Men do I love NFL playoffs
Many firmly believe this was (and stil is for the second year) the best wekend in the calendar year across all sports excluding specialized events such as World Cup, Olympics, etc.
I'm also in that camp - the Wild Card weekend is the best 2-3 days in sports. Divisonal round is aa close second though or perhaps even co-leader many other say. I pick WC round myself, but we're still in it for an awesome ride a while longer.
This WC round was up there in terms of entertainment value, for sure. DEf above average, but most of them ar for whatever reason. You'd think the Conference round is epic, but it's one blowout after another there. I was hyping myself up with only 4 strong teams left for years only to watch games go out of hand in one quarter. Now I just hope it's good, but don't hold my breath it will be.
SB is better, but the stakes are simply too high in it to have a balls to the wall game more often han not. You see two opponents cautiosly probing one another untill eitherone gets a break and capitalizes on it or a team cracking under the pressure and stuggling under the spotlight. I'd love to see a looser, morr, riskier approach but yeah, i get it. Few individuals have balls you large to pull it off. When it happens though it's an instant clasic and a meorable moment.
Pete Carroll had/has balls for example. I don't love him but respoct the hell out him since that selction of a pass play. i will never blame him ofir it because i want to see more of that. I am pretty neutral if not slightly loyal to th SEA but without microanalyzing why, i will say that not keeping the ball in W's hands in that moment wou have been worse, much worse long term. His decision was the right one - you got for two birds with one shot. You pick Wilson over Lynch 10 times out of 10 even when the Beast was unstoppable and did even mind him grabbing his crotch entering the red zone.
Again, It's called balls and I have always respcted that personally but of course i won't argue with those calling for his head for it. I get that too. It it wee myGIants making this decision I;d want to burn all of East Rutherford down. NOw it's become fashionable almost with this wave of 20and 30 something's headcoaches and that's great. But it wasn't at all only 10 years ago so seeing Carrol those two SB's was a treat. Especially in the roles roles that were virtual oppsite.
SF is tamer than SEA was but a little similar. I hope they win it all this year and do it by run blocking over their oppoenents dead bodies. I would love that physical edge they have but hide more often than not. I think it's because of Shanahan but not sure. Just roll over and die if facing NYG and we're good.
