little expectation. This year, I feel like it's a jinx to "want" one team or the other.

I really feel the Saints or Giants are the only team that has a shot to beat us, because they both think they just missed doing it this season.

ANY team from the NFC can get hot and go all the way. Look at us last season.

[Guiness]

I don't think anyone's too interested in seeing the Giants again. Part of what scares me about them is the season Eli is having. He's not one of the elite 3 QB's in the league, but has played really well.

[Fosco33]

I don't attribute much to jinxing a team - or superstition - or luck.

We needed the Giants to lose to the Eagles and the Bucs to lose to the Lions last year just to make the playoffs. If we had not 'wanted' the Giants/Lions to win - would it have changed the eventual outcome - no way. And both of those contests ended in dramatic fashion.

I'm purely pontificating matchups to show that the game this weekend vs. the Lions actually means a lot to the Packers as it gives us better options...

[MadtownPacker]

Only team that is a true threat is NYG. They are some schizo MFers who can be champs or chumps any Sunday. Saints, ATL, lions and cowboys would be affected by weather IMO. 49ers might be one and done but if they make it I think Packers will blow them out. Their fans talking all kinds of shit now so Im offering this bet to 49ers fans. $50 for whoever stays alive longest in playoffs, and it doubles if SF meets GB. Usually shuts them up but I have had a few takers.

[hoosier]

Don't care who they play. If they're playing like they can they will not get beat. By the same token, it would not surprise me terribly to see them lose to any of the above teams.

[BobDobbs]

We're going to the Super Bowl. I just want what's fun to watch.

That first weekend I want to see Detroit in NO. Turf teams, whipping it all over, tons of scoring. Nothing better than January football.

I hope NO wins so we get to watch them play in SF. That's a great matchup of different mindsets.

I've got a grudge against every single possible second round opponent. We owe NY from 2007, ATL wishes they were hard, DET needs to learn to respect the game, and I'm still pissed about DAL ending our season three years in a row. So, its all good. I'll relish any of those team seeing their dream die on the Tundra.

Beating Brees shuts up Saints fans but beating the Niners gives me bragging rights in my town.

[KYPack]

We're going to the Super Bowl. I just want what's fun to watch.

That first weekend I want to see Detroit in NO. Turf teams, whipping it all over, tons of scoring. Nothing better than January football.

I hope NO wins so we get to watch them play in SF. That's a great matchup of different mindsets.

I've got a grudge against every single possible second round opponent. We owe NY from 2007, ATL wishes they were hard, DET needs to learn to respect the game, and I'm still pissed about DAL ending our season three years in a row. So, its all good. I'll relish any of those team seeing their dream die on the Tundra.

Beating Brees shuts up Saints fans but beating the Niners gives me bragging rights in my town.

You are truly a sub-genius, BD.

[Upnorth]

Good opening post to the thread. Interesting take on why this sunday might mean something to the packers. I still say bubblewrap them and let everyone else sort it out. I hope we see atl and dallas or route to the sb. I seriously doubt we will, but it would be easiest. No and sf and det have the horses to knock us out if we don't play very well.

[Upnorth]

Its funny but I had more faith in the 2009 and 2010 playoff teams than this one.