I count 7 teams that mailed it in this week and the rams don't count cause they mail it in every week. What a joke if you ask me. Philly doesn't play for homefield advantage and the bye Indy just doesn't give a crap New Orleans stopped caring after they lost to Dallas The Giants get smashed back to back weeks showing little interest in playing football Denver benches starters thinking they can cakewalk at home against the chiefs Arizona gets killed resting starters knowing that no matter what happens they get a home playoff game thanks to there god awful division and easy schedule And Cinci is out to lunch probably not showing much of their playbook like philly elected to do and I suppose they'd rather rematch with the Jets than to face a Houston team they've already lost to this season. Just a crapty week of football all around. I can't really recall a week 17 like this in some time. Bizarre final two weeks heading into the postseason where you have teams that looked dominant for most of the season basically ice cold. I give the Vikings credit they played their starters and wanted to get on the same page before heading into the playoffs after coming off a few less than impressive weeks, now mind you they were also playing for a bye. Just my thoughts on this terrible week of football. And now Goddell wants to give team extra draft picks so they have incentive not to rest key players and basically mail in the games. That's just too funny.
I realize that... But it sends a message to the team, you don't start your best player and he's perfectly fine to play? It's like if Dallas benched Austin and Witten heading into a game they needed to win against the Redskins, you think the team would be all jacked up to play knowing two of their better players aren't playing.
My point is that Denver just isn't that good of a team. We would have beaten them without or without those guys.
Why pass of the bye at the end. Wouldn't playing for a bye be the reason they "played their starters and wanted to get on the same page" thus, they don't need to be credited for it because it was the only thing to do.
Yes but they could have done what the Iggles did and not played for the bye and just rested players knowing they'd have a home game no matter what.
Cincy is beyond phoning it in, its like their a 53 man sketch comedy troupe pretending to be a crapty football team - I've never seen an effort that thoroughly crappy in the NFL before.
2005 Steelers, 2006 Colts, 2007 Giants.......perfect examples of the benefits of playing your way into the playoffs and not taking a break. Flipping the switch OFF right before the playoffs just always seems like a bad idea to me.......yeah injuries can happen (hello Wes Welker) but that is the ever present risk of football.
