Best SuperBowl Chances

[Tps222]

TPS... i don't care that the Jets beat the Chargers 34-28 in week 2. the jets went 5-0 to start and are 3-3 since. the chargers started 3-3 and have gone 5-0 since. its called momentum. right now, the chargers look MUCH better than the jets. its all about the addition of Keenan McCardell that helped the team gel together plus Drew Brees having his job put into jeopardy.

right now, i'm not even sure the jets will make the playoffs. especially since Chad Pennington is injured. yes, Quincy Carter has gone 2-1 so far, but look at their remaining schedule... its VERY difficult, with games against both the Pats and Steelers.

Yes, i understand momentum plays a big factor in a team's performance, but the jets have as u said gone 2-1 without Penningotn, now he's questionable for this weeks game at the texans, but he might play, it's a game time decision, personally i think it would be better if he played this week because also as u said, they have the steelers, after the texans, and quarterback is alll about rythym, but then again you don't want to get him hurt. So assuming that hopefully the jets win this week against the texans, and the chargers beat the broncos, the jets and chargers will both become 9-3. Pennington will be back for the steelers, oats rams and seahawks, so they should be able to salavge a bit of the end of the season, especially facing the choking seahawks. Also, if the chargers win, it will but the broncos a game and a half behind the jets. so the only team close to winning the wild card will be the ravens. I do know that the ravens did beat the jets earlier, but there a game behind, losing to the pats last week, so the jets can lose 1 game, and make the playoffs, and 2 games depending on how the other teams do. Now that i think about it they could miss the playoffs and win 11 games, which show how strong the afc is. This reminds me of basketball, Western conference is dominant (AFC) and the Eastern sucks(NFC). You can be 5-6 and still be in the playoff hunt. The two ONLY legit teams are the Eagles and Falcons, and i think if the falcons can win out from here, they have a legitimete shot at beating the eagles, matching up nicely with them. As for the AFC, the colts score a million points, but also give that much up with a non-existant defense.The steelers probably have the most momentum and confidence right now, but i expect will have a hard time against the patriots, assuming they make the afc championship, with a healthy patriot defense, as in their corners, and corey dillon,(remember, last time they didn't have him when they lost). Making for two very good championship games. As much as a jets fan in am, i don't think they will go too far in the playoffs, but it will build confindence for them next year, and they can disrupt some games. Their defense is young and inexeperineced, but are fast and can make things happen. Giving them some time will make them become better, and hopefully there will be a healthy Pennington next year. As for the chargers, if it wasn't for Peyton Manning i would vote Drew Brees as this years MVP. Obvisioulsy having his best year, but then again its his contarct year so that may have motivated him. Also strong canidates would be Donavan McNabb and T.O. All in all, the jets will be fine, so will the chargers and philly, so theres no point in argueing any of them, and frankly i would be afraind of the falcons.

[Tasselfoot]

the falcons have had a fairly weak schedule, overall. they are 2-0 vs teams with winning records, but they've only played TWO teams with a winning record. they are 7-2 against losing teams. also, their margin of victory is terrible. just look at the game against the saints on sunday. they scored 10 points in the final few minutes to come back and win. the saints are flat out awful.

i am most worried about green bay. it will be a very interesting test this week when GB goes to PHI.

and, i'll stick to my statement that the Jets may not even make the playoffs. they are in a good position currently to do so, but you have to assume they will lose to both pittsburgh and new england, giving them a minimum of 5 losses. if they wind up 10-6, they will not make the playoffs. 11-5 may not even be good enough. time will tell. and the Denver v San Diego game this week is very important. Jets fans should be rooting loudly for the Chargers.

[ddrking133]

GO FALCONS! FALCONS GONNA WIN IT! THEY MY HOMETEAM THEY RULE

[Tps222]

the falcons have had a fairly weak schedule, overall. they are 2-0 vs teams with winning records, but they've only played TWO teams with a winning record. they are 7-2 against losing teams. also, their margin of victory is terrible. just look at the game against the saints on sunday. they scored 10 points in the final few minutes to come back and win. the saints are flat out awful.

i am most worried about green bay. it will be a very interesting test this week when GB goes to PHI.

and, i'll stick to my statement that the Jets may not even make the playoffs. they are in a good position currently to do so, but you have to assume they will lose to both pittsburgh and new england, giving them a minimum of 5 losses. if they wind up 10-6, they will not make the playoffs. 11-5 may not even be good enough. time will tell. and the Denver v San Diego game this week is very important. Jets fans should be rooting loudly for the Chargers.

Yes i agree, the chargers do need to win this week, beating denver will probably put them out of the playoffs and away from the jets. Green Bay's defense, mostly their secondary, is a little weak, and ahman green fumbles a lot, so i think the eagles will be ok. Also, you dont give the saints enough credit, though they are horrible at times there good, then the next week their bad. They are very unpredictable, but lately they have been bad. You can't count the falcons out when they have vick. If he has the offense going smoothly, then the defense follows. I mean look Vick might rush for a 1000 yards this year, as a QB! I think with a healthy Pennington the jets have a legit shot at beating either the patriots or steelers, having a smart accurate qb, and a hall-of-fame runningback in Curtis Martin. They can slowly but surely work away at the stellers rock solid D. Same strategy can be used against the pats. Even though the steelres have more talent on offense, the pats play as a team very well, they have great chemistry, but no offense to the ground game of the steelres, but corey dillon is a powerhouse running, so they will pobably run a lot, but the jets have the best front four in all football. And a great rookie LB in Vilma. The steelers, though, are a bit more balanced, they got speed running in Staley, power in Bettis, and a gret pasiing game with Rothelisberger ward and burress. That will be a tough offense to stop, but then again Staley might not play, and the new englands corners may not play, they have a gay bnamed Earthwind as their corner,"o no, dont sing me one of your songs Earthy, i might plugg my ears and drop the ball" right. The jets should and will be fine, but wont make it anywhere too far, making as i said earlier, 2 very good Championship games, but a blowout superbowl, by the AFC, seeing that the Eagles havent beat anynone good.

[Tasselfoot]

dude, please use paragraphs. its very difficult to read your whole posts.

will Ahman Green be playing? he was out this week with an injury, and Davenport started. ran for 178 yards. he'll be a pain in the ass for the Eagles, as he's 240 pounds. a power runner like Bettis.

Yes, Vick will probably run for 1000 yards, but doesn't that tell you something by itself? they have no run game if their best runner is their QB. the Eagles weak point is run defense. and Vick really isn't that great of a quarterback, just very mobile. i'm definately more worried about GB than ATL, and i look forward to playing them this sunday.

[Tps222]

Yes, i understand with what your talking about with Atlanta's rushing game, but Warrick Dunn isn't all that bad, and you don't give vick enough credit, who can probably throw farther and more accurate then anyone, the only reason he's strugling right now is because he's trying to adept to the west coast offense, which is very hard to learn with all it's reads and quick decisions.

Now with the packers, as i said before, there defense is not good enough to make it anywhere. There secondary is horrendous, letting up 448 yrds and 1 td last week to the rams. Now, Philly would have a field day with them, and if hey ever played the colts, who are in a similar situation, they would not be able to compete with that high powered offense.

Philly does have a bad run defense, and will get torn apart by the steelers, patriots or Colts run games, and don't have much of a shot in the superbowl, having a highly overrated offense. They might as well just give the Lombardi to whoever wins the AFC championship game, because the Superbowl is going to be a blowout, and boring to watch.

And if you don't believe me, look at the only two teams the dolphins have beat, San Francisco, and St.Louis. I guarentee that if the Eagles were in the Afc they would probably be about 8-3 and not even be a superbowl contender.

[dancer]

GO GIANTS


(idc what critisizim i get for this post i dont pay attention to football)

[blahblah18]

Don't take the lines of BS that Sportscenter must be feeding you TPS....
Vick isn't adapting to any west coast offense... Mora is adapting to the Michael Vick offense...

Nothing they do has anything resembling a west coast offense

Green Bay sucks, they have nothing except grit, whioch I love.. but they suck

There is no need to even mention Indianapolis as Super Bowl contenders... they have as much chance as the Cheifs did last year, which was none.

If you really think Roethlisberger will never lose again.. so be it... I'm still hesitant. I'm a big Jets fan, but the Patriots have to be the clear choice to repeat, despite their plethora of injuries, although I'd like pittsburgh to keep going

[UWSTopGun]

I don't normally like American Football but I always like Greenbay, go PACKERS!

[Tasselfoot]

well said blahblah...

the thing is, look at Phillies run defense since the loss at pittsburgh. andy reid moved trotter to middle linebacker, throwing mark simoneau to weak side. we gave up about 70 and 40 rushing yards against washington and dallas. 166 against the giants, but if you exclude their first and last drive, they had about 100. the last drive they got about 35 rushing yards because philly's defense was playing prevent and letting the clock expire.

the Colts have no defense. its just like blah said. they are the chiefs of this year. any team with a strong defense and a good offense will beat them. philly, pittsburgh, and new england.

don't roll over on the packers. yes, their pass defense is bad, but they've just been finding ways to win. when you have brett favre as your quarterback, you're never out. and they are very physical on both offense and defense. i wouldn't be suprised if they beat philly.

dancer... wow. that just made me laugh very hard.

[tsutter]

Colts.

[Tps222]

Blah i agree with you completely on alomst everything you said. I never said that the colts were a super bowl team. Yes and i agree that the colts are lke last years cheifs, which both had bad defense.

Atlanta tried to use the west coast, but with Vick, he's just to mobile. I take bake what i said earlier about him, but maby he would be putting up the numbers culpepper has if he had a moss or owens or harrison around him, and a decent running game. He's making a so-so atlanta team a contender, so you cant count them out.

I to am also a HUGE jets fan, and feel they have a better chance then san diego, alreday beating them this year, it all depends on how Pennignton returns, and when, Carter hasn't done bad, but they had to dumb the playbook down a bit, and there gone need al they got , playing the Steelers and Pats during the next few weeks, Even with a healthy Penningotn they lost to the Pats by 6, which i feel was a perfectly winnable game if Gerald Sowell didn't fumble in the end zone.

MY power rankings
1. Patriots- Play like a team better then anyone else, just have to get injured secondary back.
2. Steelers- Already beating both undefeated teams this year, they have a very good team, but didn't beat the Pats with Dillon.
3. Eagles- Started out 9-0, lost to the steelers, but have beaten many teams by double digits, but their run defense is weak.
4.Falcons- Decent defense, decent offense, but find a way to get things done, also they have Vick, he's a gamebreaker himself.
5.New York Jets- My surprise pick, even though they have had an easy schedule, if they can get a healthy pennington back, they can be somewhat effective.

[Tasselfoot]

your facts are flat out wrong... the like 2 that you gave. eagles started out 7-0. they've beaten every NFC opponent by 10+ points (8-0). the eagles have the 4th highest scoring offense and the best scoring defense in the entire NFL.

i've seen a few power rankings... and they look like this:

steelers/pats 1/2. i've seen some with steelers 1 and pats 2, others vice-versa
eagles 3. every single one has eagles 3.
most have the colts at 4... although i saw 1 that had atlanta 4 and the colts 5
most have the chargers at 5. haven't seen one with the jets on there


and tps... i could care less than the jets beat the chargers. that was week 2. you have to look at what the chargers did starting at week 7. its like saying that the packers started 1-4. so what... they've won 6 straight. the chargers have won 5 straight. these 2 teams are playing EXCELLENT football. while the jets have been beating up on the dolphins and bills and the powerhouses of the NFC West (hah!)

[Tps222]

I meant 7-0, must have pressed 9 by mistake, and if you read down i said that they were my personal power rankings, not some espn one. Also how is it that it's the jets fault for having an easy schedule, they just play who they have to, so lets base it off that, since they have had no control over it. Also, your not giving the jets defense enough credit, who have allowed the least points next to the steelers in the league, with the best front four in all of football.

[blahblah18]

All I know is Tass, no matter how well they do, can we all agree the Chargers just aren't a good team? I mean, if we can rule out the Colts surely we can rule out the Chargers.... unless they bring back the powder blue Unis... then they're gonna win it all.

Jets have to be considered 5th... despite records, because they definately have a better chance to win the super bowl then Indy would.. if you talk about super bowl chances it has to go
1. Philadelphia, since they only have to beat Pitt OR NE... while they both have to beat the other and then Philly...
2. NE
3. Pitt see above for both
4. Atlanta
5. NYJ